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Mahogany may automatically remember all addresses from all e-mail messages you
receive (actually, only those which you read). This is called address
autocollection and, as almost any other feature of Mahogany can be turned on
and off as desired. In this page you may choose whether you want to use this
feature at all (it is on by default) and, if so, where should be the autocollected
addresses be put and other settings. See the Addressbook section (1.8)
for more information on Mahogany's built-in addressbook.
- Autocollect addresses
You may choose ``No'' to disable autocollecting addresses completely, or choose
``Yes'' to always autocollect them. The remaining option, ``Ask'', means
that you will be presented with a message box each time an address is about
to be autocollected.
- Address book to use
You may enter the path of the address book to use for autocollected addresses.
Although you may use any address book for this, it is probably better to have
a special address book for all autocollected addresses. If the path name given
here is an absolute one, it is used as is. Otherwise, it is considered to be
relative to your Mahogany directory. For example, the default for this option
is ``autocollect.adb'' and so the default autocollect book will be created
in
$HOME/.M/AUTOCOLLECT.ADB
under Unix.
- Ignore addresses without names
You may with to autocollect only addresses which have a full name - in this
case you should check this option. If it is off and the address has no name,
the first part of e-mail address (the one preceding the '@' symbol) will be
used instead of the name.
In addition to its own built-in addressbook format, Mahogany also supports the
addressbook files of the BBDB addressbook used with Emacs (see 1.8.3).
Some settings can be set here which apply only to the BBDB addressbook support:
- Ignore entries without names
BBDB can store entries which have only an e-mail address with them, but no name.
If you set this option, Mahogany will discard such entries.
- Generate unique aliases
Setting this option allows Mahogany to ensure that all aliases are unique. If
two entries have the same alias, one of them will be modified to distinguish
them. This is especially useful in conjuction with the following option. If
this option is set, reading in of BBDB addressbooks is slowed down considerably.
However, setting it once, then saving the addressbook and disabling it, will
make sure that all aliases are unique without slowing down subsequent loading
of the addressbook the next time it is used.
- Name for nameless entries
If Mahogany finds entries without a name and is not set to ignore it, this name
will be used for such entries. It can be combined with the option to generate
unique aliases.
- Save on exit
As saving BBDB addressbook can potentially lead to some loss of information
in the original database file (BBDB and Mahogany support different fields),
you can choose whether you want Mahogany to automatically save the data on exit
or ask you for confirmation. Read section 1.8.3 for more details about
how BBDB and Mahogany differ in interpreting the database.
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Charlie &
2001-04-19