On Tue, Sep 24, 2002 at 12:42:17AM +0200, Christian Ordig wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 18, 2002 at 03:48:39AM +0200, Ren� Clerc wrote:
> > * PeterKorman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [17-09-2002 19:21]:
> > 
> > > I think I can correctly interpret what you said in more than 1 way.
> > > So I wont try.
> > > 
> > > given:
> > > 1)message to Sally
> > > 2)reply from Sally
> > > 3)reply to reply from Sally.
> > 
> > fcc-hook will store _any_ message to Sally in the folder which you
> > specify (probably "sally").
> that's not really useful for conversations ... you'd need for everybody
> a new procmail rule ... and a fcc-hook ... and you'd end up with one
> folder per person ... 
>  
> > If you configure procmail correctly, it can deliver every message
> > _from_ Sally in that same folder.
> yes ... that is useful for people communicating with only 5-10 other 
> guys ... 
>  
> I'd suggest the following:
> 
> - sort incoming mail using procmail as you'd also do normally 
>   (everything coming to [EMAIL PROTECTED] goes to folder xyz and so on)
> - use folder-hooks for setting record to the same folder you're
>   currently in
>   - example: 
>     # default record location
>     folder-hook . set record="=sent"
>     # every mail sent from inside folder =xyz is saved to =xyz
>     folder-hook =xyz set record="=xyz"
> - now when there comes a message to =xyz and you reply, your answer will 
>   also be stored to =xyz. Mails sent from any other folder, not having
>   such a folder-hook are saved to =sent
> 
> Any further suggestions?
> 
Here is what I have:

Mailing list are fine. Everything already goes out and comes in
the mutt list folder via 
  folder hooks 
  my receive address: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
  the mutt mailing list sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

I manage all my mailing lists the same way threading is terriffic.

Here are the gory details. Much of my communication is not through
mailing lists. As a rule I don't go to a folder to exchange mail with 
a particular person. I want to keep a record of everything I send.
So send gets its own folder. This is nonnegotiable. I want keep a
record of everything I receive. I dont want to hand sort that stuff.
(maildrop switches destination folders for me just fine, but that is
not the kind of data I'm processing.) So all my non-newsgroup
inbound goes to 1 folder. That is also non negotiable.

I haven't done it yet, but here's what I'm thinking:

I'll use perl to scan my sent folder. I'll extract all of the 
message-ID(ish) headers into a hash whose index is the message-ID
and whose data is a linked list of filenames. Now I'll scan my inbound 
folder for message-ID(ish) headers that match the ones in the hash 
I've generated (from the sent folder) and plug their filenames into 
the linked list data structure of the associated message-ID index.

Finally, my perl hash will contain all filenames of associated with
threads containing at least 2 messages, 1 of which was sent buy me.
Now I create hard links to all those filenames in a third maildir 
directory called conversations.


Am I making sense to anyone besides my self? Thanks.

Regards,

JPK


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