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From: jromine@buckaroo.ics.uci.edu (John Romine)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.mh
Subject: Re: address formatting
Summary: user@host - you lose
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Date: 26 Dec 90 21:29:50 GMT
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Reply-To: jromine@ics.uci.edu (John Romine)
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gildea@EXPO.LCS.MIT.EDU (Stephen Gildea) writes:
>In MH 6.7 I cannot find a format function that prints the address part
>of a From: line.  The closest I've come is %(mbox{from})@%(host{from})
>which is a bit kludgy.  Furthermore, I cannot print that expression in
>a fixed-width field.  For that I would need to be able to append to
>the str register, and I can't see how to do that, either.

You're right, you can't do that now.  Look for an enhancement to provide
this function in the next (MH 6.7.2) patch release.
--
John Romine