Hi all, we had a discussion on hierarchical mail aliases like in ~/.mailrc and there was a patch floating around, but aliases in BBDB are a bit different, i.e. the alias maps only to the first net of a record, not all of them. Instead, multiple record may have the same alias to get the same result.
Some years ago I have added `bbdb-define-all-aliases-mode' in order to implicitly generate aliases for each net and all nets of a record. E.g., if you have the alias "a", then "a1" will refer to the first net, "a2" to the second, ... and "a*" to all nets of a record. Expansion of "a*", only worked in XEmacs. In fact, this made bbdb-define-all-aliases kind of complicated and I never actually used the feature much ... to be honest it is a mess and I plan to remove it and replace it by explicit aliases. I just wonder if anyone except me ever used it? So what comes next? Allowing different (alias => net) mappings based on the suffix of the alias, e.g.: - ALIAS => maps to the primary net of the record. This is how aliases currently work. - ALIAS* => maps to all nets of the record. - [EMAIL PROTECTED] => maps to the 3rd net of the record. - ALIAS/REGEXP => maps to all nets of a record matching REGEXP. - ALIAS*REGEXP => maps to the primary net of all records in the BBDB matching REGEXP, e.g. [EMAIL PROTECTED] - ... So for the example above one would have to manually add the aliases "a", "[EMAIL PROTECTED]", "[EMAIL PROTECTED]", ... and "aall*" to the aliases field of the record. Also for all nets which do not contain a "@", a check is done if they exist as alias and then will be expanded recursively. So in order to define a hierarchical alias one has to create a record with the alias "ha*" and specify nets which are aliases of other records. Anyway, I want to discuss this first to get some feedback and new ideas before going to implement it! Robert ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier. Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ bbdb-info@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bbdb-info BBDB Home Page: http://bbdb.sourceforge.net/
