[neomutt-users] From: field wrongly filled

[Elimar Riesebieter]

* gilles.lamboley at yahoo.fr <gilles.lamboley at yahoo.fr> [2019-08-03 22:41 +0200]:

> Hello,
> 
> I'm new to this mailing list in with using neomutt as well, so I thank you
> for any help you could bring.
> 
> I have 4 accounts, using mbsync to work with local mailboxes, and I noticed
> the From field in message I sent is always filled this way :
> gilles <my_adressmail at account>.
> 
> This cause the message to be flagged sometimes.
> 
> To be precise:
> - mail with no 'From: ' field at all (line deleted)  => not marked as  spam;
> - with From: Gilles Lamboley <my_adressemail at account> => not marked as
> spam;
> - with From: <my_adressemail at account> => not spam;
> - with From: gilles <my_adressmail at account> => marked as SPAM
> 
> I would like to have te proprer 'From: ' field, but didn't succeed.
> 
> 1) I don't know where this "gilles" comes from; well, it's my username in my
> ubuntu computer (and my first name, appearing in my mail adresse), but
> nothing like "gilles" alone in my config files; I source different files
> with folder hook depending on account, with "set from=my_adresse at ..."
> 
> 2) I tried to remove the 'From field' with :
> - unmy_hdr *
> - my_hdr from <my_adressmail at account>
> ... but still got From: gilles <my_adressmail at account>
> 
> 3) Finally removed the "set from=... " and "my_hdr from ...", keeping only
> unmy_hdr * and still got a From Field like "From: gilles
> gilles at mycomputername"
> 
> So, is there a way to have the proprer From field, that is :
> - '<my_adressemail at account>' - or 'Gilles Lamboley <my_adressemail at account>'
> - but not 'gilles <my_adressemail at account>' ?

Well just try as follows:

unhook *
folder-hook . unmy_hdr *
folder-hook . set from="gilles.lamboley at yahoo.fr"
set realname="Gilles Lamboley"

'set from' can be altered to any folder or account you want.


Elimar
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