Sorry for the late reply on this. I'm noticing two hurdles in trying
to conform to Outlook attribution. First off, here is the Outlook
attribution format:
From: [author name]
Sent: [date]
To: [to field recipient full names, semi-colon separated]
Cc: [if any CC recipient full names, semi-colon separated]
Subject: [subject]
I can get pretty close to that with:
(setq vm-included-text-attribution-format "\n:From: %F\nSent: %w, %m %d, %y %h\nTo: %T\nSubject: %s\n\n")
The first thing would be separating the "To:" recipients from the
"CC:" list. The %T field groups them all together. If I could supply
an attribution format that has the CC list conditionally present (ie-
do not display if no CC recipients) that would be cool, but I could
get by without that behavior. I can live without that, I'd really
just like to breakout the CC list from the To list.
The other thing is the %T field uses a comma separated list which
makes the Outlook name format of "last, first" difficult to parse with
multiple recipients (Outlook does not surround names with quotes). So
if I reply to "Smith, Bob" and "Doe, John", that will produce a
recipient list like: "Smith, Bob, Doe, John" (again, the quotes are
not in the actual email). This is confusing since everything is comma
separated. If I had the option of speciyfing the separator that would
be one way of doing it.
Looks like a lot of this stuff is in or around vm-su-do-recipients. I
haven't played around with that yet.
So what I'd like to do is have something like:
(setq vm-summary-fields-concat-string ("; ")
(setq vm-included-text-attribution-format "\n:From: %F\nSent: %w, %m %d, %y %h\nTo: %O\nCC: %C\nSubject: %s\n\n")
That would introduce a new variable (vm-summary-fields-concat-string)
to override the default ", " concat string. Then I used %O to
identify the To: field and %C to identify the CC recipients. The %O
is a but unfortunately named with %T taken.
-Kyle
Post by Uday ReddyPost by Kyle FarrellFor better or worse, I'm trying to get my attribution format to match
Outlook (sorry!).
Hi Kyle, what is the Outlook attribution format?
Post by Kyle FarrellI can nearly get it, but one thing that seems
missing is differentiating "To" and "CC" receipients. The "%T" format
T - full names of the recipients of the message, in a comma-separated list
If a full name cannot be found, the corresponding address is used
instead.
Using this the attribution is incorrect since I'd list all recipients
as "To:". Is there a format to get only "To" and only "CC"
recipients?
I think the original design of the specifiers was probably not ideal.
If you can look through the manual section on the Summary Format and suggest
a solution, I can implement it.
Cheers,
Uday