Hi xing!
On Di, 25 Dez 2012, xing wrote:
> I'd like to set up a macro which will set the <limit> to all mail sent
> by the selected message sender.
>
> I've looked in the docs and searched the web and can't find any
> information on how to expand something like ~f in a macro. Is this
> possible at all?
There is no easy way to extract the email address from a selected entry.
What I have done, is pipe the entry through a script that uses formail
to extract the senders email address and returns a command that can be
used by mutt to limit the index to messages by that sender. It sounds
cumbersome, but works well enough:
macro index A "<enter-command>unset wait_key<enter><pipe-message>\
~/bin/mutt_address.sh ~/temp/mutt_source.txt<enter><enter-command>\
set wait_key<enter><enter-command>source ~/temp/mutt_source.txt<enter>" "limit
message view by selected author"
,----[ mutt_address.sh ]-
| #!/bin/sh
|
| FORM=`which formail`
| ARGS="`cat`"
|
| # The sed statement will cut out only the relevant part from
| # the e-mail address between (e.g. for "Foo" <foo....@foobar.xyz> it
| # will only print foo\.bar@foobar\.xyz) and will also translate
| # allowed characters like "." or "+" by escaping them
| OUTPUT=`echo "${ARGS}"|"${FORM}" -tzx "From:" | sed
's/.*<//;s/>//;s/\./\\\\\\\\&/g;s/+/\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\&/g'`
| if [ -n "$1" ]; then
| TEMP="$1"
| exec >"${TEMP}" || { echo "Could not output to $1, exiting..." && exit
1; }
|
| cat <<EOF
| push "<limit>~f \"${OUTPUT}\"<enter>"
| EOF
| else
| echo "You must supply a filename in which to store the result!" && exit 2
| fi
`----
regards,
Christian
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