Re: Can I configure a mailbox alias?
On 2009-02-12, Kyle Wheeler <kyle-mutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Thursday, February 12 at 04:41 PM, quoth Grant Edwards:
>>Google found me plenty of info about setting up aliases for
>>email addresses, but nothing about setting up aliases for
>>mailboxes. For example, is there a way I can refer to
>>"=[Gmail]/Sent Mail" by an alias such as "sent"?
>
> There isn't a straightforward way of setting up *arbitrary* aliases,
> unfortunately.
>
> There *ARE* a limited number of pre-defined aliases. You're already
> using one: = to mean $folder. The character < means $record, which is
> usually where people store their sent messages.
Which, in my case, is the mailbox I used for my example. The
gmail "sent mail" folder is the one for which I most often wish
a shortcut, so =< will solve most of the problem for me.
> There are others (see http://www.mutt.org/doc/devel/manual.html#shortcuts).
Thanks, I had missed that section when searching through the
manual.
> The rather *roundabout* way of setting up arbitrary aliases is
> to use the @alias notation, and define a few email aliases to
> get just the names you want. It's not optimal, obviously, but
> you should be able to use that to define "@sent" to be an
> alias for "=[Gmail]/Sent Mail" like so:
>
> alias sent 12345678901234567890@localhost
> send-hook 12345678901234567890@localhost "=[Gmail]/Sent Mail"
Interesting! It would have taken me a while to come up with
that. I may give it a try for some other clumsily named
mailboxes.
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