On Fri, Mar 09, 2001 at 02:48:04PM -0800, Michael Epting wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 09, 2001 at 02:22:37PM -0800, brian moore wrote:
> > On Fri, Mar 09, 2001 at 02:17:06PM -0800, Mike Fedyk wrote:
> > > Does mutt have any address book support? Autocompletion would be really
> >
> > yes. either the internal one, or using an external database.
>
> Believing this to be true, I installed the abook package a while back.
> However, I have been unable to locate a shred of documentation on how
> mutt and abook work together. Any hints on where to look?
Hrrm... seems simple enough (though it doesn't seem to do substrings in
a way I can guess offhand).
Add to your .muttrc:
set query_command="abook --mutt-query '%s'"
Then convert your mutt alias file to abook's format:
abook --convert mutt .mutt_aliases abook .abook.addressbook
(you'll probably change the .mutt_aliases's name to whatever yours is...)
The 'Q' (case matters) command will now pop up with 'Query?' and if you
type the name of the alias, it will give you a choice of one item and if
you select that, you can mail that person.
It may very well allow substrings of some sort, but as I said, I can't
figure it out.. 'a*' should, imho, bring up all aliases that start with
'a', but, um, it doesn't. There's also the 'lbdb', but I haven't played
with that one either. It's probably more complete, as it's been around
for a long time.
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