Re: question about my .muttrc and mutt
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On Tue, Feb 28, 2006 at 02:30:13PM -0700, bounce-debian-user=pecondon=mesanetworks.net@lists.debian.org wrote:
> I have been working on debugging my print services. I have made
> 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?
>
New info: The two installations of mutt are the same version of the .deb
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.
>
> --
> Paul E Condon
> pecondon@mesanetworks.net
>
>
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Paul E Condon
pecondon@mesanetworks.net
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