On Thu, Feb 08, 2001 at 07:30:26PM -0500, Brendan Cully wrote:
> On Monday, 05 February 2001 at 10:15, Pedro Zorzenon Neto wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have mutt in some computers (home, office, ...) to read mail from a IMAP mailbox
>in a server.
> > I'd like to have the same aliases file in all computers, so having one alias file
>in the server seems to be the solution.
> > Trying this in muttrc:
> > set alias_file={server}aliases
> > source alias_file
> > or this:
> > set alias_file={server}aliases
> > source {server}aliases
> > didn't work.
> > What can I do?
>
> Well, that's an interesting idea. But you can't do it. Theoretically
> that's what ACAP's for, although this might make an interesting hack
> without all that baggage. I'll think some more about this - it goes
> along with someone else's comments that file access throughout the
> source could be changed to something IMAP-aware. Hmmm...
I second Pedro's wish. It's a pain to keep updating my aliases on all the
three computers that I regularly use to read e-mail. I realized
implementing ACAP would do it but if it's possible without the whole ACAP
thing, even better.
Thanks,
Petr
