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Re: grabbing email address from mail message



On Thu, Jan 15, 2004 at 05:36:19PM EST, Eric Smith wrote:

> I cannot alias all the email addresses I need, so 90% of mails I
> send are by going to the folder of a recipient and replying
> and laboriously deleting the body and In-Reply-To: 
> 
> Someone has a better way?  

Another option is to alias the guy with nick "temp," and then compose a mail to 
"temp."  Simply alias it to "temp" every time, so it won't clutter up your 
address book.

Yet another option, of course, is to use the lbdb.

Still another option that comes to mind is my own address book system
with a tiny modification (which I can do myself, if you're interested) to
introduce another special group where the global namespace isn't polluted
(as the from group already works).  Then, you setup procmail to auto-add
anybody who emails you to your address book under the new group (which
again can be done with a simple script), and you can easily find anybody
you want by filling in the group name and searching Mutt's address book
(which is autogenerated from mine).  If you're interested in that option,
have a look at my configuration directory [1].  The makealiasesrc script
does most of the work with the nonlist address book.  (Lists have their
own setup, and makenewlistsrc generates Mutt's list config from newlists.)

Enjoy,
 - Dave

[1]
http://www.bigfatdave.com/dave/mutt/muttdir/

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