On (10/02/13 12:02), Tim Gray <lists+m...@protozoic.com> put forth the
proposition:
On Feb 10, 2013 at 02:04 PM +0000, David Woodfall wrote:
So I'm just wondering how people here cope with organising mailing
lists with Maildir and any tips/tricks that may be a better way than
my present way.
I do what others have said regarding Maildir/dovecot. The 'layout=fs'
option let's dovecot use file system directories as folders instead of
the . separator (or something along those lines). It seems to work
with no problems when I actually access my mail store through dovecot.
Normally I just use mutt on the same computer that the mail is stored
and it has no problems with maildir. I think I dynamically generate
my mailbox list with a script that crawls through the directories and
returns directories that contain "cur", "new", and "tmp".
This isn't a Maildir specific hint, but it does pertain to managing
mailing lists. One thing that has helped make list management easier
is a couple of simple scripts that read a text file with my subscribed
mailing lists and the aliases I use for them. I then source that list
from .muttrc at various points where it automatically spits out the
appropriate information. For example, in my mailing_lists.txt
contains the following line:
mutt mutt mutt-u...@mutt.org
I then have the following lines in .muttrc:
source `getAliases.py > ~/.mutt/aliases-lists; echo \
~/.mutt/aliases-lists`
subscribe `getLists.py`
The getAliases.py script (could easily use awk or whatever you are
comfortable with) just spits out the 1st and 3rd columns of the file
prefixed with 'alias', so 'alias mutt mutt-users@mutt.org'. I don't
recall why I don't just use `source getAliases.py|`. I used to do
that, but for some reason in the past switched to the line I have
above.
getLists.py just spits out the 3rd column all in one line, so I get
subscribed to all the list addresses I want to. I haven't bothered
with the logical third step of this system, which is to write a script
that uses the second column (my folder names) to generate fcc- and
save-hooks for all my mailing lists dynamically, all from a single
easy to edit file.
Sorry if this is a long reply - I picked up this tip from someone on
this mailing list a while ago...
That's very similar to mine - I have 3 scripts at the moment. One like
yours generates the main file with alias and subscribe lines and also
recreates a .procmailrc-lists for routing. I have that bound to 'A' in
Mutt.
The other two scripts are mentioned elsewhere in this ML. One scans
all my directories looking for new mail, and then generates a
maliboxes command so I can see only those folders with new mail.
The last script just lists all my folders and generates a mailboxes
command so I can get a full view.
I bind these to <F5> and <F6> in Mutt.
It's really nice that Mutt supports scripting like this.
David
