Thank you everyone who responded to this.
Mutt is really great. I switched to a Linux desktop last
year and used Netscape as the default for a long time. I
hated it. It was really ugly and mail was no fun.
Now, through the help of this list, customizing Mutt has
made mail a real joy again. (Plus I can easily go through
hundreds of emails a day!)
-Thomas
Sometime near Wed, Apr 04, 2001 at 07:35:29PM +0200, Erika Pacholleck wrote:
> ( Apr-04-2001 ) Thomas Duterme <--:
> > This was just my gut feeling for how to speed through mail
> > in the pager. Anyone have any other clever ways? I'd love
> > to hear how others browse through high quantities of mail.
>
> I use colors to support me in quick-reading like this:
>
> 1. grouping mail
> I splitted my mails into several groups of same level and/or
> importance first, example: all mailinglists from the same address
> except the security list which is an extra group with all other
> security lists.
>
> 2. Pager header lines
> Then I decided which header lines I wanted to see, in my case I
> have only To and Subject because my status line contains From
> And I defined the order of those to be To and then Subject (The
> date is better seen in the index.)
>
> 3. Color choice
> Now I made myself a couple of eye-friendly color combinations to
> be used for all those groups.
>
> 4. in my muttrc it finally looks like this:
> set pager format="%Z:%C/%m %a" # status line of pager
> hdr_order To: Subject: # header order in pager
> # To: patterns that influence the color of the first line
> color header black green "mutt-users" # black on green this list
> color header white black "pacholleck" # white on black personal
> color header white red "security" # white on red security lists
>
> You could do the same with Subject: lines, or use the from as a
> third line if your attention needs to catch certain people.
>
> I only use the pager to browse through my mail starting with the
> first one and only look onto the first two lines, decide by color
> first, then fly over the subject line - this is done within just
> a few seconds. Whenever there is for instance a personal mail
> color changes automatically to white on black which will get my
> attention cause it is the only black one.
>
> Just a suggestion.
> --
> Erika
>
