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From: Patrick Totzke <patricktotzke@gmail.com>
User-Agent: alot/0.3.3
To: Sepp Tannhuber <sepp.tannhuber@yahoo.de>,
	"notmuch@notmuchmail.org" <notmuch@notmuchmail.org>
References: <20120909153401.30209.43912@brick.lan>
	<1347299700.65731.YahooMailNeo@web171405.mail.ir2.yahoo.com>
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	<1347379152.53604.YahooMailNeo@web171402.mail.ir2.yahoo.com>
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Message-ID: <20120912060019.17430.88468@brick.lan>
Subject: Re: [alot] announcing v0.3.3
Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2012 08:00:19 +0200
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Quoting Sepp Tannhuber (2012-09-11 17:59:12)
> Hi Patrick,
> =

> thank you for answering and for this really good mail client!
pleasure :)

> > One reason I have not bothered to implement this so far is that in the =
long run,
> > I want to have urwid Tree widgets as top level widgets in thread buffer=
s.
> > This would also allow "move to next sibling/parent" and so on.
> I did not know that it would be so complicated. But nice to hear that dev=
elopment
> is going on.
Yea, trees in urwid are a bit messed up atm. alot's thread buffer uses its =
own
archaic widget layout, which is eventually to be replaced.

> > So you can of course use this method to set an "Attach" header, but as =
of now
> > alot will not interpret and remove this when reading the edited text.
> Exactly!

I think this will not so hard to do. Could you open up a feature request is=
sue
on github for this?

> > When you see the "to>" prompt, type in some prefix of a (realname part =
of a)
> > contact from abook and hit <tab>.
> This was my assumption. But it is not working here. Obviously I make a mi=
stake. Here is my
> config:
> -- BEGIN ~/.config/alot/config --
> theme =3D solarized_dark
> editor_cmd =3D 'vim +/^$ "+normal j" "+:set textwidth=3D80" "+:set ft=3Dm=
ail"'
> =

> [accounts]
> =

> =C2=A0 =C2=A0 [[work]]
> =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 realname =3D Joseph Tannhuber
> =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 address =3D jtannhuber@work.de
> =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 signature =3D ~/.signature
> =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 sendmail_command =3D msmtp --account=3Dwork -t
> =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 sent_box =3D maildir:///home/sepp/Maildir/Sent
> =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 draft_box =3D maildir:///home/sepp/Maildir/Dr=
afts
> =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 [[[abook]]]
> =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 type =3D abook
> -- END --
> Is there anything missing?

No, that's what I use as well.
Note that this variant assumes your contact file is ~/.abook/addressbook. I=
'm not aware of format
issues for different abook versions so far. Also note that this will comple=
te case-sensitive
strings of the format "Firstname Lastname <address>".

To debug this you can replay this introspect session and see how far you ge=
t.
Start alots python shell (pyshell command), then:

        >>> from alot.settings import settings
        >>> settings.get_addressbooks()
        [<alot.addressbooks.MatchSdtoutAddressbook object at 0x2890a10>, <a=
lot.addressbooks.AbookAddressBook object at 0x2776650>]
        >>> settings.get_addressbooks()[0]
        <alot.addressbooks.MatchSdtoutAddressbook object at 0x2890a10>
        >>> A=3Dsettings.get_addressbooks()[0]
        >>> A.get_contacts()
        [... CONTACT TUPLES HERE...]

Hope this helps. Otherwise don't hesitate to open a bug report on github.

> By the way: Is it possible to set the X11 urgency hint flag when new mail=
 arrives? In principle
> one can use the visual bell in the terminal. Then alot must only invoke a=
 shell command:
> =C2=A0 echo -e "\b"

Well, alot does not pull your mails itself, so has no means of knowing when=
 new mail arrives.
I personally use a mail indicator widget I wrote for my window manager that=
 periodically
checks the notmuch index for new mail: http://awesome.naquadah.org/wiki/Not=
much_mail_integration

Alot can of course fire shell commands. What it is lacking at the moment is=
 the ability to periodically
fire custom (alot-)commands. This feature would not be hard to implement, b=
ut so far I did not bother
to do so as I considered mail-fetching not part of alots responsibility.
But you're not the first one to want this, so I guess it'd be worth it.

Cheers,
/p

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