address books - Mutt

On comp.mail.mutt, in
<slrndi9g77.mi9.stuff@vermouth.dreamhost.com>, "Tim Menzies"
wrote:

> So i was thinking i wanted to get rid of my Yahoo address book
> and just go back to little scripts editing ascii data bases of
> contact names of
>
> lname fname address mobile fax phone email
>
> And, of course, i wanted to integrate that with mutt
>
> Looking around the mutt manuals and FAQs was not helpful-
> usually folks suggested lbdb but that seems over kill.
>
> Anyone got a simpler suggestion? Like a simple emacs mode that
> knows how to handle mutt alias files?
>
> t
>

> ----== OOOOOO OOO OOOOOOOOO.OOO - OOOOOOOOO-OOOOOOOOOO-OOOOOO
> OOOOOO OOOO==---- OOOO://OOO.OOOOOOOOO.OOO OOO #O OOOOOOOOO
> OOOOOOO OO OOO OOOOO! OOO,OOO+ OOOOOOOOOO ----= OOOO OOO
> OOOO-OOOOO OOOOOO OOOOO - OOOOO OOOOOOO OOO OOOOOOOOOO =----

We can do without the spam sig.

Usually, only trolls (or worse) use the Netiquette-violating,
free-posting service of that renegade newsserver, to hide their
identities.

Here's a thorough description of the application I recommend for
your purposes. As in the above spam sig, all the letters and
numbers in the text have been converted to O's:

OOOOOOO: OOOOO
OOOOOOOO: OOOOOOOO
OOOOOOO: OOOO
OOOOOOOOO-OOOO: OOO
OOOOOOOOOO: OOOOOOOO OOOOO <OOOOO@OOOOOO.OOO>
OOOOOOOOOOOO: OOOO
OOOOOOO: O.O.O-O
OOOOOOO: OOOOO (>= O.O.O.OOO-OO), OOOOOOOOOOOO (>= O.O-O), OOOOOOOOOOOO (>= O.O
-O), OOOOOOO (>= O.O)
OOOOOOOO: OOOO/OOOO/O/OOOOO/OOOOO_O.O.O-O_OOOO.OOO
OOOO: OOOOO
OOOOOO: OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
OOOOOOOOOOO: O OOOO-OOOOO OOOOOOO OOOOOOO OOOO OOOOOOOOOOO
OOOOO OO O OOOO-OOOOO OOOOOOO OOOOOOO OOOO OOOOOOOOOOO. OO
OOOOOOOO OOOO OOOOOOOOO OOOOOO OO OOOO OOOO. OOOOO OO OOOOOOOO
OOO OOO OOOO OOOO, OOO OOO OO OOOO OOOOOOOOOOOOO.
OOOOOOOO: OOOO

Since you are sophisticated enough in the ways of the Usenet to
use slrn, you have no excuse.

Other than being a cheap asshole who thinks that he is above
the Netiquette.

If you want a free newsserver that respects the Netiquette,
try x-privat.org.

AC

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back. How many of them have you seen help someone? If they are
asking about anything but how to use a real newsreader, PLEASE
DON'T HELP THEM. -----------> news.software.readers

Tim Menzies <stuff@webnews.newsfeeds.com> wrote:
> So i was thinking i wanted to get rid of my Yahoo address book
> and just go back to little scripts editing ascii data bases of
> contact names of
>
[ snip ]
>
> And, of course, i wanted to integrate that with mutt

I just use abook with mutt. It supports a built-in mutt query
functionality.

http://abook.sourceforge.net/#features

HTH,
Tim Hammerquist

In article <slrndi9vsg.a91.tim@vegeta.saiyix>, Tim Hammerquist wrote:
> Tim Menzies <stuff@webnews.newsfeeds.com> wrote:
>> So i was thinking i wanted to get rid of my Yahoo address boo
>> And, of course, i wanted to integrate that with mutt
>
> I just use abook with mutt. It supports a built-in mutt query
> functionality.
>
> http://abook.sourceforge.net/#features
>
> HTH,
> Tim Hammerquist

great advice. it compiled easy, simple to use, intuitive keys. just
what i want

but i can only use it on the command line, not in mutt

here's my .muttrc:

set alias_file = ~/.abook.addressbook
set query_command="abook --mutt-query '%s'"
macro pager A |'abook --add-email'\n

but now mutt, it i hit "tab" at "To:" i get "no aliases found"

any ideas?

t

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Tim Hammerquist <tim@vegeta.ath.cx> wrote :

> Tim Menzies <stuff@webnews.newsfeeds.com> wrote:
>> So i was thinking i wanted to get rid of my Yahoo address book
>> and just go back to little scripts editing ascii data bases of
>> contact names of
>>
> [ snip ]
>>
>> And, of course, i wanted to integrate that with mutt
>
> I just use abook with mutt. It supports a built-in mutt query
> functionality.
>
> http://abook.sourceforge.net/#features

I use lbdb which can gather data from different sources (PGP or gpg
keyring, ldap, abook, etc...)

--
À peu près tout ce qu'on peut imaginer de débile en informatique
finit par exister un jour ou l'autre. (BB)

On comp.mail.mutt, in <m2vf163jnq.fsf@ratagaz.depot.rail.eu.org>, "Erwan David" wrote:

<body not downloaded
http://slrn.sourceforge.net/docs/README.offline>

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> From: Erwan David <erwan@rail.eu.org>
> Newsgroups: comp.mail.mutt
> Subject: Re: address books
> Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2005 08:05:45 +0200
> Organization: Inorganisé
> Lines: 22
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> Mail-Copies-To: nobody
> X-No-Archive: Yes
> User-Agent: Gnus/5.110002 (No Gnus v0.2) Emacs/22.0.50 (darwin)
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My newsfilter give people who use the X-No-Archive: yes header a
score so low that the bodies of their posts are never downloaded.

Why?

1) If they don't think their articles are worth archiving, then
a rational person does not think they are worth reading.

2) There's no way to trust what such a person has to say. They
obviously don't want anyone to be able to prove that they
said it.

3) People that use this header are trying to hide their posting
history, and who would do that except someone with a good
reason to do so? What have they posted that no longer appears
in the archives that they don't want us to see. How often
do they really post?

A search at Google Groups reveals that this person does not
always use that header. Why are they using it now?

(I can search an aliases posting history with a single
keystroke.The script [and slrn macro] is in the slrn directory on
my website.)

AC

Tim Menzies <stuff@webnews.newsfeeds.com> wrote:
> great advice. it compiled easy, simple to use, intuitive keys. just
> what i want
>
> but i can only use it on the command line, not in mutt
>
> here's my .muttrc:
>
> set alias_file = ~/.abook.addressbook
> set query_command="abook --mutt-query '%s'"
> macro pager A |'abook --add-email'\n
>
> but now mutt, it i hit "tab" at "To:" i get "no aliases found"

The function for addressbook completion is different. By
default, it's set to ^T.

See http://www.mutt.org/doc/manual/manual-4.html#ss4.5

Tim Hammerquist

On Mon, 12 Sep 2005 00:23:49 -0500, Tim Menzies wrote:

> but now mutt, it i hit "tab" at "To:" i get "no aliases found"
> any ideas?

At least in my setup, help shows query being bound to escape-q. Might want
to check that. I don't think you use queries in the same way as internal
aliases - the manual will probably say.

--
Paul

Paul Walker <usenet@blacksun.org.uk> writes:

> On Mon, 12 Sep 2005 00:23:49 -0500, Tim Menzies wrote:
>
>> but now mutt, it i hit "tab" at "To:" i get "no aliases found"
>> any ideas?
>
> At least in my setup, help shows query being bound to escape-q. Might want
> to check that. I don't think you use queries in the same way as internal
> aliases - the manual will probably say.

FWIW in 1.5.10 you can use tab to complete-query, so tab at "To:" does
what you expect.

Hi, Brendan Cully,
> Paul Walker <usenet@blacksun.org.uk> writes:
>
> > On Mon, 12 Sep 2005 00:23:49 -0500, Tim Menzies wrote:
> >
> >> but now mutt, it i hit "tab" at "To:" i get "no aliases found"
> >> any ideas?

do you have

source ~/.mail_aliases
set alias_file=~/.mail_aliases

something like this in your .muttrc?

Otherwise I can imagine that mutt does not find any aliases

> >
> > At least in my setup, help shows query being bound to escape-q. Might want
> > to check that. I don't think you use queries in the same way as internal
> > aliases - the manual will probably say.
>
> FWIW in 1.5.10 you can use tab to complete-query, so tab at "To:" does
> what you expect.

well, yes. It shows all the entries in your alias file. But, if you
have john doe in your alias file and you start typing jo<tab> then
it does not complete Joe Doe. If you do jo<ctrl-tab>, then it does,
even with my ldap query script, which is really nice. It's 1.5.9i,
by the way, that I use.

--
Groeten,
J.I.Asenjo