On Thu, Jun 20, 2002 at 01:10:39PM -0700, Matthew Hunt wrote: > On Thu, Jun 20, 2002 at 03:24:54PM -0400, Bosko Milekic wrote: > > > cool if mutt did it). What this does is pretty straightforward: I see > > a thread with subject "foo." I don't like it. I really don't like it. > > I hit a key combination such as, I don't know, CTRL+B (or something not > > bound yet), and not only is the entire thread instantly marked for > > deletion, but a carefully crafted rule is also dropped into a sh*tlist > > file (that can be handled by procmail?) which will ensure that all > > _future_ mailings that are in response to said thread will immediately > > be marked for deletion, or merely filtered. Hence, "persistent thread > > suppression/deletion." > > This shouldn't be hard to glue together without modifying mutt itself. > Make a little program, foo, that takes the message on stdin, passes > it through "formail -x subject", massages it into a procmail rule, and > appends it to some procmail rule file. The "massage" step should include > escaping characters that have special meanings in procmail regexps, and > adding something like (Re: *)? at the beginning of the subject when > appropriate. Shouldn't be more than a screenful of Perl.
Interesting. How would you have a key bound sequence in mutt set off the script on the message, though? For instance, if I do a "ctrl+B", how would you ensure that the Right Thing happens, without modifying mutt code? > -- > Matthew Hunt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Stay close to the Vorlon. > http://www.pobox.com/~mph/ * -- Bosko Milekic [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
