Re: Can mutt be persuaded to use a sensible maildir hierarchy?

2020-09-23 Thread Derek Martin
On Tue, Sep 22, 2020 at 05:46:53PM +0100, Chris Green wrote: > Does mutt still use the (IMHO silly) maildir hierarchy where mail > 'folders' are simply represented by another '.' and name in the > maildir directory name? I'm not sure why you think Mutt is doing this... I have my maildir folders

Re: Can mutt be persuaded to use a sensible maildir hierarchy?

2020-09-23 Thread Cameron Simpson
On 23Sep2020 14:58, Kurt Hackenberg wrote: >On 2020-09-23 04:07, Chris Green wrote: > >>I think I might try that second idea, I can run mb2md (as you say) >>2354 times and get the layout I want. Then I can try mutt on it and >>see if it's practical. > > >Does mb2md convert message attributes?

Re: Can mutt be persuaded to use a sensible maildir hierarchy?

2020-09-23 Thread Kurt Hackenberg
On 2020-09-23 04:07, Chris Green wrote: I think I might try that second idea, I can run mb2md (as you say) 2354 times and get the layout I want. Then I can try mutt on it and see if it's practical. Does mb2md convert message attributes? (Message has been read, message has been replied to,

Re: Message threading: reply message and In-Reply-To/References

2020-09-23 Thread Kurt Hackenberg
On 2020-09-23 03:22, Francesco Ariis wrote: Il 23 settembre 2020 alle 13:52 Kevin Shell ha scritto: In mail/news discussion, some reply messages have no In-Reply-To/References headers, what cause reply messages don't have In-Reply-To/References headers? A possible explanation: the sender

Re: Can mutt be persuaded to use a sensible maildir hierarchy?

2020-09-23 Thread Cameron Simpson
On 23Sep2020 09:11, Chris Green wrote: >> I don't browse from within mutt (but see Kevin's reply) but I do have >> a >> directory hierarchy. Admittedly it is shallow and does not have Maildirs >> inside Maildirs, but my own folders are like this: >> >> ~/mail/foldername # top level

Re: Message threading: reply message and In-Reply-To/References

2020-09-23 Thread Christian Ebert
* Francesco Ariis on Wednesday, September 23, 2020 at 10:30:09 +0200: Il 23 settembre 2020 alle 15:55 Kevin Shell ha scritto: On Wed, Sep 23, 2020 at 09:22:02AM +0200, Francesco Ariis wrote: By default mutt checks In-Reply-To/References to group threads; *also*, messages with the same Subject

Re: Message threading: reply message and In-Reply-To/References

2020-09-23 Thread Kevin Shell
On Wed, Sep 23, 2020 at 10:30:09AM +0200, Francesco Ariis wrote: > Il 23 settembre 2020 alle 15:55 Kevin Shell ha scritto: > > On Wed, Sep 23, 2020 at 09:22:02AM +0200, Francesco Ariis wrote: > > > By default mutt checks In-Reply-To/References to group threads; *also*, > > > messages with the same

Re: Message threading: reply message and In-Reply-To/References

2020-09-23 Thread Francesco Ariis
Il 23 settembre 2020 alle 15:55 Kevin Shell ha scritto: > On Wed, Sep 23, 2020 at 09:22:02AM +0200, Francesco Ariis wrote: > > By default mutt checks In-Reply-To/References to group threads; *also*, > > messages with the same Subject are grouped together in «pseudo threads» > > (reference [1]). >

Re: Can mutt be persuaded to use a sensible maildir hierarchy?

2020-09-23 Thread Chris Green
On Wed, Sep 23, 2020 at 08:20:11AM +1000, Cameron Simpson wrote: > On 22Sep2020 17:46, Chris Green wrote: > >Does mutt still use the (IMHO silly) maildir hierarchy where mail > >'folders' are simply represented by another '.' and name in the > >maildir directory name? > > Are you talking about

Re: Can mutt be persuaded to use a sensible maildir hierarchy?

2020-09-23 Thread Chris Green
On Tue, Sep 22, 2020 at 10:40:09PM -0400, Kurt Hackenberg wrote: > On 2020-09-22 13:30, Chris Green wrote: > > > > Does mutt still use the (IMHO silly) maildir hierarchy where mail > > > 'folders' are simply represented by another '.' and name in the > > > maildir directory name? > > > > > > Is

Re: Can mutt be persuaded to use a sensible maildir hierarchy?

2020-09-23 Thread Chris Green
On Wed, Sep 23, 2020 at 09:44:22AM +1000, raf wrote: > On Tue, Sep 22, 2020 at 06:30:52PM +0100, Chris Green wrote: > > > On Tue, Sep 22, 2020 at 05:46:53PM +0100, Chris Green wrote: > > > Does mutt still use the (IMHO silly) maildir hierarchy where mail > > > 'folders' are simply represented by

Re: Message threading: reply message and In-Reply-To/References

2020-09-23 Thread Kevin Shell
On Wed, Sep 23, 2020 at 09:22:02AM +0200, Francesco Ariis wrote: > Hello Kevin, > > Il 23 settembre 2020 alle 13:52 Kevin Shell ha scritto: > > In mail/news discussion, > > some reply messages have no In-Reply-To/References headers, > > what cause reply messages don't have In-Reply-To/References

Re: Message threading: reply message and In-Reply-To/References

2020-09-23 Thread Francesco Ariis
Hello Kevin, Il 23 settembre 2020 alle 13:52 Kevin Shell ha scritto: > In mail/news discussion, > some reply messages have no In-Reply-To/References headers, > what cause reply messages don't have In-Reply-To/References headers? A possible explanation: the sender clicked «New message» and