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."
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'."
247 (read-file-name (format "Read mail alias file (default %s): "
248 mail-personal-alias-file
)
249 nil mail-personal-alias-file t
)))
250 (setq file
(expand-file-name (or file mail-personal-alias-file
)))
251 ;; In case mail-aliases is t, make sure define-mail-alias
252 ;; does not recursively call build-mail-aliases.
253 (setq mail-aliases nil
)
256 (cond ((get-file-buffer file
)
257 (insert (with-current-buffer (get-file-buffer file
)
258 (buffer-substring-no-properties
259 (point-min) (point-max)))))
260 ((file-exists-p file
) (insert-file-contents file
))
261 ((file-exists-p (setq file
(expand-file-name file
"~/")))
262 (insert-file-contents file
))
264 (goto-char (point-min))
265 ;; Delete comments from the contents.
266 (while (search-forward "# " nil t
)
267 (let ((p (- (point) 2)))
269 (delete-region p
(point))))
270 ;; Don't lose if no final newline.
271 (goto-char (point-max))
272 (or (eq (preceding-char) ?
\n) (newline))
273 (goto-char (point-min))
274 ;; handle "\\\n" continuation lines
277 (if (= (preceding-char) ?
\\)
278 (progn (delete-char -
1) (delete-char 1) (insert ?\
))
280 (goto-char (point-min))
281 ;; handle `source' directives -- Eddy/1994/May/25
282 (cond ((re-search-forward "^source[ \t]+" nil t
)
283 (re-search-forward "\\S-+")
284 (setq file
(buffer-substring-no-properties
285 (match-beginning 0) (match-end 0)))
287 (insert "# ") ; to ensure we don't re-process this file
289 (t (setq file nil
))))
290 (goto-char (point-min))
291 (while (re-search-forward
292 "^\\(a\\|alias\\|g\\|group\\)[ \t]+\\([^ \t\n]+\\)" nil t
)
293 (let* ((name (match-string 2))
294 (start (progn (skip-chars-forward " \t") (point)))
297 (setq value
(buffer-substring-no-properties start
(point)))
298 (unless (equal value
"")
299 (define-mail-alias name value t
))))
302 ;; Always autoloadable in case the user wants to define aliases
303 ;; interactively or in .emacs.
304 ;; define-mail-abbrev in mailabbrev.el duplicates much of this code.
306 (defun define-mail-alias (name definition
&optional from-mailrc-file
)
307 "Define NAME as a mail alias that translates to DEFINITION.
308 This means that sending a message to NAME will actually send to DEFINITION.
310 Normally, the addresses in DEFINITION must be separated by commas.
311 If FROM-MAILRC-FILE is non-nil, then addresses in DEFINITION
312 can be separated by spaces; an address can contain spaces
313 if it is quoted with double-quotes."
315 (interactive "sDefine mail alias: \nsDefine %s as mail alias for: ")
316 ;; Read the defaults first, if we have not done so.
317 ;; But not if we are doing that already right now.
318 (unless from-mailrc-file
319 (sendmail-sync-aliases))
320 (if (eq mail-aliases t
)
322 (setq mail-aliases nil
)
323 (if (file-exists-p mail-personal-alias-file
)
324 (build-mail-aliases))))
325 ;; strip garbage from front and end
326 (if (string-match "\\`[ \t\n,]+" definition
)
327 (setq definition
(substring definition
(match-end 0))))
328 (if (string-match "[ \t\n,]+\\'" definition
)
329 (setq definition
(substring definition
0 (match-beginning 0))))
331 (let* ((L (length definition
))
332 (start (if (> L
0) 0))
333 end this-entry result tem
)
337 ;; If we're reading from the mailrc file, addresses are
338 ;; delimited by spaces, and addresses with embedded spaces are
339 ;; surrounded by non-escaped double-quotes.
340 (if (eq ?
\" (aref definition start
))
341 (setq start
(1+ start
)
342 end
(and (string-match
343 "[^\\]\\(\\([\\][\\]\\)*\\)\"[ \t,]*"
346 (setq end
(string-match "[ \t,]+" definition start
)))
347 ;; Extract the address and advance the loop past it.
348 (setq this-entry
(substring definition start end
)
349 start
(and end
(/= (match-end 0) L
) (match-end 0)))
350 ;; If the full name contains a problem character, quote it.
351 (and (string-match "\\(.+?\\)[ \t]*\\(<.*>\\)" this-entry
)
352 (string-match "[^- !#$%&'*+/0-9=?A-Za-z^_`{|}~]"
353 (match-string 1 this-entry
))
354 (setq this-entry
(replace-regexp-in-string
355 "\\(.+?\\)[ \t]*\\(<.*>\\)"
358 ;; When we are not reading from .mailrc, addresses are
359 ;; separated by commas. Try to accept a rfc822-like syntax.
360 ;; (Todo: extend rfc822.el to do the work for us.)
361 ((equal (string-match
362 "[ \t,]*\\(\"\\(?:[^\"]\\|[^\\]\\(?:[\\][\\]\\)*\"\\)*\"[ \t]*\
363 <[-.!#$%&'*+/0-9=?A-Za-z^_`{|}~@]+>\\)[ \t,]*"
366 ;; If an entry has a valid [ "foo bar" <foo@example.com> ]
367 ;; form, use it literally . This also allows commas in the
368 ;; quoted string, e.g. [ "foo bar, jr" <foo@example.com> ]
369 (setq this-entry
(match-string 1 definition
)
370 start
(and (/= (match-end 0) L
) (match-end 0))))
372 ;; Otherwise, read the next address by looking for a comma.
373 (setq end
(string-match "[ \t\n,]*,[ \t\n]*" definition start
))
374 (setq this-entry
(substring definition start end
))
375 ;; Advance the loop past this address.
376 (setq start
(and end
(/= (match-end 0) L
) (match-end 0)))
377 ;; If the full name contains a problem character, quote it.
378 (and (string-match "\\(.+?\\)[ \t]*\\(<.*>\\)" this-entry
)
379 (string-match "[^- !#$%&'*+/0-9=?A-Za-z^_`{|}~]"
380 (match-string 1 this-entry
))
381 (setq this-entry
(replace-regexp-in-string
382 "\\(.+?\\)[ \t]*\\(<.*>\\)" "\"\\1\" \\2"
384 (push this-entry result
))
386 (setq definition
(mapconcat (function identity
)
387 (nreverse result
) ", "))
388 (setq tem
(assoc name mail-aliases
))
390 (rplacd tem definition
)
391 (setq mail-aliases
(cons (cons name definition
) mail-aliases
)
395 (defun mail-completion-at-point-function ()
396 "Compute completion data for mail aliases.
397 For use on `completion-at-point-functions'."
398 ;; Read the defaults first, if we have not done so.
399 (sendmail-sync-aliases)
400 (if (eq mail-aliases t
)
402 (setq mail-aliases nil
)
403 (if (file-exists-p mail-personal-alias-file
)
404 (build-mail-aliases))))
405 (let ((list mail-complete-alist
)
407 (if (and (< 0 (mail-header-end))
409 (if (re-search-backward "^[^\t ]" nil t
)
411 (if (looking-at (car (car list
)))
412 (setq list-exp
(cdr (car list
))
414 (setq list
(cdr list
)))))
418 (skip-chars-backward "^ \t<,:")
420 (table (completion-table-dynamic
422 (let ((pattern prefix
)) (eval list-exp
))))))
423 (list beg end table
)))))
426 (defun mail-complete (arg)
427 "Perform completion on header field or word preceding point.
428 Completable headers are according to `mail-complete-alist'. If none matches
429 current header, calls `mail-complete-function' and passes prefix ARG if any."
431 ;; Read the defaults first, if we have not done so.
432 (sendmail-sync-aliases)
433 (if (eq mail-aliases t
)
435 (setq mail-aliases nil
)
436 (if (file-exists-p mail-personal-alias-file
)
437 (build-mail-aliases))))
438 (let ((data (mail-completion-at-point-function)))
440 (apply #'completion-in-region data
)
441 (funcall mail-complete-function arg
))))
442 (make-obsolete 'mail-complete
'mail-completion-at-point-function
"24.1")
444 (defun mail-completion-expand (table)
445 "Build new completion table that expands aliases.
446 Completes like TABLE except that if the completion is a valid alias,
447 it expands it to its full `mail-complete-style' form."
448 (lambda (string pred action
)
451 (let* ((comp (try-completion string table pred
))
452 (name (and (listp table
) comp
453 (assoc (if (stringp comp
) comp string
) table
))))
456 ((eq mail-complete-style
'parens
)
457 (concat (car name
) " (" (cdr name
) ")"))
458 ((eq mail-complete-style
'angles
)
459 (concat (cdr name
) " <" (car name
) ">"))
462 (complete-with-action action table string pred
)))))
464 (defun mail-get-names (prefix)
465 "Fetch local users and global mail addresses for completion.
466 Consults `/etc/passwd' and a directory service if one is set up via
467 `mail-directory-function'.
468 PREFIX is the string we want to complete."
469 (if (eq mail-local-names t
)
470 (with-current-buffer (generate-new-buffer " passwd")
471 (let ((files mail-passwd-files
))
473 (insert-file-contents (car files
) nil nil nil t
)
474 (setq files
(cdr files
))))
475 (if mail-passwd-command
476 (call-process shell-file-name nil t nil
477 shell-command-switch mail-passwd-command
))
478 (goto-char (point-min))
479 (setq mail-local-names nil
)
481 ;;Recognize lines like
482 ;; nobody:*:65534:65534::/:
483 ;; +demo::::::/bin/csh
487 ;; The second \(...\) matches the user id.
488 (if (looking-at "\\+?\\([^:@\n+]+\\):[^:\n]*:\\([^\n:]*\\):")
489 (add-to-list 'mail-local-names
490 (cons (match-string 1)
492 (string-to-number (match-string 2))))))
493 (beginning-of-line 2))
494 (kill-buffer (current-buffer))))
495 (if (or (eq mail-names t
)
496 (eq mail-directory-names t
))
498 (and mail-directory-function
499 (eq mail-directory-names t
)
501 (mail-directory (if mail-directory-requery prefix
))))
502 (or mail-directory-requery
503 (setq mail-directory-names directory
))
507 (sort (append (if (consp mail-aliases
)
509 (function (lambda (a) (list (car a
))))
511 (if (consp mail-local-names
)
514 (when (consp mail-directory-names
)
515 mail-directory-names
)))
517 ;; Should cache downcased strings.
518 (string< (downcase (car a
))
519 (downcase (car b
)))))))))
520 (mail-completion-expand mail-names
))
523 (defun mail-directory (prefix)
524 "Use mail-directory facility to get user names matching PREFIX.
525 If PREFIX is nil, get all the defined user names.
526 This function calls `mail-directory-function' to query the directory,
527 then uses `mail-directory-parser' to parse the output it returns."
528 (message "Querying directory...")
529 (with-current-buffer (generate-new-buffer " *mail-directory*")
530 (funcall mail-directory-function prefix
)
531 (goto-char (point-min))
533 (if (stringp mail-directory-parser
)
534 (while (re-search-forward mail-directory-parser nil t
)
535 (push (match-string 1) directory
))
536 (if mail-directory-parser
537 (setq directory
(funcall mail-directory-parser
))
539 (push (buffer-substring (point)
546 (kill-buffer (current-buffer))
547 (message "Querying directory...done")
550 (defvar mailalias-done
)
552 (defun mail-directory-process (prefix)
553 "Run a shell command to output names in directory.
554 See `mail-directory-process'."
555 (when (consp mail-directory-process
)
556 (let ((pattern prefix
)) ;Dynbind!
557 (apply 'call-process
(eval (car mail-directory-process
)) nil t nil
558 (mapcar 'eval
(cdr mail-directory-process
))))))
560 ;; This should handle a dialog. Currently expects port to spit out names.
561 (defun mail-directory-stream (prefix)
562 "Open a stream to retrieve names in directory.
563 See `mail-directory-stream'."
564 (let ((mailalias-done nil
)
565 (pattern prefix
)) ;Dynbind!
566 (set-process-sentinel
567 (apply 'open-network-stream
"mailalias" (current-buffer)
568 mail-directory-stream
)
570 (setq mailalias-done t
)))
571 (while (not mailalias-done
)
574 (defun mail-sentto-newsgroups ()
575 "Return all entries from Newsgroups: header as completion alist."
577 (if (mail-position-on-field "newsgroups" t
)
578 (let ((point (point))
580 (while (< (skip-chars-backward "^:, \t\n") 0)
581 (setq list
`((,(buffer-substring (point) point
))
583 (skip-chars-backward ", \t\n")
584 (setq point
(point)))
589 ;;; mailalias.el ends here