Re: Mutt / addressbook

[drew craig <axcraig@gmail.com>]

On Thursday, September 19, 2013 3:10:02 PM UTC-4, Josef Bailey wrote:
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> I'm trying to use the abook app to add an anddressbook into mut (If im correct it uses alias)
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> Here is what i have done so far
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> wajing install abook
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> (wajing, apt-get, aptitude) = same thing
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> Edit your ~/.muttrc file to include a macro for abook
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> set alias_file=~/.mutt-alias
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> source ~/.mutt-alias
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> set query_command= "abook --mutt-query '%s'" macro index,pager A "<pipe-message>abook --add-email-quiet<return>" "add the sender address to abook
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> If you have no ~/.mutt-alias, be sure to create one before running mut
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> touch ~/.mutt-alias
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> mutt
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> Once i run mutt i get an error
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> Error in /home/jcbjoe/.muttrc, line 87: macro: unknown variable
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> source: errors in /home/jcbjoe/.muttrc
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> sed -n -87p .muttrc shows me this
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> set query_command= "abook --mutt-query '%s'" macro index,pager A "<pipe-message>abook --add-email-quiet<return>" "add the sender address to abook"
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> Any ideas
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> Thanks
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> Josef
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this works for me

 # Use abook with Mutt
 set query_command="abook --mutt-query '%s'"
 macro index a   "|abook --add-email\n" 'add sender to abook'
 macro pager a   "|abook --add-email\n" 'add sender to abook'