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" -- I do not find in orthodox Christianity one redeeming feature. -- Thomas Jefferson Linux peng 2.4.18-686 #1 Sun Apr 14 11:32:47 EST 2002 i686 unknown 08:17:58 up 1 day, 4:03, 3 users, load average: 0.06, 0.04, 0.01