On (10/02/13 12:02), Tim Gray <[email protected]> put forth the
proposition:
On Feb 10, 2013 at 02:04 PM +0000, David Woodfall wrote:
So I'm just wondering how people here cope with organising mailing
lists with Maildir and any tips/tricks that may be a better way than
my present way.
I do what others have said regarding Maildir/dovecot. The 'layout=fs'
option let's dovecot use file system directories as folders instead of
the . separator (or something along those lines). It seems to work
with no problems when I actually access my mail store through dovecot.
Normally I just use mutt on the same computer that the mail is stored
and it has no problems with maildir. I think I dynamically generate
my mailbox list with a script that crawls through the directories and
returns directories that contain "cur", "new", and "tmp".
This isn't a Maildir specific hint, but it does pertain to managing
mailing lists. One thing that has helped make list management easier
is a couple of simple scripts that read a text file with my subscribed
mailing lists and the aliases I use for them. I then source that list
from .muttrc at various points where it automatically spits out the
appropriate information. For example, in my mailing_lists.txt
contains the following line:
mutt mutt [email protected]
I then have the following lines in .muttrc:
source `getAliases.py > ~/.mutt/aliases-lists; echo \
~/.mutt/aliases-lists`
subscribe `getLists.py`
The getAliases.py script (could easily use awk or whatever you are
comfortable with) just spits out the 1st and 3rd columns of the file
prefixed with 'alias', so 'alias mutt [email protected]'. I don't
recall why I don't just use `source getAliases.py|`. I used to do
that, but for some reason in the past switched to the line I have
above.
getLists.py just spits out the 3rd column all in one line, so I get
subscribed to all the list addresses I want to. I haven't bothered
with the logical third step of this system, which is to write a script
that uses the second column (my folder names) to generate fcc- and
save-hooks for all my mailing lists dynamically, all from a single
easy to edit file.
Sorry if this is a long reply - I picked up this tip from someone on
this mailing list a while ago...
That's very similar to mine - I have 3 scripts at the moment. One like
yours generates the main file with alias and subscribe lines and also
recreates a .procmailrc-lists for routing. I have that bound to 'A' in
Mutt.
The other two scripts are mentioned elsewhere in this ML. One scans
all my directories looking for new mail, and then generates a
maliboxes command so I can see only those folders with new mail.
The last script just lists all my folders and generates a mailboxes
command so I can get a full view.
I bind these to <F5> and <F6> in Mutt.
It's really nice that Mutt supports scripting like this.
David
