On Sat, 2009-04-18 at 17:46 -0400, Peter Jay Salzman wrote: > FireFox and GMail have sort-of recently (past year) converted me from the > directory paradigm to the tag paradigm. > > Is there a way to use tags with email and mutt? > > I might be able to roll my own system if there's a convenient way to add a > header line to the email (I'd rather not do control-E and hand write the > header line -- after all, tagging is to increase efficiency/convenience). > > Is there a way to maybe type control-t, then type something like > "linux,email,tags" and have the header > > X-tags: linux, email, tags > > added to the headers? > > Then when I delete, I can probably use some kind of hook to save the > email-to-be-deleted to a backup file. > > Maybe an email tagged as "spam" could be auto-fed into bogofilter and > deleted without backing it up...
http://madduck.net/blog/2006.09.08:mutt-tagging/ discusses this problem. He hasn't found a perfect solution yet, but he says that http://www.steve.org.uk/Software/mutt-tagging/ comes close. I think an even better solution might be to create a LUFS filesystem to expose a single mail directory as a collection of directories representing tags, and to propagate updates automatically, but I don't care enough to build such a thing. The plus side of this solution would be that it would work with any mail client, and you could even expose the results via an IMAP server. --Ken -- Chanoch (Ken) Bloom. PhD candidate. Linguistic Cognition Laboratory. Department of Computer Science. Illinois Institute of Technology. http://www.iit.edu/~kbloom1/
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