Can't Set Return Address In Mutt

Rob Weir rweir at ertius.org
Sat Oct 30 15:37:23 UTC 2004


On Sat, Oct 30, 2004 at 04:48:20AM -0400, David M. Carney said
> On Sat, 30 Oct 2004 13:55:00 +1000, Rob Weir <rweir at ertius.org> wrote:
> > On Fri, Oct 29, 2004 at 06:37:37PM -0400, David M. Carney said
> > 
> > 
> > > This is strange.
> > >
> > > I've used Mutt with many other distros and I've never had this
> > > problem. With Ubuntu, no matter how I set my options, my return
> > > address stays "david at localhost.localdomain".
> > >
> > > Here are the pertinent options from my ~/.muttrc:
> > >
> > > set realname = "David M. Carney"
> > > set from = "david at n1zhe.org"
> > > set hostname = "n1zhe.org"
> > >
> > > Why does it keep saying that I'm "david at localhost.localdomain" in my
> > > return address?
> > 
> > Add "set use_from = yes".
> Thanks for the tip.
> 
> Unfortunately, it didn't work.

You've set all 4, right?  And you do mean the From: header, not the
envelope from, right?

Does 'my_hdr From: "Your Name" <foo at bar.com>' (drop the ') work?

-rob

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