I switched from nmh to mutt about 6 months back, and overall I'm pretty
pleased. There are two things I used to do with nmh that I haven't
found a (good) way to do with mutt, though.
First of all, I'd like to see the hostname portion of the Message-ID in
the index (assuming there is one, of course). I find that quite useful
on occasion (e.g., mail from root crontabs from a cluster of machines
all using a smarthost -- the message id is an easy way to tell which
host the message is from). Unfortunately, I haven't been able to find a
way to do this. I guess I could set up a procmail recipe to put it in
the subject or something, but that seems rather ugly.
The other problem I have is that I keep a message archive mirroring
the layout of my folders. E.g, if there's a =foo & =bar, I also
want an =Archive/foo & =Archive/bar that reflect the past contents
of those folders. Since I use procmail, the obvious solution (which
I'm currently doing) is to send messages both to the folder itself
and to the archive folder when sorting incoming mail. Unfortunately
that (a) leads to an ugly procmailrc, (b) completely loses state info
(read/unread/replied, etc) and (c) fails to account for messages that
are mis-sorted by procmail which I then manualy put into the right
folder.
mh, of course, has an rmmproc, which I redefined to move messages to the
archive folder rather than deleting them. If possible, I'd like to do
something similar in mutt, so that I can use all the delete stuff (by
message, thread, subthread, etc) but instead of simply deleting the
message it's moved to =Archive/<foldername>.
I'd much appreciate any tips/pointers that help me towards either of the
above. Mutt's a great mail program, and solutions to these two problems
would put me close to MUA nirvanah.
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