* Rikard Florin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002-07-08 20:29]:
> I'm wondering if it's possible to have mutt aliases _without_ a proper
> alias. sounds weird maybe, but i have a big contact list with email
> adresses which I want to use in Mutt as an addressbook to walk through
> when I press tab to bring up the aliases.
>
> the problem is that if I don't supply an alias for the alias (which
> sort of is the idea I guess) Mutt will make it like...
>
> Firstname Lastname <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Simple solution:
$ awk '{printf "%s.%s %s\n", $1, $2, $0}' old-alias-file > new-alias-file
The alias would be Firstname.Lastname, and the rest is the same.
(darren)
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