On Sat, Jun 24, 2017 at 1:19 PM, Matthias Apitz <[email protected]> wrote: > On Saturday, 24 June 2017 19:12:03 CEST, Xu Wang <[email protected]> > wrote: >> >> Hi, I have attention problem. Often times I need to check mail but I >> do not want to see all mail because I feel overwhelm. I just want to >> see mail I expect potentially from a single person. >> >> Suppose I expect important email from Jian. I currently do as follows: >> >> mutt -e 'push "l~f'"Jian"'\n"' >> >> It almost work. But for a splitted second, the screen shows all emails >> (because it takes time to process filter request). I know this sound >> weird to all, but even in this splitted second I see all emails and I >> get nervous with everything I must accomplish, and I cannot focus. >> >> Is there a way to ask mutt to wait until filter complete before show >> the results, so mutt never shows all emails? >> >> Kind regards, >> > > Just use procmail to filter the interesting mails to folder foo and open > only this
Would this have permanent effects? I just want to do temporary. Thank you for response. Kind regards, Xu
