strange lines in index
hi,
i'm experiencing strange behaviour of the mutt in the index. some of
the email sent to me is presented like this:
25 r F Jun 07 To Christoph Ul (0.6K) Re: webserver und datenbank
- 26 F Jun 08 To Christoph Ul (0.4K) *
other lines display the sender name (as i would like things to be like):
- 18 + May 29 Monika Mueller (0.4K) Exkursionsbeitrag
the relevant config line is:
set index_format=%4C %Z %{%b %d} %-15.15F (%4c) %s
the headers of these messages look quite normal to me. neither of the
three messages above is from myself. all have been sent to me.
a problem that is probably related to this one is that replying to a
message like the first two shown above suggests sending the email to
myself instead of to the person who sent it to me. this behaviour
puzzles me.
can anyone give me a hint as to what is going on here?
thanks,
uLI
Re: strange lines in index
On Fri, Jun 08, 2001 at 06:38:20PM +0200, Christoph Ulrich Scholler wrote:
the relevant config line is:
set index_format=%4C %Z %{%b %d} %-15.15F (%4c) %s
the headers of these messages look quite normal to me. neither of the
three messages above is from myself. all have been sent to me.
a problem that is probably related to this one is that replying to a
message like the first two shown above suggests sending the email to
myself instead of to the person who sent it to me. this behaviour
puzzles me.
%F will show who the message was sent TO (rather than FROM) if Mutt thinks
the message was sent by YOU. Use %f instead if you don't like that behavior.
The reason it suggests sending back to yourself when you reply is because
Mutt thinks YOU were the one who sent it. :-) if that is not the case,
double check your $alternatives variable to make sure you aren't catching
email addresses that don't belong to you.
me
Re: strange lines in index
indeed, the $alternatives variable was the culprit.
thank you for the quick response.
greetings,
uLI
On Fri, Jun 08, 2001 at 10:28:05AM -0700 or thereabouts, Michael Elkins wrote:
On Fri, Jun 08, 2001 at 06:38:20PM +0200, Christoph Ulrich Scholler wrote:
the relevant config line is:
set index_format=%4C %Z %{%b %d} %-15.15F (%4c) %s
the headers of these messages look quite normal to me. neither of the
three messages above is from myself. all have been sent to me.
a problem that is probably related to this one is that replying to a
message like the first two shown above suggests sending the email to
myself instead of to the person who sent it to me. this behaviour
puzzles me.
%F will show who the message was sent TO (rather than FROM) if Mutt thinks
the message was sent by YOU. Use %f instead if you don't like that behavior.
The reason it suggests sending back to yourself when you reply is because
Mutt thinks YOU were the one who sent it. :-) if that is not the case,
double check your $alternatives variable to make sure you aren't catching
email addresses that don't belong to you.
me
