Suppose I have multiple email accounts on the same IMAP server, e.g. a personal Gmail account and a Google Apps work account. With suitable account-hook configuration I can get to them from the commandline with:
mutt -f imaps://myperso...@imap.gmail.com/ mutt -f imaps://me%40work....@imap.gmail.com/ I could even alias it in my shell so I don't have to type all of that each time. If I'm actually within mutt, though, it's pretty inconvenient. What I'd really like is to be able to alias an account (or, more accurately, a folder prefix) e.g. folder-alias personal imaps://myperso...@imap.gmail.com/ folder-alias work imaps://me%40work....@imap.gmail.com/ ...so I could then use them on the commandline (note the % as an indicator of such an alias, similar to the @ indicator for the default save folder for an email alias): mutt -f %personal/INBOX mutt -f %work/INBOX I could also see this being useful for filesystem folders. Suppose you are dealing with an IMAP account with a quota. You might routinely archive things to your home directory, but most of the time you want $folder to point to the server. Instead of changing the value of folder when you are going to archive, you have folder-alias archive ~/archived-email/`date +%Y-%m` ...and save messages to %archive/mutt-dev (perhaps with a cron job to create the monthly folder). Does anyone find this objectionable as a feature? Is anyone interested in working on it? If no one is I can try to find time myself, but free time has been in short supply since kids... --Greg
