* Tim Gray [16.04.2013 19:01]:
> How difficult would this be to implement? I know this is an open
> source project, and if I want a feature, I should implement it
> myself. I'll be honest with you, I don't really know C and mutt is
> a pretty mature project; it's a bit intimidating to jump into.
On Apr 16, 2013 at 06:01 PM -0700, Will Yardley wrote:
You're not, but obviously such a patch should never be implemented in
mutt itself.
I wasn't suggesting it should be.
On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 08:47:46PM -0400, Tim Gray wrote:
> On Apr 16, 2013 at 05:24 PM -0700, Gary Johnson wrote:
> >When the maildir format was created, it was decided to put a lot of
> >information in the file name to avoid having to open each file to
> >obtain or change that information. The f
On Apr 16, 2013 at 05:24 PM -0700, Gary Johnson wrote:
When the maildir format was created, it was decided to put a lot of
information in the file name to avoid having to open each file to
obtain or change that information. The format of the name was
standardized (to a point) so that any MUA cla
On 2013-04-16, Tim Gray wrote:
> On Apr 16, 2013 at 03:23 PM -0700, Gary Johnson wrote:
> >Charles wrote that changing the file extension avoids having to
> >rewrite a _file_, not a file _name_.
>
> Understood. My point is that I don't see how having an extra four
> characters at the end of the f
On Apr 16, 2013 at 03:23 PM -0700, Gary Johnson wrote:
Charles wrote that changing the file extension avoids having to
rewrite a _file_, not a file _name_.
Understood. My point is that I don't see how having an extra four
characters at the end of the file name changes that. You still only
h
On 2013-04-16, Tim Gray wrote:
> On Apr 16, 2013 at 01:44 PM -0600, Charles Cazabon wrote:
> >Not difficult. The trouble is that it violates the maildir specification;
> >message filenames have a defined format, and ending with ".eml" breaks that
> >format, which as you noticed, is used for storin
On Apr 16, 2013 at 02:17 PM -0600, Kyle Wheeler wrote:
You can do the following:
find /path/to/maildir -type f -exec /Developer/Tools/SetFile -t TEXT {} \;
Thanks for the link. I actually found this earlier today. What this
does I believe is sets the file type, which I thought was deprec
On Apr 16, 2013 at 01:44 PM -0600, Charles Cazabon wrote:
Not difficult. The trouble is that it violates the maildir specification;
message filenames have a defined format, and ending with ".eml" breaks that
format, which as you noticed, is used for storing flags (so you don't have to
rewrite a
On Tuesday, April 16 at 12:25 PM, quoth Tim Gray:
I run mutt on OS X. As I'm sure many of you know, OS X has a system
wide content indexing and search system called Spotlight. Spotlight
already indexes and searches emails stored individually as files
(similar to maildir) and OS X also has a p
Tim Gray wrote:
>
> If mutt simply wrote out messages in a maildir format with a '.eml'
> extension, you'd get system wide search integration for free on OS X.
[...]
> How difficult would this be to implement?
Not difficult. The trouble is that it violates the maildir specification;
message fi
Hi,
First off I want to say how much I've enjoyed using mutt for the last 5
years. It really is a great program and does almost everything I could
want.
In recent years, everyone seems to want instant searching/virtual
folder type of features. I know that's a bit out of mutt's scope.
I kn
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