On 20:17 Thu 15 Oct, pancake wrote: > Anselm R Garbe wrote: >> following (n)mh in this respect, though I'd really appreciate having >> some kind of mail dir pager, perhaps the relevant parts ripped from >> mutt or written from scratch. I always found that the threading >> display in mutt is excellent and I'd really think the basic mail >> lister + previewer as an addition tool in the mh tool chain for >> listing mails and threads would be nice, it's the only feature I'd >> really miss and the only feature with a crappy curses dependency in >> the toolchain ;) >> >> > I have always hated the threaded views..Well that's not true at all, > few years ago I used to use them a lot, and yeah, mutt owns the best > threading view (compared to thunderbird, claws..) > > But actually I dont find them useful or practical because they hide the > timeline of the mailbox by strange trees of mails. > > What I would really find useful is a decent filtering system , but always > keeping the timeline, which is in mail one of the most important things.
-- snip -- In mutt one can press 'o' and 'd' to sort by date and 'o' 't' to sort by thread. One can supply defaults with hooks -- eg: folder-hook inbox "set sort=date" folder-hook dwm "set sort=threads" -steve
