Help with muttrc file please

gena at genaj.plus.com gena at genaj.plus.com
Thu Mar 30 18:35:08 EST 2006


Hi

OK thanks, I needed to put it in quotes and change the From to Reply-To
however, the header still contains a blank Reply-To field, any ideas?

It seems that my version is:
Mutt 1.5.11+cvs20060126 (2006-01-26)

Gena

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>On Thu, Mar 30, 2006 at 09:15:56AM -0700, Raul A. Gallegos wrote:
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>> Hi. To set your reply address you can put in a my_hdr line like this:
>> 
>> my_hdr From: my full name <my_address at dom.ain>
>> 
>
>You may also use a line like this to modify the "From:" header: 
>set from="ace <ace at freedomchat.org>
>"
>
>> Notice the capital F in From:. I'm not sure what the problem is with the 
>> mailcap entry. I don't have one set at all in my local .muttrc but I 
>> confess I have not looked at my global one in a very long time since 
>> things on this Fedora box wsorked pretty much out of the box.
>> 
>> OK, just looked at my /etc/Muttrc blobal muttrc file and the mailcap set 
>> is not set so I'm not sure why yours was.  Below I include my .muttrc 
>> file with notes. Feel free to use it if you like.
>> 
>> If one of the settings does not make sense you can look it up in the 
>> mutt manual which gives a detailed and easy to read explanation on what 
>> the actual setting is.
>> 
>> - ---begin---
>> # General Settings
>> ignore *
>> unignore From: To: Date: Subject: X-Mailer: X-ASK-Info:
>> unset allow_8bit
>> unset metoo
>> set   alias_file=~/.mutt/aliases
>> set attribution="%n said the following on %d:"
>> set autoedit=yes
>> set   delete=yes
>> set editor="/usr/bin/nano -t"
>> set fast_reply=yes
>> set forward_format="[%s (fwd)]"
>> set help=no
>> set mark_old=no
>> set move=no
>> set pager_stop=yes
>> set query_command="abook --mutt-query %s"
>> set quit=yes
>> set reverse_alias=yes
>> set reverse_name=yes
>> set reverse_realname=yes
>> set sendmail_wait=0
>> set sleep_time=1
>> set sort_alias=address
>> set tmpdir=~/.mutt/tmp
>> 
>> #this setting tells mutt in what order to display headers
>> hdr_order Date: From: To: Cc: Subject: X-Mailer: X-Spam-Status: 
>> X-ASK-Info:
>> 
>> 
>> #I found this setting interesting at times but is hardly needed
>> #set arrow_cursor=yes
>> 
>> #this is for my own knowledge
>> set beep_new=yes
>> set beep=yes
>> 
>> #I use postfix and this setting seems to help
>> set bounce_delivered=no
>> set bounce=yes
>> 
>> #I prefer setting this setting because otherwise sending mail can
>> #appear to come from a different address. With this one your
>> #envelop address will always be set to what ever you have in
>> #your From: header.
>> set envelope_from=yes
>> 
>> #more display options which are just personal choice
>> set menu_scroll=no
>> set sort=reverse-threads
>> set hide_thread_subject=no
>> 
>> #you may want to not use these if you have no need of gpg or pgp keys
>> set crypt_timestamp=no # don't tell me what time it is.                         
>> set pgp_auto_decode=yes
>> set pgp_timeout=3600
>> set pgp_verify_sig=yes
>> set pgp_autoinline=yes
>> 
>> #The following files contain or may contain personal information
>> #so I source them so I can easily share my main .muttrc file
>> #without having to edit out personal information. In the personal
>> #file you can put imap or pop passwords if you want but I just use
>> #fetchmail for that.
>> # Source Extra Files
>> source ~/.mutt/aliases
>> source ~/.mutt/lists
>> source ~/.mutt/pgp
>> source ~/.mutt/private
>> source ~/.mutt/hooks
>> - ---end---
>> - -- 
>> Whatever you may be sure of, be sure of this: that you are dreadfully like
>> other people.
>> 		-- James Russell Lowell, "My Study Windows"
>> Raul A. Gallegos ... IliwSsmc
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