On Tue, Apr 08, 2014 at 02:33:08PM +0200, Andre Klärner wrote: > Actually the manual specifies this pretty nicely: > > == the fine manual, chapter 3.11: > Many users receive e-mail under a number of different addresses. To fully > use > Mutt's features here, the program must be able to recognize what e-mail > addresses you receive mail under. That's the purpose of the alternates > command: > It takes a list of regular expressions, each of which can identify an > address > under which you receive e-mail. > what confused me was "addresses you receive mail under". I think, it would be clearer to say "addresses you send mail under"; these addresses appear in the From-field and are relevant when reading my outbox.
Kind regards, ulrich