Hi, ocsirF (er, Frisco :-)
...and then Frisco Rose said...
% Greetings all,
% I am *very* much a newbie to mutt. First I would like to say that I
% found most of the documentation relatively easy, thanks to the author.
Ditto here :-)
%
% My problem, perhaps a trivial one, is that I would like to be able to
% generate mailboxes based upon the reverse_alias of the sender.
Been asked before.
%
% I have these in my .muttrc
%
% set reverse_name
% set reverse_alias
% alias joe Joseph User <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
%
% plus other things that I don't think are related.
%
% I would like for the default mailbox name to be 'joe' and not '12345'.
% Is this possible? TIA,
Certainly makes sense. This is not available in the default build
(AFAIK, anyway), but back around 0.91.1 (in Apr '98), Hans Bogaard posted
a patch that did exactly what you want; you set a save_alias variable
in .muttrc and then mails are saved under the alias name ("joe") instead
of the actual address ("12345").
I dunno if it's been maintained or if the feature is due to return in
the next version, but I could forward you the patch if you don't have
it. I also don't know much about the patch, but <wish> I think I'd
probably prefer to have it more configurable than just on/off </wish>
though I have no idea how I'd do it.
What I've done for a long time is to make symlinks for various addresses
that point to the real mailbox; this is, for me, even better than just
save_alias because I have to have (naturally!) separate aliases for all
of (for example) my brother's separate mailboxes but I still want all
of his mail in one place, and I can make a symlink called "12345"
which points to "joe" even though I don't actually expect anything to
ever save to "joe" directly.
%
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HTH & HAND
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