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Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2001 19:59:39 +0100
From: Corinna Vinschen <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
To: cygwin <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: Re: mutt and From: field
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In-Reply-To: <20010313175259.68884.qmail@web9614.mail.yahoo.com>; from jreidthompson@yahoo.com on Tue, Mar 13, 2001 at 09:52:59AM -0800

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 AT cygwin DOT 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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> > Corinna Vinschen                  Please, send mails
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