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Fullname in e-mail addresses (Was Re: Spurious "You have multiplecopies of cygwin1.dll on your system.")
- From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha at cs dot nyu dot edu>
- To: luke dot kendall at cisra dot canon dot com dot au
- Cc: Talk Amongst Yourselves <cygwin-talk at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Fri, 8 Oct 2004 00:15:19 -0400 (EDT)
- Subject: Fullname in e-mail addresses (Was Re: Spurious "You have multiplecopies of cygwin1.dll on your system.")
- References: <20041008035949.B73D785136@pessard.research.canon.com.au>
- Reply-to: Talk Amongst Yourselves <cygwin-talk at cygwin dot com>
- Reply-to: Blather-Blabber-Blahblah <cygwin-talk at cygwin dot com>
Properly TITTTLing...
On Fri, 8 Oct 2004, luke.kendall wrote:
> On 7 Oct, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
> > On Fri, 8 Oct 2004, luke.kendall wrote:
> > > On 7 Oct, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
> > > > On Thu, 7 Oct 2004, luke.kendall wrote:
> > > > > On 7 Oct, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> > > > > > On Thu, Oct 07, 2004 at 02:49:29PM +1000, luke.kendall@XXXXX.XXXXX.XXX.XX wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Erghm...
> > >
> > > We all make mistakes. :-)
> >
> > Well, "erghm" to you, then... Could you please add a fullname to your
> > e-mail address, so that these mistakes happen less often? ;-)
>
> Apologies, I hadn't understood that the source of the error was me.
>
> Unfortunately I think I'm overdue to change over to a new MUA - despite
> having "Use From Address" set to: "Luke Kendall" luke.kendall@XXXX...
> it doesn't seem to do the right thing. So I'll just have to suffer
> until I change clients, which seems fair.
> [snip]
The above doesn't seem quite right. Did you try setting it to '"Luke
Kendall" <luke.kendall@XXXX...>' (note the '<' and '>')? Or,
alternatively, 'luke.kendall@XXXX... (Luke Kendall)'? These are the two
conventions that MTAs use for fullnames, AFAIK.
> > BTW (OT), there was a web page I found once, called "Command-line NT: It
> > does exist!". Unfortunately, the original is gone to the happy place
> > where all old internet articles go, but you can still read it through the
> > Internet Archive: <http://web.archive.org/web/20030621125700/http://www.linuxworld.com/linuxworld/lw-1999-04/lw-04-thereandback.html>.
>
> Hey, that's interesting, thanks! Even with the missing screen
> snapshots, there are some useful tips there.
You might also find <http://is-it-true.org/nt/atips/index.shtml> useful
(if a bit dated)...
Igor
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