Re: Making aliases for mail folders
On 6/6/06, David Haguenauer <ml@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Does mentioning "symbolic links" help? That's what I use.
I've been playing with this and it is an okay solution to my problem.
"Okay" because it requires me to pretty greatly modify my setup to
accommodate the new folder names.
Tonight, I noticed that since I've placed all my symlinks in one
directory and linked them to the mbox files in the directories where I
keep each email account's mail (thus making it easier to dynamically
set my mailboxes line in my muttrc), my "folder-hook folder set
from=me@xxxxxxxxxx" directives are broken.
Since I'm using mutt to read mail for at least three different
accounts, I'd like to be able to keep each accounts' mbox files in
different directories but display them in the browser in a
visually-appealing way on just one screen.
If I could have something like:
mailbox Work(~/mail/work/inbox) Family(~/mail/personal/family)
LKML(~/mail/personal/lkml) Mutt-Users(~/mail/personal/mutt-users)
where folder-hooks would work on the part in parenthesis but the
browser would show the part before the parenthesis, that would be
ideal. The above isn't necessarily the best way to implement it in a
config file (e.g. it might not work for people using an IMAP mailbox),
but hopefully it explains pretty well what I want.
I'd like to have my mail displayed in a user-friendly way, but
organized in a config-file-friendly way.
If there's already a way to do this that I'm just not seeing, or if
there's a way to do this with a patch, I'd love to know about it.
Thanks.
-Andy