changing the subject line of a thread
Hi mutts,
The world is full of people with email accounts, who have no idea
how to email; or well, what it's like to get hundreds of messages in
a day and try to stay on top of the information overload.
So someone might reply to a work-related message, asking whether we
should go to the cinema tonight. Usually I just delete such
messages, but in one case, a massively interesting discussion
evolved, and is now 25 messages long. I broke the thread ('#'), but
since I have $strict_threads=off (and need that off because other
correspondents use broken MUAs that don't generate I-R-T headers)
and the subject line is still the same, the cinema thread is still
listed as related to the work thread.
So I wanted to change the subject line on all thread mails. First,
I missed the pass (Maildir) files of tagged messages to external
command as *arguments* command in mutt, so I had to create a new
folder and put the files in there, then go to the shell and invoke
sed. An alternative would have of course been to set $editor to the
sed -i command, but I could not get this working. Even setting
editor=sed -i -e '/./d' just got me message not modified.
But then, and rather weird, after touching up the Subject: header in
all messages, mutt suddenly fails to verify the GPG signatures (and
still shows the old subject everywhere but in the pager).
So I tracked this down to the header_cache (can I tell mutt to
remake that?) and after I had deleted it, I got what I wanted.
Now my question simply is: is there a better way to change the
subject of messages in a thread, such that mutt is actually aware of
it and I don't have to coerce it to accept the change?
Cheers,
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merging/linking tagged messages into thread: brilliant!
I just wanted to say thank you. I just used a tag and '' to link two messages (merge them into a thread). I can't believe I hadn't used this functionality before. This is amazingly useful and I was able to figure out how to do this by consulting the help page. Again, thanks, and sorry for the noise. ::HUGS:: Cheers, -- Cristóbal Palmer ibiblio.org systems administrator
Re: changing the subject line of a thread
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday, August 28 at 03:14 PM, quoth martin f krafft: So I wanted to change the subject line on all thread mails. First, I missed the pass (Maildir) files of tagged messages to external command as *arguments* command in mutt, so I had to create a new folder and put the files in there, then go to the shell and invoke sed. An alternative would have of course been to set $editor to the sed -i command, but I could not get this working. Even setting editor=sed -i -e '/./d' just got me message not modified. HEH. This *would* work, if you were on a much slower machine (or if you just got really lucky). The way mutt determines whether a file is modified is by comparing the mtime of the temp file it created to the mtime of the temp file once the editor is done editing. The mtime is stored in seconds. Sed, of course, executes in less than a second, so the mtime is unchanged in all but the rarest of cases. It would work if you'd piped it to a script like this: #!/bin/sh sleep 1 sed -i -e '/./d' $1 Because then the mtime would be guaranteed (more or less) to be different from when mutt created the tmp file. So I tracked this down to the header_cache (can I tell mutt to remake that?) and after I had deleted it, I got what I wanted. Yeah, that's what you have to do when your messages change out from underneath you. Mutt doesn't do much to check on the validity of the hcache, and since mutt trusts the hcache (for obvious reasons), we're forced to occasionally blow it away after we go mucking about behind mutt's back. That's just the way it goes. Now my question simply is: is there a better way to change the subject of messages in a thread, such that mutt is actually aware of it and I don't have to coerce it to accept the change? The editor trick would work, as long as you make sure the mtime is going to be different (e.g. the above script). ~Kyle - -- Be sincere; be brief; be seated. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Comment: Thank you for using encryption! iD8DBQFG1H5tBkIOoMqOI14RAiuKAJ9YPPK0xw9HBi4T4ODuKfuIsopa/gCfc0US Tcz5Ut/fiea7ckA1IC/vlfw= =lTHo -END PGP SIGNATURE-
