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From: le@lekno.ws
Newsgroups: news.software.readers
Subject: Re: Has tin forgotten me?
Date: Mon, 30 Dec 2024 23:20:23 -0000 (UTC)
Organization: PANIX Public Access Internet and UNIX, NYC
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le@lekno.ws wrote:
> 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.

There doesn't seem to be a set author name in the new tinrc
OR the old backup tinrc.
 
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