Re: setting sender address dependent on received address

[Keld Jørn Simonsen <keld@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Nov 16, 2006 at 01:16:05PM -0500, Kyle Wheeler wrote:
> On Thursday, November 16 at 05:23 PM, quoth Keld Jørn Simonsen:
> > Hmmm, did so, to no avail. I had a line in ~/.muttrc :
> >
> > set reverse_name=yes
> >
> > and then mailed a message to myself at another machine. Replying to 
> > that mail did not give me the sender address of the adressee of the 
> > first mail.
> 
> You need to add all the possible reverse_name's to your list of 
> alternates first. For example, if you send mail from me@xxxxxxxx and 
> me2@xxxxxxxxx, you'd do this:
> 
>     set reverse_name=yes
>     alternates me@xxxxxxxx me2@xxxxxxxxx

Hmm, did so:

set reverse_name=yes
alternates keld@xxxxxxxx keld@xxxxxxxxxx keld@xxxxxxx keld@xxxxxx

But to no avail.

Mutt 1.5.9i (2005-03-13)

Do I need a newer version?

What about mailing lists, like this one, where my address in not in the
To: or Cx: headers?

best regards
keld