On Oct 23, 2010 at 12:19 PM +0100, Chris G wrote:
Or are there alternative ways of maintaining the mutt alias list (and maybe an addressbook as well) nowadays?
I use lbdb and the Mac OS X Addressbook. Obviously, if you aren't on OS X, that's not very useful to you. But maybe something similar is available in your environment? A GUI program that has a command line interface that you can use to query from lbdb?
Basically, I keep 'important' permanent addresses in Addressbook. These also get synced to my phone. Other addresses that I only need periodically end up in one of several alias files, for example, the mutt-users address. Lastly, I have every address I send to is added to lbdb. The combination of these three gives me all of the functionality I need. I also dump the OS X Addressbook down to a mutt alias file via a command line program to give me immediate access with tab completion to those addresses without querying lbdb. It's also has groups defined as set in Addressbook that I can match against them with hooks.
The only real thing I can't do is add and address to Addressbook directly from mutt. I'm sure I could make some kind of script that did this, but it's pretty easy just to copy and paste it into an entry.
