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Re: Possible to switch between different From: addresses?



On Thu, Jan 22, 2004 at 05:37:41AM EST, daniel wrote:

> Is there a way to choose between several different From: addresses when
> sending a message?  Or even to choose a different SMTP server?

Well, if what you're looking for is an interactive switch, my
selection_box program [1] may be of interest to you, since you may be
able to do something like this (totally untested):

send-hook . "<exec-command>my_hdr From: `selection_box \"Pick an Addy:\" < 
my_addys`\n<exec-command>set sendmail='relay_to_smtp `selection_box \"Pick an 
SMTP server:\" < my_smtp_servers`'\n"

...where my_addys is something like this:
user1@xxxxxxxxx
user2@xxxxxxxxx
user3@xxxxxxxxx

...and relay_to_smtp is some sort of lightweight sendmail replacement
that takes as its first argument the SMTP server and as its remaining
arguments recipient addys,

...and my_smtp_servers is something like this:
mail.myisp.net
smtp.myfriendsisp.net
anon.smtp.somewhereinpakistan.com


Again, the stuff above is totally untested.  I wrote the selection_box
program with grand plans for having it take over my entire Mutt config,
yet I don't have a single use of it in my entire config, after a fairly
long time already.  (I basically finished testing the thing to make sure
it worked properly, and then kinda just forgot all about it.)

 - Dave

BTW - Please do folks a favor and wrap your lines at some reasonable
length.  Otherwise, it gets a tad messy quoting you.

[1]
http://www.bigfatdave.com/dave/bin/selection_box.c
...and my original post explaining its usage:
http://www.bigfatdave.com/dave/bin/selection_box.txt
...and a precompiled i686 version for glibc 2.3.2:
http://www.bigfatdave.com/dave/bin/selection_box

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