The EMAIL environment variable does change the Reply-To address. How to change the 'From:' field then?
Thanks, Derek -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of William Yardley Sent: 17 April 2007 18:18 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: How to specify the 'From:' field in command line On Tue, Apr 17, 2007 at 06:13:52PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Do you guys know how to specify the 'From:' field in command line? > Basically I want to specify who sends the mail, or the reply address. > > mutt -s 'test test' -a myattachment [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null You can set $EMAIL in your environment (man mutt). For that to work, you /may/ have to also do -F/dev/null so that your .muttrc is ignored (I did some tests with this yesterday but forget whether I had to do that or not). Either that, or do "-F somefile" where somefile is a special .muttrc. I checked, and you can set the realname in $EMAIL too, like: EMAIL="My Name <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>" w ------------------------------------------------------------------------ For more information about Barclays Capital, please visit our web site at http://www.barcap.com. Internet communications are not secure and therefore the Barclays Group does not accept legal responsibility for the contents of this message. Although the Barclays Group operates anti-virus programmes, it does not accept responsibility for any damage whatsoever that is caused by viruses being passed. Any views or opinions presented are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of the Barclays Group. Replies to this email may be monitored by the Barclays Group for operational or business reasons. ------------------------------------------------------------------------
