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1 ;;; mailalias.el --- expand and complete mailing address aliases
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6 ;; Maintainer: FSF
7 ;; Keywords: mail
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26 ;;; Commentary:
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.
32 ;;; Code:
34 (require 'sendmail)
36 (defgroup mailalias nil
37 "Expanding mail aliases."
38 :group 'mail)
40 (defcustom mail-passwd-files '("/etc/passwd")
41 "*List of files from which to determine valid user names."
42 :type '(repeat string)
43 :group 'mailalias)
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))
48 :group 'mailalias)
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)
65 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."
75 :type 'alist
76 :group 'mailalias)
77 (put 'mail-complete-alist 'risky-local-variable t)
79 ;;;###autoload
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:
83 king@grassland.com
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))
89 :group 'mailalias)
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))
94 :group 'mailalias)
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))
100 :group 'mailalias)
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
106 entered so far."
107 :type 'boolean
108 :group 'mailalias)
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\")
124 or like this:
126 '(remote-shell-program \"HOST\" \"-n\" \"COMMAND '^\" pattern \"'\")"
127 :type 'sexp
128 :group 'mailalias)
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 'sexp
134 :group 'mailalias)
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)
145 :group 'mailalias)
146 (put 'mail-directory-parser 'risky-local-variable t)
148 ;; Internal variables.
150 (defvar mail-names t
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.
163 ;;;###autoload
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."
172 (interactive
173 (save-excursion
174 (list (goto-char (point-min))
175 (mail-header-end))))
176 (sendmail-sync-aliases)
177 (when (eq mail-aliases t)
178 (setq mail-aliases nil)
179 (build-mail-aliases))
180 (save-excursion
181 (goto-char beg)
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")
187 (let ((beg1 (point))
188 end1 pos epos seplen
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)
196 (beginning-of-line)
197 (skip-chars-backward " \t\n")
198 (setq end1 (point-marker))
199 (goto-char beg1)
200 (while (< (point) end1)
201 (setq pos (point))
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))
214 translation)
215 (if (and (not (assoc string disabled-aliases))
216 (setq translation (cdr (assoc string mail-aliases))))
217 (progn
218 ;; This name is an alias. Disable it.
219 (setq disabled-aliases (cons (cons string (- end1 epos))
220 disabled-aliases))
221 ;; Replace the alias with its expansion
222 ;; then rescan the expansion for more aliases.
223 (goto-char pos)
224 (insert translation)
225 (when exclude
226 (let ((regexp (concat "\\b\\(" exclude "\\)\\b"))
227 (end (point-marker)))
228 (goto-char pos)
229 (while (re-search-forward regexp end t)
230 (replace-match ""))
231 (goto-char end)))
232 (delete-region (point) (+ (point) (- epos pos)))
233 (goto-char pos))
234 ;; Name is not an alias. Skip to start of next name.
235 (goto-char epos)
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)
249 (let ((buffer nil)
250 (obuf (current-buffer)))
251 (unwind-protect
252 (progn
253 (setq buffer (generate-new-buffer " mailrc"))
254 (set-buffer buffer)
255 (while file
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))
264 (t (setq file nil)))
265 (goto-char (point-min))
266 ;; Delete comments from the contents.
267 (while (search-forward "# " nil t)
268 (let ((p (- (point) 2)))
269 (end-of-line)
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
276 (while (not (eobp))
277 (end-of-line)
278 (if (= (preceding-char) ?\\)
279 (progn (delete-char -1) (delete-char 1) (insert ?\ ))
280 (forward-char 1)))
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)))
287 (beginning-of-line)
288 (insert "# ") ; to ensure we don't re-process this file
289 (beginning-of-line))
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)))
296 value)
297 (end-of-line)
298 (setq value (buffer-substring-no-properties start (point)))
299 (unless (equal value "")
300 (define-mail-alias name value t))))
301 mail-aliases)
302 (if buffer (kill-buffer buffer))
303 (set-buffer obuf))))
305 ;; Always autoloadable in case the user wants to define aliases
306 ;; interactively or in .emacs.
307 ;;;###autoload
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)
323 (progn
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))))
332 (let ((result '())
333 ;; If DEFINITION is null string, avoid looping even once.
334 (start (and (not (equal definition "")) 0))
335 (L (length definition))
336 convert-backslash
337 end tem)
338 (while start
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.
343 (if from-mailrc-file
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
347 ;; failed.
348 (let ((found (string-match "[^\\]\\(\\([\\][\\]\\)*\\)\"[ \t,]*"
349 definition start)))
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))
356 (pos 0))
357 (setq start (and end
358 (/= (match-end 0) L)
359 (match-end 0)))
360 (if convert-backslash
361 (while (string-match "[\\]" temp pos)
362 (setq temp (replace-match "" t t temp))
363 (if start
364 (setq start (1- start)))
365 (setq pos (match-end 0))))
366 (setq result (cons temp result))))
367 (setq definition (mapconcat (function identity)
368 (nreverse result)
369 ", "))
370 (setq tem (assoc name mail-aliases))
371 (if tem
372 (rplacd tem definition)
373 (setq mail-aliases (cons (cons name definition) mail-aliases)
374 mail-names t))))
376 ;;;###autoload
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."
381 (interactive "P")
382 ;; Read the defaults first, if we have not done so.
383 (sendmail-sync-aliases)
384 (if (eq mail-aliases t)
385 (progn
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))
391 (save-excursion
392 (if (re-search-backward "^[^\t]" nil t)
393 (while list
394 (if (looking-at (car (car list)))
395 (setq arg (cdr (car list))
396 list ())
397 (setq list (cdr list)))))
398 arg))
399 (let* ((end (point))
400 (beg (save-excursion
401 (skip-chars-backward "^ \t<,:")
402 (point)))
403 (pattern (buffer-substring beg end))
404 completion)
405 (setq list (eval arg)
406 completion (try-completion pattern list))
407 (cond ((eq completion t))
408 ((null completion)
409 (message "Can't find completion for \"%s\"" pattern)
410 (ding))
411 ((not (string= pattern completion))
412 (delete-region beg end)
413 (let ((alist-elt (assoc completion mail-names)))
414 (if (cdr alist-elt)
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)
436 (save-excursion
437 (set-buffer (generate-new-buffer " passwd"))
438 (let ((files mail-passwd-files))
439 (while 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)
447 (while (not (eobp))
448 ;;Recognize lines like
449 ;; nobody:*:65534:65534::/:
450 ;; +demo::::::/bin/csh
451 ;; +ethanb
452 ;;while skipping
453 ;; +@SOFTWARE
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)
458 (user-full-name
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))
464 (let (directory)
465 (and mail-directory-function
466 (eq mail-directory-names t)
467 (setq directory
468 (mail-directory (if mail-directory-requery pattern))))
469 (or mail-directory-requery
470 (setq mail-directory-names directory))
471 (if (or directory
472 (eq mail-names t))
473 (setq mail-names
474 (sort (append (if (consp mail-aliases)
475 (mapcar
476 (function (lambda (a) (list (car a))))
477 mail-aliases))
478 (if (consp mail-local-names)
479 mail-local-names)
480 (or directory
481 (when (consp mail-directory-names)
482 mail-directory-names)))
483 (lambda (a b)
484 ;; should cache downcased strings
485 (string< (downcase (car a))
486 (downcase (car b)))))))))
487 mail-names)
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."
495 (save-excursion
496 (message "Querying directory...")
497 (set-buffer (generate-new-buffer " *mail-directory*"))
498 (funcall mail-directory-function pattern)
499 (goto-char 1)
500 (let (directory)
501 (if (stringp mail-directory-parser)
502 (while (re-search-forward mail-directory-parser nil t)
503 (setq directory
504 (cons (match-string 1) directory)))
505 (if mail-directory-parser
506 (setq directory (funcall mail-directory-parser))
507 (while (not (eobp))
508 (setq directory
509 (cons (buffer-substring (point)
510 (progn
511 (forward-line)
512 (if (bolp)
513 (1- (point))
514 (point))))
515 directory)))))
516 (kill-buffer (current-buffer))
517 (message "Querying directory...done")
518 directory)))
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)
536 (lambda (x y)
537 (setq mailalias-done t)))
538 (while (not mailalias-done)
539 (sit-for .1))))
541 (defun mail-sentto-newsgroups ()
542 "Return all entries from Newsgroups: header as completion alist."
543 (save-excursion
544 (if (mail-position-on-field "newsgroups" t)
545 (let ((point (point))
546 list)
547 (while (< (skip-chars-backward "^:, \t\n") 0)
548 (setq list `((,(buffer-substring (point) point))
549 ,@list))
550 (skip-chars-backward ", \t\n")
551 (setq point (point)))
552 list))))
554 (provide 'mailalias)
556 ;;; arch-tag: 1d6a0f87-eb34-4d45-8816-60c1b952cf46
557 ;;; mailalias.el ends here