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Re: Customize To: field



On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 03:37:00PM +0100, steve wrote:
> Sometimes people send their message with the following headers:
> From: "email-address" <email-address>
> which isn't very nice in the index menu.
> I would like to re-write this line as following :
> From: "a chosen name" <email-address>
> I tried a reply-hook in the config file for that particular recipient:
> reply-hook . 'set To: "a chosen name" <email-address>'
> but when I hit 'r' to reply, I see 'unknown variable' in the bottom bar
> and the To: field hasn't change.

Mutt doesn't currently have any way to delete or alter the recipient
list.  What you want is *almost* what 'set reverse_alias' does, except
that reverse_alias only controls what is displayed in the index.

What does mutt-dev think about making $reverse_alias apply to replies?

me