On Tue, Apr 25, 2023 at 03:18:21PM +0200, Christoph Brinkhaus wrote: > Am Tue, Apr 25, 2023 at 07:07:07AM -0400 schrieb Greg Wooledge: > > But then the interesting bit happens once you've read that first message. > > When you mark it for deletion, you immediately move to the next message. > > You DON'T go back to the "thread view" screen. You just see the next > > message, and you can read that and mark it for deletion, and then you see > > the third message, and so on. > Yes, this is annoying. There are two things to countermeasure that > by configuration in the users muttrc file.
Perhaps I wasn't clear enough. This is not "annoying". This is efficient. This is how I prefer to read mail. I like it this way. It's about workflow habits. If there are 20 unread messages from mailing lists and spammers sitting in my inbox, I want to blast through them all as quickly as possible. I read the first message body, decide whether it's something I care about based *solely on what I'm seeing* in the body, and then typically move on to the next message. If the message has content that catches my eye, then I'll slow down and read it in more detail. Perhaps I'll reply to it. If the message doesn't have anything interesting to me, then I hit "d" and repeat this procedure for the next message. > 1. Do not hide the "thread view" when being in the "message view". > set pager_index_lines=6 > On your installation it seems to be 0. In the example you will see > five lines of the "thread view" plus a header line. On my installation > the tiny "thread view" appears on top of the bigger "message view". > > 2. Include the Subject in the output of the shown message > You can include or ignore fields of the header to the information > shown at the top of the message. Example lines are below. > ignore Content-Type User-Agent X-Mailer > unignore From Subject Message-Id The Subject is already one of the headers shown when I read a message. That's not the issue. The issue is that I don't *look at that part of the screen* when I'm blasting through messages in bulk. I only read the bodies, unless something demands that I look at the top part of the screen -- for example, a body that just says "thanks!" or "see Subject". Similarly, that first suggestion would just add more cruft that I won't look at when I'm in mass-read-and-delete mode. Looking at it would just slow me down, and more importantly, would require a break from my habitual workflow.
