Hello developers of mutt, I remember or have evidences on my computer of using mutt since 2002. It handles all my relationship needs that are based on email.
On my system, I have set it so that I am saving all outgoing emails to Maildir folders like this: ~/Maildir/recipien...@example.com ~/Maildir/recipien...@example.com ~/Maildir/recipien...@example.com and so on. It also means that all the conversation that I have with that recipient is in one maildir. This is very handy and useful. If I press ESC-v then I can quickly jump to ~/Maildir/recipien...@example.com -- it actually spawns new mutt on that maildir, and I can see previous conversation of the person. Then I press q to exit, and I am back in the original index. Then I have features that I can for example, click F9, and automatically verify if the email address of a sender is already included in some of my CRM groups or Customer Relationship Groups. Basically, small program extracts the email address by piping, and verifies it in the database. Similarly, I can press ESC-k and tag a contact in the database. Or I can make a note related to the contact ID. It is all based on outside script that reads the email address. My handling would be greatly improved if some elements of the email header would be exposed into variables, so that such can be used in mutt scripting. Especially useful variables would be the From: email address, and From: name, then equally the Reply-To: and also Subject: and To: email address. That is the feature request. Then it would be possible to easier do things such as making outside notes on a contact, opening contact's directory to show all files related to contact such as faxes, letters, pictures and similar, easier saving by to/from email addresses, and easier entering of name, email address, subject into outside databases. This feature is for my business very useful. I can contribute in the way to translate mutt into Swahili and few other languages. Jean Louis
