Re: keeping a copy of sent mail locally

[Adrien BUSTANY <madcat@mymadcat.com>]

On Mon, 21 Dec 2009 09:27:04 -0800, Carl Worth <cworth@cworth.org> wrote:
> On Sun, 20 Dec 2009 15:29:15 +1100, Alex Ghitza <aghitza@gmail.com>
wrote:
>> It looks like we need a way to get the primary email address from the
>> config file.
> 
> Yes, we definitely need that.
> 
>> Actually, while we're at it, we can consider making this
>> more flexible and adding a new option to the config file (e.g. bcc=...)
>> which would take a semicolon-separated list of email addresses (in case
>> someone wants to always bcc an address other than the primary one).
> 
> And that would be fine too.
> 
>> Is there a nice clean way of getting the config variables in
notmuch.el?
>> Or should this go into a new file notmuch-compose.c?  Note that the
>> latter would imply having a new command like "notmuch compose".
> 
> I think we want a new C file to make it easy to ask for options out of
> the configuration file. The operation of "notmuch compose" seems simple
> enough to not be necessary, (though maybe it would make it easier to get
> standard behavior among different interfaces).
What about adding a way to get/set config variables from the notmuch
command
line ? Would that be bloat ?
That would even allow changing the internal format of the conf. file
without
breaking the clients...

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Cheers

Adrien