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From: tchrist@convex.COM (Tom Christiansen)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.mh
Subject: Re: Scan Format for significant info in addresses
Message-ID: <2010@convex.UUCP>
Date: 10 Oct 89 19:49:32 GMT
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In article <2766@decuac.DEC.COM> avolio@decuac.dec.com (Frederick M. Avolio) writes:
|I would like to know if it is possible in mh to have the scan format
|present addresses with the most significant information always displayed.
|
|For example,
|
|	user@host.domain would be displayed as is
|
|	host1!host2!host3!....!hostN!user would be displayed 
|			right justified so that if anything was cut off
|			it would be cut off on the left 

What I would like is to pull out the FullName field if there is one,
else the comment field if there is one, else the mbox portion.  I've
played with this using "pers", "mbox" and "note" as described for
addresses in mh-format(5), but they always seem to return null for
me.  Does anyone have working examples of these?

--tom

    Tom Christiansen                       {uunet,uiucdcs,sun}!convex!tchrist 
    Convex Computer Corporation                            tchrist@convex.COM
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