On Thu, Oct 16, 2003 at 12:17:01AM +0200, Andre Bonhote wrote: > Howdy fellow mutters > > On Wed, Oct 15, 2003 at 06:26:44PM +0200, Danie Roux wrote: > > > I've just installed Evolution for the good calendaring support but > > > checked out the MUA too. I've just used VFolders for the first time > > > and I was struck by the complex rules that can be written > > > (specifically the ability to have all ``new'' mail appear in a single > > > folder). > > What, you thought they thought of the feature all by themselves? :) > > hehe :) > > > 'l' gives you "limit view to mails matching a pattern". And with mutt > > you can match almost everything. So use that with macros. > > Uhm, I don't think this is what Lewis meant. When I hear "VFolder", it > expands to "Virtual Folder" in my mind, and does something a bit more > complex. I don't know whether Evolution does this, because I never used > it. Ok: > > Let's suppose, you get around 200 Mails a day, or even more. What I do > with them is setting up procmail to neatly place them into different > mboxes. Here's an example: > > Swiss LUG mails --> ~/Mail/lugs-at-lugs > Mutt mails --> ~/Mail/mutt > ... > Default mbox --> ~/Mail/inbox > > This works fine, I can browse through the mailboxes without a problem. > Mutt knows where there is new mail. > > Now, VFolders for me would be something like a view where you see all > the new mails in all the mbox files. Now _this_ would be nice! Instead > of typing 'c<CR>' every time, you have just one box which is called > something like =vf~N with all the new mails in it. Once you've read one > of the mails, it disappears from this VFolder (because it does not > match the criteria anymore). But of course it's still in the mbox file > where procmail placed it. > > Lewis, is this what you mean? Absolutely. > PS: Btw, is there a way to implement plugins in mutt which could do > something like that? That'd be good too -- a plugin interface, instead of a multitide of patches... -lewiz. -- I was so much older then, I'm younger than that now. --Bob Dylan, 1964. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -| msn:purple@xxxxxxxxx | jab:lewiz@xxxxxxxxxx | url:http://lewiz.net |-
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