On Tue, 2002-07-09 at 11:33, Hal Burgiss wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 09, 2002 at 11:23:23AM -0400, Jay Daniels wrote:
> > 
> > Now that I have mutt working with imap I still can't use it because
> > I receive mail from different address which end up in this mailbox.
> > So how do you do aliases in mutt?  I created an aliases file but
> > when I use emacs as my editor I have no option to pick which alias
> > to put in my From address when sending mail or replying. Editing the
> > From address by hand is a pain.
> 
> I believe this is set in ~/.muttrc, and the default is
> ~/.mail_aliases, which works for me. 
> 
> AFAIK, there is two ways to start composing new mail: one is where
> mutt prompts for To: and Subject: lines. This is where you use
> aliases. Just hit <tab> to see them all, or put in first part of a
> known address and hit <tab>. AFAIK, you cannot do this after you are
> actually in full blown 'compose' mode.
>  

Then aliases is not what I thought it was.  I wanted aliases for From:
in which I could choose what goes in the From field.  mutt never prompts
me for the From address, but only for the subject and to field.


jay




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