On Thu 01 Oct 2026 at 12:57:57 (-0400), Todd Zullinger wrote: > David Wright wrote: > > So my guess was wrong. I found mutt's sole mention of mailname in > > /etc/Muttrc: > > > > # If Mutt is unable to determine your site's domain name correctly, you > > can > > # set the default here. (better: fix /etc/mailname) > > # > > # set hostname=cs.hmc.edu > > That is from a Debian patch: > > https://salsa.debian.org/mutt-team/mutt/-/blob/6fa73261/debian/patches/debian-specific/Muttrc.patch
> > I don't know whether Debian compiles mutt to know about mailname. > > It is Debian-specific, from a different patch than the > Muttrc update: > > https://salsa.debian.org/mutt-team/mutt/-/blob/6fa73261/debian/patches/debian-specific/882690-use_fqdn_from_etc_mailname.patch Very helpful, thanks. (I wouldn't have known how to navigate there in those gitlab thingys.) Cheers, David.
