On 06.12.13 05:02, Kirill Tkhai wrote: > I want to have a posibility to see inbox and sent messages together > in one thread. Is this possible without copying content of Sent folder > to Inbox?
There are many ways to skin the message storage cat, all with some merit. (Except perhaps, for indiscriminate use of the "sent"¹ mailbox.) Perhaps you can take something from part of how my usage has evolved. Firstly, procmail is used to split incoming mail into a separate mailbox for each category, including maillists. (Trying to untangle mail from multiple lists in one inbox would be too depressingly burdensome to ever contemplate.) Mutt is made aware of the distinct mailboxes via the "mailboxes" config item. Since my own posts come back as list posts, both sides of the exchange appear intermixed as they should in the threads, without further effort. (That's 99% of the traffic handled) Other groupings might include e.g. family. But they don't don't come from a listserver, so one more simple procmail rule recognises them, and puts them into another mailbox. But how to ensure that mails to family also go in there, to take their place in threads? There is a mutt setting to save in the current folder instead of "sent", but that is no help when you are off in another mailbox, and suddenly decide to fling off a message. To let mutt catch that use case, and put any message to family in the right mailbox, I've settled on: fcc-save-hook '%L fam_grp' family after setting up a group via the alias for each, e.g.: alias -group fam_grp jim [email protected] alias -group fam_grp joe [email protected] ... That is as far as I've been motivated to pursue the hunt for efficiency and convenience, given the diminishing returns once the biggest bugbear is a fading memory. Erik ¹ Chucking most outgoing mail into "sent" is a high entropy expedient, useful only for last resort message recovery when your post didn't make it to a list, I find. It pretty much scores -10 as storage of half of multiple unrelated conversations with various parties, where it's copy of outgoing mail is the only one. (But then, that's what you've discovered, AIUI.) -- For those with savings and fixed incomes, deflation is wonderful, but for those with debt, it is catastrophic since the value of the dollar repaid is greater than the dollar borrowed. ... borrowers are ascendant and central banks are working for them, not savers. In fact, savers are being plundered with super low interest in the name of promoting aggregate demand and maintaining inflation. - http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-11-06/kohler-prices-want-to-fall-but-borrowers-wont-let-them/5072388
