Re: question about my .muttrc and mutt [solved]

[Paul E Condon <pecondon@mesanetworks.net>]

On Wed, Mar 01, 2006 at 10:44:52AM -0700, Rob Sims wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 28, 2006 at 05:35:53PM -0700, Paul E Condon wrote:
> > Thanks for the help. I had not known of these, but ...  On my computer
> > the two installation Muttrc files are identical (no differences
> > discovered by diff) and there is no Muttrc.d directory in either
> > installation.  I can see in /usr/lib/mutt evidence that Muttrd.d is a
> > legitimate part of some installations of mutt (a script that
> > references it), but its not there for me.  I didn't see any config
> > information in /usr/lib/mutt (not surprising, there shouldn't be any
> > according to policy) The different behavior remains a puzzle.
>  
> I have no site-specific stuff, so I have no Muttrc.d either.  It was
> just an opportunity for differences.
> 
> Is your login name the same on both systems?
> 
> If you want to check the actual installation for diffs:
> 
> for f in `dpkg -L mutt`; do if [ -f "$f" ]; then md5sum "$f"; fi; done > muttmd5
> 
> Transfer muttmd5 to the second machine.
> 
> md5sum -c muttmd5
> -- 
> Rob

Thanks, Rob There was an unintended one character difference in user
name between the two systems.  Enough to trigger some logic in mutt's
index display. Problem solved.



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Paul E Condon           
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