Hi, folks --
I dump my incoming mail into =F.* with procmail, and I have a little
alias that keeps track of the log and gives me stats like
-rw-r--r-- 1 davidtg 0 Mar 1 15:24 .mail.log.date
The current date is: Mar 2 08:37
50
Folder: /usr/bin/formail
Folder: /var/spool/mail/davidtg
Folder: F.funnies
Folder: F.lists
Folder: F.mutt
Folder: F.news
Folder: F.root
I can thus see how many new messages (50) have come in since I last
cleared the log, and where they landed (a few just went through formail,
some hit $MAIL, and the rest landed in =F.*). If I stay on top of things,
I can run through each of the F.* folders, set the sort to unsorted
(hmmm... is there a reverse-unsorted, funny though that sounds, so that
I could just go to message 1 every time?), and check the bottom couple
of messages to make sure that nothing was misfiled, even if I don't want
to read things right now.
It gets a little hairier if I go on vacation for a week :-) Unsorted
mode still helps, but I am now sufficiently advanced to use 'limit' to
show me only messages since a certain date -- like "l ~r 01/03/2000-"
for this example (though I also wish there were a $date_format setting
so that I could use YYYY/MM/DD instead :-)
I'd like to whip up a little muttrc which says
source $HOME/mutt/.muttrc
push 'l ~r 01/03/2000-'
and then fire up mutt on the F.* folder using -F to source *this* muttrc
file, but I can't get the push grammar right. Maybe push isn't what I
need to just limit the display, perhaps. Help!
Eventually, all of this will be dynamically generated by a little script
which parses the procmail log in much the same way as the alias, but
grabs only the =F.* folders, and then creates the limit command based
on the .mail.log.date timestamp... Maybe I should just a -e command when
calling mutt from the script instead of a .muttrc file, too...
TIA
:-D
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