Re: Implementation of virtual folders in mutt
On 2006-08-09 12:53:17 -0700, William Yardley wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 09, 2006 at 10:32:33AM -0700, Charles Killian wrote:
> > My preference for virtual folders thus far has been to use the "limit"
> > suggestion.
However you can no longer do a "limit" easily in such a virtual folder,
because a "limit" will cancel the previous one.
> > That is -- I store a bunch of mail in one mailbox (the INBOX). I then
> > flag some messages using "F".
>
> I haven't personally used the virtual mailbox concept much, but I think
> the big problem with this approach is that it doesn't allow you to
> create virtual folders comprised of messages from different folders,
> which somewhat limits its utility.
That's why I finally stored all my archives in one single maildir
mailbox. The main problem is that opening it is very slow, in
particular under Mac OS X. But I can often create a virtual folder
with mairix first (this is very fast), then do the necessary "limit"
in it.
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