[Alpine-info] feature idea

[Mike Miller]

On Fri, 9 May 2008, Lucio Chiappetti wrote:


> On Wed, 7 May 2008, Mike Miller wrote:

>

>> You have the option to search "Body" but not "Header."

>

> My Alpine has header search ( ; T H ). Maybe that's part of the patches by 

> Eduardo Chappa which I installed ?


It must be from Eduardo because I just checked again and it isn't there in 
Alpine 1.10(962).  After "; T" I have only these choices:

  ? Help                         F From                          T To
  C Cc                           R Recipient                     B Body
^C Cancel                       S [Subject]                     A All Text
  ! Not                          P Participant



>> Bcc Searches.

>> Any hope of that?

>

> Not sure what you mean. You want to search IN A RECEIVED MESSAGE 

> addresses in the Bcc list used when the message was sent ? But by 

> definition this information is not transmitted at all to you (otherwise 

> it wouldn't be "Blind cc:"


No.  I want to search the Bcc field in the sent messages, not in the 
received messages.  As you said, it is impossible to search Bcc in 
received messages.



> Personally I prefer to send Lcc: than Bcc:, because Lcc: can insert a 

> descriptive header in the From field (not useful for reply). But I guess 

> Lcc: is a pine feature, and you cannot count on your remote 

> correspondent using pine, or using Lcc ... or doing anything (not) 

> sensible :-(


I never use Lcc but if we are to make Bcc a searchable field, Lcc should 
also be searchable.

Mike