Thanks to Gary Johnson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]), my problem is solved perfectly with his mail-to-filter2 perl code.
1. Add set display_filter=mail-to-filter to .muttrc 2. Save http://www.spocom.com/users/gjohnson/mutt/mail-to-filter2 as mail-to-filter. (Do not forget to chmod +x ) Done. Long cc/to list are replaced by [<lines> lines deleted] and I can always see the original header with h command. > > % Is there a way to let mutt display only one or two lines of "To" field? I > > % frequently receive emails with several pages of 'To's. Ignoring the To field > > Hmmm... You might set up a display filter that prints only the first > > <N> characters of a ^To:_ match for whatever N you like. Better yet, > > teach it about your $alternates (heh from another thread!) and then have > > it show only those addresses near yours or replace the whole thing with > > NOBODY_AT_THIS_ADDRESS! or some such. > > % altogether does not sound like a good idea. > > Agreed, though you could always see it again by looking at all of the > > headers if you wanted to... > > % > > % Thanks. > > HTH & HAND Bo Peng Department of Statistics Rice University http://www.stat.rice.edu/~bpeng