mesard@bbn.com (Wayne Mesard) (12/09/89)
> It may be useful to add an "Alternate-Mailboxes:" line to your > .mh_profile to remove the permutations of your mailbox name that can > arrive. I use: > > Alternate-Mailboxes: bgg@yarra, bgg@yarra.oz, bgg@yarra.oz.au, yarra!bgg For as long as I can remember (since 6.5) Alternate-Mailboxes has matched the start of the address. So you should be able to replace the first three entries above with just "bgg". As long as we're on the subject, I list all the mailing lists to which I subscribe in my Alternate-Mailboxes line. Normally, if you're not careful repl'ing to a message that came from a mailing list, the message will get sent to the entire list as well as the author. But with a .mh_profile like the following, one's carelessness is less likely to lead to one's embarrassment: Alternate-Mailboxes: mesard, connectionists, bargain, ga-list repl: -nocc me Wayne(); version: MH 6.6 #8[UCI] (sonny.bbn.com) of Tue Dec 27 19:33:52 EST 1988 options: [BSD42] [TTYD] [DUMB] [OVERHEAD] [BIND] [MHRC] [MHE] [NFS] [MMDFMTS] [MMDFII]
mcgrew@ichthous.Sun.COM (Darin McGrew) (12/09/89)
In article <253@yarra.UUCP> bgg@yarra.oz.au (Benjamin G. Golding) writes: >It may be useful to add an "Alternate-Mailboxes:" line to your >.mh_profile to remove the permutations of your mailbox name that can >arrive. I use: > >Alternate-Mailboxes: bgg@yarra, bgg@yarra.oz, bgg@yarra.oz.au, yarra!bgg > >which picks up most of the names I get called. The alternate-mailboxes line in your .mh_profile understands wildcarding. Here's an excerpt from mine: alternate-mailboxes: mcgrew@*, *!mcgrew, *!mcgrew@*, *!mcgrew%* I would just go ahead and use alternate-mailboxes: *mcgrew* except that there are other McGrew's here. Darin McGrew mcgrew@Eng.Sun.COM Affiliation stated for identification purposes only.
jerry@ora.ora.COM (Jerry Peek) (02/25/91)
On 24 Feb 91 08:30:47 GMT, Stuart David Cheshire <agate!shelby!neon!cheshire@ucbvax.berkeley.edu> wrote: > Whenever I use repl, it sends TWO copies of the message back > to me, one addressed to "cheshire@pescadero.stanford.edu" and one just to > "cheshire". The first obviously is copied from the "To" line, the second > is added automatically so that I have a copy of the mail. How can I stop this? Add these two lines to your MH profile file: Alternate-Mailboxes: cheshire@pescadero.stanford.edu, xxxx repl: -nocc me The "xxxx" is a list of other addresses where mail might come to you like cheshire@foobar.stanford.edu. Wildcards work here, too. > ... I can't find anything about it on the man pages. It's in repl(1) and mh-profile(5). --Jerry Peek, jerry@ora.com
cheshire@Neon.Stanford.EDU (Stuart David Cheshire) (02/26/91)
In article <m0jAho7-00003yC@ora.ora.com> jerry@ora.ora.COM (Jerry Peek) writes: >Add these two lines to your MH profile file: > > Alternate-Mailboxes: cheshire@pescadero.stanford.edu, xxxx > repl: -nocc me > Thanks for this advice, it is certainly part of the solution. However, when I complained that I got TWO copies of the message, what I thought I had implied was that I meant TWO as opposed to ONE copy, not no copies at all as I seem to get now. I still want to keep a copy of all but the shortest messages I have sent, since otherwise I tend to forget I've done it and write to the same person three times. Now, what I really want to do is to persuade mh to keep one, and only one copy of everything I send. There must be a way to do this. Thanks. Stuart Cheshire (cheshire@cs.stanford.edu)
wohler@sapwdf.UUCP (Bill Wohler) (02/26/91)
cheshire@Neon.Stanford.EDU (Stuart David Cheshire) writes: >person three times. Now, what I really want to do is to persuade mh to keep one, >and only one copy of everything I send. There must be a way to do this. stuart, indeed. add the following to your components/replcomps/forwcomps files: Fcc: +out all outgoing mail will go into the +out folder with no effort on your part. --bw wohler@sap-ag.de ps. if you meet up with leann sucht, tell her i said hi.
jerry@ORA.ORA.COM (Jerry Peek) (02/26/91)
Return-Path: ICS.UCI.EDU!mh-users-request Return-Path: <mh-users-request@ICS.UCI.EDU> Received: by ora.ora.com (/\=-/\ Smail3.1.18.1 #18.76) id <m0jB3zu-00009iC@ora.ora.com>; Tue, 26 Feb 91 07:41 EST Received: from ics.uci.edu by ICS.UCI.EDU id aa00292; 26 Feb 91 3:49 PST Received: from ucbvax.berkeley.edu by ICS.UCI.EDU id aa00282; 26 Feb 91 3:48 PST Received: by ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU (5.63/1.42) id AA17077; Tue, 26 Feb 91 03:34:48 -0800 Received: from USENET by ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU with netnews for mh-users@ics.uci.edu (mh-users@ics.uci.edu) (contact usenet@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU if you have questions) On 26 Feb 91 10:02:54 GMT, Stuart David Cheshire wrote: > In article <m0jAho7-00003yC@ora.ora.com> jerry@ora.ora.COM (Jerry Peek) writes: >> Add these two lines to your MH profile file: >> Alternate-Mailboxes: cheshire@pescadero.stanford.edu, xxxx >> repl: -nocc me > > Now, what I really want to do is to persuade mh to keep one, > and only one copy of everything I send. There must be a way to do this. The "-nocc me" tells repl not to send you *any* copies. The "Alternate-Mailboxes" tells repl what addresses are "me". To get one copy, you can either: - Take out the "-nocc me"... then you'll get exactly one copy of your replies (assuming all your addresses are listed in Alternate-Mailboxes), or - Add an "Fcc: foldername" to the headers of messages you send. That will drop a copy of the message in the folder "foldername". You can do this for *all* MH messages you send (not just with repl) by putting an "Fcc:" entry in your personal copy of the files "components", "replcomps", and "forwcomps" in your MH directory. (If you make a "distcomps" file, it needs "Resent-Fcc:".) For more info, see the man pages comp(1), repl(1), forw(1), dist(1) and mh-mail(5). --Jerry Peek, jerry@ora.com
brnstnd@kramden.acf.nyu.edu (Dan Bernstein) (02/27/91)
In article <m0jB4cJ-0000B3C@ora.ora.com> jerry@ORA.ORA.COM (Jerry Peek) writes: > To get one copy, you can either: > - Take out the "-nocc me"... then you'll get exactly one copy > of your replies (assuming all your addresses are listed in > Alternate-Mailboxes), or > - Add an "Fcc: foldername" to the headers of messages you > send. That will drop a copy of the message in the folder > "foldername". Or: Leave in the -nocc me, and add your address manually to replcomps. ---Dan