Rob -- ...and then Feztaa said... % % Alas! David T-G spake thus: % > % > I'd love the answer to this, too, for the same bogus-messages reason as % > well as not having to whip up a special muttrc and then find a folder % > with a message to match... % % I'm pretty sure I once saw somebody on this list asking for help with % his regex's, mutt was saying there was an error but wouldn't say where. % Then somebody else had tried to use the exact regex in either perl or
Right; I remember that (it was perl). % sed (I forget), and that program said with greater clarity where the % error in the regex was. % % So try fooling with some sed regex's to get a working match, then use % that in mutt. Worth a shot; thanks. % % I just had an idea, though -- David, what are all the email addresses % you are working with here? If the ones you want all start with a certain [zero] [6:54pm] ~> grep altern .mutt/muttrcc set alternates="(^davidtg(pager|work|-.*|)|^dtg-bid|^choice(|(|-)consulting)|^c-cubed|^clasco(|(|-)properties)|^my_login)@((cyber(dude|junkie)|iname|poboxes|audiophile|bigfoot).com|sector13.org)|^david@(bae.uga.edu|coronaps.com)|[EMAIL PROTECTED]|[EMAIL PROTECTED]|justpickone" *grin* I know it could be cleaned out -- I'm not at corona any more and the foobarbaz address is dead -- and could probably be simplified, but that's the lot for now. % group of letters, and the ones you don't want all start with a certain % group of letters, you could do this: % % ^[letters].*@justpick That's a start, until I set up lightning or mailwizard or queries or some such. Of course, this whole problem comes from being lazy in the first place :-) % % For example, your wife's email starts with l. Lets say for the sake of % argument that your daughter's emails start with b and j. Lets also say Actually, we have to worry about l,m,q,h,r (including the pets), and that certainly means that root will have a problem. Whoops; I forgot about mft, an account that gets little mail but which is mine and not the kiddo's. Another collision. I suppose I should update my $alternates, too. % that the email addresses you want in your $alternates are davidtg, root, % admin, and foobar. You could use this: % % ^[darf].*@justpick Yeah, that's not too bad. % % Then you'd have something that matches your addresses and not your wife % and kids addresses ;) Yeah. % % -- % Rob 'Feztaa' Park % [EMAIL PROTECTED] % -- % As to house maintenance, does it involve problem solfing? If so, % your hacker can safely be left to deall with the panning (for the % musement value, if nothering ese). % -- Telsa Gwynne :-D -- David T-G * It's easier to fight for one's principles (play) [EMAIL PROTECTED] * than to live up to them. -- fortune cookie (work) [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.justpickone.org/davidtg/ Shpx gur Pbzzhavpngvbaf Qrprapl Npg!
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