Re: [nail-devel] -r option

[Gunnar R. <Gun...@pl...>]

Bob Tennent <rd...@cs...> wrote:

> and the right way to do what I want is to do it inside nail as follows:
>
> ~:set from="..."
>
> Shouldn't the From header be included in the ~h process and the ~p
> listing when it has been changed?

What exactly do you mean with "when it has been changed"? The default
is not to generate a From field at all when using sendmail; it is made
from "login@currenthost" when using SMTP. This is not useful for most
people today since most email addresses have nothing to do with the
current host anymore. Most people will thus set "from". But once it
has been set, it is rarely changed again.

I think it is a good idea to put "from" etc. it in the ~p listing if
they are set, but I would find it rather disturbing to have to skip
it nearly every time I use ~h. But I could introduce a ~H escape which
allows to configure more fields.

Anyway, what do you want to achieve? The "account" command offers a
convenient way to manage different from addresses etc.

	Gunnar