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From: le@lekno.ws
Newsgroups: news.software.readers
Subject: Re: Has tin forgotten me?
Date: Sat, 28 Dec 2024 17:54:50 -0000 (UTC)
Organization: PANIX Public Access Internet and UNIX, NYC
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Urs Janßen <urs@buil.tin.org> wrote:
> In le@lekno.ws wrote:
>> I just installed an upgrade of tin on my FreeBSD machine
> 
> manual build from upstream source or used the ports package?

Used synth to build local package repository from ports,
then pkg upgrade.

> I can't say anything about the ports package, but I had no issues
> building and running tin from source on FreeBSD 15.0 (with and
> without a carried over tinrc).

I'm running 13.3 in its last days,about to go to 13.4.
 
>> and suddenly every post I make has a blank "From:" line
>> I have to fill in,did configurations get wrecked?
> 
> there are many ways to configure From inside tin; the usual suscpects
> are mail_address in tinrc, from in attributes (see tin(5) and tin(1)),
> if none of these are set a fallback of username@[hostname.]domainname
> shall kick in (some parts can be set a compile time thers eben at runtime).
> 
> I'd start with inspecting your tinrc. e.g.
>         grep -E "^mail_a" ${TIN_HOMEDIR:-"$HOME"}/.tin/tinrc
> and if unset set your (name and) address there. This can be done from
> inside tin via the 'M'enu or when tin is NOT running by editing the file
> directly.

Will check these.

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