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Re: mutt aliases file not working

From
Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net>
Date
Oct 29, 2010, 10:51 UTC
Message-ID
<4CCAA735.1030805@drmicha.warpmail.net>
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Darren Hart venit, vidit, dixit 27.10.2010 23:38:
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> For whatever reason, which I'm sure is user error, I haven't been
> able to get mutt aliases to work, while mailrc works fine:
> 
> $ mkdir aliases.git
> $ cd !$
> $ git init
> Initialized empty Git repository in /home/dvhart/aliases.git/.git/
> $ echo "joe Joe Blow joe@foobar.com" > muttaliases
How about:
echo 'alias joe Joe Blow <joe@foobar.com>' > muttaliases
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> $ git add muttaliases
> $ git commit -m "aliases file"
> [master (root-commit) b71ae4a] aliases file
>  1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
>  create mode 100644 muttaliases
> $ git config sendemail.aliasesfile `pwd`/muttaliases
> $ git config sendemail.aliasfiletype mutt
> $ cat .git/config
> [core]
> 	repositoryformatversion = 0
> 	filemode = true
> 	bare = false
> 	logallrefupdates = true
> [sendemail]
> 	aliasesfile = /home/dvhart/aliases.git/muttaliases
> 	aliasfiletype = mutt
> $ git send-email --to joe -1 
> /tmp/l0xCEC7o3d/0001-aliases-file.patch
> Who should the emails appear to be from? [Darren Hart <darren@dvhart.com>] 
> Emails will be sent from: Darren Hart <darren@dvhart.com>
> Message-ID to be used as In-Reply-To for the first email? 
> (mbox) Adding cc: Darren Hart <darren@dvhart.com> from line 'From: Darren Hart <darren@dvhart.com>'
> 
> From: Darren Hart <darren@dvhart.com>
> To: joe
> 
>     ^ when using a mailrc fail this expands to joe@foobar.com
> 
> Cc: Darren Hart <darren@dvhart.com>
> Subject: [PATCH] aliases file
> Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2010 14:29:10 -0700
> Message-Id: <1288214950-13695-1-git-send-email-darren@dvhart.com>
> X-Mailer: git-send-email 1.7.1
> 
> Send this email? ([y]es|[n]o|[q]uit|[a]ll): ^C
> 
> $ stty: standard input: Input/output error
> ^C
> 
> Am I doing something obviously wrong?
> 
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  1. Darren HartOct 27, 2010
  2. Michael J GruberOct 29, 2010
  3. Darren HartOct 29, 2010

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