On Sun, Feb 06, 2000 at 05:09:50PM +0200, Mikko H�nninen wrote:
> [...]  Mutt 1.0 doesn't support as an explicit
> feature setting the envelope sender; however you can specify the
> $sendmail variable to whatever you want, so you can set it like that
> ("set sendmail=sendmail -fsender@address").
> 
> Again, in the developement versions there's a variable, I forget which,
> that sets the envelope sender to your current From: address (IIRC).

Once there was a patch for this in mutt-(.*)@mutt\.org, but I see no
traces of it in 1.1.2.  The variable was called `envelope_from'.

BTW grepping for /envelope in the manual reveals one incorrect use of
the word.  AFAIK envelope and headers are quite different parts of an
e-mail, right?.  Here's a patch for this:

--- manual.sgml.head.orig       Fri Jan 28 21:42:29 2000
+++ manual.sgml.head    Sun Feb  6 22:10:35 2000
@@ -1717,7 +1717,7 @@
 language for matching messages in hook commands.  This works in exactly the
 same way as it would when <em/limiting/ or <em/searching/ the mailbox,
 except that you are restricted to those operators which match information
-from the envelope of the message (i.e.  from, to, cc, date, subject, etc.).
+from the headers of the message (i.e.  from, to, cc, date, subject, etc.).

 For example, if you wanted to set your return address based upon sending
 mail to a specific address, you could do something like:


Marius Gedminas
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