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From: Louis Epstein <le@lekno.ws>
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Subject: Re: Has tin forgotten me?
Date: Thu, 2 Jan 2025 17:55:53 -0000 (UTC)
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Urs Janßen <urs@buil.tin.org> wrote:
> In le@lekno.ws wrote:
>>>> 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.
> 
> then you should add one (or figure out why the fallback to USER@HOST
> doesn't work anymore (you would need to inspect the source for that).

I had always relied on that fallback.

> as it works for me on a FreeBSD-15 system[1] I can't help as it seems to
> be a local config issue on your system).

I wound up doing the M-while-running entry of
 
> preferred from is
>         mail_address=First Last <user@example.org>

after just filling in the user@host part a few times
(not doing that resulted in error messages regarding
a missing @).

> but
>         mail_address=user@example.org (First Last)
> would be ok too (and you may omit the realname stuff).
> 
> [1]
> # /etc/passwd looks like
> urs:*:12345:12345:User &:/home/urs:/bin/sh
> 
> generated from is
>         From: User Urs <urs@some.exaple.org>

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