On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 10:09:41AM +0000, Chris G wrote: > On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 01:05:27AM -0500, Tim Gray wrote: > > On Tue 19, Jan'10 at 9:41 PM -0800, Freeman wrote: > > >Then "mutt users" is a subscribed lists *and* a known list. > > > > > >Should not I therefore be able to type a distinct part of the mailing list > > >in a To field? > > > > I think it affects the status display of a message in the index AND > > lets you type 'L' to respond to the list. > > > > As far as calling up a list's address while composing from scratch, > > I don't know how to do that. I query lbdb which is set up to add > > any address which I've sent mail to, so most of my mailing list > > address are already there. > > 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. > > I have a simple text file where I keep a list of all the mailing lists > I'm subscribed to. Each mailing list has an alias which becomes the > mutt alias for sending *and* the destination mailbox for mail from the > list. A couple of scripts use the contents of the text file to > actually provide what mutt needs in .muttrc and to do the sorting of > incoming mail. So the section of the file with the mutt list in it is:- > > leafnode Li [email protected] > linux-usb Li [email protected] > mutt Li [email protected] > palm Li [email protected] Palm > > Column 1 is the alias and the destination mailbox, column 2 is a > destination directory, column 3 is the mailing list address and column > 4 is an otional string to be removed from the Subject:. > > In my muttrc I have:- > > source getAliases.py| > > lists `getLists.py` > subscribe `getLists.py` > > Where getAliases.py and getLists.py are simple python scripts for > extracting the required information from the text file. There is a > third (more complex) python script called from my .forward which > routes incoming mail to the appropriate places. > >
Thanks guys. I had read something that, on revisiting, seems rather unclear. I have a text file of lists for spam-bouncer/procmail which muttrc grep's for 'subscribe' . Of course, that doesn't get me aliases and recipes. Seems I could approach your py elegance with a bash script, which I have been studying of late. -- Kind Regards, Freeman
