conditional automatic cc header?

[Kevin J. McCarthy]

On Thu, Apr 02, 2020 at 12:01:38PM +1100, raf wrote:
>Jens John wrote:
>
>>On Wed, 1 Apr 2020, at 06:22, raf wrote:
>>> e.g. Add a CC header to fred at work.com whenever 
>>> sending/replying/forwarding from me at work.com unless the 
>>> email is already going to fred at work.com.
>>
>> I think a combination of hooks or only a send2-hook could be used.
>>
>> How about something along these lines (not tested):
>>
>> send2-hook "~f me at work.com !(~C fred at work.com)" "my_hdr cc: fred at work.com"
>
>thanks. that looks really promising but i can't get it 
>to have any effect. i tried reply-hook and send-hook as 
>well but it never triggers. i have other (simple) 
>send-hooks that work fine.

Mutt's send-hook and reply-hook are useful for making configuration and 
from-header changes based on recipients.  They aren't designed for the 
reverse, because they trigger after recipients have been determined.

The link you posted (albeit at the wrong website) ;-), 
<http://www.mutt.org/doc/manual/#compose-flow>, is a good place to look 
for the details.

In bullet 2, my_hdr is processed to add to the initial Cc recipients. 
Bullet 3 then prompts using those recipients.  All the hook processing 
occurs afterwards, so a hook adding Cc my_hdr won't affect the *current* 
composition session.

Unfortunately, that means you have to get creative to do what you want 
to do.  The perl script you wrote sounds like a good idea.  Another idea 
might be to set the my_hdr in advance via a folder hook, or via a macro 
that also changes the $from setting.

-- 
Kevin J. McCarthy
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