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Re: [OT] Mutt -- how to send tagged msgs. as bcc's ?



On Fri, Jan 27, 2006 at 11:16:05PM -0800, Kenward Vaughan wrote:
>On Fri, Jan 27, 2006 at 11:00:26AM -0500, Stephen R Laniel wrote:
>> On Fri, Jan 27, 2006 at 07:55:09AM -0800, Kenward Vaughan wrote:
>> > Is there some key to do this that is flying by my face, or can a hook
>> > be created for it? 
>> 
>> I think you want the bounce command. Tag a bunch of
>> messages, type ';b' (semicolon, 'b'), then add the list of
>> addresses to whom the message will be bounced. All of the
>> recipients will see the 'To:' line, but they won't see the
>> other people to whom it was bounced.
>> 
>> Does that answer your question?
>
>Not really.  I would like to generate a single reply which would be
>sent to all the tagged msgs.  The idea is to mimic a reply ( ;r ), but
>make it a bcc instead.
>
>At this point, the only way I know to do this is to tag messages, hit
>;r, write the message (after refusing to include any content from the
>first tagged msg. body), quit with a save, then externally edit the
>headers.

It's possible to edit the tags in the message as well so you can skip
the save and external edit. You need to stick the following in your
.muttrc:

 set edit_headers = yes

/M

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