[ILUG] IMAP clients

[John P. Looney]

On Sat, Nov 27, 1999 at 12:35:13PM +0000, kevin lyda mentioned:
> anyway, mail.  i keep thinking that mail systems aren't quite up to the
> level we need them.  choosing from addresses based on the current folder
> is good, and also perhaps guessing from the To:/Cc: line might be good. 
> And then maybe rules: if i'm mailing foo at example.com i should use my
> xyz at example.com address, but if it's bar at example.com, it should be from
> abc at example.com.  of course a good ui to configure it, and making it act
> in a *predictable* way seem rather difficult.

 Look at mutt. It has "send hooks" and "folder hooks". A send hook is
something like:

 If I am sending to something that matches "linux.ie", set a header called
"Reply-to:" to be ilug at linux.ie and my "From:" header to be
jplooney-ilug at online.ie. The syntax for that would be:

send-hook ilug at linux.ie my_hdr From: jplooney-ilug at online.ie
send-hook ilug at linux.ie my_hdr Reply-to: ilug at linux.ie

 You can use a folder hook to say "When I'm reading mail in the "ilug"
folder, set my From address to be valen at linux.ie, also set the 'sort'
variable to 'threaded'".

folder-hook =ilug "set sort=threaded"
folder-hook =ilug "my_hdr From: valen at linux.ie"

 You can also set "default save patterns". As in, "If a mail is sent from
anyone at "hotmail.com", save it to the 'trash' folder".

save-hook hotmail.com =trash

 Or, how about "When I've read my /var/spool/mail file, any read mail
should be saved to ~/Mail/oldmail".

mbox-hook /var/spool/mail/valen =oldmail

 Does that do some of the stuff you want it to do ?


Kate

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