David (and others on list),
Hi, again. Thanks for the advice so far. (I took your suggestion and
joined the list.)
So, I understand from you that what I had hoped to do is not possible
in mutt. Instead, I think I'm going to turn the question now on its
head, question _my_ assumptions in reading mailing list mail and ask
for further advice :).
I come from pine (which I never liked) and mh (which I was quite fond
of, though not as much as mutt, but in any case isn't available in my
present computing environment; neither for that matter do the
sysadmins support IMAP for the workaround you propose; and I've found
some relatively easy things like procmail are hard here since I'm on
an AFS cell). Anyway...
I'd appreciate your (and/or other peoples') suggestions for
efficiently dealing with high-traffic mailing lists (100+ messages per
day each). I use to do digests in pine with the persistent delete
flags I was hoping for here, but now I find that mutt's threading of
messages, combined with procmail's sorting them into individual
inboxes per mailing list, allows me to be probably 5-10 times more
efficient in handling mail than the previous digest way (and
_especially_ simplifies replying to such mail).
But, how do most people handle keeping track of which mail has been
read? flags? old/new? Or what else can people suggest to further ease
things?
Thanks so very much for any and all replies.
Take care,
Daniel
On Fri, Dec 15, 2000, David T-G wrote:
> Daniel --
>
> ...and then Daniel Freedman said...
> % Hi,
>
> Hello!
>
>
> %
> % Apologies upfront if this is well-known, but I searched mutt.org's FAQ
> % and manual, google's linux area , deja, etc. and came up completely
> % empty.
> %
> % I'd very much like to be able to set a message's status to 'deleted',
> % but: without synchronizing my mailbox/folder so as to actually expunge
> ...
> % similar, but I'd prefer to be unanbiguous in my mind and use the
> % DELETE flag instead.
>
> While that makes some sense, and I can understand your thoughts about
> threading becoming messy, that is not available in mutt. You can either
> quit or change and that will both sync your mailbox and mark items as old
> if you have mark_old set or you can just sync (bound by default to $) to
> write flag settings and purge deleted items, but there's no way to keep
> them around.
>
>
> %
> % Thanks so much for the suggestions (just a pointer to the right
> % document would also be appreciated).
>
> All I can suggest is that you read your mail through an IMAP connection,
> which apparently does allow you to store a 'D'elete flag across sessions.
>
> You might, though it's somewhat messy, whip up a macro that sets the
> X-Label: field to anything you wish; you could later go back and limit
> your view to just those messages and then truly delete them. You can
> even display the X-Label field in your index, so you could just make it
> 'D' and have another status-like column to show you what is what. If I
> were to do that, though, I'd probably set the field to something like the
> day of the month or even the julian day and then delete only the oldest
> marked messages.
>
>
> %
> % Take care,
>
> HTH & HAND
>
>
> %
> % Daniel
> %
> %
> % PS. Please cc me on replies as I don't subscribe. Thanks so much.
>
> Ah, but you should ;-)
>
>
> %
> % --
> % Daniel A. Freedman
> % Laboratory for Atomic and Solid State Physics
> % Department of Physics
> % Cornell University
>
>
> :-D
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Department of Physics
Cornell University
