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On Tuesday, July 29 at 06:59 PM, quoth Tom:
> I would like to set up a group and an alias for that group. I read
> the manual and the wiki and the recent post and still to dumb to
> figure it out. I want the group name to be fargo. I would like the
> alias to be fargo if the group name and alias can be the same.
Sure.
I think you're confusing what "group" means in this context, and
you're making it mean multiple things. As far as mutt is concerned, a
"group" is (more or less) a label that is applied to addresses, while
an alias is a way of referring to one or more addresses. Thus, you
can't say "send a message to group X", but you can say "send a message
to alias Y". Groups are for answering questions like "is the sender a
member of group X".
> The email addreses are [EMAIL PROTECTED],[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Okay, so, first, we set up the alias:
alias fargo ([EMAIL PROTECTED]), ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Now, to add those to a group, we can do one of two things: we can
either tag the alias command, or we can do a separate group command.
For example, we could replace the previous alias command with this
one:
alias -group fargo fargo ([EMAIL PROTECTED]), ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
OR we can add a second "group" command:
group -group fargo -addr [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Note that no comma is needed for the group command, but it is needed
for the alias command. Also note that you don't need to create a group
before using it!
> In .muttrc I put group -group fargo -addr
> [EMAIL PROTECTED],[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> In my alias file whose name is addressbook.txt I put
> alias -group fargo
That didn't work for multiple reasons. First, I'm pretty sure you
don't want the comma in the group command. Second, when you create an
alias you're associating a name with a set of addresses. You can't
associate a name with a group (groups can include things like regular
expressions, and it makes no sense to send a message to a regular
expression).
Or, if you prefer, think of it this way: the -group tag on the alias
command is shorthand for the full-fledged group command, not the other
way around. Thus "alias -group fargo" is saying "create an alias, in
the group fargo, that is..." but is missing all the important
information about the alias that you wish to create.
One of the ways I use groups is for coloring. Say, let's make it so
that email from anyone in my family is colored blue. Now, over the
years, my family members have changed email addresses, and I want to
keep their old emails colored blue, but when I send messages to them,
I only want to send the message to their current address. Thus:
alias -group family dad ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
group -group family -addr [EMAIL PROTECTED]
group -group family -addr [EMAIL PROTECTED]
(I could combine those last two lines, but I'm trying to keep these
lines short for the purposes of this email).
Thus, the group "family" contains all three addresses, and I can
create hooks that match on "%C family" that will match everything. For
example:
fcc-save-hook '%C family' =Family
color index blue default '%f family'
And whenever Dad gets a new address, I only have to change the alias,
I don't have to create an additional hook or coloring pattern.
Does that explain things a bit better?
~Kyle
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