Re: [Nmh-workers] set from

[David Levine]

Paul wrote:

> yoshi wrote:
>  > I have a virtusertable and prefer to send mail from a mail alias. How can
>  > I change the From: header? In mutt I use something like:
>  > 
>  > set from = 'address@hidden'
>  > my_hdr From: Full Name <address@hidden>
>  > 
>  > Sorry for that trivial question, but I found no answer so far.
> 
> mh doesn't have a trivial answer for this.
> 
> you can either:
>     - add your new From: header manually, when you
>       edit your draft (perhaps you can define an editor
>       macro to help with this), but this will become tiring.

A related approach uses shell aliases and the -form option:

1) Copy nmh/components to, e.g., components_a in my nmh directory
   and add the From: header to it.
2) Create a shell alias, e.g., alias compa='comp -form components_a'.

And similarly for forw and repl.  So it adds some pollution to
my .bashrc but it's easy to set up.

masquerade includes draft_from in nmh 1.3.  If using an older
version, you'll have to add it to your nmh/mts.conf.

David