[PATCH] Feature request: nicknames for senders

[Felipe Contreras]

On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 9:37 PM, Jason Woofenden <jason at jasonwoof.com> wrote:
> I implemented a feature I wanted: nicknames for the list of senders
> on the search view.
>
> At first I just added a setting with my full name and had it
> replace that with "me". But then I figured it'd be better to allow
> the user to specify a list of replacements, and instead made a more
> general "nicknames" list.
>
> Then I made myself a nice long dictionary to shorten the names of
> folks I communicate with regularly. Mostly reducing them to first
> names. Now it's much more common that I can see all the senders in
> the narrow senders column.
>
>
> Thoughts?

Personally I would like an already known format for these. For example
git fetches them from different places, like mutt aliases list.

And I wonder why this is not part of notmuch core. You could then tell
notmuch to compose a message, and specify an alias instead of a full
address. This can be used in many ways.

But yeah, I'm eager to get something like this :)

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Felipe Contreras