On 21/02/16 12:28AM, Øyvind A. Holm wrote:
On 2021-02-16 00:17:22, Øyvind A. Holm wrote:
On 2021-02-15 16:01:06, boB Stepp wrote:
> > On Monday, 15 February at 21:53, boB Stepp wrote:
> > > And from reading the Mutt manual I have encountered the
> > > alternates option, but now I am not sure what it is useful for
> > > and how to most effectively use it.
>
> And "alternates" is still a mystery...
It is used if you have any alternate or old email addresses.
`alternates` makes it possible for Mutt to mark messages in the index
with "F" (from one of your addresses), "+" or "T" (to one of your
addresses), etc. For example,
alternates job_em...@example.net
alternates old_em...@example.com
alternates another_...@example.org
Now Mutt knows that all these addresses belong to you.
A small correction (even though the above example will work). The
parameter after `alternates` is a regexp, so a more correct way to write
them would be
alternates ^job_email@example\.net$
alternates ^old_email@example\.com$
alternates ^another_old@example\.org$
to avoid false positives with for example "yet_another_...@example.org".
So is this mostly to provide labeling information in the index? I suppose it
might be usable for some sort of filtering purposes...
--
Wishing you only the best,
boB Stepp
