[oclug] mutt and my remote/local id's

[Adrian Chung]

On Fri, Mar 02, 2001 at 03:18:12PM -0500, Jeff 'Mutt' East wrote:
> 	Right now I have fetchmail getting mail from my ISP, and Mutt reads it from my local spool.  My id's on the two machine are different.  I would like Mutt to :
> 
> 	- flag emails with my remote id as 'to me'

You can use the "set alternates" command to tell mutt what email
addresses you receive mail at:

set alternates="(address1 at domain|address2 at domain).(com|net|org)"

or whatever regular expression works for your email addresses.

This should automatically let mutt know that it should flag mail to
any of these alternates as mail to you.

> 	- remove that remote id when I do a 'group-reply'

unset metoo will stop any of your alternate addresses from being
included in a group-reply.

Another option I find useful is to "set reverse_name" which tells mutt
that whatever incoming email address was used in the To: field should
be what it should use in the From: field when you reply.  This way, if
you receive mail via 5 different email accounts, mutt will make sure
that the correct email address is used when you reply.

> To get the headers correct, I've got:
> 
> 	unset use_from
> 	my_hdr From: Jeff 'Mutt' East <an972 at ncf.ca>

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