On Sun, Mar 12, 2006 at 11:39:00PM -0000, Chris Norman wrote: >> Hi people, >> I want to change my from: address in mutt. >> >> At the minute, every time I send an e-mail to someone, it looks like it's >> coming from "God <root@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>", I'd like it as my address. >> >> How would I do this please? >> What seemed to work for me was to add the following to my .muttrc file (name and address changed to protect the .... paranoid?): set from="my_real_address@xxxxxxxxx" set realname="My Real Name Here" set use_from=yes set envelope_from=yes set use_domain=no If I remember right, after I made this change, sendmail started adding a header to every outgoing message saying something like "warning! this e-mail's From header may be fake!" I was able to make it stop by added appropriate username(s) to /etc/mail/trusted-users and restarting sendmail. Hope this helps. -- -- blm
