[Alpine-info] To instead of from?

[Barry Landy]

On Mon, 2 Nov 2009, Jacob Wegelin wrote:


:>

:>On Mon, 2 Nov 2009, Benjamin R. Haskell wrote:

:>

:>> On Mon, 2 Nov 2009, Barry Landy wrote:

:>> 

:>> > On Mon, 2 Nov 2009, Riku Virtanen wrote:

:>> > 

:>> > :>Hi all,

:>> > :>

:>> > :>I am configuring Alpine 2.0.

:>> > :>When I go to Sentmail or Postponed folders, I see only the senders

:>> > :>( I myself), not recipients straight from the list.

:>> > :>How can I change that? In my Pine, I see straight the recipients from

:>> > the

:>> > :>list in Sentmail and Postponed folders.

:>> > 

:>> > This sounds like you do not have alternate addresses configured

:>> > properly. Go to the configuration menu (M S C) and find the "alternate

:>> > addresses" field and read the help text.

:>> > 

:>> > If you carried your pinerc over from Pine to Alpine this should have

:>> > worked in Alpine the same was as in Pine but maybe you did not do that.

:>> 

:>> You might also want to ensure that your Index Format (also via M S C)

:>> contains the token FROMORTO.  If it only has FROM, it won't be "smart"

:>> about switching which field is displayed.

:>

:>Just now I tried doing just that. Then when I looked at a message index,

:>for instance, INBOX, I could see nothing but the sender's name, no other

:>information. For instance I could not see the Subject, the date,

:>nothing. It was very disorienting. I went back into M S C and searched

:>for FROMORTO and deleted that value and now sanity has been restored.

:>

:>Something seems to be wrong about FROMORTO?


The default of course uses FROMORTO. It sounds like you set "INDEX 
FORMAT" to exactly "FROMORTO". If you are specifying INDEX FORMAT you 
have to specify all the fields you want

eg (which is the default taken from the help)

STATUS MSGNO SMARTDATETIME24 FROMORTO(33%) SIZENARROW SUBJKEY(67%)


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