group and alias

[Jon LaBadie]

On Mon, Mar 01, 2021 at 01:19:10PM +1100, Cameron Simpson wrote:
>On 28Feb2021 19:00, Jon LaBadie <mutter at jgcomp.com> wrote:
>>Trying to use the "group" facility.  Expected I could
>>do something like:
>>  group -group ABC -addr <addr1> -addr <addr2> -addr <addr3>
>>
>>And then email 3 people with
>>
>>  $ mutt ABC
>>
>>I am able to accomplish this with an alias:
>>
>>  alias ABC <addr1>, <addr2>, <addr3>
>>
>>Is this not an application for which "group" was intended?
>
>Aliases probably predate groups, I'd expect. They can contain only
>addresses (including other aliases).
>
>Groups can include regexps for matching, so they're arguably more a
>PATTERN thing than an alias is.
>
>And I presume that recognising that often aliases and groups server the
>same purpose, alias has a -group options which also adds the addresses
>to a named group. I maintain my alias using a small otuside db, and
>autogenerate them. They all have the form:
>
>    alias -group group_name alias_name \
>        address, \
>        ... etc ...
>
>where in fact group_name and alias_name are the same name.
>

And where/how do you use the group rather than the alias?

Jon
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