Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2001 17:12:58 +0100 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: mutt and From: field Message-ID: <20010313171258.H569@cygbert.vinschen.de> Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <20010313103921.A519@WS014_NT500> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20010313103921.A519@WS014_NT500>; from rthompso@ateb.com on Tue, Mar 13, 2001 at 10:39:21AM -0500 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 -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Developer mailto:cygwin@cygwin.com Red Hat, Inc. -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Check out: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple