[OT?] after moving to f9, alpine lists sender on "sent" msgs

[Robert P. J. Day]

On Fri, 11 Jul 2008, Robert P. J. Day wrote:

>   admittedly, this is an alpine topic, but i'm guessing someone out
> there has already run across this.  after moving someone else's
> system from f8 to f9 and restoring that user's personal mail
> (install alpine; restore mbox, mail/, .pinerc, .fetchmailrc, etc),
> looking at the "sent-mail" folder shows that user (call her "fred")
> as both the sender and recipient on all newly-sent mail msgs, as in:
>
> 	... lots of sent msgs ...
> 	...
> 	... To: barney ...
> 	... To: wilma ...
> 	... fred ...		< -- after f9 re-install
> 	... fred ...
> 	... fred ...
>
>   it's obviously useful to be able to scan the sent-mail folder and
> see the *recipient* listed, so why -- after that switch to f9 --
> does alpine suddenly switch to listing the (utterly redundant)
> *sender*? and, more curiously, why would it do that in the middle of
> the folder display?  is there an option for this?  i'm looking for
> one, and i haven't seen it yet.  thanks.
>
> rday

whoops, never mind, things are back to normal -- the problem was that
the outgoing SMTP wasn't configured properly so those msgs eventually
came back as undeliverable which is why they showed up that way.  my
bad.  carry on.

rday
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