On Mon 25 Apr 2022 at 10:24:18 (-0400), Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Mon, Apr 25, 2022 at 09:18:45AM -0500, David Wright wrote: > > On Mon 25 Apr 2022 at 12:04:55 (-0000), Curt wrote: > > > I thought 'set use_envelope_from' took a boolean value (yes or no). > > > > Good proofreading, thanks. The fact that this mistake did not > > produce an error message may be down to the other problem: > > mutt's configuration file is not called ~./muttrc/muttrc, but > > either ~./muttrc or ~./mutt/muttrc (I'm not qualified to > > comment on the next possibility, $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/mutt/muttrc, > > which might have something to do with DEs). > > According to > <https://specifications.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-latest.html>: > > $XDG_CONFIG_HOME defines the base directory relative to which > user-specific configuration files should be stored. If $XDG_CONFIG_HOME > is either not set or empty, a default equal to $HOME/.config should > be used. > > That would make it ~/.config/mutt/muttrc unless that environment variable > is set (which it never is in any sensible setup).
I suppose that makes my guess close, but no cigar. I have noticed that more and more packages place their configuration in ~/.config, which is tidier than scattering them in ~ itself, but hadn't twigged the reasoning. Most man pages just present the fact as a fait accompli: "the configuration is in ~/.config/foo". Only about two dozen of them mention XDG at all on my system's selection. (I haven't tried to correlate their mentioning XDG with where their configuration is placed.) > So, either the OP has placed the wrong lines in the wrong file, or they > have misrepresented their setup. Yes, a typo, but one that raises another issue: why no reaction to mutt's error message when it parses their configuration file? Cheers, David.
