On Tue, Apr 5, 2016 at 7:50 PM, Cameron Simpson <[email protected]> wrote: > On 05Apr2016 16:28, Patrick Shanahan <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> * Chris Green <[email protected]> [04-05-16 14:21]: >>> >>> On Tue, Apr 05, 2016 at 12:47:03PM -0400, Xu Wang wrote: >>> > 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 > > > Like others, most of my mailboxes are closely aligned with mailing lists, so > (1) is usually (but not always) fairly easy. Unless I've deleted (move to > archive folder) the relevant messages. > >>> > 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:- >>> mairix $* > > > Consider using ${1+"$@"}, which preserves quoting. > >>> mutt -f ~/Mail/Tm/mairix > > > And making a per-search temp folder. I've got a script "notmuch-search" for > the same purpose that makes a temp folder for the result, opens mutt, > discards the folder. > > https://bitbucket.org/cameron_simpson/css/src/tip/bin/notmuch-search > > Of course, that may not be your desired workflow. > > For usability, since I open mutt via an alias named "+", eg "+ mutt" to open > the mutt folder, I have aliases "++" to invoke "notmuch-search -S > search-terms..." and "+++" to update the notmuch indices. > > So I always do this from outside mutt in an spare window. > >>> 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. > > > Me too. > > The other tweak I have is that my mutt compose sessions are transparently > spawned into detachable tmux (or screen) sessions so if I block on a new > message I can detach from it and return the the main mutt index. I can open > the compose session in another window and proceed. Possibly weeks later :-( > > For example, right now my tmux listing includes: > > 18 mutt-06apr2016-09_41-Re__How_do_you_survive_without_notmuch_: 1 windows > (created Wed Apr 6 09:41:41 2016) [178x50] (attached) > > which is this message. > > Cheers, > Cameron Simpson <[email protected]>
Thank you everyone for your replies!!! It is good to know that alternatives are out. That is great thing about mutt community. Kind regards, Xu
