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Subject: dpkg-ftp guess email address wrongly
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Package: dpkg-ftp
Version: 1.4.8

As you can see dpkg-ftp guessed my email address wrongly; however
/etc/mailname contains `elmail.co.uk', which (unless policy has
changed an awful lot recently!) would provide a better basis to guess
from.

ttfn/rjk

: muskogee; really dselect

You must supply an ftp site, use of passive mode, username, password,
path to the debian directory,list of distributions you are interested
in and place to download the binary package files to (relative to
/var/lib/dpkg/methods/ftp).

Eg:      ftp site: ftp.debian.org
          passive: y
         username: anonymous
         password: richard@muskogee.elmail.co.uk
          ftp dir: /debian
    distributions: stable non-free contrib
     download dir: debian

Enter ftp site []: sunsite.doc.ic.ac.uk

Use passive mode [y]: 

Enter username [anonymous]: ftp

If you're using anonymous ftp to retrieve files, enter your email
address for use as a password.  Otherwise enter "?" and dpkg-ftp will
prompt you each time.

Enter password [richard@muskogee.elmail.co.uk]: richard@elmail.co.uk

Enter debian directory [/debian]: