le@lekno.ws wrote:

I just installed an upgrade of tin on my FreeBSD machine
and suddenly every post I make has a blank "From:" line
I have to fill in,did configurations get wrecked?

It has been a while for me on FreeBSD, but did you also
upgrade FreeBSD itself ? I wonder if the user/password
database needs to be fixed ?

IIRC, there is some command to check /etc/passwd & fix the
datatbase. This assumes your /etc/passwd entry is fine.

HTH

Also, looks like something is up with your sig :)

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- Paraphrasing Star Wars

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John McCue <jmccue@magnetar.jmcunx.com> wrote:

le@lekno.ws wrote:

I just installed an upgrade of tin on my FreeBSD machine
and suddenly every post I make has a blank "From:" line
I have to fill in,did configurations get wrecked?

It has been a while for me on FreeBSD, but did you also
upgrade FreeBSD itself ? I wonder if the user/password
database needs to be fixed ?

Have not upgraded FreeBSD yet but am about to soon.
I back up my SSD to an HDD each time I do this so can
check old tin config files from the last time if something
is missing.

IIRC, there is some command to check /etc/passwd & fix the
datatbase. This assumes your /etc/passwd entry is fine.

So far as I know,no problem there.

HTH

Also, looks like something is up with your sig :)

You are referring to my manually patched-in textfile
that I carefully make sure CAN be quoted back at me by
anyone inclined to react?

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Urs Janßen <urs@buil.tin.org> wrote:

In le@lekno.ws wrote:

I just installed an upgrade of tin on my FreeBSD machine

manual build from upstream source or used the ports package?

Used synth to build local package repository from ports,
then pkg upgrade.

I can't say anything about the ports package, but I had no issues
building and running tin from source on FreeBSD 15.0 (with and
without a carried over tinrc).

I'm running 13.3 in its last days,about to go to 13.4.

and suddenly every post I make has a blank "From:" line
I have to fill in,did configurations get wrecked?

there are many ways to configure From inside tin; the usual suscpects
are mail_address in tinrc, from in attributes (see tin(5) and tin(1)),
if none of these are set a fallback of username@[hostname.]domainname
shall kick in (some parts can be set a compile time thers eben at runtime).

I'd start with inspecting your tinrc. e.g.
grep -E "^mail_a" ${TIN_HOMEDIR:-"$HOME"}/.tin/tinrc
and if unset set your (name and) address there. This can be done from
inside tin via the 'M'enu or when tin is NOT running by editing the file directly.

Will check these.

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at least as tall as before...or terror has triumphed.

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le@lekno.ws wrote:

Urs Janßen <urs@buil.tin.org> wrote:

In le@lekno.ws wrote:

I just installed an upgrade of tin on my FreeBSD machine

manual build from upstream source or used the ports package?

Used synth to build local package repository from ports,
then pkg upgrade.

I can't say anything about the ports package, but I had no issues
building and running tin from source on FreeBSD 15.0 (with and
without a carried over tinrc).

I'm running 13.3 in its last days,about to go to 13.4.

and suddenly every post I make has a blank "From:" line
I have to fill in,did configurations get wrecked?

there are many ways to configure From inside tin; the usual suscpects
are mail_address in tinrc, from in attributes (see tin(5) and tin(1)),
if none of these are set a fallback of username@[hostname.]domainname
shall kick in (some parts can be set a compile time thers eben at runtime). >>
I'd start with inspecting your tinrc. e.g.
grep -E "^mail_a" ${TIN_HOMEDIR:-"$HOME"}/.tin/tinrc
and if unset set your (name and) address there. This can be done from
inside tin via the 'M'enu or when tin is NOT running by editing the file
directly.

Will check these.

There doesn't seem to be a set author name in the new tinrc
OR the old backup tinrc.

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The World Trade Center towers MUST rise again,
at least as tall as before...or terror has triumphed.

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In le@lekno.ws wrote:

I'd start with inspecting your tinrc. e.g.
grep -E "^mail_a" ${TIN_HOMEDIR:-"$HOME"}/.tin/tinrc
and if unset set your (name and) address there. This can be done from
inside tin via the 'M'enu or when tin is NOT running by editing the file >>> directly.

Will check these.

There doesn't seem to be a set author name in the new tinrc
OR the old backup tinrc.

then you should add one (or figure out why the fallback to USER@HOST
doesn't work anymore (you would need to inspect the source for that).
as it works for me on a FreeBSD-15 system[1] I can't help as it seems to
be a local config issue on your system).

preferred from is
mail_address=First Last <user@example.org>
but
mail_address=user@example.org (First Last)
would be ok too (and you may omit the realname stuff).

[1]
# /etc/passwd looks like
urs:*:12345:12345:User &:/home/urs:/bin/sh

generated from is
From: User Urs <urs@some.exaple.org>

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Urs Janßen <urs@buil.tin.org> wrote:

In le@lekno.ws wrote:

I'd start with inspecting your tinrc. e.g.
grep -E "^mail_a" ${TIN_HOMEDIR:-"$HOME"}/.tin/tinrc
and if unset set your (name and) address there. This can be done from
inside tin via the 'M'enu or when tin is NOT running by editing the file >>>> directly.

Will check these.

There doesn't seem to be a set author name in the new tinrc
OR the old backup tinrc.

then you should add one (or figure out why the fallback to USER@HOST
doesn't work anymore (you would need to inspect the source for that).

I had always relied on that fallback.

as it works for me on a FreeBSD-15 system[1] I can't help as it seems to
be a local config issue on your system).

I wound up doing the M-while-running entry of

preferred from is
mail_address=First Last <user@example.org>

after just filling in the user@host part a few times
(not doing that resulted in error messages regarding
a missing @).

but
mail_address=user@example.org (First Last)
would be ok too (and you may omit the realname stuff).

[1]
# /etc/passwd looks like
urs:*:12345:12345:User &:/home/urs:/bin/sh

generated from is
From: User Urs <urs@some.exaple.org>

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In Louis Epstein <le@lekno.ws> wrote:

then you should add one (or figure out why the fallback to USER@HOST
doesn't work anymore (you would need to inspect the source for that).

I had always relied on that fallback.

I think I've figured that out (we've changed some internal structs to use
less memory but failed to adjust some (the patch below is a shortend version
to fix your issue) checks for (non)-empty-strings.

#v+
=== modified file 'src/header.c'
--- old/src/header.c 2024-12-15 14:03:16 +0000
+++ new/src/header.c 2025-01-03 03:22:39 +0000
@@ -288,7 +288,7 @@
{
const char *fromhost = domain_name;

- if (thisgrp && thisgrp->attribute->from && *thisgrp->attribute->from) { + if (thisgrp && thisgrp->attribute->from && *thisgrp->attribute->from && strchr(*thisgrp->attribute->from, '@')) {
strcpy(from_name, *thisgrp->attribute->from);
return;
}

#v-

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I just installed an upgrade of tin on my FreeBSD machine
and suddenly every post I make has a blank "From:" line
I have to fill in,did configurations get wrecked?

-=-=-
The World Trade Center towers MUST rise again,
at least as tall as before...or terror has triumphed.

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In le@lekno.ws wrote:

I just installed an upgrade of tin on my FreeBSD machine

manual build from upstream source or used the ports package?

I can't say anything about the ports package, but I had no issues
building and running tin from source on FreeBSD 15.0 (with and
without a carried over tinrc).

and suddenly every post I make has a blank "From:" line
I have to fill in,did configurations get wrecked?

there are many ways to configure From inside tin; the usual suscpects
are mail_address in tinrc, from in attributes (see tin(5) and tin(1)),
if none of these are set a fallback of username@[hostname.]domainname
shall kick in (some parts can be set a compile time thers eben at runtime).

I'd start with inspecting your tinrc. e.g.
grep -E "^mail_a" ${TIN_HOMEDIR:-"$HOME"}/.tin/tinrc
and if unset set your (name and) address there. This can be done from
inside tin via the 'M'enu or when tin is NOT running by editing the file directly.


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