Re: use_from (was Re: your mail)
On Monday, 01 August 2005 at 10:12, Will Yardley wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 01, 2005 at 02:33:06PM +0200, Thomas Roessler wrote:
>
> > The rationale here is that mutt, when used without use_from, won't
> > write From: headers to Fccs.
>
> Just out of curiosity, what's the point of having both "$from" and
> "$use_from"?
>
> Seems to me that if "set from=...." or "my_hdr From" is being set, then
> the user wants to set a From: header... I know that having to set
> $use_from is something that's confused a lot of folks.
I've been wondering that for ages myself. It seems that if $from isn't
empty, there's no reason why $use_from should be set.