On Thu, Aug 16, 2001 at 04:41:19PM -0700, Paul Mackinney wrote: | I've recently changed my email address, and of course I've been playing | with my mutt and exim configurations to get the new address to show up | in the From: header. This seems to be working, but I've noticed a | change: When I look at the debian-user list in mutt, my posts no longer | show my name, Paul Mackinney. Instead "To debian-user@" is displayed. | | I figure that either a) my headers are munged and everyone is seeing "To | debain-user@", or b) mutt has some setting where it helpfully shows me | the To: header on messages that I originated. Which is it?
It's the latter. Here is an except from my .muttrc which prevents this annoying (IMO) feature. ------------------ # let mutt recognize other stuff from me # this is needed so that mutt doesn't display my name in the "Sent" mailbox, set alternates = "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" ################################################################################ # Folder hooks : # default action (index_format is default, except it displays "From" instead) folder-hook . set sort=date ; set index_format="%4C %Z%{%b%d} %-15.15F(%4l) %s" # sorting for inbox folder-hook "!" set sort=date-received # display To, not From, in Sent folder #folder-hook Sent set index_format="%4C %Z%{%b%d} %-15.15F(%4l) %s" # sorting for lists # display the author's real name, not the list (or my name!) in index view folder-hook lists.* set sort=threads ; set sort_aux=date ; \ set index_format="%4C %Z %{%b%d} %-15.15n(%4l,%3M) %s%| " # ################################################################################ ------------------ Based on my comments I think it is the index_format string that is set by my folder-hook's that corrects the situation. HTH, -D