Re: How to get default "From:" to work
On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 08:32:37AM -0800, Michael Elkins wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 12:21:05PM +0100, Szymek wrote:
> > Yes, now it works. I did append an $ to the end of the folder names, like
> > that:
> >
> > folder-hook secondbox$ 'set from="secondbox@xxxxxxxx"
> > realname="BlaBla"'
> >
> > I didn't wrote the dollar sign for the default, period marked mailbox. Now
> > everything works fine. Thanks a lot for your help. One more thin, can you
> > tell
> > me, why it is working, now that I have the dollar sign appended?
>
> Suppose you have the following set of mailboxes in ~/Mail:
>
> foobar
> foo
> bar
>
> and the following folder-hooks:
>
> folder-hook foobar '...'
> folder-hook foo '...'
> folder-hook bar '...
>
> The second folder hook will match both foo and foobar. In order to
> prevent this match, you need to use an anchor ($) in the regular
> expression to match the end of the word right after foo:
>
> folder-hook foo$ '...'
>
> me
>
Now I understand. So, I need to specify the exact name of the box. I could
give an absolute path to the mailbox instead, /home/szymon/mail/firstbox, for
example... Thanks a lot!