Re: VFolders?
* Andre Bonhote <andre@xxxxxxxxxxx>:
> 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.
You can use procmail to do something like that. It only works with
maildir style mailboxes.
You can do:
Swiss LUG mails -->
~/Mail/lugs-at-lugs/ ~/Mail/unread-lugs/ ~/Mail/`date +%Y%m`/
Procmail makes (hard?) links for each mail. You have to create a hook,
so that read mails in the "unread" folder will be deleted. It's not
exactly Evolutions vFolder feature...
I remember the good old times on Amiga with the Universal Message System
(UMS) and very good Mail/Newsreaders like PINT. It used a database to
store messages and had very good query feature where the results where
nearly the same as a vFolder. There where some attempts to restart the
project.
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