On 1 Nov 2016, at 20:37, Claire Connelly wrote:
* nmh has a cool way of handling to to/from fields when you're looking
at lists of messages. Instead of showing them as separate columns, it
has one column that shows you who a message is from _unless the
message is from you_, in which case it shows who you sent the message
to.
Someone else already replied to this part. This should be the equivalent
of the “Correspondent” column in MailMate. Note that this is also
available in searches and smart mailboxes, e.g., you can search for the
address of a specific correspondent without specifying the address
header. The “opposite” (your own identities) are available via
“Identity” (although this one is not available as a column by
default).
The `scan(1)` format code for that is
%<(mymbox{from})%<{to}To:%14(friendly{to})%>%>
I actually didn't know about this format (or I forgot). It's very
similar to what MailMate can do.
* nmh also allows you to define arbitrary "aliases" for sending mail;
allowing you to use whatever name you choose for a recipient (they see
the defined value, not the alias), set up your own mailing lists, and
so on. Thus I could send to "andy" instead of having to type out
"Andre" and look through possible completions. Being able to see the
completions is great, of course, but if you send mail to people all
the time it's nice to be able to use your own alias for them. (As a
bonus, you also get to choose a canonical address for them, instead of
having to pick from multiple addresses they might have used to mail
you.)
Something like this is supported via Contacts. If a contact has a
nickname then this is also searched when looking for completions, but
it's not included in the generated name/email address.
In the "not inspired by nmh features" category, I found that it took
me quite a while to figure out how some of the filters worked, in part
because there are tons of variables and figuring out what they were
for any given message involved a lot of trial and error. Is there any
way of showing a "debug panel" that gives you the values of all the
variables for a particular message?
No, but I certainly agree that the learning curve is too steep. It's an
interesting idea to offer displaying all possible parsed values of the
headers of a given message. I'll give that some thought.
Related to that, it would be nice to have better documentation for the
mailbox name format options for submailboxes—I did find some mailing
list messages covering these, but it would be easier if they were in
the actual documentation.
Noted.
Finally (!), earlier today, I had to send out a bunch of messages that
were basically the same except for a URL and the To address. I tried
saving a message draft and then editing the draft message, but the
message went away when I sent the message (as I'd kind of expected).
I ended up copying one of the messages I'd sent to a new IMAP folder,
then editing the message file on the server to remove the extra
material. That seems to work—I can now go to that folder, select a
message, and choose Edit as New Message, but it would be easier if you
could deliberately save a message as boilerplate without having to
edit it on the server. (One of the issues I found was that when
editing the message, it appeared to have my signature as expected, but
when I sent the message, MailMate added another copy of the signature
on the end. So I edited the saved message and removed the signature
bits from it.)
If I understand correctly then I guess you should have duplicated the
draft instead (most easily done by doing copy/paste, that is, hitting
⌘C followed by ⌘V).
Undocumented and maybe only used by me, MailMate does have some support
for creating a draft with some template values inserted in the body.
Combined with a bundle command this can be used to auto-generate emails
based on some source to fill in the templated values. It's probably a
bit too low level for your use case. It's also possible to autogenerate
replies, but again, this is undocumented (and possibly also incomplete
since I'm likely the only one using it at this point).
I hope this answers most of your questions.
--
Benny
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