Can't set alternates

[Nicolas Sebrecht]

Hi,

I've added this line in my muttrc file

  set alternates=...@email.address

but got 

  alternates : unknown variable

(translated message) with mutt v1.5.18.

Any idea on what's going on?

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Nicolas Sebrecht

Re: Can't set alternates

[Christian Ebert]

* Nicolas Sebrecht on Friday, July 02, 2010 at 09:26:16 +0200
 I've added this line in my muttrc file
 
  set alternates=...@email.address
 
 but got 
 
  alternates : unknown variable
 
 (translated message) with mutt v1.5.18.
 
 Any idea on what's going on?

Since some time alternates has become a command:

alternates ^...@email\\.address$ ^anot...@email\\.address$

See man(5) muttrc.

You can use less strict patterns of course.

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Re: Can't set alternates

[Nicolas Sebrecht]

On Fri, Jul 02, 2010 at 11:00:32AM +0200, Christian Ebert wrote:
 
 Since some time alternates has become a command:
 
 alternates ^...@email\\.address$ ^anot...@email\\.address$
 
 See man(5) muttrc.
 
 You can use less strict patterns of course.

Thank you very much, it did solve the problem. I refered to this page :

  http://www.mutt.org/doc/manual/manual-6.html

May I ask why alternates is still in the 6.3 Configuration variables
chapter?

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Re: Can't set alternates

[Michael Ludwig]

Nicolas Sebrecht schrieb am 02.07.2010 um 09:26 (+0200):
 
 I've added this line in my muttrc file
 
   set alternates=...@email.address
 
 but got 
 
   alternates : unknown variable
 
 (translated message) with mutt v1.5.18.

Moving from set alternates = ^(...|...|...)$ to a series of
alternates ... commands is one of two things I had to change
when upgrading Mutt/Cygwin from 1.4.2 (2006) to 1.5.20 (2009).

The other one was set check_mbox_size = yes.

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