Hi Mun,
> I was wondering about the status of David Champion's X-Label patches
> with respect to Mutt v.1.6.1?
The last I heard, he keeps it up-to-date and uses it regularly.
> Has David's X-Label functionality been incorporated into Mutt?
No, but it's on my list for inclusion in NeoMutt.
https://github.com/neomutt/neomutt.git
Branch: devel/keywords
This is currently branched from mutt-1.6.0, so it will be a simple job
to rebase it to 1.6.1.
> If not, are there new patches available?
> The patches I have are for Mutt v.1.5.8;
His patches on BitBucket were last updated on 2015-05-11:
https://bitbucket.org/dgc/mutt-dgc
Rich / FlatCap
