bypassing $reverse_alias in $index_format

[Kevin J. McCarthy]

On Tue, Jul 28, 2020 at 12:52:02PM +1000, Cameron Simpson wrote:
>What I would rather do is keep the full name in my alias, but have some
>kind of $index_format format string which accesses the "raw" full name
>from the message header instead of the name from $reverse_alias.
>
>Is this possible, one way or another?

I don't know if this helps, but have you tried a format pipe *just* in 
one of the index-format-hook with %f and using the script to extract the 
name part of the full address?

     set index_format="%D %@from_part@ %S %?M?(%M) ?%?H?[%H] ?%s%* %?y?  y? %4c"
     index-format-hook from_part '%f polyname' "~/bin/extractname '%f'|"
     index-format-hook from_part ~A '%-15.15F'

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Kevin J. McCarthy
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