Re: How to specify the 'From:' field in command line
The EMAIL environment variable does change the Reply-To address. How to
change the 'From:' field then?
Thanks,
Derek
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From: owner-mutt-users@xxxxxxxx [mailto:owner-mutt-users@xxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of William Yardley
Sent: 17 April 2007 18:18
To: mutt-users@xxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: How to specify the 'From:' field in command line
On Tue, Apr 17, 2007 at 06:13:52PM +0100, Derek.Li@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
wrote:
>
> Do you guys know how to specify the 'From:' field in command line?
> Basically I want to specify who sends the mail, or the reply address.
>
> mutt -s 'test test' -a myattachment receiver@xxxxx < /dev/null
You can set $EMAIL in your environment (man mutt). For that to work, you
/may/ have to also do -F/dev/null so that your .muttrc is ignored (I did
some tests with this yesterday but forget whether I had to do that or
not). Either that, or do "-F somefile" where somefile is a special
.muttrc.
I checked, and you can set the realname in $EMAIL too, like:
EMAIL="My Name <foo@xxxxxxxxxxx>"
w
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