Additional information in this 'reply': On Tue, Feb 28, 2006 at 02:30:13PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I have been working on debugging my print services. I have made > several posts to this list on that subject. Several of you have > suggested that this or that thing that I was complaining about worked > fine on their system. So I decided to install a fresh copy of Debian > with a view to testing in a whole new clean environment. > > Now comes the details of a strange issue with mutt. Of course, I did > not wipe my system clean and install all new. What I really did was to > free up a partition that is big enough (7G) to hold a generous Debian > system, reformat it and install on that. My /home was already in a > partition by itself, and my various personal projects were in other > partitions where I could easily arrange to keep them all > untouched. And I did preserve them all and mount them in the new > installation. My original root partition became a subdirectory in > the new system. The new root directory was already accessable from > the old root as a subdirectory, but now with very different size and > contents. > > At the end of yesterday evening, I had a second installation of Sarge > that contained the same software as the original. But with the same > /home. But its not so. Mutt behaves differently in the two. For > example, in one installation my posts to this list are listed as "To: > debian-user..." and in the other they are listed as "From: pecondon > ..." Why? My reading of the man page is that mutt configuration is > all done in ~/.muttrc and that there is not a master config file in > /etc. Am I mistaken? Where is another that mutt config is stored? What > is the source of this difference in behavior? > New info: The two installations of mutt are the same version of the .deb package downloaded from the same repository.
> Of course, I don't really care about such a petty detail of mutt > configuration, but it is absolute proof that I don't have control > over the configuration of my environment, and I need control if > I am ever to solve my print problems where my queries to this > list frequently get "It works for me." as a response. > > I need help, please. > > -- > Paul E Condon > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- Paul E Condon [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]