* On Thu, Sep 27, 2007 Joseph ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) muttered:
> I'm following this guide in setting up profiles:
> http://www.acoustics.hut.fi/~mara/mutt/profiles.html
> 
> and I was under impression that:
> "my_hdr From:" is the same as "set from=" 
> but apparently not.  
> With: 
> my_hdr From: Joseph <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> 
> My email was sent but I never received it (it was a test email to
> myself)
> Even worse, the email I sent didn't come back to me either; where did it
> go?

Probably discarded / rejected.

Always use $from instead of my_hdr From: (exception send-hooks)
At the very least my_hdr From: breaks reverse_name.

1. set [EMAIL PROTECTED]
2. make sure $use_from is set
3. make sure $envelope_from resp. use_envelope_from is set

HTH,

Michael
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