On Tue, Oct 30, 2001 at 06:14:18PM +0000, Matthew Sackman wrote: | On Tue, Oct 30, 2001 at 11:54:55AM -0600, Stephen E. Hargrove wrote: | > * [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) babbled: | > > I'm trying to make mutt so that it would use a particular "from:" e-mail address, and I've looked it up on the man pages and it told me to set from="[EMAIL PROTECTED]" in the .muttrc file; however, mutt ignores it... | > > Can someone help? | > | > this is how i do it: | > folder-hook . my_hdr From: name <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | | Again, that will only work if your MTA trusts you. Basically, the MTA | pulls the name from /etc/mailname and puts your username infront of it.
I bet the MTA on my school's system doesn't trust me. However, the "my_hdr From: <blah>" works just fine. I too never quite got the "from" directive to work as I expected, but the "my_hdr" allows for customization of any (official or made-up) headers. -D