On Sun, Nov 23, 2008 at 08:02:34PM +0100, Szymek wrote: > No, the maildir folders are not nested, here is the structure: > > ~/mail-> > ->firstbox > ->secondbox > ->thirdbox > ->fourthbox > > I compiled mutt by myself, maybe there is a specific option to pass to > configure? > > I had previously the same config in Slackware, and it worked like a charm. > > > > > On Sat, Nov 22, 2008 at 09:48:03AM -0800, Michael Elkins wrote: > > On Sat, Nov 22, 2008 at 04:31:57PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > folder-hook . 'set from="[EMAIL PROTECTED]" realname="Blabla"' > > > folder-hook secondbox 'set from="[EMAIL PROTECTED]" > > > realname="BlaBla"' > > > folder-hook thirdbox 'set from="[EMAIL PROTECTED]" realname="BlaBla"' > > > folder-hook fourthbox 'set from="[EMAIL PROTECTED]" > > > realname="Blabla"' > > > > > > Now, when I go into the mail folder secondbox, thirdbox or fourthbox, > > > everything is alright and I get the right address in "From:"-header, > > > regardless whether I send new emails or reply. But in the firstbox (which > > > should be my default) I always get the email-address from the secondbox > > > in the > > > From-header, even if I change the period in the first folder-hook to the > > > name of the first (default) box. What am I doing > > > wrong? > > > > Do you happen to be using nested maildir folders? I'm wondering if > > maybe you need to specify the full pathname, or use $ at the end of the > > folder regular expression. > > > > me
Yes, now it works. I did append an $ to the end of the folder names, like that: folder-hook secondbox$ 'set from="[EMAIL PROTECTED]" realname="BlaBla"' I didn't wrote the dollar sign for the default, period marked mailbox. Now everything works fine. Thanks a lot for your help. One more thin, can you tell me, why it is working, now that I have the dollar sign appended?
