Is there a hook for modifying a To: field?

raf mutt at raf.org
Tue Aug 25 21:38:31 UTC 2020


On Tue, Aug 25, 2020 at 01:05:39PM +0100, Chris Green <cl at isbd.net> wrote:

> On Tue, Aug 25, 2020 at 09:15:55AM +1000, raf wrote:
> > On Mon, Aug 24, 2020 at 10:32:56AM +0100, Chris Green <cl at isbd.net> wrote:
> > 
> > > I am on a mailing list which has two addresses, occasionally when one
> > > does L[ist reply] the To: address is:-
> > > 
> > >     ixion at ixiemaster.ixion.org.uk, Ixilist <ixion at ixion.org.uk>
> > > 
> > > At present I normally notice this and remove one of the addresses but
> > > it would be nice if I could automate this.  Is there a hook (send_hook
> > > maybe) that can be used to change this?  It can't just change every
> > > case of either ixion at ixiemaster.ixion.org.uk or ixion at ixion.org.uk as
> > > most of the time a L[ist reply] only gets a single address.
> > > 
> > > -- 
> > > Chris Green
> > 
> > It seems odd that a mailing list would have two
> > addresses. Presumably the are interchangeable. If so,
> > perhaps you could use procmail or imapfilter to replace
> > all instances of one of the addresses with the other as
> > the email arrives. That way, when you read it, mutt
> > only sees one of the addresses.
> > 
> It's the only list I'm on that's like this.  I have a custom filter
> program handling incoming mail so I *could* add a special rule but it
> would have to step outside the normal logic of the filter.
> 
> If I replace all occurrences of one address with the other won't mutt
> then simply send a L[ist reply] to the same address twice? ... or does
> mutt have internal logic such that it won't send mail to duplicated
> addresses?
> 
> -- 
> Chris Green

You could apply the transformation to one email manually, and test that.

cheers,
raf



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