On 13Sep2022 16:50, Sébastien Hinderer <sebastien.hinde...@ens-lyon.org> wrote:
I would like to have a nice way to deal with several accounts in mutt.
I am talking just about the .muttrc file aspect here.
My present configuration is that each account has its own muttrc file
which sources a common one.
I thought the common approach was what you next outline: a single muttrc
which sources the appropriate account-specific muttrc.
My own muttrc starts like this:
source ~/private/rc/mutt/personal
source ~/rc/mutt/settings
source ~/rc/mutt/settings-forwarding
##source ~/rc/mutt/spam # spam scoring settings
source ~/rc/mutt/gpg
source ~/rc/mutt/aliases-auto
source ~/rc/mutt/lists
mailboxes +me +sh +mutt +python
auto_view text/html
mime_lookup application/octet-stream
mbox-hook +feeds +SAVED/feeds
source ~/rc/mutt/macros
and then has a bunch of arbitrary stuff I haven't subcategorised. The
"private/rc/mutt/personal" file has stuff like this:
set my_cs='c...@cskk.id.au'
set my_CS='Cameron Simpson <c...@cskk.id.au> (formerly c...@zip.com.au)'
set my_cs_gmail='cameron.simp...@gmail.com'
set my_CS_gmail="Cameron Simpson <$my_cs_gmail>"
set my_local_mail="$HOME/mail"
# email addresses in active use
alternates '^cs@(zip.com.au|zipworld.com.au|cskk.id.au)$' \
'^cameron@(cskk.id.au|.....)$' \
... etc etc ...
set my_account_email=UNKNOWN
# default
reply-hook . "my_hdr BCC: $my_cs"
reply-hook . 'set from="$NAME <$EMAIL>"'
reply-hook '~C @googlegroups.com' 'set from="$my_CS_gmail"'
folder-hook . 'set my_account_email=$my_cs; set folder=$my_local_mail'
# ... other patterns based on the folder path, usually for imap as
# various identities ...
folder-hook 'imaps://' 'set folder=imaps://$imap_user@$my_imap_host/'
folder-hook . 'set status_format="$my_account_email %s/%S %P %l Msgs:%?M?%M/?%m%?n?
New:%n?%?o? Del:%d?%?F? Flag:%F?%?t? Tag:%t? f-%>-"'
account-hook 'imaps://cs@mail\.zip\.com\.au/' 'source "cs-mutt-imap-settings
zipworld |"'
...
I really need to revisit account-hook, but the approach here is to
autoset account specific things with folder-hooks and reply-hooks. You
could source your account specific rc files on that basis or via macros,
etc.
Cheers,
Cameron Simpson <c...@cskk.id.au>
