Re: Cone 0.66 version number and default From: address

Sam Varshavchik <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.mail.cone
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Anand Buddhdev writes:

> Hi Sam,
> 
> I've just compiled cone 0.66. Upon startup, it shows:
> 
> Welcome to Cone 0.65 (UTF-8)
> 
> Don't you want to bump up the version number?

Yup.

> I also found this in the file mymessage.C in the source code:
> 
> a= string(pw ? pw->pw_name:"nobody") + "@" +
>                         mail::hostname();
> 
> The consequence of this is that if I compose a message from the main menu 
> (ie. outside of any account), the From: header of the message defaults to 
> unix_username-WI0L6dQK/VoVpVtQvJkt/[email protected], instead of the email address I configured under 
> setup. It is annoying to have to change that by hand (and that's when I 
> remember to change it; sometimes I forget).
> 
> Wouldn't it be better if cone used the configured email address from the 
> setup, rather than defaulting to username-WI0L6dQK/VoVpVtQvJkt/[email protected]?

That's configured email addressES, as in plural, and that specific setting 
isn't what it appears to be.
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