On Wed, Aug 19, 2020 at 04:49:22PM +0100, Ken wrote in
<20200819154922.GA23819@llamedos.localdomain>:
I'm using 1.14.6 and I just had a very strange experience trying to
compose a mail. I wanted to send it to someone whose name begins
with 'T' and to include his name before his address.
So I typed M to compose mail and at the prompt for To: I typed his
name and address, something like
The Name <thename@theaddress>
followed by a comma and several other recipients.
But I never got a prompt for a subject, as if I had not entered any
To: field.
Tried again with only the first recipient, again no prompt for the
subject. Tried again with only his email address, success. So,
much as I wanted to include his name, I sent it like that.
Before I try to raise a bug: is this only happening to me (in which
case it must be a local problem - I mostly ssh to my local server
where the mail is, and very occasionally mutt does not recognise
many of the keys for navigating through mail, but aftr logging out
and in again it is fine) ?
Hi Ken,
This sounds like it is not working like it's supposed to. Did you compile
1.14.6 yourself, or did you get it from your distribution? If you compiled
it yourself, what settings did you use? If not, what distribution / OS do
you use?
Does either the name or the email address include any non ASCII characters
or quotes or punctuation in them?
Does the problem occur when you change the name to anything else? And what
if you send an email to your own email address but with their name?
I have no idea as to what the problem might be, but hope that we can narrow
it down a little further.
Cheers,
Remco
