On Mon, Jul 15, 2002 at 08:21:27AM -0400, Daniel J Peng wrote: | On Sun, Jul 14, 2002 at 10:08:47PM -0500, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: | > On Sun, Jul 14, 2002 at 09:37:03PM -0400, Daniel J Peng wrote: | > | 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. | > | > What happens if you add | > set use_from | > to it? | | Hrm.. That works. Thanks!! When was this option added? I haven't | seen it in the ChangeLog..
It was there in 1.2.5i (back when I compiled it on cygwin because the
cygwin folks didn't have a package for it). I didn't know about mutt
before then.
Maybe the mandrake people turned it on by default?
| > | If I type ":set from" or ":set realname", my email and realname do
| > | appear properly.
| >
| > That's odd.
|
| Well, what I meant is that my email and realname appear in the status
| line as
| > from="[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
| and
| > realname="Daniel J. Peng"
Oh, oops, I read "do not appear ...". Good to know I was wrong on
that point :-).
-D
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