[gentoo-user] mutt question

[gentoo-user] mutt question

[David H. Askew]

whenever I send an email with mutt to a mailing list, (like I am now),
and I receive a copy of my own post, mutt displays the From: information
different for my emails

example: 

421   F Aug06 To dhaskew@eart test

I have set realname="myrealname" set in my .muttrc ....

is this a feature ?

can I make these emails look like the others ? ... with proper names

any help would be appreciated ...



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Re: [gentoo-user] mutt question

[Philip Webb]

050806 David H. Askew wrote:
> whenever I send an email with mutt to a mailing list like I am now,
> and I receive a copy of my own post,
> Mutt displays the From: information different for my emails : eg
>   421   F Aug06 To dhaskew@eart test
> I have set realname="myrealname" set in my .muttrc ....

If you use Ssmtp as your MTA, change  /etc/ssmtp/ssmtp.conf  like mine :

  # Set this to never rewrite the "From:" line (unless not given)
  # and to use that address in the "from line" of the envelope.
  # PP 050302 : uncommented to get 'Philip Webb' in from line : ok
  FromLineOverride=YES

That solved the problem for me.

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Re: [gentoo-user] mutt question

[David H. Askew]

i'm actually using nbsmtp, but I don't think its actually a header
problem, but rather a mutt display problem ....

... thanks for the suggestion anyway ....

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[gentoo-user] Re: mutt question

[Moshe Kaminsky]

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* David H. Askew <dhaskew@earthlink.net> [07/08/05 02:12]:
> 
> whenever I send an email with mutt to a mailing list, (like I am now),
> and I receive a copy of my own post, mutt displays the From: information
> different for my emails
> 
> example: 
> 
> 421   F Aug06 To dhaskew@eart test
> 
> I have set realname="myrealname" set in my .muttrc ....
> 
> is this a feature ?

Yes, it is. The idea is that usually you know you've sent the message, 
and it is more useful to see who you sent it to. This is controlled by 
the 'index_format' option. You probably have an %F there. You can change 
to %f or %n if you don't like it.

Moshe
> 
> can I make these emails look like the others ? ... with proper names
> 
> any help would be appreciated ...
> 
> 
> 
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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: mutt question

[Philip Webb]

050807 Moshe Kaminsky wrote:
> This is controlled by the 'index_format' option.
> You probably have an %F there.
> You can change to %f or %n if you don't like it.

Yes, apparently I made  2  changes to the default.  I have :

  # set index_format="%4C %Z %{%b %d} %-15.15L (%4l) %s"
  set index_format="%4C %Z %D %-20.20n %5l %s" # PP 031015 for Gentoo

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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: mutt question

[David H. Askew]

... yep, you were right .. thanks

before
---------------
set index_format="%4C %Z %[%b%d] %-15.15F %s"


after
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set index_format="%4C %Z %[%b%d] %-15.15n %s"

... i forgot how unbelievably flexible and customizable mutt was ... and
that behavior was bothering me ...



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Re: [gentoo-user] mutt question

[Willie Wong]

It is a feature. Mutt gives you the option of saving local copy of
mail when you send. If all the mail in your sent mail folder displays
as "From: David H. Askew", you'll never be able to tell which is which
(=

I've never actually tried to set that behaviour differently, try
looking at the mutt manual
  http://www.mutt.org/doc/manual/
AFAIK, everything that is configurable is included in there. 

HTH,

W

On Sat, Aug 06, 2005 at 06:57:59PM -0400, David H. Askew wrote:
> whenever I send an email with mutt to a mailing list, (like I am now),
> and I receive a copy of my own post, mutt displays the From: information
> different for my emails
> 
> example: 
> 
> 421   F Aug06 To dhaskew@eart test
> 
> I have set realname="myrealname" set in my .muttrc ....
> 
> is this a feature ?
> 
> can I make these emails look like the others ? ... with proper names
> 
> any help would be appreciated ...
> 
> 
> 
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