3.5 Learning addresses

When you send a message, addresses on the To: and Cc: field are automatically registered. Consider the following:

To: kazu@example.org

In the case of Address Completion(1)(See section Address Completion(1)): When this message is sent, a short name "kazu" is automatically registered for the address "kazu@example.org". If there is already a short name of "kazu", the next action is decided according to ‘mew-addrbook-override-by-newone’. If ‘nil’, the old entry remains. Otherwise, the new entry overrides the old one. When expanded, the address book short name has priority over the automatic short name. Only automatic short names which are not contained in the address book are valid.

In the case of Address Completion(1)(See section Address Completion(2)): When this message is sent, the address "kazu@example.org" is automatically registered.

The limit number of automatic short names is 2000 (‘mew-lisp-max-length’). Once the number exceeds 2000, the tail entries in the alphabetical order are removed. This information is automatically saved to the file "~/Mail/.mew-alias".

The automatic registration would register unnecessary short names. If you want to remove these entry, take the following steps. First, type ‘M-a’ to open "~/Mail/.mew-alias". Then edit it as you do against a text file. Lastly, type ‘C-xC-s’ to save it. When saving it, the modifications are automatically reflected to Mew.

The formats of Address Completion (1) and (2) are different. When you change the value of ‘mew-use-full-alias’ to switch one to the other, type ‘Z’ once in Summary mode. This converts the format properly.

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