* Derek Martin <inva...@pizzashack.org> [2011-02-27 18:11 -0800]: > On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 02:34:43PM -0600, Puneet Kishor wrote: > > There is much that I have to do to really get comfortable with mutt, but > > I think I am making slow but steady progress. One feature that really > > bothers me because of its absence is a unified mailbox. > > There isn't really any way to do this, except -- as others have said > already -- to get all your mail somehow delivered to the same folder. > ... > The easiest way to deal with multiple accounts with mutt is to deliver > mail from those accounts into specific folders, and use folder hooks > to set variables associated with the respective accounts upon entering > the folder.
I was reading the above message when it occurred to me that using the hcache functions of mutt might be suitable to implementing a unified inbox functionality. For example, if you could define multiple inboxes and their aliases, and defined each to have the same aliase, then each accounts' messages would be stored in the same hcache directory, and thus displayed in the same the mail folder. Obviously, this is a rough draft and would need more work to be fully functional... but I think it might be useful and doable. Of course, it would need a patch (extensive) to implement... thoughts? -- dave [ please don't CC me ]
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