* Luca Matteis <[email protected]> [01-19-11 09:08]: > When sending an email can Mutt auto-complete an email address based on > all the emails inside your Inbox? > > I hate maintaining my aliases between all my computers and having to > update it continuosly with new emails that arrive.
I use lbdb which iirc was included with the mutt package or at least recommended at one time way back; I plead oldtimers :^) lbdb maintains a database of addresses which you can query from mutt to automagically complete partial addresses. 09:12 wahoo:~ > grep lbdb .muttrc set query_command="lbdbq '%s'" # calling lbdbq macro alias Q "!lbdbq ." "lbdb query" and in procmailrc # ------------------------------------------------------- # put all addresses into lbdb database @ ./.lbdb/* # ------------------------------------------------------- :0hc | $LBDBFETCHADDR -a -d "" # ------------------------------------------------------- been working this way for +/- 10 years. -- Patrick Shanahan Plainfield, Indiana, USA HOG # US1244711 http://wahoo.no-ip.org Photo Album: http://wahoo.no-ip.org/gallery2 Registered Linux User #207535 @ http://counter.li.org
