On Sun, Jan 06, 2013 at 04:59:14AM +0000, Michael Elkins wrote: > The attached patch allows the user to define a virtual folder using > external search tools such as mairix, mu and notmuch. > > It adds a $vfolder_command variable and a "vfolder" command to > define virtual mailboxes (see the attached sample muttrc for > examples). The user then visits vfolder:///name to open the virtual > mailbox. Mutt executes $vfolder_command with the search query for > "name" substituted, and reads the list of matching messages from its > stdout. > > Limitations: > - only works on maildirs
Just my opinion obviously, and granted this is experimental, but: This is a deal-breaker for me. It adds yet another feature of mutt that works differently or exclusively depending on the user's chosen mailbox format. We haven't heard much about it lately, but the 1.6 release was supposed to improve and (more importantly IMO) unify new mail handling across folder formats, eliminating perhaps the biggest inconsistency in how Mutt behaves with respect to different mail folder formats. If that ever makes it in, it would be a giant step in the right direction for Mutt. This feature, while only maildir is supported, would be a small step in the wrong direction, IMO. If this were made to work uniformly independent of mail folder format, that would be a different story; but personally I'd still rather see new mail handling fixed first, and get 1.6 out. -- Derek D. Martin http://www.pizzashack.org/ GPG Key ID: 0xDFBEAD02 -=-=-=-=- This message is posted from an invalid address. Replying to it will result in undeliverable mail due to spam prevention. Sorry for the inconvenience.
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