From kdepim-users Mon Mar 26 20:04:10 2007 From: Ingo =?iso-8859-1?q?Kl=F6cker?= Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2007 20:04:10 +0000 To: kdepim-users Subject: Re: [kdepim-users] old style email aliases? Message-Id: <200703262204.13105 () erwin ! ingo-kloecker ! de> X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kdepim-users&m=117493942318424 MIME-Version: 1 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="--===============0855922355==" --===============0855922355== Content-type: multipart/signed; boundary=nextPart4961479.WhGGQ3qNia; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit --nextPart4961479.WhGGQ3qNia Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Monday 26 March 2007 17:24, David Chopp wrote: > On Monday 26 March 2007 06:25 am, you wrote: > > On Saturday 24 March 2007, David Chopp wrote: > > > I have a question about using email aliases and kmail. In the > > > old days, email aliases could be stored in a .aliases file with a > > > format of "foo: bar@company.com" so that I could type "mail foo" > > > and the message would be sent to bar@company.com. For a long > > > time I have wanted to do this within kmail and have never figured > > > out how to do it. I would like to enter "foo" in the "To:" box > > > and have it resolve to bar@company.com. A perfect solution would > > > allow me to easily use or adapt my existing .aliases file, but > > > I'll settle for something less than ideal if it works. If it > > > helps, I use sendmail to do the mail handling, so is that where I > > > should be looking? Thanks in advance for your help. > > > > I can't answer that, but I wonder if there isn't a simpler way of > > achieving what you want. If you start a To line with 'foo' it will > > check your recently-used addresses and autocomplete if it finds it. > > Perhaps simply increasing the time that recent addresses are > > stored would be all you need? The only problem is that I can't > > remember where the config file for this is stored, or whether and > > how you could change it from within kmail. I'm sure I've actually > > seen the file - I just can't spot it at the moment. Try searching > > ~/.kde/share/config/ > > > > Anne > > Anne, > > Thanks for the suggestion. I do use the completion tool to insert > addresses, but the problem is that I have a number of people for whom > their name and their email don't share much in common. I have also > experienced the limit of the memory buffer, as you noted, where email > addresses are forgotten. So far, that's the only tool I have found > that even comes close. After looking through the kaddressbook stuff, > I noticed that it does include a field for nickname. To me, it would > be great if I could type in the nickname and have kmail insert the > email address associated with that nickname. I guess this is a plea > to the developers if nothing else. In my mind, that was one of the > best features of the old mail programs, and I miss it. KMail does support the nickname since quite some time. The nickname is=20 not replaced immediately, but when then message is sent. This way=20 drafts keep the nickname. You can try this by using Send Later and then=20 looking at the message in the outbox folder. Regards, Ingo --nextPart4961479.WhGGQ3qNia Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBGCCc8GnR+RTDgudgRAvESAJ9Hg8qdw3J4pIn1ceD57xrdiMRRXwCgyEww PTdur6SmENQlvuU4s+BSSwY= =sHku -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart4961479.WhGGQ3qNia-- --===============0855922355== Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline _______________________________________________ KDE PIM users mailing list kdepim-users@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kdepim-users --===============0855922355==--