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Article #2099mh-e additions wanted: local signatures, interactive alias expansion, etc.
From: Curtis N. Bingham
Date: Sat, 08 Oct 1994 19:53
Date: Sat, 08 Oct 1994 19:53
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I am looking for a couple of mh-e enhancements:
o Automatic signatures
I would like to have an option whereby my signature may be either
automatically appended or in response to a keystroke (currently,
only the latter is provided). This should be a toggle.
o Public vs. Local signatures
The majority of my mail is sent to local addresses (no domain
name). I would like a utility that would give me the option of
using public and private (abbreviated) signatures. This would be
automatically chosen for me, based on the alias expansion. If
there is one or more external recipients, then it should use the
public signature. If all the recipients are local, then the
private signature would be used.
o Interactive alias expansion:
I would like to have the functionality of mail-abbrev that used to
work with mail that would parse the standard aliases and
automatically complete any alias found, provided one was in the
mail header. This would need to also be added into the
interactive, minibuffer prompt for fields such as Subject:, To:,
CC: etc.
o Auto-Select of folder for incoming and Fcc: +proper-outbox for
outgoing messages
I used RMAIL prior to mh-e, and there was a really nifty utility
there called rmailgen that would refer to an alist containing
regexps on the mail headers and the files that messages matching
the regexp would be directed to. It seems that there have been a
couple of code snippets that have been posted recently that attempt
to do this.
I would like to find a package that extends this and can apply the
matching operations to the messages that are being composed. For
example, if I am refiling messages according to this regexp:
'("^Subject:[ \t]*.*RSI.*" . "+RSI")
then obviously the incoming messages would be output to the folder
+RSI. I'd like to see the Fcc: field of outgoing messages also set
to this value, based on the subject.
Anyone have any ideas?
Thanx,
Curtis
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