* David Champion <[email protected]> [2011-06-03 17:52:06 -0500]: > * On 03 Jun 2011, Chris Brennan wrote: > > I am new to mutt and I've getting some thing worked out but I am still hung > > up on somethings from using GMail and all their fancy features. While GMail > > in general is minimalistic, it's not enough for me. I need more. Mutt seems > > to suit my needs but I am curious. Is it possible to have mutt do the > > following > > > > * import/use/sync my contacts from the mail server? > > A program called 'goobook' will help with this.
I haz googled for this, and checked it out, will fiddle with it later, thanks. > > > * properly label (I think mutt calls it tagging) my e-mail based on the > > labels I have already created in the Web Interface. (While I suspect the > > answer to this is no, I also suspect the answer to be yes with procmail, > > this would require I actually learn regex (which I haven't had time to get > > around to yet).) > > This depends on how you're integrating mutt with gmail. If you're using > IMAP then procmail doesn't come into play. To use procmail -- which > would help with this problem -- you'd need to sync your gmail mailbox > down to wherever you run mutt. That might be obvious to you but for the > archive's sake it's worth making clear. Esentially, this is what I thought, I'd rather stick w/ IMAP so I can use my mobile devices as well. > As far as I know, there is no way to retrieve the tags associated with a > given message using Gmail's IMAP interface. You can retrieve messages > with a given tag by selecting that tag/folder in the IMAP folder browser, > but you can't go the opposite way. So there's no way to implicitly make > that information available comprehensively to mutt. Didn't think so here either, would have been nice :D > If Google did provide a virtual header that listed all labels associated > with a message when you retrieve the message via POP/IMAP, I'd > definitely support it in the keywords code I'm maintaining. Bonus > points if it's a sort of approximately standard header. (I know we have > had some gmail engineers on this list....) This would be very nice, maybe wishfull thinking for the future? BTW, Thanks for your reply, goes far for me being able to use mutt instead of being slammed, flammed, bashed or just ignored ... One more question for now, how do I limit the width when composing/replying to mail? -- > A: Yes. > >Q: Are you sure? > >>A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. > >>>Q: Why is top posting frowned upon?
