On Fri, Oct 06, 2000 at 10:51:40AM -0500, Jamie Novak wrote:
> Is it possible to have Mutt dynamically generate the "From:" line
> depending upon which Email address you received the initial message to?
Certainly.
> For example, I currently have a setup where roughly 5 valid Email
> addresses are all forwarded to one mail machine and filtered into
> various folders using procmail. I would like to use Mutt to reply to
> all of them, but to reply *as* the address it was sent to, rather than
> simply using one address for all of them (and having to manually change
> it myself each time)
set reverse_name
> It seems to me this could be done with a send-hook, but I can't seem to
> figure out the syntax to make it work. I've tinkered for a while and
> failed, so I thought I'd turn to the experts.
This fails to catch the case when someone new sends you email. You'd have
to sort each address into its own mailbox and have a folder-hook to set the
return address. reverse_name was designed to do just what you want.
me
