On Wed, Jan 20, 2016 at 12:46:46PM -0600, Derek Martin wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 19, 2016 at 11:28:19PM -0500, Jon LaBadie wrote:
> > I'm trying to write an index macro invoking a shell script.
> > Simple enough, but I would like to pass the current sender's
> > address to the script. Not the full address, just the
> > "user@host" part.
>
> I'm pretty ignorant about Mutt's macro features, having never had any
> specific occasion to need those facilities. However, what I will say
> is, if you can figure out how to pass the address to your script, you
> can easily convert it to user@host in the script. I suspect it'll be
> easier to do that than to get mutt to do exactly that.
>
> Hope that helps.
Thanks, as a fall back, that is what I will do. I can write the macro
as piping to "formail -x From:" and feed that to my script via stdin.
Then edit that in my script to get the user@host address portion.
BTW I will use the macro to build up a list of email addresses of
advertisers who I will accept email from, but wish to filter into
a separate "ads" mailbox.
I was hoping to not need formail, instead passing something like the
"%f" ?variable?parameter?flag? or whatever it is called. That would
be the full "From" string including the sender's "real" name.
What I was looking for was how to use the %f (if possible in a macro)
and if an alternative was available where mutt already removed the
sender's real name.
Jon
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