Thanks much, mutt is configured now --- I believe i missed the colon in the "my_hdr From: ..." in my original attempts. working with /etc/muttrc: my_hdr From: Reid Thompson <rthompso@ateb.com> and /etc/ssmtp/ssmtp.conf: FromLineOverride=YES reid -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Check out: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple