On Mon, Mar 01, 2021 at 01:19:10PM +1100, Cameron Simpson wrote:
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.
And where/how do you use the group rather than the alias?
Jon
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