Viewing the 'Mail-Followup-To' header?

#1 07-21-2008, 02:35 AM

Hi,

I am using:

andrew@ilium~$ mutt -v | head -n1
Mutt 1.5.18 (2008-05-17)

with the 'Mail-Followup-To' set in .muttrc as follows:

set followup_to=yes

And I can see in my sent mail that this works well with lists that I
have marked as lists and subscribed. But I cannot see this header
anywhere except in my sent mail although I have set the following:

set edit_headers=yes
ignore *
unignore Mail-Followup-To:

In particular I am a little puzzled that I cannot see the header when
composing a message in vim. I suspect I am missing something very basic
here?

Andrew

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#2 07-21-2008, 03:41 PM

andrew <andrew@ilium.invalid> wrote:
> And I can see in my sent mail that this works well with lists that
> I have marked as lists and subscribed. But I cannot see this
> header anywhere except in my sent mail although I have set the
> following:
>
> set edit_headers=yes
> ignore *
> unignore Mail-Followup-To:

Because mutt doesn't let you edit any/every header there is, just
what is "sensible".

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#3 07-21-2008, 06:51 PM

On 2008-07-21, Rado S <rado-news@spam-is.invalid> wrote:
> andrew <andrew@ilium.invalid> wrote:
>> And I can see in my sent mail that this works well with lists that
>> I have marked as lists and subscribed. But I cannot see this
>> header anywhere except in my sent mail although I have set the
>> following:
>>
>> set edit_headers=yes
>> ignore *
>> unignore Mail-Followup-To:
>
> Because mutt doesn't let you edit any/every header there is, just
> what is "sensible".

Well at least I am not missing something obvious. Mind you I prefer
to decide _myself_ what is sensible rather than have software dictate it
to me. I should not complain too much though mutt as has been good to me
for the most part :-).

Andrew
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#4 07-21-2008, 07:46 PM

On 2008-07-21, andrew <andrew@ilium.invalid> wrote:
> On 2008-07-21, Rado S <rado-news@spam-is.invalid> wrote:
>>
>> Because mutt doesn't let you edit any/every header there is, just
>> what is "sensible".
>
> Well at least I am not missing something obvious. Mind you I prefer
> to decide _myself_ what is sensible rather than have software dictate it
> to me.

Another example of where mutt takes control is the References: header.
If you hit "r" to reply to an email you are reading in mutt then it is
mutt that sets the References: header based on the headers in the mail
you are replying to. I don't think you can easily override this but then
you wouldn't normally want to. I only came across this when I was trying
out ways to get messages delivered to Hotmail users without having them
vaporised by their broken spam filtering system.

Ian

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