On Thu, Sep 03, 2009 at 10:27:20PM -0400, Thomas Baker wrote: > If I am reading an important thread in mutt and need to put that > thread into my to-do list, I save it as a file, e.g.: > > 2009-09-03.mutt-rxvt-configuration.mbox > > I run a shell script to add a reference to that file to the > to-do list in my browser, e.g. the clickable: > > <a href="file://localhost/e:/foo/2009-09-03.mutt-rxvt-configuration.mbox"> > > I can move email files around just like any another > data .doc or .xls files, and I can archive the email for a > project together with all the other data files.
You might want to consider switching to Maildir. Maildir uses a small directory structure (name, name/cur, name/new, name/tmp) to hold messages as individual files. The advantages are: - reading/writing/moving/deleting messages is faster than opening an mbox, looking for the right message, editing it, then rewriting the whole mbox. - grep returns individual messages, not an mbox to search through - safe for multiple opens of the same Maildir simultaneously - safe to use over NFS or Samba or what-have-you - safe for MTA's to deliver to The disadvantages are: - it's not exactly what you are used to. - reading a giant Maildir may be slower than reading a giant mbox. Mutt supports Maildir very well. -dsr- -- http://tao.merseine.nu/~dsr/eula.html is hereby incorporated by reference. You can't defend freedom by getting rid of it.
