Re: lbdb and m_muttalias usage issue
Hi Christian,
Thanks for your reply. I updated my copy of m_muttalias to use GNU sed
and GNU grep. That did the trick! Thanks for the suggestion.
Regards,
--
Mun
On Mon, Jul 23, 2007 at 04:36 PM PDT, Christian Ebert wrote:
CE> * Mun Johl on Monday, July 23, 2007 at 15:00:04 -0700
CE> > I've installed and configured lbdb-0.35.1 on my SPARC/Solaris 8 system
CE> > and am not having any luck querying my mutt alias files.
CE> >
CE> > When I execute lbdbq, it always returns "no matches".
CE>
CE> Had the same problem on MacOS X.
CE>
CE> > I validated (via 'set -x') that m_muttalias is being called, and that my
CE> > MUTTALIAS_FILES are being grep'd. But apparently nothing is
CE> > returned--even though there should be matches. My alias entries
CE> > are of the following format:
CE> >
CE> > alias aliasname "First Last" <user@xxxxxxxxxx>
CE> >
CE> > Anyone have any debug hints as to why lbdbq may not be working? If not,
CE> > I guess I'll delve into m_muttalias's regexs.
CE>
CE> I found out that sed shipped with MacOS can't cope with
CE> m_muttalias. Perhaps it's similar for Solaris. Installing GNU sed
CE> solved the problem. -- I didn't have the nerve to try and adapt
CE> m_muttalias to the sed on my machine. Some day when I have time
CE> ...
CE>
CE> c
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