Making wildcards in Alternate-Mailboxes: work?

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2 total messages Started by Anthony Baxter Sat, 23 Jan 1993 06:47

#1361

Author: Anthony Baxter
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 06:47

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Does anyone know why:
                                    
Alternate-Mailboxes: anthony,anthony@nella*,anthony@*.monash.edu.au,anthony@*.rdt.monash.edu.au
                                    
matches 'anthony@nella1.cc.monash.edu.au', but not
'anthony@daneel.rdt.monash.edu.au', or 'anthony@rdt.monash.edu.au'?
                                    
I really, really dont want to have to list every single machine in the
Alternate-Mailboxes: line, nor do I wish to have to have 'anthony@*' as an
Alternate-Mailbox.
                                    
From the mh-profile man page:
                                    
                     In addition, an asterisk (`*') may appear at
               either  or  both  ends  of the mailbox and host to
               indicate wild-card matching.   (profile,  default:
               your user-id)
                                    
Does this mean that it can only be at either end of the 'mailbox@host', or
at either end of 'mailbox' and 'host'? It would be nice if it was the second,
but in either case this section of the man page could do with a little bit
of clarification.

Thanks,
Anthony
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Re: Making wildcards in Alternate-Mailboxes: work?

#1364

Author: Gary Brainin
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 18:18

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In article <1993Jan23.064715.14402@yarra-glen.aaii.oz.au> anthony@yarra-glen.aaii.oz.au (Anthony Baxter) writes:
>Does anyone know why:
>                                    
>Alternate-Mailboxes: anthony,anthony@nella*,anthony@*.monash.edu.au,anthony@*.rdt.monash.edu.au
>                                    
>matches 'anthony@nella1.cc.monash.edu.au', but not
>'anthony@daneel.rdt.monash.edu.au', or 'anthony@rdt.monash.edu.au'?

   Easy.  The asterisk has to be at the beginning or end (or both); in
"anthony@*.monash.edu.au" it's in the middle.

>I really, really dont want to have to list every single machine in the
>Alternate-Mailboxes: line, nor do I wish to have to have 'anthony@*' as an
>Alternate-Mailbox.

   Sadly, I don't know of a way around this.

			-Gary
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