I have inadvertently made a few typos in addresses used in mutt,
and unfortunately it now remembers and uses them, usually at times
when I'm in a hurry and don't proofread the message closely.
I've looked at the man pages and can't figure out where they live
or how to evict them. I didn't do anything special to ask mutt to
remember addresses, it seems to be a default behavior. This is on
Mutt 1.5.24 (2015-08-30) running on FreeBSD-ARM (RPI2).
Can somebody give me a hint?
Can somebody give me a hint?
bob prohaska <bp@www.zefox.net> wrote:
Can somebody give me a hint?
The normal name is $HOME/.mutthistory, but look at the "historyfile"
setting in your global config for mutt (often /etc/Muttrc).
BTW: the number of history entries remembered is set there too.
History is stored by mutt in several different catagories (like E-mail address, subject, etc).
bob prohaska <bp@www.zefox.net> writes:
I have inadvertently made a few typos in addresses used in mutt,
and unfortunately it now remembers and uses them, usually at times
when I'm in a hurry and don't proofread the message closely.
I've looked at the man pages and can't figure out where they live
or how to evict them. I didn't do anything special to ask mutt to
remember addresses, it seems to be a default behavior. This is on
Mutt 1.5.24 (2015-08-30) running on FreeBSD-ARM (RPI2).
Can somebody give me a hint?
What exactly is it doing that tells you it's remembering addresses?
When I send a message on the command line, I type
mutt name@example.com
and the shell doesn't do anything with the address (unless you
have some kind of autocompletion in your shell). If I use the 'm'
command from within mutt, it puts me into an editor where I can
fill in the "To: " line; again my editor (vim) doesn't know about
email addresses.
It will expand aliases if I save from the editor and then use 'e'
to re-edit, but as far as I know the only aliases it recognizes
are set from my .muttrc.
There's no .muttrc in my home directory,
There's nothing in my home directory, nor in /etc/, that appears related
to mutt.
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On Sun, 24 Mar 2019 01:40:06 +0000 (UTC),
bob prohaska <bp@www.zefox.net> wrote:
There's nothing in my home directory, nor in /etc/, that appears related
to mutt.
Before we start worrying about other things than address-completion, can
you confirm that you use other programs to fetch and send mail, like
exim for sending and fetchmail for fetching?
If not, i.e. if Mutt did all that for you, then the configuration has
been deleted in the meantime and you have work to do.
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