Re: Poll: personal convenience vs. global improvement of docs
On 2006-05-25, Derek Martin <invalid@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Thu, May 25, 2006 at 03:40:02PM -0500, chrisisbd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > On Thu, May 25, 2006 at 11:45:39AM -0700, Gary Johnson wrote:
> > > On 2006-05-25, Stephan Seitz <nur-ab-sal@xxxxxx> wrote:
> > >
> > > > The feature I'm missing in mutt is the ability to create virtual folder
> > > > (e.g. search in all my folders for mails with this address in the to or
> > > > cc line and create a virtual folder with the results).
> > >
> > > Have you tried grepmail and grepm? grepmail will extract messages
> > > from a mailbox according to various criteria. grepm does the same
> > > and in addition, opens mutt on the resulting temporary mailbox.
> > >
> > Mairix is even closer to what was wanted I think.
>
> These responses miss the point entirely, I think.
>
> Mutt does mail. This feature is often requested. It is a way in
> which mutt COULD suck less... A third-party tool to do the job may
> well work, but it's still a separate tool with an interface not
> consistent with mutt's, which the user has to learn. Mutt SHOULD do
> this, without the aid of other tools.
Sheesh! Neither one of us said anything about whether mutt should
nor shouldn't do this. We were simply trying to help someone solve
a problem with tools that are available now.
Gary
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Gary Johnson | Agilent Technologies
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