On 28Feb2021 19:00, Jon LaBadie <mut...@jgcomp.com> wrote: >Trying to use the "group" facility. Expected I could >do something like: > group -group ABC -addr <addr1> -addr <addr2> -addr <addr3> > >And then email 3 people with > > $ mutt ABC > >I am able to accomplish this with an alias: > > alias ABC <addr1>, <addr2>, <addr3> > >Is this not an application for which "group" was intended?
Aliases probably predate groups, I'd expect. They can contain only addresses (including other aliases). Groups can include regexps for matching, so they're arguably more a PATTERN thing than an alias is. And I presume that recognising that often aliases and groups server the same purpose, alias has a -group options which also adds the addresses to a named group. I maintain my alias using a small otuside db, and autogenerate them. They all have the form: alias -group group_name alias_name \ address, \ ... etc ... where in fact group_name and alias_name are the same name. Cheers, Cameron Simpson <c...@cskk.id.au>