I run with:
set reverse_alias=yes
and aggressively manage my aliases, with autogenerated aliases for
almost every email address I've ever received direct email from.
Generally this is pleasing, with nice reliable "full name" parts shown
for almost everything via the "%F" format string. However, I've been
working with github for a project and there are many many messages from
notificati...@github.com containing issue comments; the author's name is
provided in the "full name" part of the received From: address, eg:
From: team member name <notificati...@github.com>
So. Until today my alias for notificati...@github.com overrode these
strings, presenting "Github Notifications" in the index, making
discussions harder to understand.
I have got this under control by _removing_ the full name part from
_all_ mentions of notificati...@github.com in my aliases. This is goming
to be fragile for me, and feels hacky.
I looked at using the recent %@macro@ syntax, here's part of my attempt
there:
set index_format="%D %@from_part@ %S %?M?(%M) ?%?H?[%H] ?%s%* %?y? y? %4c"
index-format-hook from_part '%f polyname' 'ZZ%F'
index-format-hook from_part ~A '%-15.15F'
and I've got a "polyname" group in my aliases file:
alias -group polyname polyname <notificati...@github.com>
to drive that.
I keep a lot of groups like this to qualify addresses, eg "htmlers" for
people sending bad text/plain components.
However, there's no way I can see to get the "raw" full name part from
the From: header _if_ I have $reverse_alias=yes and a matching alias
with a full name part.
What I would rather do is keep the full name in my alias, but have some
kind of $index_format format string which accesses the "raw" full name
from the message header instead of the name from $reverse_alias.
Is this possible, one way or another?
Cheers,
Cameron Simpson <c...@cskk.id.au>
