On Wed, 26 Mar 2014 09:27:15 -0400 Ken Hornstein <k...@pobox.com> sez:
> >> Sigh. My only point was ... if b...@local.host.name is not, in fact, a
> >> valid email address for you, you'd be better served by changing
> >> Local-Mailbox. It does more things (things you'd likely want) than
> >> Alternate-Mailboxes does.
> >
> >I've tried this while also removing the Alternate-Mailboxes
> >entry. It doesn't solve my original problem of suppressing
> >my (non-local @gmail.com) email address in replies.
> >
> >Are you suggesting that I add both Local-Mailboxes and
> >Alternate-Mailboxes entries?
>
> Did you use Local-MailboxES, or Local-Mailbox? The latter is the
> correct one (it's singular).
Argh, I used the incorrect (plural) one. Changing to the proper
(singular) one did the trick!
> You could check exactly what nmh thinks is
> your local mailbox by executing the command:
>
> % ap -format '%(localmbox)' null
>
> (ap lives in your nmh lib directory). That should show you what nmh thinks
> is your local mailbox, and that's what the Local-Mailbox setting changs.
Yep, it's catching the Local-Mailbox update!
> >When I first started using MH (in grad school), the default for
> >Local-Mailbox (<user>@<host>) was my actual mailbox address. It
> >wasn't until much later, when I started using a laptop and
> >connecting via commercial ISPs, that my current situation arose,
> >where <user>@<host> has no use for email purposes. (In fact, I
> >set up my repl*comps at that time to explicitly specify what my
> >addresses, for From:, Reply-To:, etc., are. They do that to
> >this day.)
>
> Let me expand on this a bit.
>
> Local-Mailbox is a new feature, created as part of the address handling
> cleanup done for 1.5. Like you said, the "old" way MH used to operate
> was that it would synthesize your local email address based on your local
> username and hostname; there was no way to override that (nor was there
> even a way to see what it thought it was). The world has moved on since
> then, so for 1.5 I created the code that let you override the local mailbox
> setting.
>
> So what exactly does Local-Mailbox _do_? Well, in addition to matching
> an email address as local (which really means it will match the
> %(mymbox) format function), it will be output by the %(localmbox)
> format function. This is now used by component templates (components,
> repl*comps, forwcomps, distcomps) to fill in the "From" field. Now you
> (and plenty of others) have been papering over this problem for a while
> now by adjusting the relevant components files yourself, but after a bunch
> of thrashing on the mailing list we all decided that we needed a better
> solution.
Just tried this, and it works! Outstanding! (I always thought my
solution was a "hack," and it's great to know that there's support
for a "proper" solution.)
> So, Local-Mailbox changes nmh's idea of what your local mailbox is (which,
> in practice, boils down to changing the output of %(localmbox)). Compare
> that to Alternate-Mailboxes (plural); what that does is simply add to the
> list that %(mymbox) will match. That, plus a little extra magic, is how
> "local" email addresses don't end up in replies.
>
> Okay, long digression. What's the "right" solution? IMHO, it's:
But a *helpful* digression (for me)! B-)
> - If localu...@local.host does not match your email address, add a
> Local-Mailbox line to your .mh_profile that has your complete email
> address (including your real name).
This is correct.
> - If you have additional email addresses that you want nmh to consider a
> local address, add them to Alternate-Mailboxes.
This is not correct, so I will eschew Alternate-Mailboxes.
A fix for a nagging problem, with the bonus of the cleanup of a
longstanding hack: thanks a lot! B-)
Bob
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