Differences and interactions between subscribe, lists, group, alternates and alias.

[boB Stepp]

On 21/02/16 12:28AM, Øyvind A. Holm wrote:
>On 2021-02-16 00:17:22, Øyvind A. Holm wrote:
>> On 2021-02-15 16:01:06, boB Stepp wrote:
>> > > On Monday, 15 February at 21:53, boB Stepp wrote:
>> > > > And from reading the Mutt manual I have encountered the
>> > > > alternates option, but now I am not sure what it is useful for
>> > > > and how to most effectively use it.
>> >
>> > And "alternates" is still a mystery...
>>
>> It is used if you have any alternate or old email addresses.
>> `alternates` makes it possible for Mutt to mark messages in the index
>> with "F" (from one of your addresses), "+" or "T" (to one of your
>> addresses), etc. For example,
>>
>>    alternates job_email at example.net
>>    alternates old_email at example.com
>>    alternates another_old at example.org
>>
>> Now Mutt knows that all these addresses belong to you.
>
>A small correction (even though the above example will work). The
>parameter after `alternates` is a regexp, so a more correct way to write
>them would be
>
>    alternates ^job_email at example\.net$
>    alternates ^old_email at example\.com$
>    alternates ^another_old at example\.org$
>
>to avoid false positives with for example "yet_another_old at example.org".

So is this mostly to provide labeling information in the index?  I suppose it
might be usable for some sort of filtering purposes...

-- 
Wishing you only the best,

boB Stepp