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Re: Segmentation fault from mutt-1.5.17 with SMTP



On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 08:53:45AM -0600, Kyle Wheeler wrote:
> I think sendmail probably defaults to $USER @ $HOSTNAME

That's basically right, though what exactly is meant by $HOSTNAME is
up for debate (settled by how the system's sendmail is configured).
If it matters to anyone paying attentiont to this thread, your
statement seems to imply that it relies on environment variables to
get that info, which of course is not at all the case...

> In the spirit of "mutt should *never* crash, no matter what", we can 
> easily make mutt default to a null return address here:

Mutt really should be smarter than that...  If no address is
specified, it should use the user's name and the host's FQDN as the
default.

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