sup talk - Jan 2009 - questions about reply-from & before-edit hooks and accounts

Hi, 

I''m now successfully using two hooks to use my sup-talk specific e-mail
address
for mail to this list:

reply-from.rb:

PersonManager.person_for case
                         when message.recipient_email =~ /rubyforge/
                           "my.name+sup-talk at gmail.com"
                         end
before-edit.rb:

if header["To"] =~ /rubyforge/
  header["From"] = "Marianne <my.name+sup-talk at
gmail.com>"
end

It seems that the "Person" returned by the reply-from hook matches to
some
extent, but not completely, an account in my ~/.sup/config.yaml, where I have a
:sup-talk: section with its own e-mail, sendmail, and signature. The hook picks
not just the correct e-mail, but also the corresponding sendmail, but not the
signature of that section.

For before-edit.rb, I have found no way to switch the signature and sendmail
along with the "from" address. I know there is a signature hook which
I could
use for the first, but how to do the latter.

Maybe I''m missing something, but ideally, I''d love to see
something where I
could define different accounts in the config.yaml, then have a way that works
both for replying and for new mail to pick *all* settings of that account from
config.yaml.

An additional question: For friends & family recipients, I''d like
to use my
private settings. I maintain a list of such e-mail addresses in an external text
file, and I think that''s neater than listing them all in each hook when
needed.

In before-add-message.rb, I use this:

privatfile =
File.open("/home/mpromber/.mutt/privataddr","r")
if ! privatfile.grep(/#{message.from.email}/).empty?
  message.add_label :privat
end

but it seems "message.from.email" is not available for before-edit.rb.

I''m currently using this as a workaround:

privatfile =
File.open("/home/mpromber/.mutt/privataddr","r")
toaddr =
header["To"].scan(/[a-z0-9+._-]+@[a-z0-9.-]+\.[a-z]{2,4}/).join(sep="")
regexaddr = "^" + toaddr + "$"
if ! privatfile.grep(/#{regexaddr}/).empty?
  header["From"] = "Marianne <myprivate at
address.com>"
end

Is there an easier mail to access the recipient e-mail address? And I also guess
I have to rewrite this to handle the case of several recipients, which
definitely would be easier if there''s already and array of recipient
addresses I
can refer to.

Thanks, 

Marianne

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Marianne Promberger
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On 6.1.2009, marianne.promberger+sup-talk wrote:
> reply-from.rb:
> 
> PersonManager.person_for case
>                          when message.recipient_email =~ /rubyforge/
>                            "my.name+sup-talk at gmail.com"
>                          end
> before-edit.rb:
> 
> if header["To"] =~ /rubyforge/
>   header["From"] = "Marianne <my.name+sup-talk at
gmail.com>"
> end
[snip]
> Maybe I''m missing something, but ideally, I''d love to see
something where I
> could define different accounts in the config.yaml, then have a way that
works
> both for replying and for new mail to pick *all* settings of that account
from
> config.yaml.
You might want to look through the archives for the regexen option - I
use it for this purpose (although it only solves your reply-to case).

Add something like

:regexen:
  - my.name+.*@gmail.com

to your settings on an account (you can use regexes here and have more
than one if you want, but the one above will work in your case). This
allows sup to recognise your mail "aliases" and replies to incoming
mails addressed to these emails with the correct from address
automagically.

It wont help for mails you compose (ie "new" mails, not replies), but
it works well for replies.

HTH

Marcus

Excerpts from Marcus Williams''s message of Tue Jan 06 20:13:53 +0000
2009:
> 
> You might want to look through the archives for the regexen option - I
> use it for this purpose (although it only solves your reply-to case).
> 
Thanks for that tip. I''ve tried it and it works, although as you note
it only
works for replying. For me, it also unfortunately does not set my name to the
:name: set in that account, but instead uses the part of the e-mail in front of
the "@" as my name.

However, I have to correct myself when I wrote that picking a person with the
reply-from.rb doesn''t pick the correct sig from that account. While I
still
think I tested this and it didn''t work, this is now the second post to
sup-talk
where sup picks the correct sig from my sup-talk account in config.yaml. 

So that''s great; I just miss being able to handle this in
before-edit.rb in a
similar way as in reply-from.rb, i.e, by having access to things like
"message.recipient_email", and return a person from config.yaml

Sorry for all the nagging, I know sup is beta. Take it as a compliment that sup
has so many nice features that it raises the standards to which it will be held
:)

Marianne