On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 08:29:11AM -0500, Tim Gray wrote: > On Wed 20, Jan'10 at 10:09 AM +0000, Chris G wrote: > >You need to set up an alias for the list in order to be able to use a > >shorted name for it when composing new mail. > > Yeah, I just never bothered with that step since I usually only > reply to lists. > > >I have a simple text file where I keep a list of all the mailing lists > >... > >All this means that when I subscribe to a new mailing list I just add > >it to the text file rather than having to edit three or four different > >places. > > Brilliant bit with the scripts. I use some scripts to automatically > generate some other bits of my muttrc, but didn't think of this way. > Thanks!
I can upload/attach the scripts if anyone is interested, getAliases.py and getLists.py are trivial but there's a bit more to the mail filtering one. -- Chris Green
