On Sun, Jan 14, 2018 at 09:33:24AM -0800, Ian Zimmerman wrote: > On 2018-01-14 01:27, Mike Brown wrote: > > > I was running exim and mutt on an old Solaris system. I finally moved > > over to my new Linux box, which is now at Fedora 27. I copied over > > the config files. > > > > But, I had discovered that the "From: " line was incomplete. It was: > > > > brown@mrvideo > > On Solaris, the hostname(1) command (and maybe even the uname(2) > syscall, I do not remember anymore) return the FQDN, unlike Linux, where > they return the bare hostname. So if some part of the configuration > relied on one of these interfaces to get the FQDN, you'd get the > behavior you see.
Yep, I was reminded of this difference by a friend. Doesn't explain why changing the exim.conf file "qualify_domain" setting fixed the "To " composing issue with mutt. > > Also, when I sent test mail to myself, the Mutt "To" line was changed > > to the above value. > > It is unclear what you mean here. Do you mean the header in the message > after it went through the SMTP sausage factory and you received it back? > Or do you mean the default value mutt gives you while you compose an > outgoing message? Sorry, the default value that mutt provides while composing the message. MB -- e-mail: [email protected] | [email protected] /~\ The ASCII [email protected] (140 char limit) \ / Ribbon Campaign Visit - URL: http://vidiot.com/ X Against http://vidiot.net/ / \ HTML Email "What do you say Beckett. Wanna have a baby?" - Castle to Det. Beckett "How long have I been gone?" Alexis after seeing Castle and Beckett w/ baby - Castle - 11/25/13
