Alexander --
...and then Alexander V. Konstantinou said...
% As far as I can tell, mutt does not support openning the folder of
% a user based on an alias. For example, consider user "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
% that is aliased as "foo".
Yep.
%
% I'd like to be able to open the folder using "mutt -f =foo" (perhaps
% using some other symbol than '=').
Nah; that's fine.
%
% Right now I've achieved this functionality through a wrapper shell
% script that greps for the alias name and invokes mutt with the real
% user name.
That makes sense, though it sounds somewhat painful.
%
% Have you considered this feature? Would it be something that if I
% modified on the source code you would be willing to add to the
% main source tree?
Have you checked out Hans Bogaard's save_alias patch? That lets you
save your mail to foolong in =foo instead of =foolong, which is perhaps
a backwards way of achieving what you want but adds the advantage that
your aliases are less likely to collide than real world names and so you
shouldn't have any (or should at least have fewer) problems in $folder :-)
%
% Thanks for the great mutt of mailers!
%
% Alexander
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