On Mi, 17 Aug 2022, martin f krafft via Mutt-users wrote:
> Folks, > > This isn't really a Mutt question, but you're the kind of people that most > likely would have good answers on the following: > > For reasons you don't want to know, I have to visualise a Maildir with a > couple of thousand messages, i.e. essentially provide a mutt-style index > with correspondents, dates, subjects, and threading, ideally in form of an > HTML table. > > Apart from the threading, Python's email module can do most of the work, and > combined with e.g. Jinja templating, I should be able to get results > quickly, but since I don't like reinventing wheels, I was wondering if maybe > you had a better idea? > > Is there a way to "screenshot" the Mutt index beyond the scroll window? > > Or can you think of command-line tools that visualise threads? Notmuch, > which I use, can very quickly list all the threads, including the count of > messages, but I actually need to list to be *really big* and not condensed, > for reasons you don't want to know. > > I can make notmuch output json with threading, and then process that with > Python to create a list, but maybe there's a better tool? I wonder if you can make use of public-inbox, which is e.g. used to create the git mailinglist archive. It's not pretty, but generates a threaded mail archive from a Maildir, IIRC. Not sure how easy enough it is to add date and from header https://github.com/nojb/public-inbox regards, Christian -- <lilo> "PLEASE RESPECT INTELLECTUAL RIGHTS!" <lilo> "Please demonstrate intellect." ;)
