Re: lists behaviour

[Mikko Hänninen]

Thomas Roessler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on Wed, 07 Jul 1999:
 Forget the "before the @" part of the description.  The parameter
 you give to lists is the leading part of an e-mail address, possibly
 including the @.

Ahh, so it's possible to list entire email addresses?  Eg.
"lists [EMAIL PROTECTED]"?

Thanks.


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Re: lists behaviour

[Jeremy Blosser]

Thomas Roessler [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote:
 On 1999-07-07 20:02:02 +0300, Mikko Hänninen wrote:
 
  I have a question about the behaviour of the "lists" command.  As
  far as I know, you're only meant to use the first part of the email
  address for each list (before the @) when listing mailing lists
  with "lists".  I've always wondered why this is so, and not the
  whole address, but so far it's worked for me.
 
 Forget the "before the @" part of the description.  The parameter
 you give to lists is the leading part of an e-mail address, possibly
 including the @.

Here's a patch for the manual.

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--- mutt-0.95.6/doc/manual.sgml.in  Thu Feb 11 07:41:53 1999
+++ mutt-0.95.6-patched/doc/manual.sgml.in  Wed Jul  7 15:28:07 1999
@@ -968,12 +968,13 @@
 lists".  In order to take advantage of them, you must specify which addresses
 belong to mailing lists.
 
-It is important to note that you should bf/never/ specify the domain name
-(the part after the ``@'') with the lists command.  You should only
-specify the ``mailbox'' portion of the address (the part before the ``@'').
-For example, if you've subscribed to the Mutt mailing list, you will receive
-mail addressed to [EMAIL PROTECTED]/.  So, to tell Mutt that this is a
-mailing list, you would add ``lists mutt-users'' to your initialization file.
+Specify as much of the address as you need to to remove ambiguity.  For
+example, if you've subscribed to the Mutt mailing list, you will receive mail
+addresssed to [EMAIL PROTECTED]/.  So, to tell Mutt that this is a
+mailing list, you could add ``lists mutt-users'' to your initialization file.
+If you also happen to get mail from someone whose address is
+[EMAIL PROTECTED]/. you could use ``lists [EMAIL PROTECTED]'' to
+match only mail from the actual list.
 
 The ``unlists'' command is to remove a token from the list of mailing-lists.
 Use ``unlists *'' to remove all tokens.

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