On Sun, Feb 11, 2007 at 12:21:20PM -0500, Derek Martin wrote: > On Sun, Feb 11, 2007 at 09:19:48PM +1300, Chris Bannister wrote: > > The filenames are cryptic and knowing their name is not generally > > useful. > > The names are definitely cryptic, which is the whole point of asking > for a way to get them from mutt... Mutt knows what the names are. Yep > However I would disagree that knowing the name is not useful. It is > only not useful if you only ever manipulate your mail from within your > mail client. There are plenty of conceivable reasons to do so using a > plain text editor or command line tools (editing e-mail addresses > which have changed in a list of specific messages, quoting e-mails in > a non-email document, etc.). Searching for some mail with mairix in order to put all the matched messages in the proper mailbox, or to find to which real mailbox do they belong to go there and do the proper moving of messages. > > I often want to do the opposite; I'm working on files, and I have the > filename of the message I want to see (obtained via grep or something) > and I want to display the message in mutt, à la mutt -f <file>... > But unfortunately that doesn't work with maildir messages. -- Javier Rojas GPG Key ID: 0xA1C57061
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