Alexander, et al --
...and then Alexander V. Konstantinou said...
% > % 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 ...
I'm sure it's easy to use, and I'm glad it's not slow. By "painful",
though, I meant that it requires an extra step and you have to wrap your
mutt invocation.
% Here is my quick and dirty script:
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A nice piece of work. Not so dirty at all :-)
%
% > 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.
Enjoy! You can find a copy at
http://mutt.justpickone.org/mutt-build-cocktail/
if nowhere else.
%
% Thanks,
%
% Alexander
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