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Re: From variable and multiple account



Anders Karlsson ha scritto:
> * Alberto Rizzi <greenant@xxxxxxxxxxx> [20081116 20:53]:
>> I'm not new to mutt but only now I have time to try to solve some
>> problems with mutt, problems that I have since I use mutt.
>> This is the first of a long series of email.
>>
>> I have four imap accounts (personal, 2 university, mailing list) and I
>> want to use four different "Form:" header depending on the folder I am
>> in. In thunderbird I can configure a different From: addresse for each
>> account and then when I compose an email, it choose the correct sender
>> address based on the selected folder.
>>
>> How can I do this with mutt?
>> account-hook get executed only the first time I open a folder on that
>> account, so if I open the inbox on personal account, then inbox on uni
>> account and then again inbox on personal account, this time the account
>> hook doesn't get run and the from variable has the value from the uni
>> account.
>>
>> Maybe I can use a folder-hook but how can I create the correct regexp?
>> How?
>>
>> I use mutt 1.5.18, reverse_name=no, realname should be always the same
>> for each account, I want to change only the from variable.
> 
> The way I have done it, because I use maildir's (through offlineimap)
> under ~/Mail, my folder-hook's are simply
> 
> folder-hook <foldername1> set from="me@account1"
> folder-hook <foldername2> set from="me@account2"
> folder-hook <foldername3> set from="me@account3"
> 
> I have not tried this with GMail account or similar yet, but if I get
> a chance to, I'll let you know what I find.
> 

Under each account I have several folders. In this mailinglist account
(fastmail) I have 10 folder, one for each mailing list I am subscribed
to. I don't want to write a folder hook for each folder