Wouter Hanegraaff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> I have several mail accounts, for very distinct purposes. If i reply to
> a message, I would like From: to list the To: address of the message I
> replied to. Therefore, I have set reverse_name, but it doesn't seem to
> work. Or is reverse_name something else?
If you're using "reverse_name", you have to set "alternates", and you
musn't use "my_hdr From:". This should be mentioned in the manual
under "reverse_name". Someone should add it.
> Another issue is, that when I compose a message with a different From:
> address than the default, my default mail address is still there in the
> message headers. The first line of a messages lists something like
> >From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Feb 6 13:44:43 2000
>
> and a bit below there is a header like this Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> However, I have multiple accounts because I don't want certain people
> and mailing lists to spam me on my real mail address. And if my real
> address is still somewhere in the headers, I might as well have just one
> account.
The From_ line and the Sender: line are presumably added by your MTA
(sendmail/exim/...).
This problem has been discussed, but I don't remember the solution, if
there was one.
I've found some broken systems reply to the Sender address instead of
the From address, so it can be useful to make all the addresses in the
header the same. But I don't know an easy way of doing it.
I'm using exim with "trusted_users = mail:ege" in /etc/exim.conf, and
my muttrc has set sendmail="/usr/sbin/sendmail -oem -oi -f
[EMAIL PROTECTED]". Last time I checked, "ege" wasn't being mentioned
in my headers, but [EMAIL PROTECTED] is mentioned even when I'm
replying with [EMAIL PROTECTED] in my From field.
Edmund
