Re: Visualising contents of a Maildir

2022-08-19 Thread Sam Kuper
On Fri, Aug 19, 2022 at 09:08:01AM +0200, martin f krafft via Mutt-users wrote: > Regarding the following, written by "Victor Goff" on 2022-08-18 at 20:09 Uhr > -0400: >> I have used https://tmate.io for those on Windows and those with a >> small amount of experience with computers in general.

Re: Visualising contents of a Maildir

2022-08-19 Thread martin f krafft via Mutt-users
Regarding the following, written by "Victor Goff" on 2022-08-18 at 20:09 Uhr -0400: I have used https://tmate.io for those on Windows and those with a small amount of experience with computers in general. Since you can share a browser, and they can either type with you or not, and they do not

Re: Visualising contents of a Maildir

2022-08-18 Thread Victor Goff
On Thu, Aug 18, 2022 at 01:02:39PM -0500, Derek Martin wrote: > On Thu, Aug 18, 2022 at 09:17:11AM +, Sam Kuper wrote: > > On Wed, Aug 17, 2022 at 04:59:41PM -0500, Derek Martin wrote: > > Or they could just use SSH. > > SSH is ubiquitous. But outside of tech circles, the ability to use it >

Re: Visualising contents of a Maildir

2022-08-18 Thread martin f krafft via Mutt-users
Regarding the following, written by "Derek Martin" on 2022-08-18 at 15:23 Uhr -0500: If this is all you need to do, then, do you really need to preserve the threading? Excellent point, and the answer is no. It helps with: enough info to demonstrate their uniqueness. but I can just throw

Re: Visualising contents of a Maildir

2022-08-18 Thread Derek Martin
On Thu, Aug 18, 2022 at 10:10:38AM +0200, martin f krafft via Mutt-users wrote: > Thanks for your responses so far! > > The reason I need this index is that I have to provide evidence of "a huge > volume of mails" on a given topic, without actually sharing the emails. If this is all you need to

Re: Visualising contents of a Maildir

2022-08-18 Thread Derek Martin
On Thu, Aug 18, 2022 at 01:02:39PM -0500, Derek Martin wrote: > On Thu, Aug 18, 2022 at 09:17:11AM +, Sam Kuper wrote: > > On Wed, Aug 17, 2022 at 04:59:41PM -0500, Derek Martin wrote: > > > On Wed, Aug 17, 2022 at 09:33:44PM +, Sam Kuper wrote: > > Or they could just use SSH. > > SSH is

Re: Visualising contents of a Maildir

2022-08-18 Thread Derek Martin
On Thu, Aug 18, 2022 at 10:10:38AM +0200, martin f krafft via Mutt-users wrote: > > I don't think it will be better or easier than what you've done. But > > you could try using a '|' filter in $index_format to append some output > > to a file as a side effect. It would still entail manually

Re: Visualising contents of a Maildir

2022-08-18 Thread Derek Martin
On Thu, Aug 18, 2022 at 09:17:11AM +, Sam Kuper wrote: > On Wed, Aug 17, 2022 at 04:59:41PM -0500, Derek Martin wrote: > > On Wed, Aug 17, 2022 at 09:33:44PM +, Sam Kuper wrote: > >> On Wed, Aug 17, 2022 at 09:22:31PM +0200, martin f krafft via Mutt-users > >> wrote: > >> > For reasons

Re: Visualising contents of a Maildir

2022-08-18 Thread martin f krafft via Mutt-users
Regarding the following, written by "Bastian" on 2022-08-18 at 14:48 Uhr +0200: 1981% mutt > /dev/shm/o *blindly pressing q* bastian@t6l ~ 1982% wc /dev/shm/o 1 599 6251 /dev/shm/o ``` lotus:/dev/shm% mutt > /dev/shm/mutt || echo $?

Re: Visualising contents of a Maildir

2022-08-18 Thread raf via Mutt-users
On Thu, Aug 18, 2022 at 10:10:38AM +0200, martin f krafft via Mutt-users wrote: > Thanks for your responses so far! > > The reason I need this index is that I have to provide evidence of "a huge > volume of mails" on a given topic, without actually sharing the emails. So I > need a PDF index.

Re: Visualising contents of a Maildir

2022-08-18 Thread Bastian
On 18Aug22 12:00+0200, martin f krafft via Mutt-users wrote: > Regarding the following, written by "Bastian" on 2022-08-18 at 11:41 Uhr > +0200: > > --- paste: % LINES=10 COLUMNS=1 mutt $OPTIONS > maildir.out --- > > eop Oh, I am sorry to hear that. I tested it on my side before and it

Re: Visualising contents of a Maildir

2022-08-18 Thread martin f krafft via Mutt-users
Regarding the following, written by "Christian Brabandt" on 2022-08-18 at 13:15 Uhr +0200: 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

Re: Visualising contents of a Maildir

2022-08-18 Thread Christian Brabandt
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

Re: Visualising contents of a Maildir

2022-08-18 Thread martin f krafft via Mutt-users
Regarding the following, written by "Bastian" on 2022-08-18 at 11:41 Uhr +0200: --- paste: % LINES=10 COLUMNS=1 mutt $OPTIONS > maildir.out --- eop This does not generate any output for me, i.e. the generated file is empty. -- @martinkrafft |

Re: Visualising contents of a Maildir

2022-08-18 Thread Sam Kuper
On Thu, Aug 18, 2022 at 10:45:04AM +0100, Sam Kuper wrote: > If you find a lightweight markup language that has PDF output AND has > table markup tags that correspond one-to-one with the '|' filter's > ncurses strings, then you could use the `|` filter as Kevin proposes > above, and pipe the

Re: Visualising contents of a Maildir

2022-08-18 Thread Sam Kuper
On Thu, Aug 18, 2022 at 10:10:38AM +0200, martin f krafft via Mutt-users wrote: > The reason I need this index is that I have to provide evidence of "a > huge volume of mails" on a given topic, without actually sharing the > emails. OK, but... > So I need a PDF index. That is a non-sequitur.

Re: Visualising contents of a Maildir

2022-08-18 Thread Bastian
On 18Aug22 10:38+0200, martin f krafft via Mutt-users wrote: > Not a bad idea to use the screendump functionality of X terminals. But I am > talking thousands of lines… doubt this will work, but if it does, I'll > report back. Probably this could work: --- paste: % LINES=10 COLUMNS=1

Re: Visualising contents of a Maildir

2022-08-18 Thread Sam Kuper
On Wed, Aug 17, 2022 at 04:59:41PM -0500, Derek Martin wrote: > On Wed, Aug 17, 2022 at 09:33:44PM +, Sam Kuper wrote: >> On Wed, Aug 17, 2022 at 09:22:31PM +0200, martin f krafft via Mutt-users >> wrote: >> > For reasons you don't want to know, >> >> You may be underestimating the curiosity

Re: Visualising contents of a Maildir

2022-08-18 Thread martin f krafft via Mutt-users
Regarding the following, written by "Marcus C. Gottwald" on 2022-08-18 at 09:53 Uhr +0200: So, if one of these output formats would be a step forward, and you found a way to make an xterm window enormously large, Not a bad idea to use the screendump functionality of X terminals. But I am

Re: Visualising contents of a Maildir

2022-08-18 Thread Marcus C. Gottwald
martin f krafft via Mutt-users wrote (Wed 2022-Aug-17 21:22:31 +0200): > Is there a way to "screenshot" the Mutt index beyond the scroll > window? xterm can create decent screenshots in HTML or SVG format. The HTML version essentially is one big using CSS and s for colors and other

Re: Visualising contents of a Maildir

2022-08-18 Thread martin f krafft via Mutt-users
Thanks for your responses so far! The reason I need this index is that I have to provide evidence of "a huge volume of mails" on a given topic, without actually sharing the emails. So I need a PDF index. Hence I thought making an HTML table, and then printing that. Easiest. A

Re: Visualising contents of a Maildir

2022-08-17 Thread Kevin J. McCarthy
On Wed, Aug 17, 2022 at 09:22:31PM +0200, martin f krafft via Mutt-users wrote: Is there a way to "screenshot" the Mutt index beyond the scroll window? I don't think it will be better or easier than what you've done. But you could try using a '|' filter in $index_format to append some output

Re: Visualising contents of a Maildir

2022-08-17 Thread Derek Martin
On Wed, Aug 17, 2022 at 09:33:44PM +, Sam Kuper wrote: > On Wed, Aug 17, 2022 at 09:22:31PM +0200, martin f krafft via Mutt-users > wrote: > > For reasons you don't want to know, > > You may be underestimating the curiosity of your audience. I suspect what Sam really meant was, "For reasons

Re: Visualising contents of a Maildir

2022-08-17 Thread Sam Kuper
On Wed, Aug 17, 2022 at 09:22:31PM +0200, martin f krafft via Mutt-users wrote: > For reasons you don't want to know, You may be underestimating the curiosity of your audience. > I have to visualise a Maildir with a couple of thousand messages, i.e. > essentially provide a mutt-style index with

Visualising contents of a Maildir

2022-08-17 Thread martin f krafft via Mutt-users
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