Stephen Gran on 24 Dec 2004 19:01:53 -0000


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Re: [PLUG] mutt question


On Fri, Dec 24, 2004 at 01:55:53PM -0500, eric@lucii.org said:
> On Fri, Dec 24, 2004 at 01:18:57PM -0500, Stephen Gran wrote:
> > alternates is the list of your email addresses, not your correspondents.
> > You can use regular expressions, like:
> > 
> > set alternates="eric@[a-zA-Z0-9.]*lucci.org|eric@(yahoo|hotmail).com"
> > 
> > I am of course, taking the liberty of making up addresses for you, but 
> > you get the idea.  The a-z.. trick is so you can have eric@ multiple
> > machines in a domain you own, and they all magically are recognized as
> > you.
> Thanks!  I figured that out (mostly) from reading the manual.  I just have
> one problem with it... Mutt tells me it has a error when it sources a .muttrc
> file that has ANY mention of alternates.
> 
> Even this:
> 
>   set alternates=""
> 
> causes the error.
> 
> I'm running Mutt 1.5.6i (2004-02-01)

Try the simplest:
set alternates="eric@lucci.org"

I use mutt version 1.5.6-20040907+2 here, and it does not complain.
What is the error you are seeing?
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