On Fri, Feb 14, 2025 at 01:23:17AM -0500, Jon LaBadie wrote: > alias partbox =part > send-hook 'pddb...@labadie.us' my_hdr Fcc: partbox
> "partbox" does not get replaced with "=part". > While I do not need an alias for Fcc:, I do for Bcc:. > My alias looks like: > alias dbpart \ > "Andy Griffin" <96grif...@gmail.com>, \ > <100+ more lines like above> > "Vivian Leigh" <v...@yahoo.com> > The corresponding send-hook that DOES NOT work would be: > send-hook 'pddb...@labadie.us' my_hdr Bcc: dbpart > The Bcc: line in my vi compose session is blank (i.e. only > the "Bcc: " is present). > NOTE, if I manually edit the Bcc: line and add the alias "dbpart", > the alias is substituted upon exiting vi and the 100+ addresses are > present in the "ask send" screen of mutt. It is this manual edit > requirement that I often forget and would like to replace with an > automated technique. I see, it looks like mutt doesn't expand aliases when processing my_hdr commands. It makes sense actually -- my_hdr can be any header at all, not necessarily relating to addresses. I don't have a pure mutt answer. I use emacs for editor, and if it were me, I would just write some elisp to execute automatically when opening a file that can be identified as a mutt message being composed. In fact I already have some elisp code like that, even though it doesn't modify the message, for now. Another possibility, depending on your sendmail / smtp setup and how much control you have over it: you could do the alias processing in the MTA, i.e. have an entry in /etc/aliases, or make a fake user and put the expansion in the ~/.forward file of that user. -- Ian
