When using mutt with mailto: From and Fcc are holding wrong values

[Martin]

On Di 11.06.19 09:40, Dan Ritter wrote:
>
>You'll need a wrapper that parses the mailto: URL and submits
>the subject line as -s foo. It might as well set up your
>terminal the way you like it and, if you want, use an alternate
>.muttrc.
>
>-dsr-
>
Thank you Dan.
I just tried starting mutt with "-s foo at bar.de" and it also deletes my usual
"From" address.
While the rest of my muttrc remains in place. Maybe I misunderstood something,
but I can't see how this prevents the problem I face.

Best regards,
Martin

On Tue, 11 Jun 2019 at 15:40, Dan Ritter <dsr-mutt at randomstring.org> wrote:
>
> Martin wrote:
> > Hello everyone,
> > I'm using mutt on Debian with several accounts and Firefox as a
> > browser. When I click on a mailto: link it opens a new terminal with
> > mutt and from all I see it does pick up my muttrc correctly, but the
> > new email has "Fcc:" as ~/sent and "From" as myuser
> > <myuser at myhostname>.
> >
> > Same happens when I start it like:
> > mutt mailto:foo at bar.net?subject=foo
> >
> > Also tried to pass one of my accounts with the -f flag.
> > I would expect mutt to select the first or any of my accounts to use
> > for the Sent-folder and From-Address.
> >
> > Can you give me advice how to use one of my regular accounts for
> > composing emails via mailto links?
>
> You'll need a wrapper that parses the mailto: URL and submits
> the subject line as -s foo. It might as well set up your
> terminal the way you like it and, if you want, use an alternate
> .muttrc.
>
> -dsr-
>