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 correspondents, dates, > subjects, and threading, So far, so good. Use Mutt. It does this very nicely. (I'm not trying to be facetious - even with my repetitive answers below. This is a use-case for which Mutt is genuinely well-suited.) > ideally in form of an HTML table. This is puzzling, as follows: - Tables are tabular. - Threads are digraphs (usually polytrees - although in principle a single message can be a reply to *multiple* earlier messages). So there seems to be something of a topological mismatch between your intended input data structure and your intended output data structure. > Apart from the threading, Python's email module can do most of the > work, and combined with e.g. Jinja templating, I should be able to get > results quickly, but since I don't like reinventing wheels, I was > wondering if maybe you had a better idea? Again, Mutt does this very nicely. Why not just use Mutt? > Is there a way to "screenshot" the Mutt index beyond the scroll > window? Why would you need to? In what way does Mutt itself not meet your requirements? > Or can you think of command-line tools that visualise threads? Again: Mutt. (Emacs can do this, too. Probably there are other tools as well.) > Notmuch, which I use, can very quickly list all the threads, including > the count of messages, but I actually need to list to be *really big* > and not condensed, for reasons you don't want to know. > > I can make notmuch output json with threading, and then process that > with Python to create a list, but maybe there's a better tool? Again, why not just use Mutt? Sam
