Mutt reply address

[Bill Campbell]

On Thu, Mar 16, 2006, Fairlight wrote:
>This public service announcement was brought to you by Chris Rendall:
>> 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.
>
>my_hdr From: Fairlight <fairlite at fairlite.com>

In my ~/.muttrc file I have the following which substitutes both
the From: and Reply-To: headers.

my_hdr From: bill at celestial.com
my_hdr Reply-To: bill at celestial.com

>Replace data as necessary.  You can also attach these to folder hooks so
>that if you're in your main folder it would use one address, and in say the
>filePro folder if you had one, you could use another one.

I have a line in the ~/.muttrc file

source ~/.mutt_hooks

That file has lines like this which generate different From: and
Reply-To: headers depending on my sending addresses:

send-hook "~t sqlobject" my_hdr From: sqlobject at celestial.com
send-hook "~t sqlobject" my_hdr Reply-To: sqlobject at celestial.com

send-hook "~t hylafax.org" my_hdr From: hylafax at celestial.net
send-hook "~t hylafax.org" my_hdr Reply-To: hylafax at celestial.net

Bill
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