On Thu, Feb 13, 2025 at 04:22:04PM -0800, [email protected]
wrote:
On Wed, Feb 12, 2025 at 11:34:11AM -0500, Jon LaBadie wrote:
While composing a message (in vi) I add the alias name
to the Bcc: line and also set the Fcc: line to a mailbox
dedicated to the club's messges (i.e. "=club").
I regularly forget to make the two additions so I thought I'd create
send-hooks for them. No problem for the Fcc: but I've not been able
to set the Bcc: line to an alias.
Can you post an exact example of the send-hook command that seems to
fail? Maybe change names to protect the guilty.
First what works, the send hook for Fcc:
send-hook '[email protected]' my_hdr Fcc: =part
send-hook '[email protected]' 'my_hdr Fcc: =part'
quoted or unquoted, both work and Fcc: is set to "=part".
But if I try to use an alias for the save box:
alias partbox =part
send-hook '[email protected]' 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" <[email protected]>, \
<100+ more lines like above>
"Vivian Leigh" <[email protected]>
The corresponding send-hook that DOES NOT work would be:
send-hook '[email protected]' 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.
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