Hello Michael
> I do not understand why you are running the send-hook inside of the
> folder-hook. Do you have some other hooks that are removing the effect
> of the send-hook elsewhere?
I'm not entirely sure why I adopted this way if i'm honest. Over the last year
or so i've changed the way I use hooks for various reasons and and so just made
little changes to ones I had already to suit what I was trying to achieve. I
also adapted some of the methods used in muttrc examples I found on the
internet and mutt.org. Probably not the best approach I know.
> It would be much simpler to do this:
>
> send-hook . unmy_hdr reply-to from
> send-hook '~t "(manchester|cs.man)\.ac\.uk"' my_hdr From: Jamie Griffin
> <griff...@cs.man.ac.uk>
> send-hook '~t "(manchester|cs.man)\.ac\.uk"' my_hdr Reply-To:
> ja...@fantomatic.co.uk
Thanks for your example here, that does make it clearer.
> The fundamental problem with your original approach is the fact that
> hooks remove one level of quoting.
Yes that makes sense now, I think I can see where I went wrong. I need to
re-read the manual I think to grasp the quoting technique better. Ive made some
changes based on your example and explanation which seem to be working as I
want, like so:
send-hook . 'my_hdr From: Jamie Griffin <ja...@fantomatic.co.uk> ; \
my_hdr Reply-To: ja...@fantomatic.co.uk'
send-hook '~t mutt-users' 'my_hdr From: Jamie Griffin
<ja...@fantomatic.co.uk> ; \
my_hdr Reply-To: mutt-users@mutt.org'
send-hook '~t "(manchester|cs.man)\.ac\.uk"' 'my_hdr From: Jamie
Griffin <griff...@cs.man.ac.uk> ; \
my_hdr Reply-To: ja...@fantomatic.co.uk'
Does that look right, or could it be improved further. Hopefully uou can see
what i'm trying to achieve(?) which is I want my default From: and Reply-To:
headers to be as they are in the first pattern; with those same two headers
altered depending on which mailing list address or other address i'm sending
to. I have not set $from in my muttrc and just let the hooks set that part
dynamically.
What would be even more desirable is if I can set the hook to match a pattern
based on my cs.man.ac.uk address used in the To: header of the email received,
so for example any email sent To: myusern...@cs.man.ac.uk I get in my inbox,
when I reply to it the From: and Reply-To: headers are set as they are in the
third hook above. I have not been able to get that work at all.
Thank you for you help Michael. Jamie.
