On Tue, Dec 19, 2000 at 03:22:58PM -0500, David T-G wrote:
> Heinrich --
>
> ...and then Heinrich Langos said...
> % hi
> %
> % often i get mails that i would like to be reminded of later.
> % like i get a mail from my girlfriend in the morning that i should
> % fetch something on the way home in the evening.
> % but in the evening that mail has been scrolled way off the screen
> % and is lost between tons of more or less important stuff.
>
> It sounds like you aren't using threading or other particularly
> interesting methods of sorting your mail, so you could just do what I do
> when pressed by a bunch of junk: go back every once in a while, tag the
> messages containing your reminders, and tag-save them to the current
> mailbox. If you're looking at the box in unsorted mode, they are dropped
> to the bottom and are right under your nose.
well ... i do use threading, i sort out list traffic in seperate mailboxes,
i clean up my inbox every once in a while, i set save_name to keep track
of ongoing threads both ways ... and so on ...
but i get up to a hundred mails a day. and the main point i was trying
to make was that i don't want to be reminded of a mail all the time
because it is so special but i want to get my reminders just in time.
> If you're going to do this sort of thing, then a reminder folder would
> be a good way to go. You could also use the X-Label: header to write
> yourself a note (or even any string like "rem") and then very simply
> limit to that string later.
yeap a reminder folder will be the way to go. so that i can get that
mails out of my incoming folder. but still can access it if i need to.
could mutt ask me for input while running a macro ?
like this:
i press my remind-key and mutt askes me for input (e.g. the time i
want to be reminded of that message) and then pipes the mail to an
external programm putting the input that i gave it in the X-Label
header or on the command line for my external programm?
that external programm would do this:
1) save the mail to my reminder folder.
2) extract the subject and time from the header or the commandline and
set up
a) a reminder line for rclock (saying something like "RM: <subject>")
or an 'at' job that will pop up an xmessage with the same content.
or
b) some 'at' job that will start something that will bounce the
mail to me again at that time so that it pops up in my inbox
again (it is sorted by thread and received time). triggering
rclock, xbiff or whatever i use to monitor the inbox.
or
c) do nothing and leave the reminding and bouncing to a cron job
that scans the reminder folder once every 10 minutes for work
to do.
writing that external programms is no problem .. probably perl ... the
only thing i would have to think about is locking that file so if i
should bounce the mail to myself i can delete it without interfereing
with myself writing another reminder to that folder at the same time. :)
so the question that remains is: how do i prompt a user in mutt
for input and use that input in the macro?
best regards
-heinrich
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Heinrich Langos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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