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Re: mutt and From: field
On Tue, Mar 13, 2001 at 09:52:59AM -0800, Reid Thompson wrote:
> No, I have not intentionally touched /etc/passwd.
> Listed below are its contents. Looks like the comma
> is there.....
>
> Everyone:*:0:0:,S-1-1-0::
> SYSTEM:*:18:18:,S-1-5-18::
> Administrator::500:513:,S-1-5-21-2104126249-1604802521-612134452-500::/bin/sh
> Guest::501:513:,S-1-5-21-2104126249-1604802521-612134452-501::/bin/sh
Hmm. When I wrote my mail, I tested it first and as soon as
the comma is available, everything's ok.
Did you actually try it with giving a real name in the pw_gecos
field?
Corinna
>
>
>
> --- Corinna Vinschen <cygwin@cygwin.com> wrote:
> > On Tue, Mar 13, 2001 at 10:39:21AM -0500,
> > S-1-5-21-2104126249-1604802521-612134452-500 wrote:
> > > A little help please. It appears that my config
> > is populating the From field with my machines MAC
> > address? Could someone direct me in the proper
> > means to populate this variable. I have had no
> > success attempting variations found in the mail
> > files. I am using the base dist.
> >
> > That's not the MAC address, that's the SID of your
> > user account
> > (administrator, apparently). Did you "clean up" your
> > /etc/passwd
> > entry? It should contain the above S-xxx string in
> > the pw_gecos
> > field but prepended by a comma. It's the way
> > mkpasswd generates
> > that entry. If you erase that comma, mutt treats
> > that string as
> > your full name. Two solutions:
> >
> > - Readd the comma to the pw_gecos field. If you
> > want, add your name
> >
> > admin::500:513:John
> > Doe,S-1-...:/home/admin:/bin/bash
> >
> > - Add a
> >
> > set realname="John Doe"
> >
> > to your .muttrc file.
> >
> > Corinna
> >
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