On Sat, Jul 18, 2009 at 09:15:27AM -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: > The thread code arranges the display based on some field/information that > correllates sub-sets of email. I don't know what it is, but if the place > where it looks to decide whether or not to include a partcular email in > a thread were a setable option, like $folder - would that met OP's needs?
That is interesting, but if I understand it right, it assumes working with threads, and the content of $folder would need to change during displaying the message list to include so many different folders. Then what about the messages in a folder that aren't (or are) part of a thread? You still have what is used now to correlate messages, so you would have to add another information by which messages are correlated (i. e. $folder). If that could be done, you might end up with a display similar to what sup has: Display all messages in the same list from all sources the user has defined (like $folder), no matter where they are unless they are "archived" (i. e. read) or otherwise excluded from display (SPAM, "killed" thread, display limited to messages matching a search pattern, ...). Now that would be an interesting feature! However, it would (allow to) abandon the idea of organizing mail altogether, as sup does. I'm not sure yet how to deal with that, it might be possible. The only thing that sup seems to have for organizing mail is using labels. They aren't viewed as that but as a means to help finding messages. Having that option in mutt might be awesome ...
