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Re: Fw: An alias for the mailboxes



On Tue, Mar 13, 2007 at 11:56:17PM +0200, Salvatore Iovene wrote:
> These won't affect what you see in the mailbox list.  They just allow
> you to type shortcuts.  So you can do 'c*work', for example.  The 'c'
> will prompt for a new mailbox to change to, and the '*work' will expand
> to "imaps://server_1/INBOX" in the status line.  Press RETURN and you'll
> have changed folders.
> 
> To change the presentation of the mailbox names, you'd need real mailbox
> aliases.  A good idea, but they don't exist. :(

I have "set folder=imaps://localhost" and so referencing the mailboxes
is as easy as:
"mailboxes =INBOX =INBOX.IN-Personal =INBOX.IN-debian-user \"
etc.

The "=" is a shortcut for "imaps://localhost"

Is that what you want?

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