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From: mcgrew@ichthous.Sun.COM (Darin McGrew)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.mh
Subject: Alternate-Mailboxes
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Date: 8 Dec 89 19:09:33 GMT
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In article <253@yarra.UUCP> bgg@yarra.oz.au (Benjamin G. Golding) writes:
>It may be useful to add an "Alternate-Mailboxes:" line to your
>.mh_profile to remove the permutations of your mailbox name that can
>arrive.  I use:
>
>Alternate-Mailboxes: bgg@yarra, bgg@yarra.oz, bgg@yarra.oz.au, yarra!bgg
>
>which picks up most of the names I get called.

The alternate-mailboxes line in your .mh_profile understands
wildcarding.  Here's an excerpt from mine:

    alternate-mailboxes: mcgrew@*, *!mcgrew, *!mcgrew@*, *!mcgrew%*

I would just go ahead and use

    alternate-mailboxes: *mcgrew*

except that there are other McGrew's here.

Darin McGrew			mcgrew@Eng.Sun.COM
Affiliation stated for identification purposes only.