Re: mutt and From: field

[Reid Thompson <jreidthompson at yahoo dot com>]

No, I have not intentionally touched /etc/passwd. 
Listed below are its contents.  Looks like the comma
is there.....

Everyone:*:0:0:,S-1-1-0::
SYSTEM:*:18:18:,S-1-5-18::
Administrator::500:513:,S-1-5-21-2104126249-1604802521-612134452-500::/bin/sh
Guest::501:513:,S-1-5-21-2104126249-1604802521-612134452-501::/bin/sh



--- Corinna Vinschen <cygwin@cygwin.com> wrote:
> 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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