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Bug#966456: mutt: suddenly started ignoring $realname

From Antonio Terceiro <terceiro@debian.org>
Newsgroups linux.debian.bugs.dist
Subject Bug#966456: mutt: suddenly started ignoring $realname
Date 2020-07-28 20:40 +0200
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On Tue, Jul 28, 2020 at 02:55:23PM -0300, Antonio Terceiro wrote:
> With this setup, I open mutt, hit "m" to compose, fill in "To:" and
> "Subject:", write something in $EDITOR, save, quit. Then I get:
> 
>     From: foo@example.com
> 
> instead of
> 
>     From: Foo Bar <foo@example.com>
> 
> as expected. setting from to "Foo Bar <foo@example.com>" works, but this
> is a regression with regards to the bevavior of years or maybe decades.

I confirm that downgraging to 1.14.4-2 from snapshots.debian.org fixes
this. Indeed I just found #698267.

At the moment I am working around this by using:

set from="$realname <foo@bar.com>"

in the config snippets source by my mbox-hooks.

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Bug#966456: mutt: suddenly started ignoring $realname Antonio Terceiro <terceiro@debian.org> - 2020-07-28 20:10 +0200
  Bug#966456: mutt: suddenly started ignoring $realname Antonio Terceiro <terceiro@debian.org> - 2020-07-28 20:40 +0200
  Bug#966456: mutt: suddenly started ignoring $realname Andreas Kurth <debian@akurth.de> - 2020-07-29 14:30 +0200

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