* Chris Green <[email protected]> [04-05-16 14:21]: > On Tue, Apr 05, 2016 at 12:47:03PM -0400, Xu Wang wrote: > > Dear list, > > > > I am so used to using notmuch integrated into mutt (via mutt-kz), that > > I would like to be able to understand how someone does *not* use > > notmuch. How do you search for a certain message? Is it simply a > > matter of the following? > > > > 1. remember which folder it is in > > 2. change to that folder > > 3. use mutt's search > > > > I don't know if it is poor memory or laziness, but that seems > > significantly more difficult than <ESC>X from anywhere to search. > > > > Further, what if you want all messages from Billy and those messages > > are spread across different folders. What are steps to see all > > messages from Billy? > > > I just have a script that calls mairix:- > > #!/bin/bash > # > # > # Run mairix for a given string and run mutt on the results > # > mairix $* > mutt -f ~/Mail/Tm/mairix > > This has a big advantage over anything running in an existing mutt > window as I can search for something in another window then refer to > it while I'm composing a mail in the current mutt window.
I run mairix via cron every 10 minutes and can access mairix.mbox via my mutt index screen :) -- (paka)Patrick Shanahan Plainfield, Indiana, USA @ptilopteri http://en.opensuse.org openSUSE Community Member facebook/ptilopteri http://wahoo.no-ip.org Photo Album: http://wahoo.no-ip.org/gallery2 Registered Linux User #207535 @ http://linuxcounter.net
