> % 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.
It is not really painful, or slow for that matter on my machine ...
Here is my quick and dirty script:
#!/bin/bash
#
# Wrapper script for automatically expanding mutt aliases
#
# Known issues: if an alias conflicts with a real folder name then
# the alias wins!
ALIAS_FILE=$HOME/.mutt/mail_aliases
MUTT=/usr/bin/mutt
COMMAND=""
for ARG in $*; do
if [ -n "`echo $ARG | grep '^='`" ]; then
FOLDER=`echo $ARG | sed 's/=//'`
LINE=`grep "^alias *$FOLDER " $ALIAS_FILE`
if [ -n "$LINE" ]; then
FOLDER=`echo $LINE | awk -F'<' '{print $2}' | awk -F'@' '{print $1}'`
ARG="="$FOLDER
fi
fi
if [ -n "$COMMAND" ]; then
COMMAND=$COMMAND" "$ARG
else
COMMAND=$ARG
fi
done
exec $MUTT $COMMAND
> 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 :-)
Actually, I like this idea better than mine. I'll try this patch out.
Thanks,
Alexander
