Thank you Monte and Nathan reverse_name does what i wanted. > p.s. You didn't say what exactly happened when you tried the reply-hook > commands you listed, but I'm guessing this sentence from the Mutt manual > explains why they didn't do as you hoped: > > Note: reply-hooks are matched before the send-hook, regardless of the > order specified in the users's configuration file. > > So I think the from= setting given in the > send-hook . 'set from="o...@web.de"' > line will always override the one you are attempting to set in the > reply-hook command.
exactly: i could never get it to change the from header at all. not even with the my_hdr examples given in the manual. spending the afternoon off the computer working in the garden i suddenly suspected what you described above. the price for mutts configurability in my case is that i shuffle through the many options to find the relevant things... thanks again jan
