On Mon, Jul 15, 2002 at 09:54:14AM -0500, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: > 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?
I actually just ran into this problem when I upgraded my sid Debian box. Suddenly all my emails were being composed with an invalid 'from:' address, and this was the problem. I think that the Debian folks may have changed the option somehwere along the line in the global Muttrc (/etc/Muttrc). I'm lead to believe this because upgrades of mutt via apt-get dist-upgrade didn't break this until i decided to have apt-get replace my existing config file. <snip> -- Sean Kelleher
