Re: Question about $from and send-hooks
At 17:22 +0200 24 Mar 2000, Mikko Hänninen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So, should setting $from (and $realname) inside a send-hook actually change the from address or not for the current email? If it doesn't, then it can't be used as a full replacement for "my_hdr From:" (and No, it shouldn't. $from isn't meant to be a full replacement for 'my_hdr From:', it's meant to let people set the default. then we again get the $reverse_name problem). No, we don't. The $reverse_name problem was that it wouldn't override a default set by my_hdr. The order for this stuff is: - Apply $from - Do $reverse_name - Do send-hooks (including 'my_hdr From:') If applying $from were to be moved after the send-hooks, then $from would have exactly the same problems as 'my_hdr From:'. Unless applying $reverse name were moved so it was again after that, but then the address it sets couldn't be matched against in send-hooks, and there would be no way to override it. So, if you want to set the From: address in a send-hook, you should still use 'my_hdr From:'. That this overrides $reverse_name is a feature, not a bug. For instance, I've occasionally used things like: send-hook . unmy_hdr From: send-hook '~f aarons@illiam' my_hdr From: Aaron Schrab [EMAIL PROTECTED] Because although I want the address [EMAIL PROTECTED] to be recognized as mine, I never want to use it for sending mail. -- Aaron Schrab [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.execpc.com/~aarons/ "If that makes any sense to you, you have a big problem." -- C. Durance, Computer Science 234
Re: Question about $from and send-hooks
Aaron Schrab [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on Sat, 25 Mar 2000: The order for this stuff is: - Apply $from - Do $reverse_name - Do send-hooks (including 'my_hdr From:') Ok, thanks for the explanation. I suppose the default send-hook then should have a "unmy_hdr From:" in order to get rid of the previously set "my_hdr From:" value and to let $from and $reverse_name do their thing? Would this affect "send-hook ~f" parsing, will the ~f pattern? I guess not if the default hook is first... Regards, Mikko -- // Mikko Hänninen, aka. Wizzu // [EMAIL PROTECTED] // http://www.iki.fi/wiz/ // The Corrs list maintainer // net.freak // DALnet IRC operator / // Interests: roleplaying, Linux, the Net, fantasy scifi, the Corrs / "Yesterday was the deadline on all complaints."
Question about $from and send-hooks
Hi, My turn to have a question. :-) Since I seem to answer questions about send-hooks, $reverse_name, my_hdr From: etc., I thought I should try to finally adapt my own .muttrc files to using "set from=" instead of "my_hdr From:". I ran into a problem though. I simply replaced each "my_hdr From:" command with the appropriate "set from=" and "set realname=" commands. But doing this doesn't seem to be equal to using "my_hdr From:" -- the from address does get changed, but the change does not take effect for the *current* new email. So in fact, the address gets changed for the next email, since the send-hook for that message isn't acting on that email either. I noticed this because I have a default send-hook that should set my address to [EMAIL PROTECTED], however one of my emails sent out had the address as [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- this is a valid address but one that I never want to use. So, should setting $from (and $realname) inside a send-hook actually change the from address or not for the current email? If it doesn't, then it can't be used as a full replacement for "my_hdr From:" (and then we again get the $reverse_name problem). I'm using Mutt 1.1.9. Regards, Mikko -- // Mikko Hänninen, aka. Wizzu // [EMAIL PROTECTED] // http://www.iki.fi/wiz/ // The Corrs list maintainer // net.freak // DALnet IRC operator / // Interests: roleplaying, Linux, the Net, fantasy scifi, the Corrs / *** WANRING -- this signature quote is spellt wrong. ***
