1 ;;; mailalias.el --- expand and complete mailing address aliases -*- lexical-binding: t -*-
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26 ;; Basic functions for defining and expanding mail aliases.
27 ;; These seal off the interface to the alias-definition parts of a
28 ;; .mailrc file formatted for BSD's Mail or USL's mailx.
34 (defgroup mailalias nil
35 "Expanding mail aliases."
38 (defcustom mail-passwd-files
'("/etc/passwd")
39 "List of files from which to determine valid user names."
40 :type
'(repeat string
)
43 (defcustom mail-passwd-command nil
44 "Shell command to retrieve text to add to `/etc/passwd', or nil."
45 :type
'(choice string
(const nil
))
48 (defvar mail-directory-names t
49 "Alist of mail address directory entries.
50 When t this still needs to be initialized.")
52 (defvar mail-address-field-regexp
53 "^\\(Resent-\\)?\\(To\\|From\\|CC\\|BCC\\|Reply-to\\):")
57 (defcustom mail-complete-alist
58 ;; Don't refer to mail-address-field-regexp here;
59 ;; that confuses some things such as cus-dep.el.
60 '(("^\\(Resent-\\)?\\(To\\|From\\|CC\\|BCC\\|Reply-to\\):"
61 .
(mail-get-names pattern
))
62 ("Newsgroups:" .
(if (boundp 'gnus-active-hashtb
)
64 (if (boundp news-group-article-assoc
)
65 news-group-article-assoc
)))
66 ("Followup-To:" .
(mail-sentto-newsgroups))
67 ;;("Distribution:" ???)
69 "Alist of header field and expression to return alist for completion.
70 The expression may reference the variable `pattern'
71 which will hold the string being completed.
72 If not on matching header, `mail-complete-function' gets called instead."
75 (put 'mail-complete-alist
'risky-local-variable t
)
78 (defcustom mail-complete-style
'angles
79 "Specifies how \\[mail-complete] formats the full name when it completes.
80 If nil, they contain just the return address like:
82 If `parens', they look like:
83 king@grassland.com (Elvis Parsley)
84 If `angles', they look like:
85 Elvis Parsley <king@grassland.com>"
86 :type
'(choice (const angles
) (const parens
) (const nil
))
89 (defcustom mail-complete-function
'ispell-complete-word
90 "Function to call when completing outside `mail-complete-alist'-header."
91 :type
'(choice function
(const nil
))
93 (make-obsolete-variable 'mail-complete-function
94 'completion-at-point-functions
"24.1")
96 (defcustom mail-directory-function nil
97 "Function to get completions from directory service or nil for none.
98 See `mail-directory-requery'."
99 :type
'(choice function
(const nil
))
102 ;; This is for when the directory is huge, or changes frequently.
103 (defcustom mail-directory-requery nil
104 "When non-nil call `mail-directory-function' for each completion.
105 In that case, one argument gets passed to the function, the partial string
110 (defcustom mail-directory-process nil
111 "Shell command to get the list of names from a mail directory.
112 This value is used when the value of `mail-directory-function'
113 is `mail-directory-process'. The value should be a list
114 of the form (COMMAND ARG ...), where each of the list elements
115 is evaluated. COMMAND should evaluate to a string. When
116 `mail-directory-requery' is non-nil, during evaluation of these
117 elements, the variable `pattern' contains the partial input being
118 completed. `pattern' is nil when `mail-directory-requery' is nil.
120 The value might look like this:
122 (remote-shell-program \"HOST\" \"-nl\" \"USER\" \"COMMAND\")
126 (remote-shell-program \"HOST\" \"-n\" \"COMMAND \\='^\" pattern \"\\='\")"
129 (put 'mail-directory-process
'risky-local-variable t
)
131 (defcustom mail-directory-stream nil
132 "List of (HOST SERVICE) for stream connection to mail directory."
133 :type
'(choice (const nil
)
134 (list (string :tag
"Host name or ip address")
135 (choice (integer :tag
"Service port number")
136 (string :tag
"Service name"))
138 :tag
"Additional open-network-stream parameters")))
140 (put 'mail-directory-stream
'risky-local-variable t
)
142 (defcustom mail-directory-parser nil
143 "How to interpret the output of `mail-directory-function'.
144 Three types of values are possible:
146 - nil means to gather each line as one name
147 - regexp means first \\(grouping\\) in successive matches is name
148 - function called at beginning of buffer that returns an alist of names"
149 :type
'(choice (const nil
) regexp function
)
151 (put 'mail-directory-parser
'risky-local-variable t
)
153 ;; Internal variables.
156 "Alist of local users, aliases and directory entries as available.
157 Elements have the form (MAILNAME) or (MAILNAME . FULLNAME).
158 If the value means t, it means the real value should be calculated
159 for the next use. This is used in `mail-complete'.")
161 (defvar mail-local-names t
162 "Alist of local users.
163 When t this still needs to be initialized.")
166 ;; Called from sendmail-send-it, or similar functions,
167 ;; only if some mail aliases are defined.
169 (defun expand-mail-aliases (beg end
&optional exclude
)
170 "Expand all mail aliases in suitable header fields found between BEG and END.
171 If interactive, expand in header fields.
172 Suitable header fields are `To', `From', `CC' and `BCC', `Reply-to', and
173 their `Resent-' variants.
175 Optional second arg EXCLUDE may be a regular expression defining text to be
176 removed from alias expansions."
179 (list (goto-char (point-min))
181 (sendmail-sync-aliases)
182 (when (eq mail-aliases t
)
183 (setq mail-aliases nil
)
184 (build-mail-aliases))
187 (setq end
(set-marker (make-marker) end
))
188 (let ((case-fold-search nil
))
189 (while (let ((case-fold-search t
))
190 (re-search-forward mail-address-field-regexp end t
))
191 (skip-chars-forward " \t")
194 ;; DISABLED-ALIASES records aliases temporarily disabled
195 ;; while we scan text that resulted from expanding those aliases.
196 ;; Each element is (ALIAS . TILL-WHEN), where TILL-WHEN
197 ;; is where to reenable the alias (expressed as number of chars
198 ;; counting from END1).
199 (disabled-aliases nil
))
200 (re-search-forward "^[^ \t]" end
'move
)
202 (skip-chars-backward " \t\n")
203 (setq end1
(point-marker))
205 (while (< (point) end1
)
207 ;; Reenable any aliases which were disabled for ranges
208 ;; that we have passed out of.
209 (while (and disabled-aliases
210 (> pos
(- end1
(cdr (car disabled-aliases
)))))
211 (setq disabled-aliases
(cdr disabled-aliases
)))
212 ;; EPOS gets position of end of next name;
213 ;; SEPLEN gets length of whitespace&separator that follows it.
214 (if (re-search-forward "[ \t]*[\n,][ \t]*" end1 t
)
215 (setq epos
(match-beginning 0)
216 seplen
(- (point) epos
))
217 ;; Handle the last name in this header field.
218 ;; We already moved END1 back across whitespace after it.
219 (setq epos
(marker-position end1
) seplen
0))
220 (let ((string (buffer-substring-no-properties pos epos
))
222 (if (and (not (assoc string disabled-aliases
))
223 (setq translation
(cdr (assoc string mail-aliases
))))
225 ;; This name is an alias. Disable it.
226 (setq disabled-aliases
(cons (cons string
(- end1 epos
))
228 ;; Replace the alias with its expansion
229 ;; then rescan the expansion for more aliases.
233 (let ((regexp (concat "\\b\\(" exclude
"\\)\\b"))
234 (end (point-marker)))
236 (while (re-search-forward regexp end t
)
239 (delete-region (point) (+ (point) (- epos pos
)))
241 ;; Name is not an alias. Skip to start of next name.
243 (forward-char seplen
))))
244 (set-marker end1 nil
)))
245 (set-marker end nil
))))
247 ;; Called by mail-setup, or similar functions, only if the file specified
248 ;; by mail-personal-alias-file (usually `~/.mailrc') exists.
249 (defun build-mail-aliases (&optional file
)
250 "Read mail aliases from personal aliases file and set `mail-aliases'.
251 By default, this is the file specified by `mail-personal-alias-file'."
254 (read-file-name (format "Read mail alias file (default %s): "
255 mail-personal-alias-file
)
256 nil mail-personal-alias-file t
)))
257 (setq file
(expand-file-name (or file mail-personal-alias-file
)))
258 ;; In case mail-aliases is t, make sure define-mail-alias
259 ;; does not recursively call build-mail-aliases.
260 (setq mail-aliases nil
)
263 (cond ((get-file-buffer file
)
264 (insert (with-current-buffer (get-file-buffer file
)
265 (buffer-substring-no-properties
266 (point-min) (point-max)))))
267 ((file-exists-p file
) (insert-file-contents file
))
268 ((file-exists-p (setq file
(expand-file-name file
"~/")))
269 (insert-file-contents file
))
271 (goto-char (point-min))
272 ;; Delete comments from the contents.
273 (while (search-forward "# " nil t
)
274 (let ((p (- (point) 2)))
276 (delete-region p
(point))))
277 ;; Don't lose if no final newline.
278 (goto-char (point-max))
279 (or (eq (preceding-char) ?
\n) (newline))
280 (goto-char (point-min))
281 ;; handle "\\\n" continuation lines
284 (if (= (preceding-char) ?
\\)
285 (progn (delete-char -
1) (delete-char 1) (insert ?\
))
287 (goto-char (point-min))
288 ;; handle `source' directives -- Eddy/1994/May/25
289 (cond ((re-search-forward "^source[ \t]+" nil t
)
290 (re-search-forward "\\S-+")
291 (setq file
(buffer-substring-no-properties
292 (match-beginning 0) (match-end 0)))
294 (insert "# ") ; to ensure we don't re-process this file
296 (t (setq file nil
))))
297 (goto-char (point-min))
298 (while (re-search-forward
299 "^\\(a\\|alias\\|g\\|group\\)[ \t]+\\([^ \t\n]+\\)" nil t
)
300 (let* ((name (match-string 2))
301 (start (progn (skip-chars-forward " \t") (point)))
304 (setq value
(buffer-substring-no-properties start
(point)))
305 (unless (equal value
"")
306 (define-mail-alias name value t
))))
309 ;; Always autoloadable in case the user wants to define aliases
310 ;; interactively or in .emacs.
311 ;; define-mail-abbrev in mailabbrev.el duplicates much of this code.
313 (defun define-mail-alias (name definition
&optional from-mailrc-file
)
314 "Define NAME as a mail alias that translates to DEFINITION.
315 This means that sending a message to NAME will actually send to DEFINITION.
317 Normally, the addresses in DEFINITION must be separated by commas.
318 If FROM-MAILRC-FILE is non-nil, then addresses in DEFINITION
319 can be separated by spaces; an address can contain spaces
320 if it is quoted with double-quotes."
322 (interactive "sDefine mail alias: \nsDefine %s as mail alias for: ")
323 ;; Read the defaults first, if we have not done so.
324 ;; But not if we are doing that already right now.
325 (unless from-mailrc-file
326 (sendmail-sync-aliases))
327 (if (eq mail-aliases t
)
329 (setq mail-aliases nil
)
330 (if (file-exists-p mail-personal-alias-file
)
331 (build-mail-aliases))))
332 ;; strip garbage from front and end
333 (if (string-match "\\`[ \t\n,]+" definition
)
334 (setq definition
(substring definition
(match-end 0))))
335 (if (string-match "[ \t\n,]+\\'" definition
)
336 (setq definition
(substring definition
0 (match-beginning 0))))
338 (let* ((L (length definition
))
339 (start (if (> L
0) 0))
340 end this-entry result tem
)
344 ;; If we're reading from the mailrc file, addresses are
345 ;; delimited by spaces, and addresses with embedded spaces are
346 ;; surrounded by non-escaped double-quotes.
347 (if (eq ?
\" (aref definition start
))
348 (setq start
(1+ start
)
349 end
(and (string-match
350 "[^\\]\\(\\([\\][\\]\\)*\\)\"[ \t,]*"
353 (setq end
(string-match "[ \t,]+" definition start
)))
354 ;; Extract the address and advance the loop past it.
355 (setq this-entry
(substring definition start end
)
356 start
(and end
(/= (match-end 0) L
) (match-end 0)))
357 ;; If the full name contains a problem character, quote it.
358 (and (string-match "\\(.+?\\)[ \t]*\\(<.*>\\)" this-entry
)
359 (string-match "[^- !#$%&'*+/0-9=?A-Za-z^_`{|}~]"
360 (match-string 1 this-entry
))
361 (setq this-entry
(replace-regexp-in-string
362 "\\(.+?\\)[ \t]*\\(<.*>\\)"
365 ;; When we are not reading from .mailrc, addresses are
366 ;; separated by commas. Try to accept a rfc822-like syntax.
367 ;; (Todo: extend rfc822.el to do the work for us.)
368 ((equal (string-match
369 "[ \t,]*\\(\"\\(?:[^\"]\\|[^\\]\\(?:[\\][\\]\\)*\"\\)*\"[ \t]*\
370 <[-.!#$%&'*+/0-9=?A-Za-z^_`{|}~@]+>\\)[ \t,]*"
373 ;; If an entry has a valid [ "foo bar" <foo@example.com> ]
374 ;; form, use it literally . This also allows commas in the
375 ;; quoted string, e.g. [ "foo bar, jr" <foo@example.com> ]
376 (setq this-entry
(match-string 1 definition
)
377 start
(and (/= (match-end 0) L
) (match-end 0))))
379 ;; Otherwise, read the next address by looking for a comma.
380 (setq end
(string-match "[ \t\n,]*,[ \t\n]*" definition start
))
381 (setq this-entry
(substring definition start end
))
382 ;; Advance the loop past this address.
383 (setq start
(and end
(/= (match-end 0) L
) (match-end 0)))
384 ;; If the full name contains a problem character, quote it.
385 (and (string-match "\\(.+?\\)[ \t]*\\(<.*>\\)" this-entry
)
386 (string-match "[^- !#$%&'*+/0-9=?A-Za-z^_`{|}~]"
387 (match-string 1 this-entry
))
388 (setq this-entry
(replace-regexp-in-string
389 "\\(.+?\\)[ \t]*\\(<.*>\\)" "\"\\1\" \\2"
391 (push this-entry result
))
393 (setq definition
(mapconcat (function identity
)
394 (nreverse result
) ", "))
395 (setq tem
(assoc name mail-aliases
))
397 (rplacd tem definition
)
398 (setq mail-aliases
(cons (cons name definition
) mail-aliases
)
402 (defun mail-completion-at-point-function ()
403 "Compute completion data for mail aliases.
404 For use on `completion-at-point-functions'."
405 ;; Read the defaults first, if we have not done so.
406 (sendmail-sync-aliases)
407 (if (eq mail-aliases t
)
409 (setq mail-aliases nil
)
410 (if (file-exists-p mail-personal-alias-file
)
411 (build-mail-aliases))))
412 (let ((list mail-complete-alist
)
414 (if (and (< 0 (mail-header-end))
416 (if (re-search-backward "^[^\t ]" nil t
)
418 (if (looking-at (car (car list
)))
419 (setq list-exp
(cdr (car list
))
421 (setq list
(cdr list
)))))
425 (skip-chars-backward "^ \t<,:")
427 (table (completion-table-dynamic
429 (let ((pattern prefix
)) (eval list-exp
))))))
430 (list beg end table
)))))
433 (defun mail-complete (arg)
434 "Perform completion on header field or word preceding point.
435 Completable headers are according to `mail-complete-alist'. If none matches
436 current header, calls `mail-complete-function' and passes prefix ARG if any."
437 (declare (obsolete mail-completion-at-point-function
"24.1"))
439 ;; Read the defaults first, if we have not done so.
440 (sendmail-sync-aliases)
441 (if (eq mail-aliases t
)
443 (setq mail-aliases nil
)
444 (if (file-exists-p mail-personal-alias-file
)
445 (build-mail-aliases))))
446 (let ((data (mail-completion-at-point-function)))
448 (apply #'completion-in-region data
)
449 (funcall mail-complete-function arg
))))
451 (defun mail-completion-expand (table)
452 "Build new completion table that expands aliases.
453 Completes like TABLE except that if the completion is a valid alias,
454 it expands it to its full `mail-complete-style' form."
455 (lambda (string pred action
)
458 (let* ((comp (try-completion string table pred
))
459 (name (and (listp table
) comp
460 (assoc (if (stringp comp
) comp string
) table
))))
463 ((eq mail-complete-style
'parens
)
464 (concat (car name
) " (" (cdr name
) ")"))
465 ((eq mail-complete-style
'angles
)
466 (concat (cdr name
) " <" (car name
) ">"))
469 (complete-with-action action table string pred
)))))
471 (defun mail-get-names (prefix)
472 "Fetch local users and global mail addresses for completion.
473 Consults `/etc/passwd' and a directory service if one is set up via
474 `mail-directory-function'.
475 PREFIX is the string we want to complete."
476 (if (eq mail-local-names t
)
477 (with-current-buffer (generate-new-buffer " passwd")
478 (let ((files mail-passwd-files
))
480 (insert-file-contents (car files
) nil nil nil t
)
481 (setq files
(cdr files
))))
482 (if mail-passwd-command
483 (call-process shell-file-name nil t nil
484 shell-command-switch mail-passwd-command
))
485 (goto-char (point-min))
486 (setq mail-local-names nil
)
488 ;;Recognize lines like
489 ;; nobody:*:65534:65534::/:
490 ;; +demo::::::/bin/csh
494 ;; The second \(...\) matches the user id.
495 (if (looking-at "\\+?\\([^:@\n+]+\\):[^:\n]*:\\([^\n:]*\\):")
496 (add-to-list 'mail-local-names
497 (cons (match-string 1)
499 (string-to-number (match-string 2))))))
500 (beginning-of-line 2))
501 (kill-buffer (current-buffer))))
502 (if (or (eq mail-names t
)
503 (eq mail-directory-names t
))
505 (and mail-directory-function
506 (eq mail-directory-names t
)
508 (mail-directory (if mail-directory-requery prefix
))))
509 (or mail-directory-requery
510 (setq mail-directory-names directory
))
514 (sort (append (if (consp mail-aliases
)
516 (function (lambda (a) (list (car a
))))
518 (if (consp mail-local-names
)
521 (when (consp mail-directory-names
)
522 mail-directory-names
)))
524 ;; Should cache downcased strings.
525 (string< (downcase (car a
))
526 (downcase (car b
)))))))))
527 (mail-completion-expand mail-names
))
530 (defun mail-directory (prefix)
531 "Use mail-directory facility to get user names matching PREFIX.
532 If PREFIX is nil, get all the defined user names.
533 This function calls `mail-directory-function' to query the directory,
534 then uses `mail-directory-parser' to parse the output it returns."
535 (message "Querying directory...")
536 (with-current-buffer (generate-new-buffer " *mail-directory*")
537 (funcall mail-directory-function prefix
)
538 (goto-char (point-min))
540 (if (stringp mail-directory-parser
)
541 (while (re-search-forward mail-directory-parser nil t
)
542 (push (match-string 1) directory
))
543 (if mail-directory-parser
544 (setq directory
(funcall mail-directory-parser
))
546 (push (buffer-substring (point)
553 (kill-buffer (current-buffer))
554 (message "Querying directory...done")
557 (defvar mailalias-done
)
559 (defun mail-directory-process (prefix)
560 "Run a shell command to output names in directory.
561 See `mail-directory-process'."
562 (when (consp mail-directory-process
)
563 (let ((pattern prefix
)) ;Dynbind!
564 (apply 'call-process
(eval (car mail-directory-process
)) nil t nil
565 (mapcar 'eval
(cdr mail-directory-process
))))))
567 ;; This should handle a dialog. Currently expects port to spit out names.
568 (defun mail-directory-stream (prefix)
569 "Open a stream to retrieve names in directory.
570 See `mail-directory-stream'."
571 (let ((mailalias-done nil
)
572 (pattern prefix
)) ;Dynbind!
573 (set-process-sentinel
574 (apply 'open-network-stream
"mailalias" (current-buffer)
575 mail-directory-stream
)
577 (setq mailalias-done t
)))
578 (while (not mailalias-done
)
581 (defun mail-sentto-newsgroups ()
582 "Return all entries from Newsgroups: header as completion alist."
584 (if (mail-position-on-field "newsgroups" t
)
585 (let ((point (point))
587 (while (< (skip-chars-backward "^:, \t\n") 0)
588 (setq list
`((,(buffer-substring (point) point
))
590 (skip-chars-backward ", \t\n")
591 (setq point
(point)))
596 ;;; mailalias.el ends here