On Mon, Aug 03, 2020 at 05:08:25PM -0400, Josef 'Jeff' Sipek wrote: > On Mon, Aug 03, 2020 at 16:23:03 -0400, Logan Rathbone wrote: > ... > > Another way of potentially achieving this may be to think outside the > > box -- or outside the index, in this case. > > > > Why not set up the MTA to deliver mail into a mailbox called "Today" and > > set up a daily cronjob to do further sorting of the mail into different > > mailboxes by date? This won't allow for separators in the index view, > > but will allow OP to view these groups of dates in the mailbox view. > > Alternatively, if you are accessing the mailboxes via IMAP, the server > software may have a fancier mechanism. For example, Dovecot has virtual > folders.
I'm on Dovecot, and am already taking full advantage of virtual folders. My virtual inbox is actually a "last 2 days" view, but I would *still* like to have a segmentation "Today", "Yesterday", etc within this mail index screen. I also have a "last 30 days" folder, where segmentation would be even more useful. One of the replies mentioned something about "tasteful" or similar. For me, mail is not a fashion statement, it needs to get work done, so not giving that taste argument much weight. Thus far, it seems like it's simply a technically difficult goal. Other than that, haven't seen a any legit alternatives or arguments to convert this want into "OK I really don't need it after all".
