[Linux-disciples] Mutt seems to have what I'm looking for

[Stephen R Laniel]

On Fri, Nov 05, 2004 at 09:43:42AM -0500, Chung-chieh Shan wrote:
> Perhaps ^ can only apply to a single pattern (i.e., ^ must be followed
> immediately by ~), not a set of parenthesized patterns.  I hope it
> is possible for you to put all your addresses in the same regular
> expression.

Well, I answered my second question -- I think I figured out
why

~C (person1 | person2 | person3)

wasn't working. The answer comes later on in the same URL:

/*
Note that if a regular expression contains parenthesis, or a
veritical bar ("|"), you must enclose the expression in
double or single quotes since those characters are also used
to separate different parts of Mutt's pattern language. For
example,

~f "me@(mutt\.org|cs\.hmc\.edu)"

Without the quotes, the parenthesis would truncate the
regular expression to simply me@, which is probably not what
you want.
*/

So now I have

send-hook '^~C "(person1 | person2 | person3)"' 'set pgp_autoencrypt=yes;set pgp_autosign=yes'

and mutt gives me no error. The trouble is that it's also
not working right. I tested it by composing a test message
to Adam and my parents, which should *not* be encrypted
because my parents aren't PGPable; it turned out not to be
encrypted. Nice. But then I tried to compose a message to
Adam alone, which *should* be encrypted. It wasn't.

Maybe there's some logic I'm missing here. The way I'm
reading the pattern

^~C "(person1 | person2 | person3)"

it should say "If every recipient matches 'person1 | person2
| person3', then do whatever I tell you to do." That's the
proper logic, right?

-- 
``I'm not going to say prayer will be mandatory.
  But let's just say, 'Thine loom and churn best
  be still on the Sabbath, Goodman.'"
 -Ed Helms on The Daily Show

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