how to match name part of a From header

[Marc Haber]

Hi,

I do have a mailbox that contains mails set by logcheck. Due to long
lines, I would like to have special handling for those when calling
them up in mutt.

They all have
From: logcheck system account <***@hostname.example>
and I would like to match for "logcheck system account", not for the
mail address as this may vary.

For the message given above, "~f logcheck" matches, but "~f system"
does not. I guess that the ~f match only goes for the address in the
head itself.

Does mutt have a match that matches the entire From-Header?

Greeitngs
Marc

[Shehu Dikko]

[....]
They all have
and I would like to match for "logcheck system account", not for the
mail address as this may vary.
For the message given above, "~f logcheck" matches, but "~f system"
does not. I guess that the ~f match only goes for the address in the
head itself.

No, the pattern modifier can be followed by any regular expression.
"~f system" should match "system" anywhere in the "From:" header. I
have just confirmed this using Mutt 1.7.0. What version are you using?

regards,

s h e h u

[Marc Haber]

Post by Shehu Dikko

[....]
They all have
and I would like to match for "logcheck system account", not for the
mail address as this may vary.
For the message given above, "~f logcheck" matches, but "~f system"
does not. I guess that the ~f match only goes for the address in the
head itself.

No, the pattern modifier can be followed by any regular expression.
"~f system" should match "system" anywhere in the "From:" header. I
have just confirmed this using Mutt 1.7.0. What version are you using?

actually, what I want is a message hook.

Limiting my view to ~f "logcheck system account" does work,
message-hook '~f "logcheck system account"' 'set pager="less"'
does not.

What's the difference here? I guess it's a quoting issue.

Using mutt 1.7.2 (which identifies itself as NeoMutt) on Debian
stable.

Greetings
Marc