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On Friday, May 9 at 04:21 PM, quoth Plead Insanity:
>Hi, I have many different email aliases all going into one account. I
>have been trying to figure out a way to get mutt to recognize the To:
>header and compose massages with the person the email address was sent
>*to* as the *from* header.
You want to re-read the $reverse_name documentation.
>I tried out the set reverse_name, and set envelope_from options, but
>they seemed to have no effect.
Here's the critical part of the $reverse_name documentation that you
missed:
If this variable is set, the default From: line of the reply
messages is built using the address where you received the
messages you are replying to if that address matches your
alternates.
Translation: you need to *also* set up your alternates. If you think
about it, it makes sense: mutt needs to know which addresses are
*you*, and which ones are not (you don't want it to do something like
*always* use the To header as the From header---mailing lists, CC's,
forwards, all sorts of things would break).
To set up alternates, you would add something like this to your muttrc
(don't use this just yet - I'll explain in a moment):
set reverse_name
alternates [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
alternates [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Now, keep in mind, the "alternates" command takes *patterns*, and you
generally want to be strict with those. So, to start with, that should
be:
set reverse_name
alternates '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
alternates '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
To save typing, I use something like this:
alternates '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
~Kyle
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