Re: repl -group and alternate-mailboxes (fwd)

[Iain MacDonnell - Sun UK - SunPS IT Operations - Project Specialist]

It's a really horrible hack, but I've got around it by *removing* the
alternate-mailboxes profile entry, and putting this in for CC in 
replgroupcomps:

%(lit)%(formataddr{to})%(formataddr{cc})%(formataddr(lit 
[EMAIL PROTECTED]))\
%<(nonnull)%(void(width))%(putaddr cc: )\n%>%>\

I hope someone can come up with something better :)

Uggh ... brain fried ... need caffeine ... looking at insert() in replsbr.c,
it doesn't look like is does any checking with alternates:

    for (mp = &mq; mp->m_next; mp = mp->m_next) {
        if (!strcasecmp (np->m_host, mp->m_next->m_host)
                && !strcasecmp (np->m_mbox, mp->m_next->m_mbox))
            return 0;
    }

Maybe I can come up with a patch ...

    ~Iain



Iain MacDonnell - Sun UK - SunPS IT Operations - Project Specialist writes:
: 
: I'm glad it's not just me whose head it hurts :)
: 
: I've tried as much as:
: 
: Alternate-Mailboxes: *iain*@*, iain*@*, *macdonnell@*, 
: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
: 
: with no avail. I think, since -nocc me works as expected, that either there's
: a bug, or my assumption of how it's supposed to work is wrong.
: 
: MH-PROFILE(5) says:
: 
: "For each address, if a host is not given, then that address on any host is 
: considered to be you."
: 
:     ~Iain
: 
: 
: 
: 
: Jerry Peek writes:
: : > My username is "im50766", but I have a primary alias "Iain.MacDonnell",
: : > which gets rewritten into the sender fields on my outgoing mail by sendma
+ il
: + .
: : > 
: : > To handle this, I have:
: : > 
: : > smithers:~$ grep Alternate .mh_profile
: : > Alternate-Mailboxes: iain.macdonnell
: : > smithers:~$ 
: : >
: : ...deleted...
: : >
: : > If my understanding is correct, repl should have removed one or other of
: : > "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" and "im50766", since both should be valid
: : > mailboxes for me.
: : 
: : This whole replgroup stuff makes my head hurt ;-), but I think your
: : problem is related to the mailbox.  It needs to be an exact match of
: : the *whole* address; otherwise, use glob-style wildcards.  (See the
: : mh-profile(5) manual page.)  For instance, here's mine:
: : 
: :    Alternate-Mailboxes: jerry@*ora.com, jpeek@*, *@jpeek*
: : 
: : Maybe that'll help?
: : 
: : Jerry
: : -- 
: : Jerry Peek, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.jpeek.com/
: : 
: 
: 
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