On Wed, Oct 29, 2003 at 12:22:30PM -0500, David T-G wrote: > Aron -- > > BTW, is there any reason all of your lines are padded out to 80 chars? > Did you perhaps copy one message into another? > Yea, sorry about that, after I realized I sent my reply to your personal address and not to the list, I copied it from a 80 column wide terminal and re-sent it to the list, my mistake. > ...and then Aron Stansvik said... > % > % On Wed, Oct 29, 2003 at 04:35:15PM +0100, René Clerc wrote: > % > * Aron Stansvik <elvstone@xxxxxxx> [29-10-2003 16:29]: > % > > % > > Isn't this a feature that might be interesting? The ability to save > ... > % > appropriate boxes? This seems like a job for procmail and the like. > % > % Yes, I think that's how I want it. I guess this is a feature for those > % of us who don't subscribe to huge amounts of mailing lists and who like > > Well, while I do subscribe to many, I don't think it's only for those > that do. I even like to read all of my mail, though I haven't truly been > able to for a while now. > Ok. > > % mailbox when I start reading my mail? Or any other means than save-hooks > % to get this behaviour? > > Not that comes to mind. Well, not practical, anyway; if you save a > single message it will go where the hook tells it to, so you could have a > default hook to ensure that uncategorized mail does not get lost (maybe > save it in ! or maybe save it in =justaminute and then reload all of > that) and then just save-return-save-return-save-return your way down the > list (no doubt by macro). And if you don't get much mail and aren't on > many lists and such you may only have one or two dozen mails to handle > like that and so it isn't completely insane. > I guess not, I'll figure something out, or get myself a decent sorter instead. > % How do people usually manage their mailing lists when only using Mutt > > One probably has a spool file, an mbox file for old stuff, and a sent > file for what has been sent. Maybe, just maybe, folders for each > correspondent (save_name). > > If you want your mail sorted, then you need a sorter, and mutt simply > doesn't try to be a sorter. > No, I guess not. I'll look into procmail, maybe it's not so much of a science as I think it is. > > % (no procmail)? I know I should learn procmail, but if this could be done > % in Mutt, I would be more than happy, since I think procmail is somewhat > % overkill for me :) > > So learn maildrop or any other delivery agent :-) There are plenty of > them out there. > Roger roger. > % -- > % unemployed > > Hey, you should have plenty of time to learn procmail, then ;-) [But my > heart bleeds for you as I'm in the same boat.] Sucks, don't it? :) Thanks for your elaborate answers anyway. Sincerely, Aron Stansvik -- unemployed
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