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<p dir="auto">--Randall</p>
<p dir="auto">On 10 Feb 2018, at 12:22, Bill Cole wrote:</p>
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<div style="white-space:normal"><blockquote style="border-left:2px solid #777; color:#777; margin:0 0 5px; padding-left:5px"><p dir="auto">On 10 Feb 2018, at 4:15 (-0500), Randall Gellens wrote:<br>
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<blockquote style="border-left:2px solid #777; color:#999; margin:0 0 5px; padding-left:5px; border-left-color:#999"><p dir="auto">I have both a list of frequently-used addresses and an address patter in the form “*@foo\.examle\.org | *@bar\.example\.org” set for several accounts. Yet most replies have the wrong default address. As a test, I tried deleting the list of explicit addresses, and deleted the spaces around the pipe in the address pattern, but to no avail</p>
</blockquote><p dir="auto">Those are both flawed. The pattern must be a regular expression, in which a leading '*' isn't meaningful, since it means 'zero or more of the prior character.' Also, spaces ARE meaningful in regular expressions, so you shouldn't have any in a pattern for an email address.</p>
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<p dir="auto">Thanks. In the help pages, it <em>looks</em> (at least to me) like there are spaces around the pipes. Thanks for reminding me that :*: needs something in front.</p>
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<div style="white-space:normal"><blockquote style="border-left:2px solid #777; color:#777; margin:0 0 5px; padding-left:5px"><blockquote style="border-left:2px solid #777; color:#999; margin:0 0 5px; padding-left:5px; border-left-color:#999"><p dir="auto">1: Is it correct to set both a list of explicit addresses and an address pattern for an account?</p>
</blockquote><p dir="auto">Sure. The addresses mentioned in my signature AND OTHERS are matched by my combination of a list and a pattern.</p>
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<p dir="auto">Thanks.</p>
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<div style="white-space:normal"><blockquote style="border-left:2px solid #777; color:#777; margin:0 0 5px; padding-left:5px"><blockquote style="border-left:2px solid #777; color:#999; margin:0 0 5px; padding-left:5px; border-left-color:#999"><p dir="auto">2: Is it correct to have spaces around the pipe in the address pattern?</p>
</blockquote><p dir="auto">No. I suppose it is possible that Benny cleans up the input to remove all spaces not inside double-quotes (address syntax has weird edge cases...) but I doubt that. A major advantage to using regular expressions instead of a simpler pattern syntax is that thee is a lot of mature free code<br>
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<blockquote style="border-left:2px solid #777; color:#999; margin:0 0 5px; padding-left:5px; border-left-color:#999"><p dir="auto">3: Is it correct to have a space after the comma in the explicit address list?</p>
</blockquote><p dir="auto">Works for me. I don't know if it is required.<br>
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<blockquote style="border-left:2px solid #777; color:#999; margin:0 0 5px; padding-left:5px; border-left-color:#999"><p dir="auto">4: Is the default reply address determined on message reception or reply generation?</p>
</blockquote><p dir="auto">Yes. :)<br>
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Benny has explained the heuristics involved in picking a sender here before, but I'm almost certain to get it wrong if I try to explain it myself.</p>
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<p dir="auto">OK.</p>
<p dir="auto">Is there a way to associate a default reply address with an address pattern or set of domains?</p>
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<div style="white-space:normal"><blockquote style="border-left:2px solid #777; color:#777; margin:0 0 5px; padding-left:5px"><blockquote style="border-left:2px solid #777; color:#999; margin:0 0 5px; padding-left:5px; border-left-color:#999"><p dir="auto">5: is a pattern of the form “*@domain” acceptable?</p>
</blockquote><p dir="auto">No, but '.*@domain' is. '*' always has to refer to something before it.</p>
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<p dir="auto">I must have been thinking shell globing, thank you.</p>
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