On Fri, Feb 26, 2021 at 08:55:45AM +1100, Cameron Simpson wrote: > On 25Feb2021 09:56, Will Yardley <mutt-us...@veggiechinese.net> wrote: > >On Thu, Feb 25, 2021 at 04:11:02PM +0000, Alexander Huemer wrote:
> >> Is there a configuration option to choose which 'From:' email address > >> shall be used if a mail to a certain 'To:' address is composed? If a > >> 'To:' address isn't in the mapping, then the 'set from' configuration > >> setting should be the fallback. > >I do something like this: > > > >set use_from > >set from="lu...@example.net" > >send-hook . 'unmy_hdr From:' > >set reverse_name > >alternates '(.*@example\.net|someuser@example\.com)' > > reverse_name and alternates: this is only effective for personal email, > meaning email with one of your own addresses in the to/cc. Most mailing > lists do not do that, so there's no way to "reverse" from the to/cc to > the from of the reply. > > You want Jon's send-hook based approach, setting from etc based on the > target address of the message you're composing. Sorry, yes, I use that approach as well for lists - just in a different section of my config e.g., send-hook '~C ^mutt-users@mutt\.org$' 'my_hdr From: Will Yardley <...>' w
