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..

> | If I type ":set from" or ":set realname", my email and realname do
> | appear properly.
> 
> That's odd.

Well, what I meant is that my email and realname appear in the status
line as 
> from="[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
and
> realname="Daniel J. Peng"


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Linux peng 2.4.18-686 #1 Sun Apr 14 11:32:47 EST 2002 i686 unknown
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