Can't Set Return Address In Mutt

[David M. Carney]

On Sat, 30 Oct 2004 12:05:01 -0400, David M. Carney
<carney1979 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, 30 Oct 2004 17:02:36 +0200, Michel Klijmij
> 
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> <michel+spam at klijmij.net> wrote:
> > On Fri, 29 Oct 2004 18:37:37 -0400, "David M. Carney"
> > <carney1979 at gmail.com> wrote in
> > <847d54904102915371b55204c at mail.gmail.com>:
> >
> > > I've used Mutt with many other distros and I've never had this
> > > problem. With Ubuntu, no matter how I set my options, my return
> > > address stays "david at localhost.localdomain".
> >
> > What does 'cat /etc/mailname' give? I think the problem starts there. I
> > know I was surprised to find that Postfix used that for the hostname.
> >
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> cat /etc/mailname results in "localhost.localdomain".
> 
> Can I change this without breaking my system?
> 
> 
> 
> David
> 
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> Registered Linux User #297958
> 

hmmm....

At some point I uncommented "reset hostname" in my ~/.muttrc.

I fixed it and now I get the return address that I wanted.

Thanks to all!

David

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Registered Linux User #297958