* Sebastian Tramp on Friday, April 29, 2011 at 13:56:51 +0200
> I have a question regarding macros in mutt. Currently I use these two
> macros for searching:
>
> macro generic ,f "<shell-escape>mairix " "search via mairix"
> macro generic ,,f "<change-folder><kill-line>=search<enter>" "load the search
> results mailbox"
>
> Can I optimize it in the way that after finishing the search with ,f -
> the result mailbox is automatically loaded?
>
> Is searching / indexing with mairix state of the art or is there a
> better solution available? I am quite happy with that, just wanted to
> ask ;-).
I use the following shell script for interactive mairix search
from within mutt; it also makes a rudimentary attempt to search
using a fallback charset for non-ascii strings.
#!/bin/sh
threads=
augment=
charset="`printf '%s' "$LANG" | cut -d . -f 2`"
fallback="windows-1252"
yorn() {
local ans
printf '%s %s ' "$1" "(yes/[no])"
read -e ans
case "$ans" in
y*|Y*) return 0;;
*) return 1;;
esac
}
printf '%s\n' "Enter mairix query:"
read -e query
test -z "$query" && exit 0
yorn "Retrieve thread(s)?" && threads="--threads"
yorn "Append message(s) to mfolder?" && augment="--augment"
query=`echo "$query" | iconv -f "$charset" -t UTF-8`
mairix $threads $augment $query
queryx=`echo "$query" | iconv -f "$charset" -t "$fallback"`
if [ "$queryx" != "$query" ]; then
echo "trying $fallback"
mairix $threads --augment $queryx
fi
muttrc:
set my_mairixfolder=`awk -F '=' '/^mfolder/ { print $2 }' ~/.mairixrc`
macro index,pager ,m "\
<enter-command> set my_wait_key=\$wait_key wait_key=no<enter>\
<shell-escape> mairixquery.sh<enter>\
<enter-command> set wait_key=\$my_wait_key &my_wait_key<enter>\
<change-folder>+$my_mairixfolder" "mairix query"
macro browser ,m "\
<enter-command> set my_wait_key=\$wait_key wait_key=no<enter>\
<shell-escape> mairixquery.sh<enter>\
<enter-command> set wait_key=\$my_wait_key &my_wait_key<enter>\
<exit><change-folder>+$my_mairixfolder" "mairix query"
For reverse detection of the original mails I recommend muttjump:
https://github.com/weisslj/muttjump
c
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