Re: Getting aliases from Cc field

[Kyle Wheeler <kyle-mutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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On Saturday, April  4 at 05:29 PM, quoth Charles Howard:
>
>Very funny, I don't think. 
>
>So let me rephrase my question :
>
>Is there a way to take an address from the Cc field to  an alias file, 
>similar to how one uses `a' for the From field ?

Sure. Well, to my knowledge, mutt doesn't provide any built-in 
mechanism. The simplest way is to create a script that extracts the 
contents of the CC field, builds an alias line, and appends it to the 
alias file. For example, if you have dialog and procmail 
(specifically, procmail's tool formail) installed, here's a basic 
script (modify to taste):

     #!/bin/sh
     aliasfile=~/.aliases
     CCheader=$(formail -c -x CC)
     string="what alias should I use for $CCheader?"
     tmpfile=$(mktemp -t dialog.XXXXXX)
     dialog --inputbox "$string" 8 ${#string} 2>"$tmpfile"
     retval=$?
     if [ $retval == 0 ] ; then
       alias=$(cat $tmpfile)
       echo "alias $alias $CCheader" >>"$aliasfile"
     fi
     rm -f $tmpfile

~Kyle
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