The Address DB Browser window is accessed from the Addresses.../Address Book menu item in the exmh main window. This window allows you to view the contents of the Address Database and select records for editing or deletion.
The Browser window shows a formatted and sorted list of mail addresses as in the example below. The full name and email address are shown. In addition the presence of a "-" preceding the email address indicates that the record is marked for exclusion from searches.
Brent B. Welch <Brent.Welch@Eng.Sun.COM> Brent B. Welch - <brent.welch@Eng.Sun.COM>
The following buttons are available in the Address DB Browser window:
If DB records marked excluded are currently being shown in the Address
DB Browser then the Hide Excluded button will be available to
cause them to be hidden. If DB records marked excluded are currently
hidden then the Show Excluded button will be available to cause
them to be visible
Pressing the View Last Msg button will cause a new window to
be opened that will contain the last message received from the address
contained in the selected Address DB record. Note that this may give
incorrect results if the selected message was moved, the folder was
packed, or the message was deleted as the field is only updated each
time a message is displayed in the main exmh window.
Pressing the Edit button with an Address DB record selected
will launch the Address DB Editor for that record.
The same effect can be acheived by double-clicking mouse button 1 on
a record in the Address DB Browser.
Pressing the Delete button erases the selected Address DB record.
No confirmation will be requested but the change is not committed to
disk until the Address DB is saved.
Pressing the Save button writes the current contents of the
complete Address Database to disk. Note that the Address Database will
also be saved when exmh exits normally and may optionally be
saved each time you change the current folder if "Checkpoint on folder
change" is set to "on" in the Address Database Preference panel.
Pressing the Reload button causes the current contents of the
complete address database to be discarded and the last saved file to
be reread.
Pressing the Dismiss button causes the Address DB Browser window to be hidden (unmapped). The window and the associated listbox contents remain in existence so that the window may be quickly recalled.
Closing the Address DB Browser window using your window manager causes the window and associated listbox contents to be discarded. Note that the listbox contents is essentially a formatted copy of the internal array containing the Address Database. Building the sorted, formatted listbox can be time consuming and can be avoided by using the Dimiss button.
The Address DB Editor is used to change the contents or exclusion status of a single record in the Address Database.
The following fields are available and may be altered. No checking of contents is done so preserving valid data is strictly up to you.
If you alter this field you should only enter a valid email
address.