Ben --
...and then Ben Johnson said...
% Thanks for your help.
Sure thing!
%
% I tried ":set ?alternates" on all the machines that have mutt installed
% and with one exception I got 'alternates=""' on all machines. The one
Now that's interesting; I wouldn't have expected that. But, then again,
I thought you had multiple email addresses :-)
% exception simply cleared the command line and printed nothing. to clear
% up any ambiguity I edited all the config files and explicitly set
% alternates="". The behavior has not changed in any of the
% installations.
%
% My excellent systems administrator upgraded the troubled mutt to version
% Mutt 1.2.5i (2000-07-28) at my request but that also has not changed the
% behavior.
That's a good thing -- he or she is now primed to install 1.4 when it
comes out any minute ;-)
%
% Could it be something else on my system?
%
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% ah! darn. I diff'd my config files on two different systems and found
% that on the affected system I had the "set hostname" line commented out.
% When I uncommented that and set it to watchguard.com (the second half of
% my email) it started to work fine. pebcak!
How very interesting. I'll have to file that one!
%
% Thanks again for your help.
HTH
%
% - Ben
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