On Fri, 2007-09-28 at 12:27 +0200, Michael Tatge wrote: > * 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
In this case this users page in incomplete or not correctly explained. > > > > 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] don't I have to use double quotes: set from="[EMAIL PROTECTED]" > 2. make sure $use_from is set What does it do? Initially I was following Gentoo guide (has some errors as well) but i couldn't find this "$use_from" definition in setup files. > 3. make sure $envelope_from resp. use_envelope_from is set Again what this one do? > > HTH, > > Michael Can someone point me out to a good complete guide how to set it up that explain in details the variables? All I can find on the net are bits and pieces of information like in the example above that don't explain enough and/or are not clear for beginners How do you setup up some safety nets? If I sent an email and is rejected for some reason or another it be copied to another folder or mutt will inform me that it did not go through. An example I've sent an email yesterday to a mailing list, the email did go out, that what mutt said, and was copied to a "sent" folder. Though, in reality that email never made it to the mailing list nor did it came back to me. Thanks. -- #Joseph
