--Randall
On 10 Feb 2018, at 12:22, Bill Cole wrote:
On 10 Feb 2018, at 4:15 (-0500), Randall Gellens wrote:
I have both a list of frequently-used addresses and an address patter
in the form “*@foo\.examle\.org | *@bar\.example\.org” set for
several accounts. Yet most replies have the wrong default address.
As a test, I tried deleting the list of explicit addresses, and
deleted the spaces around the pipe in the address pattern, but to no
avail
Those are both flawed. The pattern must be a regular expression, in
which a leading '*' isn't meaningful, since it means 'zero or more of
the prior character.' Also, spaces ARE meaningful in regular
expressions, so you shouldn't have any in a pattern for an email
address.
Thanks. In the help pages, it _looks_ (at least to me) like there are
spaces around the pipes. Thanks for reminding me that :*: needs
something in front.
1: Is it correct to set both a list of explicit addresses and an
address pattern for an account?
Sure. The addresses mentioned in my signature AND OTHERS are matched
by my combination of a list and a pattern.
Thanks.
2: Is it correct to have spaces around the pipe in the address
pattern?
No. I suppose it is possible that Benny cleans up the input to remove
all spaces not inside double-quotes (address syntax has weird edge
cases...) but I doubt that. A major advantage to using regular
expressions instead of a simpler pattern syntax is that thee is a lot
of mature free code
3: Is it correct to have a space after the comma in the explicit
address list?
Works for me. I don't know if it is required.
4: Is the default reply address determined on message reception or
reply generation?
Yes. :)
Benny has explained the heuristics involved in picking a sender here
before, but I'm almost certain to get it wrong if I try to explain it
myself.
OK.
Is there a way to associate a default reply address with an address
pattern or set of domains?
5: is a pattern of the form “*@domain” acceptable?
No, but '.*@domain' is. '*' always has to refer to something before
it.
I must have been thinking shell globing, thank you.
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