Mutt reply address

[Joe Chasan]

On Thu, Mar 16, 2006 at 04:50:16PM -0600, Chris Rendall wrote:
> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: joe at magnatechonline.com [mailto:joe at magnatechonline.com]
> > Sent: Thursday, March 16, 2006 4:40 PM
> > To: Chris Rendall
> > Cc: filepro-list at lists.celestial.com
> > Subject: Re: Mutt reply address
> > 
> > On Thu, Mar 16, 2006 at 04:29:48PM -0600, Chris Rendall wrote:
> > > I'm using mutt to send an email from filePro.  When mutt sends the
> email
> > > it has a from: address of the person logged into UNIX.  Is there a
> way
> > > to modify the from: field that mutt uses when it sends an email?
> I'd
> > > like to use a more generic address for the from: field.
> > 
> > you can set system variable REPLYTO=some_generic_name at yoursite.com
> > 
> > would that do it?
> 
> That changed the Reply-To: header line to what I set, but the from:
> address didn't change.

yes, that is true - i read your message subject and replied before reading
too deep.  do what mark suggested and put a 
my_hdr From: somename <some_generic_name at yoursite.com>
in a .muttrc file

You can specify an alternate .muttrc file via the -F command line flag
so that you don't have to mess with peoples own $HOME/.muttrc files.

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-Joe Chasan-                      Magnatech Business Systems, Inc.
joe at magnatechonline.com           Hicksville, NY - USA
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