[Abook-devel] adding aliases from mutt to abook

[Ailbhe L. <ai...@li...>]

Adding email addresses (and possibly other information) to abook from
the command line is something I want to do so that I can add aliases
from mutt directly to abook.

I am not a programmer, and I can't implement this myself. However, my
current workaround is a little shell script and some mutt config
changes:

	In my muttrc:
		set query_command="abook --mutt-query %s"
		source ~/.mutt/alias
		source ~/.mutt/newaliases
		set alias_file="~/.mutt/newaliases"

####################### SCRIPT BEGINS ################################
#!/bin/sh

ABOOKFILE=/home/username/.abook.addressbook
TEMP=/home/username/tmp/ABOOK
NEW=/home/username/.mutt/alias/newaliases
MAIN=/home/username/.mutt/alias/main

abook --convert mutt $NEW abook $TEMP
cat $TEMP >> $ABOOKFILE
echo "Aliases added to abook."
rm $TEMP

cat $NEW >> $MAIN
echo "Aliases moved to main mutt alias file."

rm $NEW
echo "# Aliases added after `date '+%d %B %Y'`" > $NEW

####################### SCRIPT ENDS ##################################

This sort of works - it means that I still have reverse_alias
functionality, and everything gets added to mutt and abook both.

But it feels like a clumsy hack, to me.

Ailbhe
just bouncing ideas

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