Hello! I know two person using the same email-address. I have defined aliases for both person. While replying to one of them I recognized a strange behavior of mutt. The relevant settings in my muttrc are: alias alias1 Person1 Name <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> alias alias2 Person2 Name <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> set attribution="Hello %v!\n\n%n wrote:\n"' set index_format="%F" set reverse_alias=yes The first strange behavior occurs in the index menu. Although Person2 mailed with | From: Person2 Name <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> The index-menu shows | Person1 Name The real nuisance occurs when replying to an email from Person2 The 'To: '-header and attribution in this case are: | To: Person2 Name <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | | Hello Person1! | | Person1 Name wrote: A workaround to this problem would be: a procmailrule :0 * ^From:.*<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> /home/user/Mail/special-folder and in muttrc set reverse_alias=yes folder-hook .* set reverse_alias=yes folder-hook =special-folder set reverse_alias=no or (even better!) a procmailrule like :0 * !^From: [A-Z][a-z]* [A-Z][a-z]* <.*> /home/user/Mail/special-folder1 and in muttrc set reverse_alias=no folder-hook .* set reverse_alias=no folder-hook =special-folder1 set reverse_alias=yes But is this really necessary? Wouldn't it make more sense that mutt tries to determine if there is a (possibly valid) realname in the 'From: '-header and when one is found uses this instead of the reversed alias? BTW: The manual should explain that setting this variable may change %F, %L, %v and %n in $index_format/$attribution. If I missed any options/variables I would be glad to be pointed at them. And yes, I thought about using a send-hook. This would have the disadvantage, that I could not toggle reverse_alias until changing folder, sending a mail to someone else or defining a macro and using it manual. Franz
