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---------------------------------------- > Date: Thu=2C 29 Oct 2009 10:18:14 +1100 > From: c...@zip.com.au > To: incuba...@hotmail.co.uk > CC: mutt-users@mutt.org > Subject: Re: Subfolders > > On 28Oct2009 22:08=2C Charles Howard wrote: > | Every so often someone asks about nested subfolders with mutt. I've rea= d most of > | those back to about start of 2007. > | > | I'd like such a system but I haven't got it to work. My question is: > | > | Do you=2C a mutt user=2C who is reading this=2C delete most of your ema= il within a short > | period (say a week) ? > > Not really. I do move my old email off yearly (eg all of 2008 gets moved > sideways sometime in Feb 2009 - Jan is too early). That's for mailing > lists. So for each main folder "foo" I make an "OLD/foo/2008" and move > the mail into there. I maintain a symlink called "O" that points at > "OLD/2008" where "2008" is the most recent year. Why? Because I've > mapped (d)elete to "save to O/foldername". > > My main inbox=2C where supposedly important stuff tries to go=2C I do not > treat that way. I keep a lot of stuff there. > > My index view is sorted on reverse thread date=3B the most recent email i= s > at the top and you know how deep/recent the thread is=3B it helps avoid > premature response to a message early in a thread then there's another > reply later in the thread covering it. > > I do (F)lag messages I really must reply to or reread so I can find them > with a (l)imit: ~F later. > > I _strongly_ recommend the header-cache facility=3B it makes opening > folders with 10s of thousands of messages very quick. > > | Here's my background. I am an academic and I get about 1000 emails a mo= nth. This doesn't > | include solid-crap spam (nor mailing lists) and I need to keep most of = the 1000. I used pine > | (pre alpine) for many years and had a coarse-sort system of nested fold= ers that worked quite > | well. I was attracted to mutt by being able to write config files in em= acs=2C by the prospect of > | using procmail to do presorting=2C and by the prospect of using mairix = to search across the folder > | system. And the colours are nice too. (I have Mutt 1.5.18 under Ubuntu = 9.04=2C using Maildir=2C > | downloading to hard disc by running fetchmail on commandline (so I don'= t get distracted > | by new mail while dealing with existing).) > | > | Maybe mutt just isn't for keepers of emails? Or am I missing something? > > No=2C it's actually really good for keepers of email. Can you detail your > nested system? I'm sure I and others will have suggestions for > re-implementing it or for a scheme of similar usefulness to you. > > I see you already use mairix. I keep a mairix index for the top folders > and one for each yearly archive (essentially to keep the memory and > runtime footprints down - mairix loads the whole index when it does > updates). Default search uses the top index=2C but I have another small > shell script to search everything. > > In short=2C my nest looks like this (more folders than shown): > > me # important mail goes here > mutt # the mutt lists go here > mac # mac lists go here > python # python lists go here > O -> OLD/2008 > OLD/2008/me # (d)eleted mail from folder "me" > OLD/2008/mutt=2C ... # likewise > > And then there's the spam filtering and mail filing rules... > > Cheers=2C > -- > Cameron Simpson DoD#743 > http://www.cskk.ezoshosting.com/cs/ > > It is disconcerting to reflect on the number of students we have flunked = in > chemistry for not knowing what we later found to be untrue. > - quoted by Robert L. Weber's=2C _Science With a Smile_=2C 1992 That's many excellent pointers. Many thanks Javier=2C Cameron=2C Dan.=20 I'm really relieved to know that 10s of thousands can be handled.=20 The system Cameron describes is just what I want. But this is what I cannot get to work ---=20 My mail is on the harddrive=2C not IMAP=2C so I can't use C to create a folder. Instead I write an entry in procmail sending mail to the folder I want to create=2C then send myself a matching email. This way I can create Maildir folders and subfolders.=20 So=2C for example=2C I can create Maildir/0/ and then Maildir/0/journal1/ But in the folder list only 0 shows up. If I press enter on 0=20 I just get a blank screen. I'm not trying to put emails as well as folders in 0. I just have the one subfolder. I can see (from the shell) that Maildir/0/journal1/new/ contains an email=2C but cannot get to it from within mutt.=20 I'm probably missing something obvious=2C but can't see what it is.=20 Chas =20 _________________________________________________________________ Download Messenger onto your mobile for free http://clk.atdmt.com/UKM/go/174426567/direct/01/=
