Re: Editing headers of saved messages
On 2004-06-25, "James P. Howard, II" <howardjp@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Having recently played with Gmail, I have decided that the ability
> to apply multiple labels to a message is superior to maintaining
> hierarchical collection of folders where each message belongs to
> only one label.
>
> With that in mind, a few days ago I started playing with Mutt and
> have customized it and rather like it. Now, I'd like to have the
> ability to add one or more labels to messages. It occurs to me the
> best way to do this is to add a custom header to messages that
> stores a list of labels separated by commas for instance,
> "X-Local-Labels: work, school, friends").
>
> Is it possible to write a collection of macros, perhaps combined
> with formail or other Unix tools, that can add and remove labels? I
> have gone over the HTML manual on www.mutt.org, and am not seeing an
> obvious way to do this.
I've done this for the "Expires:" header. I think you could adapt
those macros and scripts for this task. Take a look at
http://www.spocom.com/users/gjohnson/mutt/#expires
HTH,
Gary
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Gary Johnson | Agilent Technologies
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