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Per-contact FROM-email addresses for users of mutt and org-contacts.el
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Per-contact FROM-email addresses for users of mutt and org-contacts.el

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## -*- coding: utf-8;mode: org;  -*-

## Time-stamp: <2016-08-29 18:13:55 karl.voit>

## This file is best viewed with GNU Emacs Org-mode: http://orgmode.org/



* Modifying FROM-email address in mutt emails



This script is using [[http://orgmode.org][Emacs Org-mode]] [[https://julien.danjou.info/projects/emacs-packages#org-contacts][Org-contacts]] together with the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Email_client][MUA]]

[[http://www.mutt.org/][mutt]].



Let's take a look at an example Org-contacts entry which looks like that:



: ** Bob Simpson                :research:chi09:BobSimpson:

: :PROPERTIES:

: :TYPE:

: :TITLE: Dr.

: :EMAIL: [email protected]

: :oldEMAIL: [email protected]

: :URL: http://example.com/bob

: :MOBILE:

: :HOMEPHONE:

: :WORKPHONE:

: :PHONE:

: :COMPANY: This cool research company

: :STREET: 42 Weirdstreet

: :POSTALCODE: 12345

: :CITY: Denver

: :COUNTRY: USA

: :PHOTOGRAPH: [[photo:BobSimpson.jpg]]

: :BORN: 1970-12-31

: :ITOLDTHEM_EMAIL: [email protected]

: :ITOLDTHEM_ADDRESS:

: :ITOLDTHEM_PHONE:

: :ADDRESS_CHANGE_METHOD: email

: :CREATED:  [2015-01-30 Fri 17:51]

: :END:

:

: - first contact: CHI conference 2009

:   - we had a nice lunch time together



Whenever I write an email to Bob (property ~:EMAIL:~), I would like to

use [email protected]~ (property ~:ITOLDTHEM_EMAIL:~) instead of my

standard email address.



This way, I can give away contact-specific email addresses. That's

quite handy when you've got a [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catch-all][catch-all email domain]] or you are using

[[http://gmailblog.blogspot.co.at/2008/03/2-hidden-ways-to-get-more-from-your.html][some more or less hidden features of cloud-based email services]].



** How does it work? How do I install it?



Using mutt as email client, you can define your own editor. For me, I

like to compose emails using [[http://www.vim.org/][gVim]]. Therefore, my ~.mutt~ config file

usually contains the line:



: set editor=vim



If you replace this line by ...



: set editor="/usr/bin/python3 /home/USER/bin/muttfilter.py"



... you can use this script as a wrapper function. It parses your

Org-mode file for contacts, extracts their email addresses, and your

corresponding from-addresses. It compares the first from-address

from your current email and does a look-up. If it finds a

corresponding pair of entries in your Org-contacts file, the

~FROM:~-address gets replaced by the address of your choice.



After this, the gVim editor is opened to let you compose your email as

usual.



For debugging purposes, a log-file gets written to ~LOGFILENAME~ (see

code!) which is removed when no error occured. Please modify its path

if you got security concerns about that.



You might also take a look at following variables and adapt them to

your requirements:



- ~TMPFILENAME~: path to temporary file

- ~ORGCONTACTSFILE~: path to your Org-mode file containing the org-contacts-entries

- ~DEFAULT_EMAIL_ADDRESS~: your default email address

- ~EDITOR~: your default editor



* How to Thank Me



I'm glad you like my tools. If you want to support me:



- Send old-fashioned *postcard* per snailmail - I love personal feedback!

  - see [[http://tinyurl.com/j6w8hyo][my address]]

- Send feature wishes or improvements as an issue on GitHub

- Create issues on GitHub for bugs

- Contribute merge requests for bug fixes

- Check out my other cool [[https://github.com/novoid][projects on GitHub]]