On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 11:53:36AM -0500, Kyle Wheeler wrote:
> On Friday, April 10 at 12:33 PM, quoth J. Limon:
> > When I get my own email reply from a mailing list it shows up in the
> > Inbox listing as like this..
> >
> > 11 F Apr 10 To Ubuntu user ( 35) └─>
> >
> > (An example of me replying to something in Ubuntu Users)
> >
> > I would like it to just deply my realname just like anyone else's
> > email, since the message above it has an r and it's my name, I think
> > I be smart enough to realize that it's my message without the "To
> > BLANK .." ;)
>
> Heh! I feel the same way, at least for mailing lists.
>
> Anyway, the way to get what you want is to change the $index_format.
> For most mailing lists, I use the following:
>
> "%4C %Z %{%b %d} %-15.15n (%4c) %?M?[%M]> &?%s"
> | | | | | | `- Subject
> | | | | | `------------ for folding threads
> | | | | `----------------- message size
> | | | `---------------------- THIS is your answer
> | | `-------------------------------- date
> | `---------------------------------------- status flags
> `------------------------------------------- count
>
> The default $index_format uses %-15.15L instead of %-15.15n. The
> difference is described in the muttrc man page:
>
> %L If an address in the "To:" or "Cc:" header field matches
> an address defined by the users "subscribe" command, this
> displays "To <list-name>", otherwise the same as %F.
>
> Given that, you'd think that %-15.15F would be good, right? Well, I
> use that *most* of the time for non-mailing list folders:
>
> %F author name, or recipient name if the message is from you
>
> But for mailing lists... well, since I keep them all in separate
> folders, I don't need "recipient name", I'm smart enough to know what
> folder I'm looking at (plus, it's listed in the status bar if I ever
> forget ;). So, for mailing lists I use %-15.15n:
>
> %n author's real name (or address if missing)
>
> That way messages from me to mailing lists show up as FROM ME.
>
> I keep my mailing lists in subfolders of my "Subscribed" folder, so I
> switch between the two formats (%F and %n) using folder-hooks, like
> so:
>
> folder-hook . \
> 'set index_format="%4C %Z %{%b %d} %-15.15F (%4c) %?M?[%M]> &?%s"'
> folder-hook "Subscribed" \
> 'set index_format="%4C %Z %{%b %d} %-15.15n (%4c) %?M?[%M]> &?%s"'
>
> Hope that helps,
> ~Kyle
> --
> To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid, you must also
> be well-mannered.
> -- Voltaire
Wow, that was perfect and extremely prompt.
Thank you *very* much. Also, is it just me or does this list not have a proper
reply-to ? When I hit reply it tried to reply directly to you.
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"If a problem can be solved there is no use worrying about it. If it can't be
solved, worrying will do no good."
