mutt aliases file not working

mutt aliases file not working

[Darren Hart]

For whatever reason, which I'm sure is user error, I haven't been
able to get mutt aliases to work, while mailrc works fine:

$ mkdir aliases.git
$ cd !$
$ git init
Initialized empty Git repository in /home/dvhart/aliases.git/.git/
$ echo "joe Joe Blow joe@foobar.com" > muttaliases
$ git add muttaliases
$ git commit -m "aliases file"
[master (root-commit) b71ae4a] aliases file
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 muttaliases
$ git config sendemail.aliasesfile `pwd`/muttaliases
$ git config sendemail.aliasfiletype mutt
$ cat .git/config
[core]
	repositoryformatversion = 0
	filemode = true
	bare = false
	logallrefupdates = true
[sendemail]
	aliasesfile = /home/dvhart/aliases.git/muttaliases
	aliasfiletype = mutt
$ git send-email --to joe -1 
/tmp/l0xCEC7o3d/0001-aliases-file.patch
Who should the emails appear to be from? [Darren Hart <darren@dvhart.com>] 
Emails will be sent from: Darren Hart <darren@dvhart.com>
Message-ID to be used as In-Reply-To for the first email? 
(mbox) Adding cc: Darren Hart <darren@dvhart.com> from line 'From: Darren Hart <darren@dvhart.com>'

From: Darren Hart <darren@dvhart.com>
To: joe

    ^ when using a mailrc fail this expands to joe@foobar.com

Cc: Darren Hart <darren@dvhart.com>
Subject: [PATCH] aliases file
Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2010 14:29:10 -0700
Message-Id: <1288214950-13695-1-git-send-email-darren@dvhart.com>
X-Mailer: git-send-email 1.7.1

Send this email? ([y]es|[n]o|[q]uit|[a]ll): ^C

$ stty: standard input: Input/output error
^C

Am I doing something obviously wrong?

-- 
Darren Hart
Embedded Linux Kernel

Re: mutt aliases file not working

[Michael J Gruber]

Darren Hart venit, vidit, dixit 27.10.2010 23:38:
> For whatever reason, which I'm sure is user error, I haven't been
> able to get mutt aliases to work, while mailrc works fine:
> 
> $ mkdir aliases.git
> $ cd !$
> $ git init
> Initialized empty Git repository in /home/dvhart/aliases.git/.git/
> $ echo "joe Joe Blow joe@foobar.com" > muttaliases

How about:

echo 'alias joe Joe Blow <joe@foobar.com>' > muttaliases

> $ git add muttaliases
> $ git commit -m "aliases file"
> [master (root-commit) b71ae4a] aliases file
>  1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
>  create mode 100644 muttaliases
> $ git config sendemail.aliasesfile `pwd`/muttaliases
> $ git config sendemail.aliasfiletype mutt
> $ cat .git/config
> [core]
> 	repositoryformatversion = 0
> 	filemode = true
> 	bare = false
> 	logallrefupdates = true
> [sendemail]
> 	aliasesfile = /home/dvhart/aliases.git/muttaliases
> 	aliasfiletype = mutt
> $ git send-email --to joe -1 
> /tmp/l0xCEC7o3d/0001-aliases-file.patch
> Who should the emails appear to be from? [Darren Hart <darren@dvhart.com>] 
> Emails will be sent from: Darren Hart <darren@dvhart.com>
> Message-ID to be used as In-Reply-To for the first email? 
> (mbox) Adding cc: Darren Hart <darren@dvhart.com> from line 'From: Darren Hart <darren@dvhart.com>'
> 
> From: Darren Hart <darren@dvhart.com>
> To: joe
> 
>     ^ when using a mailrc fail this expands to joe@foobar.com
> 
> Cc: Darren Hart <darren@dvhart.com>
> Subject: [PATCH] aliases file
> Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2010 14:29:10 -0700
> Message-Id: <1288214950-13695-1-git-send-email-darren@dvhart.com>
> X-Mailer: git-send-email 1.7.1
> 
> Send this email? ([y]es|[n]o|[q]uit|[a]ll): ^C
> 
> $ stty: standard input: Input/output error
> ^C
> 
> Am I doing something obviously wrong?
> 

Re: mutt aliases file not working

[Darren Hart]

On 10/29/2010 03:51 AM, Michael J Gruber wrote:
> Darren Hart venit, vidit, dixit 27.10.2010 23:38:
>> For whatever reason, which I'm sure is user error, I haven't been
>> able to get mutt aliases to work, while mailrc works fine:
>>
>> $ mkdir aliases.git
>> $ cd !$
>> $ git init
>> Initialized empty Git repository in /home/dvhart/aliases.git/.git/
>> $ echo "joe Joe Blow joe@foobar.com">  muttaliases
>
> How about:
>
> echo 'alias joe Joe Blow<joe@foobar.com>'>  muttaliases

Indeed, that fixes it. I checked my reference for the mutt aliases 
format and apparently missed the "alias " clearly printed out there. My 
apologies.

The git send-email man page is surely sufficient for users of mutt, 
mailrc, pine, elm, gnus as they already have working configurations, but 
for those of us that use a different MUA and just want to get some sort 
of an address book for git, it would be nice to define these formats - 
it would only take one line per format type.

Thanks!

Darren Hart

>
>> $ git add muttaliases
>> $ git commit -m "aliases file"
>> [master (root-commit) b71ae4a] aliases file
>>   1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
>>   create mode 100644 muttaliases
>> $ git config sendemail.aliasesfile `pwd`/muttaliases
>> $ git config sendemail.aliasfiletype mutt
>> $ cat .git/config
>> [core]
>> 	repositoryformatversion = 0
>> 	filemode = true
>> 	bare = false
>> 	logallrefupdates = true
>> [sendemail]
>> 	aliasesfile = /home/dvhart/aliases.git/muttaliases
>> 	aliasfiletype = mutt
>> $ git send-email --to joe -1
>> /tmp/l0xCEC7o3d/0001-aliases-file.patch
>> Who should the emails appear to be from? [Darren Hart<darren@dvhart.com>]
>> Emails will be sent from: Darren Hart<darren@dvhart.com>
>> Message-ID to be used as In-Reply-To for the first email?
>> (mbox) Adding cc: Darren Hart<darren@dvhart.com>  from line 'From: Darren Hart<darren@dvhart.com>'
>>
>> From: Darren Hart<darren@dvhart.com>
>> To: joe
>>
>>      ^ when using a mailrc fail this expands to joe@foobar.com
>>
>> Cc: Darren Hart<darren@dvhart.com>
>> Subject: [PATCH] aliases file
>> Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2010 14:29:10 -0700
>> Message-Id:<1288214950-13695-1-git-send-email-darren@dvhart.com>
>> X-Mailer: git-send-email 1.7.1
>>
>> Send this email? ([y]es|[n]o|[q]uit|[a]ll): ^C
>>
>> $ stty: standard input: Input/output error
>> ^C
>>
>> Am I doing something obviously wrong?
>>
>


-- 
Darren Hart
Embedded Linux Kernel