Re: question about my .muttrc and mutt
- From: Paul E Condon <pecondon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2006 15:13:51 -0700
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On Tue, Feb 28, 2006 at 02:30:13PM -0700, bounce-debian-user=pecondon=mesanetworks.net@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
I have been working on debugging my print services. I have madeNew info: The two installations of mutt are the same version of the .deb
several posts to this list on that subject. Several of you have
suggested that this or that thing that I was complaining about worked
fine on their system. So I decided to install a fresh copy of Debian
with a view to testing in a whole new clean environment.
Now comes the details of a strange issue with mutt. Of course, I did
not wipe my system clean and install all new. What I really did was to
free up a partition that is big enough (7G) to hold a generous Debian
system, reformat it and install on that. My /home was already in a
partition by itself, and my various personal projects were in other
partitions where I could easily arrange to keep them all
untouched. And I did preserve them all and mount them in the new
installation. My original root partition became a subdirectory in
the new system. The new root directory was already accessable from
the old root as a subdirectory, but now with very different size and
contents.
At the end of yesterday evening, I had a second installation of Sarge
that contained the same software as the original. But with the same
/home. But its not so. Mutt behaves differently in the two. For
example, in one installation my posts to this list are listed as "To:
debian-user..." and in the other they are listed as "From: pecondon
..." Why? My reading of the man page is that mutt configuration is
all done in ~/.muttrc and that there is not a master config file in
/etc. Am I mistaken? Where is another that mutt config is stored? What
is the source of this difference in behavior?
package downloaded from the same repository.
Of course, I don't really care about such a petty detail of mutt
configuration, but it is absolute proof that I don't have control
over the configuration of my environment, and I need control if
I am ever to solve my print problems where my queries to this
list frequently get "It works for me." as a response.
I need help, please.
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