On 28Feb2017 12:27, Bill Starrs <wjstarrs...@gmail.com> wrote:
Thanks, but this appears to only apply when creating a new message.
What I am looking to do is edit the headers of existing messages in my
work Inbox to add the Follow-up Flag, and sync those changes back to
the Exchange server with IMAP so that my flags are present in Outlook
on my work machine.
The behavior I would like to achieve is when I hit 'w' or "W" when on
a particular message, I can add a flag to the standard list of D\N\O\R\*\!
that will apply / remove the follow-up flag.
Well, mutt does have an <edit-message> command, which pops up the message in an
editor for modification. The trick is to temporarily set your editor to a
script that applies your change. Then next time mutt syncs your IMAP will be
updated.
So you'd write a script that accepted a filename argument (the temp file mutt
offers up for editing), prompts for the custom Outlook flag, applies it, quits.
Untested example (all on one line):
macro index ,F ':set my_old_editor=$editor<enter>:set
editor=adjust-outlook-flag.sh<enter><edit-message>:set editor=$my_old_editor<enter>'
so that typing ',F' invokes the script adjust-outlook-flag.sh. Then that would
prompt for a flag and then invoke something (eg "sed -i") to apply it to the
temp file.
Does that sound like a way forward?
Cheers,
Cameron Simpson <c...@zip.com.au>
