send-hook and aliases

[Jon LaBadie]

On Thu, Feb 13, 2025 at 04:22:04PM -0800, googly.negotiator862 at aceecat.org wrote:
>On Wed, Feb 12, 2025 at 11:34:11AM -0500, Jon LaBadie wrote:
>
>> While composing a message (in vi) I add the alias name
>> to the Bcc: line and also set the Fcc: line to a mailbox
>> dedicated to the club's messges (i.e. "=club").
>
>> I regularly forget to make the two additions so I thought I'd create
>> send-hooks for them.  No problem for the Fcc: but I've not been able
>> to set the Bcc: line to an alias.
>
>Can you post an exact example of the send-hook command that seems to
>fail? Maybe change names to protect the guilty.

First what works, the send hook for Fcc:

send-hook       'PDDBDBC at labadie.us'    my_hdr Fcc: =part
send-hook       'PDDBDBC at labadie.us'    'my_hdr Fcc: =part'

quoted or unquoted, both work and Fcc: is set to "=part".

But if I try to use an alias for the save box:

alias   partbox =part
send-hook       'PDDBDBC at labadie.us'    my_hdr Fcc: partbox

"partbox" does not get replaced with "=part".

While I do not need an alias for Fcc:, I do for Bcc:.
My alias looks like:

alias dbpart \
         "Andy Griffin" <96griffin at gmail.com>, \
             <100+ more lines like above>
         "Vivian Leigh" <vl96 at yahoo.com>

The corresponding send-hook that DOES NOT work would be:

send-hook       'PDDBDBC at labadie.us'    my_hdr Bcc: dbpart

The Bcc: line in my vi compose session is blank (i.e. only
the "Bcc: " is present).

NOTE, if I manually edit the Bcc: line and add the alias
"dbpart", the alias is substituted upon exiting vi and the 100+ 
addresses are present in the "ask send" screen of mutt.  It is
this manual edit requirement that I often forget and would
like to replace with an automated technique.


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