Hi,

On Tuesday Jun 10 2014, Jeff Kowalczyk wrote:

> I'm using mu4e @ f37c6f0, with no special configuration for address 
> autocompletion, which I presume results in this behavior:
>
> http://www.djcbsoftware.nl/code/mu/mu4e/Address-autocompletion.html#Address-autocompletion
>
> A few questions:
>
> - Where does email address autocomplete information come from: the Xapian 
> index?

>From the contacts-cache -- ~/.mu/cache/contacts

> - A few frequent correspondents have an unwanted spelling of full name [1] 
> and/or email address, which results in multiple identities for the same 
> person in my email history. Is there a pre-compose-hook (or could one be 
> created) to rewrite email addresses in any of To: From: CC:, BCC:? For my 
> purposes, a map with a few dozen bad->good entries would solve the problem 
> nicely.

See `mu4e-contact-rewrite-function' (in mu4e-git).

> - If I were to modify email headers (with appropriate precautions) to 
> create fewer variations of Full Name, would Xapain index pick up those 
> changes to Maildir messages, and supply updated address autocompletion 
> transparently for new email compose buffers?

Yes -- that should work too.
Cheers,
Dirk.

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