Re: hierarchical folder in mutt?
On Sat, Sep 03, 2005 at 03:26:07PM +0200, Michael Tatge wrote:
> * On Thu, Sep 01, 2005 Jun Sun (jsun@xxxxxxxxxx) muttered:
> >
> > I like to group a bunch of open source mailing lists under a single
> > (sub-)folder so that the top-level mboxes are not too crowded.
>
> mkdir ~/Mail/foo
> and sort into ~/Mail/foo/list1 ~/Mail/foo/list2 ...
>
I already use procmail to sort mails into various lists. What would you
put in .muttrc files regarding mailboxes?
Here is what I have currently:
...
mailboxes `for i in ~/mail/lists/*; do echo -n "$i "; done`
mailboxes `for i in ~/mail/news/*; do echo -n "$i "; done`
...
When I start mutt, I will get
9 N -rw------- 1 jsun jsun 27315492 Sep 03 13:40 =lists/acpi
10 -rw------- 1 jsun jsun 1051753 Sep 01 22:46 =lists/bawug
11 -rw------- 1 jsun jsun 581878 Sep 01 09:16 =lists/conary
12 -rw------- 1 jsun jsun 326603 Apr 15 04:02 =lists/cxterm
13 -rw------- 1 jsun jsun 218389 Jul 28 04:44 =lists/ffpf
14 N -rw------- 1 jsun jsun 32567891 Sep 03 12:42 =lists/hostap
15 -rw------- 1 jsun jsun 600397 Sep 01 22:46 =lists/kismetwirele
16 -rw------- 1 jsun jsun 34440966 Sep 03 07:36 =lists/linux-arm
17 N -rw------- 1 jsun jsun 15194945 Sep 02 21:58 =lists/linux-mips
18 N -rw------- 1 jsun jsun 5112654 Sep 03 11:31 =lists/linux-wlan
19 -rw------- 1 jsun jsun 10477551 Sep 03 08:40 =lists/linux1394
20 -rw------- 1 jsun jsun 653218 Sep 03 12:31 =lists/mutt
21 N -rw------- 1 jsun jsun 23607589 Sep 03 15:15 =lists/netfilter
22 -rw------- 1 jsun jsun 5260 Sep 01 22:45 =lists/open-ap
23 -rw------- 1 jsun jsun 2860093 Sep 02 15:44 =lists/secureshell
24 N -rw------- 1 jsun jsun 8362488 Sep 03 12:58 =lists/soekris
25 -rw------- 1 jsun jsun 3289279 Sep 02 00:19 =lists/stunnel
26 N -rw------- 1 jsun jsun 8642194 Sep 03 16:23 =lists/uclibc
...
30 N -rw------- 1 jsun jsun 4820130 Sep 03 08:46 =news/a-word-a-day
31 -rw------- 1 jsun jsun 1000778 Jul 19 16:10 =news/abiresearch
32 -rw------- 1 jsun jsun 6251470 Aug 31 14:49 =news/baby
33 N -rw------- 1 jsun jsun 23410759 Sep 03 00:43 =news/nytimes
The problem is that all the lists show up at the top-level mail folder,
which makes the top-level folder list very crowded. With other mailer
programs (such as Outlook, I believe), the top level would only show
"lists" folder with corresponding "N" flag marked if any folder inside lists/
has new emails. You can then further expand lists to the second-level
and see exactly which individual sub-folder has new mails. So on and so forth.
This is what I called "hierarchical mail folder support".
Is this possible with mutt?
> > Is this possible?
>
> sure
>
Thanks in advance.
Jun