From: Gavin McCullagh (gavin at domain fiachra.ucd.ie)
Date: Thu 02 Aug 2001 - 14:13:09 IST
On Thu, 02 Aug 2001, Liam Bedford wrote:
> check it out on a terminal that can manage colour if you're not currently.
> Eterm does a very good job, xterm not quite as good. And have a look at
> telsa's config..
I use a tall rxvt which does it very well.
> I also like the
> set pager_index_lines=9
> option, but I generally run a tall Eterm.
got this from one of the muttrcs on mutt.org
set pager_index_lines=`zsh -c 'temp=($(stty size)) ; expr $temp[1] / 5 + 1'`
> I use the threaded sort option, with coloring for certain regex's, and I
> delete it all.
>
> I used to keep it, but then I realised what ajh said, there are web
> archives. So I delete all mail from any list with web archives, unless
> there's a particular nugget that I want to keep without searching for it.
I'm just moreless looking to set a timescale of eg 10 days. Once it gets older than that, it gets deleted (or archived, it'd be moreorless the same). I didn't like pine's deletion thing cos it moves everything which means if you're in the middle of a conversation, you lose all previous threaded mails (this becomes more obvious you when you use mutt's threading).
I was thinking about it and you could go a lot further in this. eg you could dlete entire threads together and only delete threads whose most recent email is of some age. But this is starting to get pretty complex then.
Gavin
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