Re: cannot override address autocomplete in plain text composition

2017-05-23 Thread Felix Miata
Daniel composed on 2017-05-23 17:34 (UTC+1000): > I've been wondering why Felix is storing the address in the form > (note the <> at the ends!). I believe > if he saved the address as somethingelseinsanelylongn...@toolong.net > (note the lack of <>), it would not have the <>. I'm not. was a

Re: cannot override address autocomplete in plain text composition

2017-05-23 Thread Daniel
On 23/05/2017 10:39 AM, Paul B. Gallagher wrote: Felix Miata wrote: Paul B. Gallagher composed on 2017-05-22 02:19 (UTC-0400): Then don't accept the autocompletion by stopping typing. Keep typing the desired name or address and ignore SM's suggestions; eventually you'll get to the point where

Re: cannot override address autocomplete in plain text composition

2017-05-22 Thread Paul B. Gallagher
Felix Miata wrote: Paul B. Gallagher composed on 2017-05-22 02:19 (UTC-0400): Then don't accept the autocompletion by stopping typing. Keep typing the desired name or address and ignore SM's suggestions; eventually you'll get to the point where your typing doesn't match the undesired address a

Re: cannot override address autocomplete in plain text composition

2017-05-22 Thread Felix Miata
Paul B. Gallagher composed on 2017-05-22 02:19 (UTC-0400): > Then don't accept the autocompletion by stopping typing. Keep typing the > desired name or address and ignore SM's suggestions; eventually you'll > get to the point where your typing doesn't match the undesired address > and SM will a

Re: cannot override address autocomplete in plain text composition

2017-05-21 Thread Paul B. Gallagher
Felix Miata wrote: Paul B. Gallagher composed on 2017-05-21 20:07 (UTC-0400): OK, then I guess I didn't understand the problem. If you reply to a mailing list post, why do you need to change the address? Doesn't it go where you want it to? The address gets collected from the mailing list,

Re: cannot override address autocomplete in plain text composition

2017-05-21 Thread Felix Miata
Paul B. Gallagher composed on 2017-05-21 20:07 (UTC-0400): > OK, then I guess I didn't understand the problem. > If you reply to a mailing list post, why do you need to change the > address? Doesn't it go where you want it to? The address gets collected from the mailing list, then at some much

Re: cannot override address autocomplete in plain text composition

2017-05-21 Thread Paul B. Gallagher
Felix Miata wrote: Paul B. Gallagher composed on 2017-05-21 17:41 (UTC-0400) ... As for posting to mailing lists, don't write to individuals. Save the ML address and write to that: DFSee (give it a nickname if you like -- "dfsee" for example, so SM will fill in the rest). If you don't feed th

Re: cannot override address autocomplete in plain text composition

2017-05-21 Thread Felix Miata
Paul B. Gallagher composed on 2017-05-21 17:41 (UTC-0400) FWIW, I've been using SM mail since Netscape 2, Netscape 4, Mozilla pre-1.0. IOW, never any other email program. And, I use it a lot, hundreds of incoming per day, mostly from mailing lists. > Of course, if SM sees them again in a future m

Re: cannot override address autocomplete in plain text composition

2017-05-21 Thread Paul B. Gallagher
Felix Miata wrote: Linux 2.46 I never compose email except in plain text. mail.enable_autocomplete Most of the time I like having it true. However there are times that I want what I want and it refuses to keep only what I type (without "<" and ">") remaining as-is, insisting on auto-completing

cannot override address autocomplete in plain text composition

2017-05-21 Thread Felix Miata
Linux 2.46 I never compose email except in plain text. mail.enable_autocomplete Most of the time I like having it true. However there are times that I want what I want and it refuses to keep only what I type (without "<" and ">") remaining as-is, insisting on auto-completing to auto-collected idi