On Wed, Aug 22, 2001 at 06:11:38PM -0700, dannyman wrote:
> 
> So, what is the point of abook?  To query non-mutt address books from
> mutt?  It looks like if I was silly enough to want to manage my .aliases
> file with it, I would have to convert .aliases to abook format, then run
> abook, then convert back to mutt .aliases.
> 
> Or am I missing something?

you don't need to convert the abook back to aliases - you can just use
it as an external query command, and get email addresses directly from
abook.  basicly, stop using .aliases.

HTH

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Dan Boger
Linux MVP
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