* Wilson <[email protected]> [05-30-17 02:30]:
> I should make it clear I'm not talking about a message preview or the
> index view from within the pager or whatever it is.
>
> What I usually see when I open my =INBOX is a full listing of my newest
> messages, 25 of them, plus the status line and the command line,
> totalling 27 lines, which is what my terminal window can show.
>
> That's what I want for every mailbox and what I thought would be the
> default behavior, but most of the time when I change to another mailbox,
> mutt will only really show the newest message, so I end up with
> something like:
>
> 05/10 | Sender Subject
> -- blank lines --
> -- blank lines --
> =INBOX/Lists/Mutt Users-------------------------------------------bottom
>
> with blank lines all the way from the second line to the status line.
>
> How can I force Mutt to show all the latest messages it can, given my
> terminal window height?
you can set sort in you ~/.muttrc or /etc/muttrc, see 'man muttrc' and/or
in the open instance using key combinations you can find in the help
screen.
from: man muttrc
sort
Type: sort order
Default: date
Specifies how to sort messages in the “index” menu. Valid values
are:
‐ date or date-sent
‐ date-received
‐ from
‐ mailbox-order (unsorted)
‐ score
‐ size
‐ spam
‐ subject
‐ threads
‐ to
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