On Wed, Aug 19, 2020 at 12:36:53PM -0400, Remco Rijnders wrote:
[ Just realised that I thought I'd replied to all, but didn't.
Forwarded copy of my reply follows. ]
> 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?
>
Hi Remco,
it's self compiled, but I don't think I need to take everybody's
time up by pasting the configure options and CFLAGS because ...
> Does either the name or the email address include any non ASCII characters
> or quotes or punctuation in them?
>
No, straight ASCII without punctuation.
> 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?
>
Tried the real name with my address, it took the subject and dropped
me into the editor so all was fine. Retried with the real name and
his address, that also took the subject and dropped me into the
editor.
So, now it Works For Me.
Above I said that occasionally I could not use the normal keys and
to navigate in mutt - I had not seen that for several months, then
one day last week it happened again. Must be a local problem.
> I have no idea as to what the problem might be, but hope that we can narrow
> it down a little further.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Remco
Thanks for prompting me to try it again.
ĸen
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