John --
...and then John Poltorak said...
%
% I have never understood the purpose of sendhooks or what they can do,
% so I'm probably missing out on a great feature of Mutt...
Oh, my; yes, they are quite cool and fun to boot.
%
% Can some provide me with a simple sendhook and tell me what I can
% use it for, than I can take it from there.
Well, for the simple stuff, you hardly see the advantages; the nice thing
is that you can do complex things with such hooks. Here's how mine look:
send-hook . unmy_hdr Fcc:
send-hook . unmy_hdr From:
send-hook . my_hdr From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David T-G)
send-hook . set signature=$HOME/.mutt/sig
send-hook . set pgp_autosign
send-hook . unset pgp_autoencrypt
You start off with some defaults, since you don't want your one-time
change to become permanent.
send-hook [EMAIL PROTECTED] 'unset pgp_autosign ; my_hdr Fcc: /dev/null'
I usually sign everything, but not when forwarding mail to spamcop; I
also don't need to keep a local copy of the spam, so I dump the fcc to
/dev/null.
send-hook diary "set nopgp_autosign signature=$HOME/.mutt/sig.daddy"
fcc-hook diary =OF.diaries
When I send a diary entry to either of my daughters, I turn off PGP
signing and also change my signature. I could incorporate the fcc-hook
by using a my_hdr as in the spamcop entry, but this is another way to do
it.
fcc-save-hook '[EMAIL PROTECTED]|[EMAIL PROTECTED]|[EMAIL PROTECTED]' =APD/%O
Here's another place where a send-hook might be handy if I had anything
else to set.
send-hook (skip|guckes|[EMAIL PROTECTED]) unset pgp_autosign
These folks (or mailing lists) can't handle PGP attachments, so I turn
off pgp_autosign here. I'd like to turn this into a clearsign command
using the 1.2x functionality but haven't played with any 1.x settings
whatsoever yet :-)
send-hook (jimh|kielsky) set pgp_autoencrypt
These guys not only like signing but encrypting, so I encrypt to them
every time.
As you can see, you can specify just about any mutt command in a
send-hook and it's triggered by your recipient. The only thing about
this that I don't like is that send-hooks (as well as fcc- and [-]save-
hooks) don't have a way to differentiate between the "primary" recipient
(that which would usually get the fcc, as it appears to me) and any other
(To:|Cc:|Bcc:) recipients. Thus, with the hooks above and a note
addressed as
To: joe, skip, jimh
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
my Fcc: would be reset to =APD/joe, autosigning would be turned off, and
autoencryption would be turned on -- all of which are probably not what I
really wanted. I'm still working on a proposal to the developers to get
around this nut :-)
%
% --
% John
HTH & HAND
:-D
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