1 ;;; mailalias.el --- expand and complete mailing address aliases
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28 ;; Basic functions for defining and expanding mail aliases.
29 ;; These seal off the interface to the alias-definition parts of a
30 ;; .mailrc file formatted for BSD's Mail or USL's mailx.
36 (defgroup mailalias nil
37 "Expanding mail aliases."
40 (defcustom mail-passwd-files
'("/etc/passwd")
41 "*List of files from which to determine valid user names."
42 :type
'(repeat string
)
45 (defcustom mail-passwd-command nil
46 "*Shell command to retrieve text to add to `/etc/passwd', or nil."
47 :type
'(choice string
(const nil
))
50 (defvar mail-directory-names t
51 "Alist of mail address directory entries.
52 When t this still needs to be initialized.")
54 (defvar mail-address-field-regexp
55 "^\\(Resent-\\)?\\(To\\|From\\|CC\\|BCC\\|Reply-to\\):")
57 (defcustom mail-complete-alist
58 ;; Don't use backquote here; we don't want backquote to get loaded
59 ;; just because of loading this file.
60 ;; Don't refer to mail-address-field-regexp here;
61 ;; that confuses some things such as cus-dep.el.
62 (cons '("^\\(Resent-\\)?\\(To\\|From\\|CC\\|BCC\\|Reply-to\\):"
63 .
(mail-get-names pattern
))
64 '(("Newsgroups:" .
(if (boundp 'gnus-active-hashtb
)
66 (if (boundp news-group-article-assoc
)
67 news-group-article-assoc
)))
68 ("Followup-To:" .
(mail-sentto-newsgroups))
69 ;;("Distribution:" ???)
71 "*Alist of header field and expression to return alist for completion.
72 The expression may reference the variable `pattern'
73 which will hold the string being completed.
74 If not on matching header, `mail-complete-function' gets called instead."
77 (put 'mail-complete-alist
'risky-local-variable t
)
80 (defcustom mail-complete-style
'angles
81 "*Specifies how \\[mail-complete] formats the full name when it completes.
82 If `nil', they contain just the return address like:
84 If `parens', they look like:
85 king@grassland.com (Elvis Parsley)
86 If `angles', they look like:
87 Elvis Parsley <king@grassland.com>"
88 :type
'(choice (const angles
) (const parens
) (const nil
))
91 (defcustom mail-complete-function
'ispell-complete-word
92 "*Function to call when completing outside `mail-complete-alist'-header."
93 :type
'(choice function
(const nil
))
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."
135 (put 'mail-directory-stream
'risky-local-variable t
)
137 (defcustom mail-directory-parser nil
138 "*How to interpret the output of `mail-directory-function'.
139 Three types of values are possible:
141 - nil means to gather each line as one name
142 - regexp means first \\(grouping\\) in successive matches is name
143 - function called at beginning of buffer that returns an alist of names"
144 :type
'(choice (const nil
) regexp function
)
146 (put 'mail-directory-parser
'risky-local-variable t
)
148 ;; Internal variables.
151 "Alist of local users, aliases and directory entries as available.
152 Elements have the form (MAILNAME) or (MAILNAME . FULLNAME).
153 If the value means t, it means the real value should be calculated
154 for the next use. This is used in `mail-complete'.")
156 (defvar mail-local-names t
157 "Alist of local users.
158 When t this still needs to be initialized.")
161 ;; Called from sendmail-send-it, or similar functions,
162 ;; only if some mail aliases are defined.
164 (defun expand-mail-aliases (beg end
&optional exclude
)
165 "Expand all mail aliases in suitable header fields found between BEG and END.
166 If interactive, expand in header fields.
167 Suitable header fields are `To', `From', `CC' and `BCC', `Reply-to', and
168 their `Resent-' variants.
170 Optional second arg EXCLUDE may be a regular expression defining text to be
171 removed from alias expansions."
174 (list (goto-char (point-min))
176 (sendmail-sync-aliases)
177 (when (eq mail-aliases t
)
178 (setq mail-aliases nil
)
179 (build-mail-aliases))
182 (setq end
(set-marker (make-marker) end
))
183 (let ((case-fold-search nil
))
184 (while (let ((case-fold-search t
))
185 (re-search-forward mail-address-field-regexp end t
))
186 (skip-chars-forward " \t")
189 ;; DISABLED-ALIASES records aliases temporarily disabled
190 ;; while we scan text that resulted from expanding those aliases.
191 ;; Each element is (ALIAS . TILL-WHEN), where TILL-WHEN
192 ;; is where to reenable the alias (expressed as number of chars
193 ;; counting from END1).
194 (disabled-aliases nil
))
195 (re-search-forward "^[^ \t]" end
'move
)
197 (skip-chars-backward " \t\n")
198 (setq end1
(point-marker))
200 (while (< (point) end1
)
202 ;; Reenable any aliases which were disabled for ranges
203 ;; that we have passed out of.
204 (while (and disabled-aliases
205 (> pos
(- end1
(cdr (car disabled-aliases
)))))
206 (setq disabled-aliases
(cdr disabled-aliases
)))
207 ;; EPOS gets position of end of next name;
208 ;; SEPLEN gets length of whitespace&separator that follows it.
209 (if (re-search-forward "[ \t]*[\n,][ \t]*" end1 t
)
210 (setq epos
(match-beginning 0)
211 seplen
(- (point) epos
))
212 (setq epos
(marker-position end1
) seplen
0))
213 (let ((string (buffer-substring-no-properties pos epos
))
215 (if (and (not (assoc string disabled-aliases
))
216 (setq translation
(cdr (assoc string mail-aliases
))))
218 ;; This name is an alias. Disable it.
219 (setq disabled-aliases
(cons (cons string
(- end1 epos
))
221 ;; Replace the alias with its expansion
222 ;; then rescan the expansion for more aliases.
226 (let ((regexp (concat "\\b\\(" exclude
"\\)\\b"))
227 (end (point-marker)))
229 (while (re-search-forward regexp end t
)
232 (delete-region (point) (+ (point) (- epos pos
)))
234 ;; Name is not an alias. Skip to start of next name.
236 (forward-char seplen
))))
237 (set-marker end1 nil
)))
238 (set-marker end nil
))))
240 ;; Called by mail-setup, or similar functions, only if the file specified
241 ;; by mail-personal-alias-file (usually `~/.mailrc') exists.
242 (defun build-mail-aliases (&optional file
)
243 "Read mail aliases from personal aliases file and set `mail-aliases'.
244 By default, this is the file specified by `mail-personal-alias-file'."
245 (setq file
(expand-file-name (or file mail-personal-alias-file
)))
246 ;; In case mail-aliases is t, make sure define-mail-alias
247 ;; does not recursively call build-mail-aliases.
248 (setq mail-aliases nil
)
250 (obuf (current-buffer)))
253 (setq buffer
(generate-new-buffer " mailrc"))
256 (cond ((get-file-buffer file
)
257 (insert (save-excursion
258 (set-buffer (get-file-buffer file
))
259 (buffer-substring-no-properties
260 (point-min) (point-max)))))
261 ((file-exists-p file
) (insert-file-contents file
))
262 ((file-exists-p (setq file
(concat "~/" file
)))
263 (insert-file-contents file
))
265 (goto-char (point-min))
266 ;; Delete comments from the contents.
267 (while (search-forward "# " nil t
)
268 (let ((p (- (point) 2)))
270 (delete-region p
(point))))
271 ;; Don't lose if no final newline.
272 (goto-char (point-max))
273 (or (eq (preceding-char) ?
\n) (newline))
274 (goto-char (point-min))
275 ;; handle "\\\n" continuation lines
278 (if (= (preceding-char) ?
\\)
279 (progn (delete-char -
1) (delete-char 1) (insert ?\
))
281 (goto-char (point-min))
282 ;; handle `source' directives -- Eddy/1994/May/25
283 (cond ((re-search-forward "^source[ \t]+" nil t
)
284 (re-search-forward "\\S-+")
285 (setq file
(buffer-substring-no-properties
286 (match-beginning 0) (match-end 0)))
288 (insert "# ") ; to ensure we don't re-process this file
290 (t (setq file nil
))))
291 (goto-char (point-min))
292 (while (re-search-forward
293 "^\\(a\\|alias\\|g\\|group\\)[ \t]+\\([^ \t\n]+\\)" nil t
)
294 (let* ((name (match-string 2))
295 (start (progn (skip-chars-forward " \t") (point)))
298 (setq value
(buffer-substring-no-properties start
(point)))
299 (unless (equal value
"")
300 (define-mail-alias name value t
))))
302 (if buffer
(kill-buffer buffer
))
305 ;; Always autoloadable in case the user wants to define aliases
306 ;; interactively or in .emacs.
308 (defun define-mail-alias (name definition
&optional from-mailrc-file
)
309 "Define NAME as a mail alias that translates to DEFINITION.
310 This means that sending a message to NAME will actually send to DEFINITION.
312 Normally, the addresses in DEFINITION must be separated by commas.
313 If FROM-MAILRC-FILE is non-nil, then addresses in DEFINITION
314 can be separated by spaces; an address can contain spaces
315 if it is quoted with double-quotes."
317 (interactive "sDefine mail alias: \nsDefine %s as mail alias for: ")
318 ;; Read the defaults first, if we have not done so.
319 ;; But not if we are doing that already right now.
320 (unless from-mailrc-file
321 (sendmail-sync-aliases))
322 (if (eq mail-aliases t
)
324 (setq mail-aliases nil
)
325 (if (file-exists-p mail-personal-alias-file
)
326 (build-mail-aliases))))
327 ;; strip garbage from front and end
328 (if (string-match "\\`[ \t\n,]+" definition
)
329 (setq definition
(substring definition
(match-end 0))))
330 (if (string-match "[ \t\n,]+\\'" definition
)
331 (setq definition
(substring definition
0 (match-beginning 0))))
333 ;; If DEFINITION is null string, avoid looping even once.
334 (start (and (not (equal definition
"")) 0))
335 (L (length definition
))
339 (setq convert-backslash nil
)
340 ;; If we're reading from the mailrc file, then addresses are delimited
341 ;; by spaces, and addresses with embedded spaces must be surrounded by
342 ;; double-quotes. Otherwise, addresses are separated by commas.
344 (if (eq ?
\" (aref definition start
))
345 ;; The following test on `found' compensates for a bug
346 ;; in match-end, which does not return nil when match
348 (let ((found (string-match "[^\\]\\(\\([\\][\\]\\)*\\)\"[ \t,]*"
350 (setq start
(1+ start
)
351 end
(and found
(match-end 1))
352 convert-backslash t
))
353 (setq end
(string-match "[ \t,]+" definition start
)))
354 (setq end
(string-match "[ \t\n,]*,[ \t\n,]*" definition start
)))
355 (let ((temp (substring definition start end
))
360 (if convert-backslash
361 (while (string-match "[\\]" temp pos
)
362 (setq temp
(replace-match "" t t temp
))
364 (setq start
(1- start
)))
365 (setq pos
(match-end 0))))
366 (setq result
(cons temp result
))))
367 (setq definition
(mapconcat (function identity
)
370 (setq tem
(assoc name mail-aliases
))
372 (rplacd tem definition
)
373 (setq mail-aliases
(cons (cons name definition
) mail-aliases
)
377 (defun mail-complete (arg)
378 "Perform completion on header field or word preceding point.
379 Completable headers are according to `mail-complete-alist'. If none matches
380 current header, calls `mail-complete-function' and passes prefix arg if any."
382 ;; Read the defaults first, if we have not done so.
383 (sendmail-sync-aliases)
384 (if (eq mail-aliases t
)
386 (setq mail-aliases nil
)
387 (if (file-exists-p mail-personal-alias-file
)
388 (build-mail-aliases))))
389 (let ((list mail-complete-alist
))
390 (if (and (< 0 (mail-header-end))
392 (if (re-search-backward "^[^\t]" nil t
)
394 (if (looking-at (car (car list
)))
395 (setq arg
(cdr (car list
))
397 (setq list
(cdr list
)))))
401 (skip-chars-backward "^ \t<,:")
403 (pattern (buffer-substring beg end
))
405 (setq list
(eval arg
)
406 completion
(try-completion pattern list
))
407 (cond ((eq completion t
))
409 (message "Can't find completion for \"%s\"" pattern
)
411 ((not (string= pattern completion
))
412 (delete-region beg end
)
413 (let ((alist-elt (assoc completion mail-names
)))
415 (cond ((eq mail-complete-style
'parens
)
416 (insert completion
" (" (cdr alist-elt
) ")"))
417 ((eq mail-complete-style
'angles
)
418 (insert (cdr alist-elt
) " <" completion
">"))
420 (insert completion
)))
421 (insert completion
))))
423 (message "Making completion list...")
424 (with-output-to-temp-buffer "*Completions*"
425 (display-completion-list
426 (all-completions pattern list
)))
427 (message "Making completion list...%s" "done"))))
428 (funcall mail-complete-function arg
))))
430 (defun mail-get-names (pattern)
431 "Fetch local users and global mail addresses for completion.
432 Consults `/etc/passwd' and a directory service if one is set up via
433 `mail-directory-function'.
434 PATTERN is the string we want to complete."
435 (if (eq mail-local-names t
)
437 (set-buffer (generate-new-buffer " passwd"))
438 (let ((files mail-passwd-files
))
440 (insert-file-contents (car files
) nil nil nil t
)
441 (setq files
(cdr files
))))
442 (if mail-passwd-command
443 (call-process shell-file-name nil t nil
444 shell-command-switch mail-passwd-command
))
445 (goto-char (point-min))
446 (setq mail-local-names nil
)
448 ;;Recognize lines like
449 ;; nobody:*:65534:65534::/:
450 ;; +demo::::::/bin/csh
454 ;; The second \(...\) matches the user id.
455 (if (looking-at "\\+?\\([^:@\n+]+\\):[^:\n]*:\\([^\n:]*\\):")
456 (add-to-list 'mail-local-names
457 (cons (match-string 1)
459 (string-to-number (match-string 2))))))
460 (beginning-of-line 2))
461 (kill-buffer (current-buffer))))
462 (if (or (eq mail-names t
)
463 (eq mail-directory-names t
))
465 (and mail-directory-function
466 (eq mail-directory-names t
)
468 (mail-directory (if mail-directory-requery pattern
))))
469 (or mail-directory-requery
470 (setq mail-directory-names directory
))
474 (sort (append (if (consp mail-aliases
)
476 (function (lambda (a) (list (car a
))))
478 (if (consp mail-local-names
)
481 (when (consp mail-directory-names
)
482 mail-directory-names
)))
484 ;; should cache downcased strings
485 (string< (downcase (car a
))
486 (downcase (car b
)))))))))
490 (defun mail-directory (pattern)
491 "Use mail-directory facility to get user names matching PATTERN.
492 If PATTERN is nil, get all the defined user names.
493 This function calls `mail-directory-function' to query the directory,
494 then uses `mail-directory-parser' to parse the output it returns."
496 (message "Querying directory...")
497 (set-buffer (generate-new-buffer " *mail-directory*"))
498 (funcall mail-directory-function pattern
)
501 (if (stringp mail-directory-parser
)
502 (while (re-search-forward mail-directory-parser nil t
)
504 (cons (match-string 1) directory
)))
505 (if mail-directory-parser
506 (setq directory
(funcall mail-directory-parser
))
509 (cons (buffer-substring (point)
516 (kill-buffer (current-buffer))
517 (message "Querying directory...done")
521 (defun mail-directory-process (pattern)
522 "Run a shell command to output names in directory.
523 See `mail-directory-process'."
524 (when (consp mail-directory-process
)
525 (apply 'call-process
(eval (car mail-directory-process
)) nil t nil
526 (mapcar 'eval
(cdr mail-directory-process
)))))
528 ;; This should handle a dialog. Currently expects port to spit out names.
529 (defun mail-directory-stream (pattern)
530 "Open a stream to retrieve names in directory.
531 See `mail-directory-stream'."
532 (let (mailalias-done)
533 (set-process-sentinel
534 (apply 'open-network-stream
"mailalias" (current-buffer)
535 mail-directory-stream
)
537 (setq mailalias-done t
)))
538 (while (not mailalias-done
)
541 (defun mail-sentto-newsgroups ()
542 "Return all entries from Newsgroups: header as completion alist."
544 (if (mail-position-on-field "newsgroups" t
)
545 (let ((point (point))
547 (while (< (skip-chars-backward "^:, \t\n") 0)
548 (setq list
`((,(buffer-substring (point) point
))
550 (skip-chars-backward ", \t\n")
551 (setq point
(point)))
556 ;;; arch-tag: 1d6a0f87-eb34-4d45-8816-60c1b952cf46
557 ;;; mailalias.el ends here