Usage: [un]alternates
regexp [ regexp ... ]
With various functions, mutt will treat messages differently, depending on whether you sent them or whether you received them from someone else. For instance, when replying to a message that you sent to a different party, mutt will automatically suggest to send the response to the original message's recipients -- responding to yourself won't make much sense in many cases. (See $reply_to.)
Many users receive e-mail under a number of different addresses. To
fully use mutt's features here, the program must be able to
recognize what e-mail addresses you receive mail under. That's the
purpose of the alternates
command: It takes a list of regular
expressions, each of which can identify an address under which you
receive e-mail.
The unalternates
command can be used to write exceptions to
alternates
patterns. If an address matches something in an
alternates
command, but you nonetheless do not think it is
from you, you can list a more precise pattern under an unalternates
command.
To remove a regular expression from the alternates
list, use the
unalternates
command with exactly the same regexp.
Likewise, if the regexp for a alternates
command matches
an entry on the unalternates
list, that unalternates
entry will be removed. If the regexp for unalternates
is ``*'', all entries on alternates
will be removed.