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From: davy@ea.ecn.purdue.edu (Dave Curry)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.mh
Subject: Re: A limitation with repl?
Message-ID: <922@ea.ecn.purdue.edu>
Date: Thu, 5-Nov-87 09:14:15 EST
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Posted: Thu Nov  5 09:14:15 1987
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In article <4183@dandelion.CI.COM> david@dandelion.UUCP (David M. Watson) writes:
>
>
>In MH 6.5, I use the option '-nocc me' in the repl: line of my .mh_profile,
>but mail addressed to me from other machines contains a "To:" line that
>doesn't match repl's simplistic concept of who I really am.  For example,
>when someone sends me mail from the host called amber, repl gets the
>chance to discard the address "david@amber" found in the "To:" line,
>but it doesn't know that david@amber is actually me.
>
>is there any way short of modifying MH to get it not to meddle with the
>"To:" line?

You can set something in your .mh_profile called "Alternate-Mailboxes",
which specifies patterns to math on for addresses.  For example, I
have the line:

	Alternate-Mailboxes: davy@*, *pur-ee!davy, archive, netops, uucp

This makes davy@anything and anything!pur-ee!davy get considered to be
"me".  I also receive mail on the system-wide aliases "archive", "netops",
and "uucp"; this takes those out too so I don't send myself mail.

There are other things you can do with this too (besides using "*"), but
I forget where I found the documentation for it, as I was just perusing
the MH docs at the time.  I know it's in the on-line man pages; maybe
in section 5?

--Dave Curry