Marc --
...and then Marc van Dongen said...
% Jon Walthour ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
%
% : To make sure you get the format right, open a message (like this one)
...
%
% I was aware of the existence of a functionality like that, but then
...
% If I know the format, it's a bit easier (especially if the list is
% very long and if I have it stored in a file somewhere).
I think that that was his point; let mutt walk you through the steps of
making a sample alias and then check its output to see the format.
For what it's worth, here are a few alias definitions from my mutt.aliases
file:
######################################################################
# Info: David @ BigFoot
alias me-bigfoot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (David @ BigFoot)
# Info: SunService NetRequest
alias netrequest <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (SunService NetRequest)
# Info: Clariion Folks
alias clariion mark.decker,bill.andrews
# Info: Interview Report recipients
alias interviews Interview Report recipients : ramana,scott.lebowitz, ;
######################################################################
As you can see, the alias format that I have (I won't claim to know
whether it's the official one or not, but it definitely works) is
alias a_name <mailaddr> Full Name
or
alias a_name Pseudo Name: <addr> ;
where, in each case, <addr> can be one or more email addresses enclosed
in <> and separated by a comma. The Full Name data is read in and the To:
line is formatted as
To: Full Name <addr>
in the mutt headers. The multiple-address aliases contain targets that
are themselves defined as aliases elsewhere, in the same manner as the
me-bigfoot and netrequest aliases.
%
% Regards,
HTH & HAND
%
%
% Marc van Dongen
% --
% Marc van Dongen, CS Dept | phone: +353 21 903578
% University College Cork, NUIC | Fax: +353 21 903113
% College Road, Cork, Ireland | Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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