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Re: [patch] add "notalternates" functionality



On Fri, May 28, 2004 at 10:18:40AM EDT, Charles Cazabon wrote:
> David Yitzchak Cohen <lists+mutt_devs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> > > I've added this functionality, as "notalternates" (and unnotalternates,
> > > though I haven't needed that).  I've tried to keep true to the style of
> > > the existing code and documentation.
>  
> > You took a rather straightforward approach, but as we noted in the other
> > thread, if we want to provide the same facilities for, say subscribe,
> > we'll need to add an analog to your code separately for each statement
> > we want to "enable" in this way.
> 
> True.  But I'm not sure that would be as generally useful.  I needed it for
> $alternates because I have two domains at my disposal; basically any address
> in either of those domains is "me", with the exception of a handful of
> local-part prefixes.  Trying to have mutt correctly identify an address as
> "not me" (for instance, when I received mail from one of these addresses in
> one of "my" domains) was the problem.  I can't see this happening quite the
> same with $subscribe, for instance -- i.e. "all addresses in this domain are
> mailing lists I'm subscribed to except for addresses matching this regex..."
> doesn't sound likely.

Just like a domain administrator will frequently have all addresses save
a couple in a domain, a mailing list administrator will frequently be
(automatically) subscribed to (or at least want to know about) all mailing
lists in a domain, save a couple (that aren't mailing lists at all),
or save a general pattern (say, ^.*-(owner|request)@somedomain\.com$).

> > Thanks for the patch, either way,
> 
> Any chance of this being folded in to the main mutt tree?  I don't even know
> who's in charge of it these days -- Thomas Roessler, perhaps?

right :-)

 - Dave

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