Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!uunet!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!gatech!bbn!jr@bbn.com From: jr@bbn.com (John Robinson) Newsgroups: gnu.emacs Subject: Re: Displaying recipient in summary and grouping by recipients in VM Message-ID: <45064@bbn.COM> Date: 31 Aug 89 15:06:49 GMT References: <8908210034.AA01934@sprite.crd.Ge.Com> Sender: news@bbn.COM Reply-To: jr@bbn.com (John Robinson) Distribution: gnu Organization: BBN Systems and Technologies Corporation, Cambridge MA Lines: 20 In-reply-to: wjc@ho5cad.ATT.COM (Bill Carpenter) In article , wjc@ho5cad (Bill Carpenter) writes: >Quite handy. What would be even handier would be a % escape that >showed the "from" address unless it was me, in which case it would >show something about the recipient(s). In fact, this is the default behavior in a number of mail reading systems. Maybe it should be just VM's standard behavior. If the recipient were always prefixed in the summary with, e.g. "To:", you could still find all mail from yourself. There is the tiny problem of deciding which of a number of possible aliases is you, but a RE could provide that. In the MH system, one line of my configuration is: Alternate-Mailboxes: jr,jr@*,jr%*,bbn*!jr,*unix-emacs-request@*,bbn*!jr@* Shell syntax, but you get the idea. -- /jr, nee John Robinson Life did not take over the globe by combat, jr@bbn.com or bbn!jr but by networking -- Lynn Margulis