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Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2001 17:12:58 +0100
From: Corinna Vinschen <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: mutt and From:  field
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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

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