Path: ...!weretis.net!feeder9.news.weretis.net!panix!.POSTED.main.lekno.ws!not-for-mail From: Louis Epstein Newsgroups: news.software.readers Subject: Re: Has tin forgotten me? Date: Thu, 2 Jan 2025 17:55:53 -0000 (UTC) Organization: PANIX Public Access Internet and UNIX, NYC Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Thu, 2 Jan 2025 17:55:53 -0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: reader2.panix.com; posting-host="main.lekno.ws:12.144.5.2"; logging-data="17575"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@panix.com" User-Agent: tin/2.6.4-20241224 ("Helmsdale") (FreeBSD/13.4-RELEASE-p1 (amd64)) Bytes: 2344 Lines: 43 Urs Janßen 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 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 -=-=- The World Trade Center towers MUST rise again, at least as tall as before...or terror has triumphed.