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Re: send-hook and different email accounts



On Thursday, 25 September 2008, 15:31 (UTC+0200), Marco Giusti wrote:

>  anyway i cannot understand reverse_name and i don't use it

With reverse_name, when you reply to an e-mail, mutt automatically
sets your "From:" address to whatever e-mail the original sender used
to get the mail to you. If someone e-mails to your private account,
your reply will have set "From" to your private account. If someone
e-mails to your university account, your reply will have set "From" to
the uni account. 

send-hooks and folder-hooks can catch a lot, but sometimes they don't.

For example, I have my university address as the default "from:"
address. But I'm also active in a cycling organisation, and if someone
with whom I've never exchanged email before sends a message to me at
that address, no hook will match, but I'd still like the reply to
originate from the cycling address, not the uni address. Currently, I
have to set this manually (using a macro).

m.