[sup-talk] the contact list / automatic mapping of names to addresses

[Jimmy Tang]

Excerpts from William Morgan's message of Mon Sep 24 03:37:16 +0100 2007:
> 
> It's not documented anywhere, but the contact list takes priority over
> the address->name mapping gleaned from email. So, you can add the
> address to your contact list and then manually edit ~/.sup/contacts.txt
> and force it to the right name. That should fix it for that address.

this will do fine, thanks again. the first email is usually tagged with names.

> 
> This is a frequent problem, and that's a pretty roundabout solution, so
> maybe a setting in config.yaml for addresses to ignore would be better.
> I'm trying not to bloat Sup with too many configuration options, though,
> so I'm waffling on this.
> 

if i know ruby i'd poke at it for you :)

Thanks,
Jimmy


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