On Thu, Jan 13, 2000 at 11:18:21PM +1100, Matthew Hawkins wrote:
> On 2000-01-12 16:08:06 -0600, Jeremy Blosser wrote:
> > > information on how to get new mail put in folders based on patterns. can
> >
> > Mutt doesn't do this. Setup something like procmail.
>
> however there's at least one valid case that mutt can be in where the
> functionality is quite useful. This is when the spoolfile is an IMAP
> INBOX folder. That folder could get mail from a variety of places, and
> it makes sense for mutt to be able to filter that mail into subfolders
> (hell, Netscape mail among others can do it).
This is one of the two points I don't like about mutt. If mutt could
do this I would have no trouble accessing my mailbox with what is
currently available. Sometimes I'm on another machine, even using
another OS, dialling in from abroad maybe... And in such cases there
is no way to get the messages which procmail has filtered to folders.
If I just could have everything put into my mailbox and the reader can
filter it, I can have filtering while using my preferred setup and
reader, but still have the option of getting all mail when I'm forced
to access the account with another mailreader.
First I tried to create my own filters by assigning a push macro to a
key. The macro just did lots of tagging, moving, untagging.
Unfortunately problems soon appeared when there was no message to tag,
for example no message from the mutt-users list. Then the following
move command would simply move the current message.
I think if there was an option which would cause commands on tagged
messages (initiated with ;) to simply do nothing if there was no tagged
message, then it might work. I had a go at changing this behaviour in
the source, but failed. (No wonder, C is to me like written Japanese: I
sometimes can get the idea what it means, but I'm lost when the task is
to also enhance it.)
Cheers,
Kurt
