How to change the sender s name or e-mail address in mutt

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How can I change the sender s name or e-mail address  From  header  used by mutt

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For a one time change you can do this  export EMAIL  sender example com   mutt -s  quot Elvis is dead quot  receiver bar com

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100  Working   To send HTML contents in the body of the mail on the go with Sender and Recipient mail address in single line  you may try the below   export EMAIL  sender example com   amp  amp  mutt -e  my hdr Content-Type  text html  -s  Test Mail   recipient example com   lt  body html html   File  body html html   lt HTML gt   lt HEAD gt  Test Mail  lt  HEAD gt   lt BODY gt   lt p gt This is a  lt strong gt  lt span style  color   ff0000   gt test mail  lt  span gt  lt  strong gt  lt  p gt   lt  BODY gt   lt  HTML gt    Note  Tested in RHEL  CentOS  Ubuntu

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One special case for this is if you have used a construction like the following in your    muttrc     Reset From email to default send-hook    my hdr From  Real Name  lt email example com gt     This send-hook will override either of these   mutt -e  set from email example com  mutt -e  my hdr From  Other Name  lt otheremail example com gt     Your emails will still go out with the header   From  Real Name  lt email example com gt    In this case  the only command line solution I ve found is actually overriding the send-hook itself   mutt -e  send-hook     my hdr From  Other Name  lt otheremail example com gt

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before you send the email you can press  lt ESC gt  f  Escape followed by f  to change the From  Address    Constraint  This only works if you use mutt in curses mode and do not wan t to script it or if you want to change the address permanent  Then the other solutions are way better

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If you just want to change it once  you can specify the  from  header in command line  eg   mutt -e  my hdr From obama whitehouse org    my hdr is mutt s command of providing custom header value   One last word  don t be evil

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Normally  mutt sets the From  header based on the from configuration variable you set in    muttrc   set from  Fubar  lt foo bar gt     If this is not set  mutt uses the EMAIL environment variable by default  In which case  you can get away with calling mutt like this on the command line  as opposed to how you showed it in your comment    EMAIL  foo bar  mutt -s   MailSubject  -c  abc def    However  if you want to be able to edit the From  header while composing  you need to configure mutt to allow you to edit headers first  This involves adding the following line in your    muttrc   set edit headers yes   After that  next time you open up mutt and are composing an E-mail  your chosen text editor will pop up containing the headers as well  so you can edit them  This includes the From  header

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