Nicknaming fcc addresses?

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AES - 27 Mar 2008 03:45 GMT

Any way to enter a mailbox fcc address into the Bcc: field *from the
keyboard*, more or less in "nickname" fashion -- that is, without having
to go to the "Transfer/fcc" menu and move down to a mailbox name after
you've clicked in the Bcc: field -- and also without having to remember
the arcane syntax for an fcc name.

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Steve W. Jackson - 27 Mar 2008 15:40 GMT

> Any way to enter a mailbox fcc address into the Bcc: field *from the
> keyboard*, more or less in "nickname" fashion -- that is, without having
> to go to the "Transfer/fcc" menu and move down to a mailbox name after
> you've clicked in the Bcc: field -- and also without having to remember
> the arcane syntax for an fcc name.

I tinkered with this, never having seen it before, and got it to work
with top-level mailboxes (didn't try with any that are inside folders).
I typed the complete entry. That is, I enclosed the entire thing in
quotation marks, and began with the fancy "f" you get by typing
Option-f, then a colon, and then the name of the mailbox. I noted that
Eudora interpreted my keystrokes and tried to pick a nickname, but I
kept typing as I needed a mailbox name. After successfully sending a
message addressed in this way, I found that the outgoing message was
indeed in the mailbox I'd used in Bcc, but it was also in my Out mailbox
(all my outgoing are kept by default).

= Steve =

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Montgomery, Alabama

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AES - 27 Mar 2008 18:14 GMT

> > Any way to enter a mailbox fcc address into the Bcc: field *from the
> > keyboard*, more or less in "nickname" fashion -- that is, without having
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> = Steve =

Steve:

I can cause a file copy of an email I'm sending to my friend Walt Smith,
for whose emails I have a mailbox called 'WaltSmith' in a mailbox folder
named 'WXYZ', by typing the fcc string

"Ÿ:WXYZ:WaltSmith"

(including quotes) into the Bcc: field of the message.

[I've created an alphabetized set of of mailbox folders named 'AB, 'CD',
etc, for my large collection of emails, and 'WXYZ' is the final folder
in that set.]

I have the email address for Walt Smith in a nickname called
'walt-smith' in my nicknames file, and it works fine to insert his
address in the To: or Cc: or even Bcc: fields.

But instead of having to remember and type the rather arcane fcc string
above into the Bcc: fields, I'd like to create a second _nickname_
called just, say, 'walt-smith-file-copy' in my nicknames file; put the
above string (or something like it) as the contents of that nickname;
and be able to just start typing that _nickname_ into the Bcc: field,
and have Eudora do it's auto-completion thing for that nickname, and
then insert the full fcc string in the Bcc: field.

So far, I've not been able to make that work.

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Steve W. Jackson - 27 Mar 2008 19:36 GMT

> > > Any way to enter a mailbox fcc address into the Bcc: field *from the
> > > keyboard*, more or less in "nickname" fashion -- that is, without having
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> So far, I've not been able to make that work.

I just did some further experimenting, and I think I've got it working.

I have a top-level mailbox named "Reference", so I simply chose it for
expedience. But what I did was create a new nickname, which I called
"fcc" to keep it simple.

In that new nickname, I put nothing at all in the full name and other
fields, but in the address section I typed (including quotes)
"Ÿ:Reference" and let it stand at that. When I typed "fcc" (without the
quotes) in the Bcc field, that's what showed up until I tabbed out of
the field, at which time the properly formed string showed up. When I
queued and sent a message, a copy did indeed show up in my Reference
mailbox and in Out.

HTH,
= Steve =

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Steve W. Jackson
Montgomery, Alabama

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