Re: Email address aliases

["Silvan Jegen" <me@sillymon.ch>]

Hi Pierre

Long after the fact but here is my reply.

> The following works with vim. It requires fzf and fzf.vim.
> 
> Once in a while, you can use
>     maddr \| sort \| uniq > ~/my.contacts
> to dump all contacts found in your emails in that file.
> 
> Then in .vimrc:
>    inoremap <expr> <c-x><c-k> fzf#vim#complete('cat ~/my.contacts')
> will let you complete emails inside vim using fzf when writing an email in 
> vim.

Thank you for this! I have switched to vis[0] as my email editor but it
looks like there is a fzf plugin[1] for it as well.

I may try this approach in the future!


Cheers,

Silvan

[0] https://git.sr.ht/~martanne/vis
[1] https://github.com/guillaumeboudon/vis-fzf


> 
> Best wishes,
> Pierre
> 
> On Saturday, July 6, 2019 at 5:02:13 PM UTC-4 Silvan Jegen wrote:
> 
>> Heyho
>>
>> Ideally I don't want to type out people's whole email addresses when
>> composing emails. My first thought was to use an alias file with my
>> SMTP client (msmtp). This works fine for sending emails, except that
>> the aliases are not replaced in the mail headers. That means if a person
>> replies to all people in a mail from me, and the CC header contains an
>> alias like 'friend1', the email addressed to 'friend1' one will never
>> arrive since it's not a valid email address.
>>
>> Currently I am using a new approach where I simply run 'sed' over the
>> headers of an email at composiition time to replace all my aliases with
>> the proper email addresses.
>>
>> I feel like there should be a more elegant solution to this (involving
>> 'msed' being invoked before passing an email to the sendmail program
>> perhaps?). Is there an easy way to get simple email address aliases
>> working that I am missing?
>>
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Silvan
>>

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