On Thursday, 25 September 2008, 15:31 (UTC+0200), Marco Giusti wrote: > anyway i cannot understand reverse_name and i don't use it
With reverse_name, when you reply to an e-mail, mutt automatically sets your "From:" address to whatever e-mail the original sender used to get the mail to you. If someone e-mails to your private account, your reply will have set "From" to your private account. If someone e-mails to your university account, your reply will have set "From" to the uni account. send-hooks and folder-hooks can catch a lot, but sometimes they don't. For example, I have my university address as the default "from:" address. But I'm also active in a cycling organisation, and if someone with whom I've never exchanged email before sends a message to me at that address, no hook will match, but I'd still like the reply to originate from the cycling address, not the uni address. Currently, I have to set this manually (using a macro). m.
