* Rikard Florin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002-07-08 20:29]: > I'm wondering if it's possible to have mutt aliases _without_ a proper > alias. sounds weird maybe, but i have a big contact list with email > adresses which I want to use in Mutt as an addressbook to walk through > when I press tab to bring up the aliases. > > the problem is that if I don't supply an alias for the alias (which > sort of is the idea I guess) Mutt will make it like... > > Firstname Lastname <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Simple solution: $ awk '{printf "%s.%s %s\n", $1, $2, $0}' old-alias-file > new-alias-file The alias would be Firstname.Lastname, and the rest is the same. (darren) -- As soon as man does not take his existence for granted, but beholds it as something unfathomably mysterious, thought begins. -- Albert Schweitzer