Mike Leone on 25 Aug 2006 18:33:37 -0000


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Re: [PLUG] Using distribution lists in abook with mutt

Jeff Abrahamson wrote:
On Thu, Aug 24, 2006 at 03:57:41PM -0400, Mike Leone wrote: 
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So I use mutt over ssh from work. And in abook I have a little
distribution list entered. entry is "daGuys", with 3 email
addresses, one for each "DaGuy". :-)

In mutt, when I am addressing an email, I have it set so a <CTRL T>
brings up the abook query. Problem is ... I see 3 separate lines,
all labeled "DaGuys", one with each address. I can't seem to figure
out how to get all 3 addresses into the "TO:" header, just by
choosing the one name (which is what I want to happen).

I'm slightly confused. You're not using lbdb to query abook? 

Nope.

I don't think it will matter, but that's what I'm using and how I tested this.

Do ^T and tag daguy-1 through daguy-3.  All three will appear in the
To (or Cc or whatever) field in mutt.


Tagging all 3 works. That's a usable work-around (for now).


Alternatively, if I have an email address in jpilot (which is what I
use) such as "a@b.c, x@y.z", then selecting that name from the lbdbq
results will give me both email addresses.

I will investigate moving to lbdb, I think. Not using jpilot, or any of the pilot programs.

HTH. I am a bit confused about exactly what is happening for you.

I wanted to see just one entry, called "Da Guys", that had 3 email addresses listed. (which is what I have entered into abook - 1 entry, with 3 addresses). So I would need to just choose the 1 entry, and not have to tag all 3 of "Da Guys", in order to send an email to the list called "Da Guys". It's manageable with 3 members, but tagging more than that would be tedious and off-putting.

Any idea how I would get the one entry as described above, in case I decide to add more addresses to "Da Guys"? With abook, I mean; you've said that it works that way with lbdb linking to jpilot.

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