Roger wrote:
>* (Say I have a list with people to send holiday greetings, one with people >to invite to parties, one with people that share a certain hobby – these
>lists will most probably overlap.)

So you want to tag people into multiple categories?  (ie. By
'send_holiday_greetings', 'party_people', ...)

Yes, "tagging" is a better word. Plus querying for tags.

Either a separate text file, yes redundant, but still simple and I'll bet dummy
proof

I might end up doing this. If the names on the list match their corresponding abook entries, I can easily generate a list of up-to-date email addresses from it by looping over the names with "abook --mutt-query". Thank you for giving me this idea.

Another probably better option, enter the custom field with your standard tag item name (ie. holiday_cards, party_people, ...) and then use awk/gawk to search for contacts having those tags. Once a contact is found with a matching
tag name, selecting that contact and send to stdout.

Sounds good, but only as good as the best awk (or other) script I can come up with or find.

Carlos

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