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List:       kdepim-users
Subject:    Re: [kdepim-users] old style email aliases?
From:       Ingo =?iso-8859-1?q?Kl=F6cker?= <kloecker () kde ! org>
Date:       2007-03-26 20:04:10
Message-ID: 200703262204.13105 () erwin ! ingo-kloecker ! de
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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 
not replaced immediately, but when then message is sent. This way 
drafts keep the nickname. You can try this by using Send Later and then 
looking at the message in the outbox folder.

Regards,
Ingo

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