Re: Procmail
On 2007.10.09 12:50:53 +0000, Kyle Wheeler wrote:
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> On Tuesday, October 9 at 10:23 AM, quoth Rem P Roberti:
> > Boy, I'm missing something here. Ok...I did have the syntax wrong,
> > and now that I have the path to my mailboxes correctly stated in
> > .muttrc Mutt does indeed give me a message at the bottom of the
> > screen telling me that a message has arrived in the named folder.
>
> Excellent! Progress! :)
>
> > However, I was under the impression that the incoming messages would
> > also be listed in the index.
>
> ... ummm, they are. When you view the contents of the folder they were
> delivered to.
>
> Let me try to put this another way: mutt's index of messages is the
> index of a single folder. Mutt can only ever view messages from a
> single folder at a time. If you have new messages delivered to a
> folder you aren't looking at, mutt will happily inform you that there
> are new messages in that folder, but to see them you have to go view
> that folder. Mutt will not simply add them to the index of whatever
> folder you happen to be viewing currently, because to do so would be
> to misrepresent the contents of the folder you're currently viewing
> (and really, how would that play out, if mutt behaved the way you seem
> to be assuming it does? Would all new messages in your defined
> mailboxes listed in the indexes of EVERY folder that you view? How
> disconcerting would *that* be?!?).
>
> This is the same behavior as virtually every other mail client in
> existence: if you establish a rule to automatically file mail away in
> a folder, by definition, it does not appear in your INBOX (if it did,
> what would be the point of filing it?).
>
> > Otherwise, how would one get the chance to reply?
>
> You go open up the folder containing the new mail, read the message,
> and reply to it; the same way you reply to all other mail.
>
> > Also, is it possible to have the filtered messages placed in their
> > respective folders without all of the headers?
>
> That's between you and your MDA (procmail), but in general, it
> depends. Some folder formats (e.g. mbox) rely on at least some of the
> headers existing. What would be the point of stripping off headers?
> Some misguided attempt to save a few bytes of storage?
>
> ~Kyle
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> Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that
> matter.
> -- Martin Luther King Jr.
Oh, brother! I didn't realize that you could get to the individual
folders from within Mutt by <ESC> c. You want to laugh...I responded to
your last couple of posts by cut and paste! Things are beginning to
come together.
Rem