Re: bounce broken?
On Sunday, January 11, 2004 at 11:10:10 PM +0100, Gerhard Öttl wrote:
>| send-hook . "my_hdr From: gerhard.oettl@xxxxxx"
>| send-hook mutt-dev "my_hdr From: gerhard.oettl.ml@xxxxxx"
> in mutt_bounce_message neither the "resent_from" nor the "from"
> addresses use the send-hook.
More precisely "my_hdr anything" is not used in bounces. And should
not be: Bounce sends the original header untouched, and only prepends
required "Resent-*:" fields.
> "from" in my .muttrc is not set, because "send-hook ." does the job
$from is the primary way to set the default address. Overridable by
$reverse_name and "my_hdr From:" for normal mails, but not for bounces.
>| send-hook mutt-dev "set from='gerhard.oettl.ml@xxxxxx'"
> don't work - any ideas?
Known but perhaps undocumented limitation: $from set from a
send-hook is not used for the currently written mail (but eventually for
the next ones).
That's why people keep using "(un)my_hdr From:" in send-hooks. Acts
immediatly, but is useless for bounces...
I agree it's annoying. But make $from send-hookable would generate
other problems, see archives for past discussions about that.
> my login-name is gerhard, use_domain in .muttrc is on default, but
> without from in .muttrc (or my_hdr From:) my From address always ends
> up in "gerhard@".
See $hostname and $hidden_host.
> /etc/mailname and /etc/hostname both contain the name "gerhardnb", but
> they are not used.
I seem to recall having seen patches to make use of those files,
perhaps in Debian. I prefer $hostname. BTW "gerhardnb" is not fully
qualified enough, leading to your broken msgids.
Bye! Alain.
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