On Wed, Feb 16, 2005 at 10:14:32AM -0800, Stewart Stremler wrote: > begin quoting Lan Barnes as of Wed, Feb 16, 2005 at 09:29:58AM -0800: > > On Wed, Feb 16, 2005 at 03:28:34AM -0800, Todd Walton wrote: > [snip] > > > It confuses me when people start writing in the subject line and then > > > just pick up again in the body. I had a friend, new to computers, who > > > put her entire email message into the subject, just to mess with me. > > > > The disjunction of the subject line and the useful content (not always > > the fault of the writer) has led me to wonder if mutt has an add-on for > > filing key words and perhaps a precis of a saved email in a searchable > > data base. Here is where I might reach for MySQL over Postgres. > > > > Anyone know of one? > > No, but I'm interested. How do you envision this working? > > Have a special save command that: > 1) queries the user for a precis > 2) searches the mail body for "common keywords" from a list > 3) stores the message-id, precis, and keyword-list in the database, > along with the mailbox where the file was saved > ? > > Maildir might work better than mbox for that. >
Those are all great ideas and I haven't gotten that far. Ideally it would be a pop down app of its own so any MUA could call it. Ideally it would work for both mdirs and mbox. I'm assuming it could use the threading header to uniquely ID the mail and find it later. Probably good to have a mode for cataloging old mail. The data base and entry screen part are close to trivial for me. The rest -- understanding mail, calling from an MUA, etc, call for research. My first research was to ask if anyone knew of such an app all done and ready to go :-) -- Lan Barnes [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux Guy, SCM Specialist 858-354-0616 -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
