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On Friday, August 28 at 05:49 PM, quoth Cristopher Thomas:
> I have two separate email accounts, and I need to be able to send mail
> from each of them. Is there a way to set up the two accounts and then
> specify which I will be sending from at some point in the
> composition/sending process?
The short answer is: yes.
Here's the long answer:
Email is, of course, far more complicated than even that. You can, for
example, usually send email *through* an account that claims to be
*from* the other account. This is sometimes useful, and sometimes not.
For example, I have many email addresses on several domains, and I can
send email "from" any of them through my primary email server. Many
people do this with their ISP's email server.
What I'm saying is that an email address and an account on a server
that will allow you to send ("relay") email are separate. As such,
mutt treats them separately.
So, you can change the "from" address of your mail (e.g. the $from
setting) and you can change the server through which you will send
your mail (e.g. the $smtp_url setting). If you like, you can change
them both at the same time.
There are two ways that people usually handle this with mutt. They
typically either use $reverse_name to ensure that the return address
they use is appropriate to the messages they're replying to and then
use a send-hook to match the $smtp_url setting to that address OR they
create a macro that can be triggered in the compose menu (i.e.
immediately after composing a message and before it is sent) that
changes both the return address and the sending server.
Here's an example of two of those macros (imagine each one is all on
one line):
macro compose <F1> "<enter-command>set
smtp_url=smtp://domain1.com
[email protected]<enter><edit-from><kill-line>[email protected]<enter>"
macro compose <F2> "<enter-command>set
smtp_url=smtp://domain2.org
[email protected]<enter><edit-from><kill-line>[email protected]<enter>"
Make sense?
~Kyle
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