Re: message-hook in index mode?
On 2009-01-16, Cameron Simpson <cs@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I would like to do some per-message pattern matching using a hook
> to adjust a macro on a per-message basis.
>
> My mail filer delivers messages I need to see and (possibly) read to my
> "=me" mailbox. I have 'd' mapped to a macro that feeds the message to my
> "non-spam" bogofilter counter and saves the message to "=OLD/YYYY/me".
>
> The macro is made when I start mutt, based on the opening folder, so
> OLD/YYYY/me is effecively hardwired. For other folders (eg "=mutt")
> this works well - I want to just move deleted messages into the archive.
> (I should say that my usage pattern is to start mutt on a particular
> folder and later quit; I do not "change folders").
>
> However, because my "=me" folder is something of a catch-all for
> messages
> I should consider, the delete action should vary. For example, I'd like
> certain logwatch messages to "delete" into a reports folder, work
> related discussion email to "delete" into the "work" folder etc.
>
> Now, I can write patterns to recognise messages but I don't know how to have
> them take effect. Looking at "message-hook" in "man muttrc" it says that it
> runs when a message is displayed/formatted. However, some messages are going
> to get "deleted" without opening - I will be purely in the index.
>
> At present I can only imagine handing the message to a procmail
> filter to make the decisions. But is there something that can fire
> whenever I move lines in the index?
>
> Alternatively, I can imagine a horribe hack of making "d" pipe the
> message to /dev/null in order to trigger the formatter in order to
> trigger message-hook, and then proceeding with the newly tweaked delete
> macro.
>
> Has anyone any better ideas?
Since you are deleting by saving messages to particular mailboxes,
how about using a save-hook?
Regards,
Gary