[Techtalk] mutt is trying to drive me crazy ...

[jen at dangerousideas.com]

I'm trying to find a mail client that I like on Linux, and a lot of 
people say mutt is the way to go. So I'm trying to like it. I'm trying 
hard. But sometimes it just frustrates me so much. Like today when I 
tried creating a .muttrc.  It has these lines:

set realname = "Jen Wu"
set from = jennyw at dangerousideas.com
set hostname = dangerousideas.com
set mbox = /home/jennyw/inbox2
set folder = /home/jennyw

Pretty simple, no? Well, when I send e-mail from mutt, it doesn't show 
my name as "Jen Wu". Nor does it show the return address as I've listed. 
I know that it's actually reading the file because I originally had my 
name not in quotes, at which point it complained:

Error in /home/jen/.muttrc, line 1: Wu: unknown variable
source: errors in /home/jen/.muttrc

So, what's going on? Why is it ignoring the contents of .muttrc?  Where 
is it getting values to override from?  It shows my realname as jennyw. 
I'm sure I must have set this somewhere, but I have no idea where. It's 
not an environment variable. Arg!

Anyway, if anyone can offer a suggestion, it'd be really appreciated!  
Thanks!

Jen