On 19:00 06 Apr 2002, David T-G <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | % 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"
Ouch. I must admit I don't bother with my more obsolete or just-weird addresses, and just have: set alternates = "[EMAIL PROTECTED]|[EMAIL PROTECTED]|[EMAIL PROTECTED]|[EMAIL PROTECTED]" On the other hand, this has a much wider range: % cd ~/rc/mail % grep Personal cats* cats.cisra:!attn Personal [EMAIL PROTECTED] cats.cisra:!attn Personal [EMAIL PROTECTED] cats.cisra:!attn Personal simpson cats.cisra:!attn Personal camerons cats.cisra:!attn Personal cameronsimpson cats.cisra:!attn Personal cameron cats.cisra:!attn Personal cameron-depgp cats.cisra:!attn Personal depgp-cameron cats.cisra:!attn Personal cs cats.cisra:!attn Personal Cameron.Simpson cats.cisra:!attn Personal [EMAIL PROTECTED] cats.cisra:!attn Personal [EMAIL PROTECTED] cats.home:!attn Personal [EMAIL PROTECTED] cats.home:!attn Personal [EMAIL PROTECTED] cats.home:!attn Personal [EMAIL PROTECTED] cats.home:!attn Personal [EMAIL PROTECTED] cats.home:!attn Personal [EMAIL PROTECTED] cats.home:!attn Personal [EMAIL PROTECTED] cats.home:!attn Personal [EMAIL PROTECTED] cats.home:!attn Personal [EMAIL PROTECTED] cats.home:!attn Personal [EMAIL PROTECTED] cats.home:!attn Personal [EMAIL PROTECTED] cats.home:!attn Personal [EMAIL PROTECTED] cats.home:!attn Personal [EMAIL PROTECTED] cats.home:!attn Personal [EMAIL PROTECTED] cats.home:!attn Personal [EMAIL PROTECTED] cats.home:!attn Personal [EMAIL PROTECTED] cats.home:!attn Personal [EMAIL PROTECTED] cats.home:!attn Personal [EMAIL PROTECTED] That's from my cats2procmailrc rulesets. I just get almost all my email reference via the 4 addresses listed in my alternates, so these others are way down in the noise. Since I generally always to a group reply and and always eyeball the reply list so generated, manually trimming at need, this works well for me. | % 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. I don't consider "root" to be "me", myself. Especially at work, root and postmaster go to a few of us, so I _don't_ trim it because I want replies to such messages to copy to the rest of the group so we all know which messages got replies and which are still pending. Or could I have to live with getting my own email then, but that's not too bad. | % 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. I feel that for aesthetics' sake you should make yourself and alias called "waldo" or something. Couldn't resist. Cheers, -- Cameron Simpson, DoD#743 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.zip.com.au/~cs/ My computer always does exactly what I tell it to do but sometimes I have trouble finding out what it was that I told it to do. - Dick Wexelblat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>