Cameron,
thank you, this is what I was looking for. I did manually edit the
headers a few times and confirmed that the flag would show up on the
message in outlook. I wasnt't sure how to execute it without a lot of
keystrokes though.
I am more comfortable with python than sed but I guess whatever script I
write just needs to make the edit and then save (write over) the file it
is provided and then close?
Certainly a way forward.
Best regards,
Bill
On Thu, Mar 02, 2017 at 08:58:53AM +1100, Cameron Simpson wrote:
On 28Feb2017 12:27, Bill Starrs <[email protected]> wrote:
Thanks, but this appears to only apply when creating a new message.
What I am looking to do is edit the headers of existing messages in
my work Inbox to add the Follow-up Flag, and sync those changes back
to the Exchange server with IMAP so that my flags are present in
Outlook on my work machine.
The behavior I would like to achieve is when I hit 'w' or "W" when
on a particular message, I can add a flag to the standard list of
D\N\O\R\*\! that will apply / remove the follow-up flag.
Well, mutt does have an <edit-message> command, which pops up the
message in an editor for modification. The trick is to temporarily set
your editor to a script that applies your change. Then next time mutt
syncs your IMAP will be updated.
So you'd write a script that accepted a filename argument (the temp
file mutt offers up for editing), prompts for the custom Outlook flag,
applies it, quits.
Untested example (all on one line):
macro index ,F ':set my_old_editor=$editor<enter>:set
editor=adjust-outlook-flag.sh<enter><edit-message>:set editor=$my_old_editor<enter>'
so that typing ',F' invokes the script adjust-outlook-flag.sh. Then
that would prompt for a flag and then invoke something (eg "sed -i")
to apply it to the temp file.
Does that sound like a way forward?
Cheers,
Cameron Simpson <[email protected]>
