On Fri, Jun 30, 2000 at 04:01:47PM +0530, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:
> >Why don't you post each FAQ to the list as each one is done (all in
> >one thread) so that people can suggest changes, as well as track it's
> >development?
>
[...]
> The original author of Mutt was Michael Elkins.
(I think ME still *is* the original author.)
[...]
> One of these tweaks is setting your outbound address, ie the one that
> will show up in the From: line. For example, I have a linux box called
> whack.spammers.cluestick.org, but my address is [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> I don't want to send out mails as [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> - I wouldn't even get a single reply, and anyone trying to mail me at
> this very entertaining address would get a bounce. So, I have to tell
> mutt that my address is actually [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> The line in my muttrc then would read like this:
>
> my_hdr From: Suresh Ramasubramanian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
This won't fix your (I mean, the user's) envelope address. I suggest
mentioning $envelope_from at this point, or bounces and error messages
won't reach you (and some SMTP servers won't accept non-existing domain
names in the envelope -- which is often the case for dialup users).
Marius Gedminas
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