"From:" address is wrong

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Anmar Oueja

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Nov 1, 2012, 5:00:00 AM11/1/12
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Hello,

When I reply to an e-mail or create a new message, the "From:" address is not using my actual e-mail, instead, it is using my Linux login ID@hostname (anmar@x201) .  I have the following in my .config file:

 '(mu4e-my-email-addresses (quote ("anmar@some_mail_domain.com")))

Any help is appreciated


anmar

Joost Kremers

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Nov 1, 2012, 5:36:28 AM11/1/12
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On Thu, Nov 01 2012, Anmar Oueja <sit...@gmail.com> wrote:
> When I reply to an e-mail or create a new message, the "From:" address is
> not using my actual e-mail, instead, it is using my Linux login ID@hostname
> (anmar@x201) . I have the following in my .config file:
>
> '(mu4e-my-email-addresses (quote ("anmar@some_mail_domain.com")))

the address used in the From: header is taken from user-mail-address,
not from mu4e-my-email-addresses. mu4e-my-email-addresses is used to
determine which messages are to be considered as being sent by/to you
when indexing.

BTW, the documentation on mu4e-my-email-addresses says that it has been
made obsolete in the latest mu4e versions. you should use
mu4e-user-mail-address-list instead.

HTH

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Joost Kremers
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Anmar Oueja

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Nov 1, 2012, 6:38:56 AM11/1/12
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On Thursday, 1 November 2012 10:36:31 UTC+1, Joost Kremers wrote:
On Thu, Nov 01 2012, Anmar Oueja <sit...@gmail.com> wrote:
> When I reply to an e-mail or create a new message, the "From:" address is
> not using my actual e-mail, instead, it is using my Linux login ID@hostname
> (anmar@x201) .  I have the following in my .config file:
>
>  '(mu4e-my-email-addresses (quote ("an...@some_mail_domain.com")))

the address used in the From: header is taken from user-mail-address,
not from mu4e-my-email-addresses. mu4e-my-email-addresses is used to
determine which messages are to be considered as being sent by/to you
when indexing.

Thanks. That worked great. For the record, I added the following line to my .emacs:

 '(user-mail-address "Email@YourDomain")

BTW, the documentation on mu4e-my-email-addresses says that it has been
made obsolete in the latest mu4e versions. you should use
mu4e-user-mail-address-list instead.

Cheers, I fixed it.

anmar
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