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Re: Choosing from address book when message is piped



On Mon, Apr 26, 2004 at 11:15:03AM EDT, Jens Paulus wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 21, 2004 at 19:00:32 +0200, Jens Paulus wrote:

> > when sending out messages I like the idea to piping the text to mutt
> > from within my editor. But this way I have to know all of the recipient
> > addresses to specify them on the command line. So I think it would be a
> > good thing to not show an error message if no recipient address is
> > specified but rather display the address book and making the user able
> > to choose from it. Or make mutt enter the compose menu if a keyword
> > recipient address like <none> or so is given.
> 
> what I wrote here is meant as a suggestion for a possible additional
> feature. I am interested to know if you think such an address book query
> would be a useful thing to have when using mutt from within the editor.
> 
> Another question to this list is if the number of aliases that someone
> can have in the aliases file and which are then all read into memory is
> limited only by the available memory size. I asked this a couple of
> weeks ago but got no anser. I always used to keep only a few entries in
> my aliases file but am thinking of putting more entries into it.

Your question is probably better asked on mutt-dev.  (I'm betting you
lost half of us here midway through your original message. . .)

Your second question is definitely better asked on mutt-dev (or just
looked up manually in the source).  If you're thinking of less than
about 11K addresses, though, rest assured that a gigabyte of VM is
way way way way more than plenty.  (In case you're curious, that's as
many as I had before regexps could be used in subscribe statements.
Another interesting result of the same experiment was that Mutt can work
with 11K mailing lists.)

HTH,
 - Dave

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