[tech] Re: Mail on morwong

[Duncan Sargeant]

Mikolaj J. Habryn wrote on Tue October 03, at 17:39 +1100:
> Simon Fryer <fryers at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au> writes:
> 
> > > A while ago James Andrewartha tapped:
> > > On Tue, 3 Oct 2000, Simon Fryer wrote:
> > > > Anyone been fiddling with the configuration files (esp mutt) reciently?
> > > Yes, I changed (or uncommented) the default domain to ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au
> > This was bad. Mutt is able to determine the host address and hence this
> > line was not needed to be uncommented. Have recommented this.

Yes, the difference would be the USEDOMAIN option.  It should be
outlawed.

>   Just thought I'd point out that had James used viw for his
> modifications, this would have been picked up far more quickly... now
> returning you to your regularly scheduled programming.

Unless Luyer was lurking at the time in which case /etc/passwd would do
a striking impersonation of a mutt configuration file.

,dunc