On Tue, Apr 08, 2014 at 08:48:04AM +0100, Christian Ebert wrote: > * Ulrich Lauther on Tuesday, April 08, 2014 at 08:27:53 +0200 > > 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? > > Read about the alternates command in the fine man 5 muttrc. > I DID read the manual before asking, but it does not answer my question above - or I am too dumb to understand it. So what do I put into the alternates list? The name that appears in the From-field, my login name?
Help a poor struggler. ulrich