Problem with T as first character of To: field ?

Remco Rijnders remco at webconquest.com
Wed Aug 19 16:36:53 UTC 2020


On Wed, Aug 19, 2020 at 04:49:22PM +0100, Ken wrote in 
<20200819154922.GA23819 at llamedos.localdomain>:
>I'm using 1.14.6 and I just had a very strange experience trying to
>compose a mail.  I wanted to send it to someone whose name begins
>with 'T' and to include his name before his address.
>
>So I typed M to compose mail and at the prompt for To: I typed his
>name and address, something like
> The Name <thename at theaddress>
>followed by a comma and several other recipients.
>
>But I never got a prompt for a subject, as if I had not entered any
>To: field.
>
>Tried again with only the first recipient, again no prompt for the
>subject.  Tried again with only his email address, success.  So,
>much as I wanted to include his name, I sent it like that.
>
>Before I try to raise a bug: is this only happening to me (in which
>case it must be a local problem - I mostly ssh to my local server
>where the mail is, and very occasionally mutt does not recognise
>many of the keys for navigating through mail, but aftr logging out
>and in again it is fine) ?

Hi Ken,

This sounds like it is not working like it's supposed to. Did you compile
1.14.6 yourself, or did you get it from your distribution? If you compiled
it yourself, what settings did you use? If not, what distribution / OS do
you use?

Does either the name or the email address include any non ASCII characters
or quotes or punctuation in them?

Does the problem occur when you change the name to anything else? And what
if you send an email to your own email address but with their name?

I have no idea as to what the problem might be, but hope that we can narrow
it down a little further.

Cheers,

Remco


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