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On Sat, 12 Jan 2002, Michael Elkins wrote:
> FWIW, I have this same annoyance with Mutt's IMAP handling. It's
> damned near imposible to copy a message between folders on different
> servers or local without a bunch of typing. I've been talkign to some
> folks over on IRC about this issue and I would welcome any comments.
> This was part of the reason I wrote isync, too.
Truthfully, implementing something along the lines of Pines collections
would solve all of my problems as long as mutt could handle logging into
the multiple imap servers simultaneously on startup. I also use
collections for grouping stuff on the local box.
For instance, I have the following collections on my local box (in
addition to the two imap servers on my home and work box)
friends -- contains about 40 mailboxes with mail correspondence for
various friends.
family -- contains about 6 mailboxes with various family members mail.
pbem -- contains about 20 mailboxes related to various pbem games I
play or have played
misc -- contains about 30-40 mailboxes with a variety of miscellaneous
topics.
I have a couple more, but you get the idea.
Right now when I recieve a mail in my primary inbox, I can quickly (via
^N/^P) select the folder collection it belongs to, and then tab complete
(within that collection) to the correct folder. Total cost, about 3-8
keystrokes depending on the length of the non-unique prefix of the folder
I want to save it to.
As far as I can tell from mutt, tab completion only works in the current
level of the directory, so I can get approximately the same (though not
exactly the same) behaviour within any given server store (either local or
remote) and using the filesystem heirarchy. This doesn't make it easy to
store various folder collections on various locations of the same disk,
which I would miss, but isn't critical.
I'll pop onto the openprojects.net server in a moment.
- --JT
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