On 2019-07-26 19:30, Kevin J. McCarthy wrote: > On Fri, Jul 26, 2019 at 05:12:08AM +0000, g...@riseup.net wrote: >>1. When composing messages, mutt ask To: or recipient adress and Subject: and >>then go to editor. How to make mutt ask for From: or sender address only and >>then go to editor? > > Mutt doesn't have an option for that. Custom From headers can be > controlled by folder-hook, reply-hook, send-hook, or even macros; > typically via setting my_hdr. $edit_headers is also useful. > > See <http://www.mutt.org/doc/manual/#compose-flow> for a (somewhat > terse) overview of message composition.
As these compose flow suggests, the hooks setting custom header or my_hdr only work for reply messages, not compose new messages because my_hdr is set before getting into the editor. Because mutt does not ask which email address or identity I use as From: section, hooks does not know it either and hence will not generate different headers based on different identities or email addresses (From: address not To:) Hooks only work if it knows emails address before getting into editor. Therefore, maybe mutt should add such a feature, which is very important for multiple identities or email addresses. If it ask To: and Subject:, why not ask From:? If people do not want it and prefer to get into editor directly, they can also turn it off. > >>2. In PGP, mutt has crypt_opportunistic_encrypt to select keys based on To: >>address to the recipient. But PGP also need From: address or sender's key to >>encrypt messages > > Encrypting to self is controlled by $pgp_self_encrypt and $pgp_default_key. > >>, sign messages > > The signing key is also controlled by $pgp_default_key, and can be > overridden by $pgp_sign_as or the compose <pgp-menu> "sign (a)s" > option. This works smoothly for one email account or one identity, (people can set default or one pgp_self_encrypt) but not multiple identities or email accounts where people do not want default PGP key, but provide me a list of my own keys to choose from based on From: to encrypt. In website, https://gitlab.com/muttmua/mutt/wikis/MuttGuide/UseGPG, the instructions are also very short and only for one email accounts. It is probably a good idea to provide instructions on multiple accounts and multiple PGP keys. If we know how to do it in multiple email accounts, we naturally know how to do it in one account. Ryan
