Hi 42possibletrash, * 42possibletr...@googlemail.com <42possibletr...@googlemail.com> [23. Oct. 2011]: > Thank you for your replies Gregor Zattler and Jostein Gogstad. I have > followed Gregor's advice and moved all my emails into one folder, > /data/mail. This is my current .muttrc: > http://ompldr.org/vYXh6ZQ]http://ompldr.org/vYXh6ZQ.
ATM I cannot access this website. > The current problem I am having is setting up mutt to my liking > in terms of composing emails. This may not be a crucial > problem, but I hope you don't mind helping me out all the > same. On eudora and previous email clients I was able, albeit > with some work, to get them to let me compose new emails with > no 'From' information by default. This helped as it meant that > I had to consider which account I should be sending emails from > on an individual basis, hence less mistakes. However as you can > probably see from my .muttrc I have been having trouble > configuring this. Ideally I would like mutt to prompt for a > from address every time I compose a new email, rather than > having to use a macro which can properly function only once > (subsequent attempts brings up a list of every alias > entry). 3.299. use_from Type: boolean Default: yes When set, Mutt will generate the “From:” header field when sending messages. If unset, no “From:” header field will be generated unless the user explicitly sets one using the “my_hdr” command. So set use_from. And: 3.74. from Type: e-mail address Default: (empty) When set, this variable contains a default from address. It can be overridden using “my_hdr” (including from a “send-hook”) and $reverse_name. This variable is ignored if $use_from is unset. This setting defaults to the contents of the environment variable $EMAIL. And explicitly set from to an empty string. I don't have the time to test this, but I assume it gives you an empty from header. If you also set 3.57. edit_headers Type: boolean Default: no This option allows you to edit the header of your outgoing messages along with the body of your message. Note that changes made to the References: and Date: headers are ignored for interoperability reasons. You are able to edit all email header within your editor. > Also I note that currently my alternate addresses seem > to have no function, as the index limiting macros have the > addresses input as literal strings anyway. Any help would be > appreciated :-) . Still no access to your settings. I described in my previous email how to set alternate email addresses. What happens if you hit `l' (for limit) when you are seeing your folder index (the emails in your folder) and give `~P' as the limiting pattern? Should show all emails from all your email addresses. Ciao, Gregor -- -... --- .-. . -.. ..--.. ...-.-
