How to use with multiple accounts

[Anachron]

I've installed msmtp and mailx and configured ~/.mailrc to have all my 5 email accounts.

How do I for example tell mcom which account to use when sending the mail?

Edit: Just found out about https://github.com/chneukirchen/mblaze/blob/master/man/mblaze-profile.5, I will take a look.

[leahneukirchen]

you can use different profiles, or use -from ...

[Anachron]

Okay the profile works. I just feel it should be a bit simpler to switch mail. Let's say I have 5 email adresses:

something1@domain1
something2@domain1
something1@domain2
something2@domain2
something3@domain3

Now if I want to switch profile I have to type in the full name in from:.

Is it possible to set aliases maybe? So s1d1 replaces something1@domain1?

[Anachron]

I'm trying this one again with mcom -from but mcom does not have any argument for -from?

https://github.com/chneukirchen/mblaze/blob/master/mcom#L215

I also feel bad for creating x profiles and having to write MBLAZE_PROFILE=xxx whenever I switch accounts.

[leahneukirchen]

mcom -from works fine here?

Well, what do you propose else?

[Anachron]

I wrote a wrapper script to switch the default mailbox of ~/.mblaze/profile.

#!/usr/bin/env sh
# mfrom: easy from-switcher

acc=$(sed -n '/^account '"${1}"' {$/,/^}$/p' ~/.mailrc | grep 'from' | cut -d '=' -f 2 | cut -d '(' -f 1 | tr -d '"')
test -n "${acc}" && sed -i "s|^Local-Mailbox.*|Local-Mailbox: ${acc}|" ~/.mblaze/profile

It uses ~/.mailrc file to read the account name and will extract the from-address (without names for now as I am not sure its supported in all tools in the toolchain).

Still would be interested to know why mcom -from will pass whatever arguments directly into the mail-to-address and works for you @chneukirchen.

Edit: We figured it out,- I was on an old version (0.3.2_1 was newest released but the changes were after).

Edit2: Here is the script for msmtp:

#!/usr/bin/env sh
# mfrom: easy from-switcher

acc=$(sed -n "/^account[ ]*${1}$/,/^$/p" ~/.msmtprc | awk '$1 == "from" {print $2}')
test -n "${acc}" && sed -i "s|^Local-Mailbox.*|Local-Mailbox: ${acc}|" ~/.mblaze/profile

I will close this now.

[ghost]

Other suggestion : What about having multiple ~/.mblaze ? ~/.mblaze1, ~/.mblaze2...

And then alias mcom1='MBLAZE=$HOME/.mblaze1 mcom'.

[Anachron]

I think the mfrom command is a more tidy/clean solution! Thanks for your idea though!