On 16Apr2015 00:32, Quolick <[email protected]> wrote:
What is mutt's counterpart feature to gmail's archive? what is used here?
I don't want to delete messages, but I want to have them locally searchable,
like gmail can do.
What is the best practice? Just to move to another folder?
That is what I do.
For each mail folder "foo" I have a mail folder "OLD/YYYY/foo", where "YYYY" is
the current year. Of course you may prefer to use a single big folder for
this.
I have the following hooks defined:
fcc-hook . OLD/YYYY/foo
save-hook . OLD/YYYY/foo
and have rebound 'd' (normally delete-message) and control-d (normally
delete-thread) as follows:
macro index,pager d "<save-message><enter><next-undeleted>" "archive message"
macro index \D
"<untag-pattern>~T<enter><tag-thread><tag-prefix><save-message><enter><untag-pattern>~T<enter><next-undeleted>"
"archive thread"
macro pager \D "<exit>\D<display-message>" "archive thread"
so that 'd' deletes the current message by saving it (using the default, which
is the deleted mail folder); control-d does the same with the whole thread. The
"pager" control-d macro just exits the pager and runs the "index" control-d
macro.
Then all you need is a mail indexing tool. I used to use mairix, and now use
notmuch. Run their indexers periodically. From cron for example. Write a tiny
easy to invoke script to do your search. Or, of course, just open the
deleted-mail folder and use mutt to search. With the header-cache extension
active this is quite effective.
Cheers,
Cameron Simpson <[email protected]>
The peever can look at the best day in his life and sneer at it.
- Jim Hill, JennyGfest '95
