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...and then Heinrich Langos said...
% On Tue, Dec 19, 2000 at 03:22:58PM -0500, David T-G wrote:
% > ...and then Heinrich Langos said...
% > %
% > % often i get mails that i would like to be reminded of later.
...
% > % and is lost between tons of more or less important stuff.
% >
% > It sounds like you aren't using threading or other particularly
...
%
% well ... i do use threading, i sort out list traffic in seperate mailboxes,
% i clean up my inbox every once in a while, i set save_name to keep track
% of ongoing threads both ways ... and so on ...
Good enough.
%
% but i get up to a hundred mails a day. and the main point i was trying
% to make was that i don't want to be reminded of a mail all the time
% because it is so special but i want to get my reminders just in time.
Ah; gotcha.
%
% > If you're going to do this sort of thing, then a reminder folder would
% > be a good way to go. You could also use the X-Label: header to write
% > yourself a note (or even any string like "rem") and then very simply
% > limit to that string later.
%
% yeap a reminder folder will be the way to go. so that i can get that
% mails out of my incoming folder. but still can access it if i need to.
Sounds like it.
%
% could mutt ask me for input while running a macro ?
mutt's macro language can't, but your external script can.
% like this:
% i press my remind-key and mutt askes me for input (e.g. the time i
% want to be reminded of that message) and then pipes the mail to an
% external programm putting the input that i gave it in the X-Label
% header or on the command line for my external programm?
I'd figure your program would ask for the time (unless it saw it on the
command line, of course) and then do the work.
%
% that external programm would do this:
...
%
% writing that external programms is no problem .. probably perl ... the
% only thing i would have to think about is locking that file so if i
% should bounce the mail to myself i can delete it without interfereing
% with myself writing another reminder to that folder at the same time. :)
Well, you could always mutt_dotlock to lock it :-)
%
% so the question that remains is: how do i prompt a user in mutt
% for input and use that input in the macro?
It seems that the answer is that "you don't" :-)
%
% best regards
% -heinrich
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