mutt "from" header

[Daniel Robitaille]

On Thu, 03 Feb 2005 22:41:07 -0800, Don W. Jenkins <dwjenkins at sc-zg.com> wrote:
> I nearly have mutt functioning as I would like, but there is one glitch:
> when I send a message, the "From:" header shows
> "USER at localhost.localdomain" no matter what I try to change in the
> .muttrc.  I have tried setting "from" to my actual e-mail address, etc.,
> but it still sends me out as something other than my qualified e-mail
> address. 

I don't use mutt on Ubuntu, but on a Mandrake system  I have something
like this in my muttrc to make sure my from header is the correct one:

send-hook . \
       'my_hdr From: John Doe <John Doe at domain.com>

Is that what you tried?