I just installed Debian woody with Mutt 1.3.28i, and I've discovered a
puzzling behavior that wasn't in the Mutt that came with Mandrake 8.0
nor any other Mutt I've ever used.  I made a simple muttrc with just

> set from="[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
> set realname="Daniel J. Peng"

Now I expected that when I started writing an email in Mutt, Mutt
would construct a default From header consisting of my email and
realname, but instead the From header is completely blank.
If I type ":set from" or ":set realname", my email and realname do
appear properly.

Has anybody else seen this behavior?  Is this a new "feature" of Mutt
1.3.28i?  Or is this some pecularity of Debian's package?

mutt -v reports:
> Mutt 1.3.28i (2002-03-13)
> Copyright (C) 1996-2001 Michael R. Elkins and others.
> Mutt comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; for details type `mutt -vv'.
> Mutt is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it
> under certain conditions; type `mutt -vv' for details.
> 
> System: Linux 2.4.18-686 (i686) [using ncurses 5.2]
> Compile options:
> -DOMAIN
> -DEBUG
> -HOMESPOOL  +USE_SETGID  +USE_DOTLOCK  +DL_STANDALONE  
> +USE_FCNTL  -USE_FLOCK
> +USE_POP  +USE_IMAP  -USE_GSS  -USE_SSL  +USE_GNUTLS  +USE_SASL  
> +HAVE_REGCOMP  -USE_GNU_REGEX  
> +HAVE_COLOR  +HAVE_START_COLOR  +HAVE_TYPEAHEAD  +HAVE_BKGDSET  
> +HAVE_CURS_SET  +HAVE_META  +HAVE_RESIZETERM  
> +HAVE_PGP  -BUFFY_SIZE -EXACT_ADDRESS  -SUN_ATTACHMENT  
> +ENABLE_NLS  -LOCALES_HACK  +COMPRESSED  +HAVE_WC_FUNCS
> +HAVE_LANGINFO_CODESET  +HAVE_LANGINFO_YESEXPR  
> +HAVE_ICONV  -ICONV_NONTRANS  +HAVE_GETSID  +HAVE_GETADDRINFO  
> ISPELL="/usr/bin/ispell"
> SENDMAIL="/usr/sbin/sendmail"
> MAILPATH="/var/mail"
> PKGDATADIR="/usr/share/mutt"
> SYSCONFDIR="/etc"
> EXECSHELL="/bin/sh"
> MIXMASTER="mixmaster"
> To contact the developers, please mail to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>.
> To report a bug, please use the flea(1) utility.
> 
> patch-1.5.tlr.mx_open_append.2
> patch-1.3.28.cvs.indexsegfault
> patch-1.3.27.bse.xtitles.1
> patch-1.3.26.appoct.3
> patch-1.3.15.sw.pgp-outlook.1
> patch-1.3.27.admcd.gnutls.19
> Md.use_editor
> Md.paths_mutt.man
> Md.muttbug_no_list
> Md.use_etc_mailname
> Md.muttbug_warning
> Md.gpg_status_fd
> patch-1.3.24.rr.compressed.1
> patch-1.3.25.cd.edit_threads.9.1
> patch-1.3.23.1.ametzler.pgp_good_sign

-- 
There ain't nothin' in this world that's worth being a snot over.
             -- Larry Wall in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Linux peng 2.4.18-686 #1 Sun Apr 14 11:32:47 EST 2002 i686 unknown
 21:22:44 up 17:07,  3 users,  load average: 0.02, 0.08, 0.07

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