Hi, mutt-users:
I sent a work-in-progress patch to mutt-dev about this, but Kevin asked me
to take it up here first. I'm a big user of limiting my index to only personal
messages (limit to "%p", or MUTT_PERSONAL_RECIP in the source). See
http://lists.mutt.org/pipermail/mutt-dev/Week-of-Mon-20180917/000232.html
Although this used to work pretty well, more and more the modern mailing
list paradigm (e.g. Mailchimp lists, etc.) is to have bulk or list messages
that are indistinguishable from personal mail, e.g.:
From: "NYTimes.com" <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Subject: Today's Headlines: Rod Rosenstein Suggested Secretly Recording Trump
and of course this shows up in ~p, which is not desirable.
Most of the time, I can get around this by changing the subscription
address to someting else, e.g.:
From: "NYTimes.com" <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Subject: Today's Headlines: Rod Rosenstein Suggested Secretly Recording Trump
However, there are some lists where that is impractical, and the only way
to clearly identify them is with the From: line.
I'd like messages to those lists excluded from ~p. My patch, which I know
is clearly wrong, searches the From: of each message against the "unalternates"
exclusion list, and so I can exclude the relevant list from the pattern, and ~p
works. But this is a misuse of "unalternates," which is supposed to be used to
match against recipient fields (To:, Cc:).
Does anyone have suggestions or workflows for accomplishing this?
Kevin points out I could shift gears and adjust what I limit to, such as
putting the problematic senders in an address group and limiting to "~p !%f
mylists".
That...sort of works, but also is really impractical for me, becuse I often
type limiting patterns and going from 2 keystrokes to 10 (or 8, if it was
one-letter group) is not pleasant. And although I could use a macro, I also
regularly use ~p in more complicated patterns, so a macro would only help with
the simplest of them that are easily repeatable.
How do others approach this problem?
Does anyone else think that mutt should have a better solution, like a way
to exclude messages from ~p based on their From: field? If so what would that
llok like, and how should it interact with lists and subscribedlists, if at all?
Thanks.
[email protected]
John Hawkinson
