On Mon, Apr 07, 2014 at 11:22:59PM -0400, Jon LaBadie wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 07, 2014 at 11:14:44PM +0200, Ulrich Lauther wrote:
> > On Mon, Apr 07, 2014 at 03:25:06PM -0400, Patrick Shanahan wrote:
> > >
> > > I use:
> > > folder-hook =outbox 'set index_format="%?M?v& ? %4C %Z %{%b %d} %-18.18F
> > > (%4c) %s"'
> > >
> > %-18.18F does not work for me: I still see my own name.
> > However, %-18.18t achieves what I want.
> >
> > Though the manual says:
> >
> > %F
> > author name, or recipient name if the message is from you
> >
> > Anyway, thanks for the quick help.
> >
> After your original post I looked in the manual and
> found the %F format. When I tried it I got mixed
> results. The problem was that my several email
> aliases were not recognized as me. Messages from
> my primary email address showed the recipient's
> address in the index. It also flagged them as To:.
>
> Jon
> > author name, or recipient name if the message is from you
The concept of "message is from you" is not clear to me.
How does mutt decide whether a message is from me or not?
Does it look at the From: field, and if so, what is it compared to?
My login-name?
ulrich
