* On 03 Jun 2011, Chris Brennan wrote: > I am new to mutt and I've getting some thing worked out but I am still hung > up on somethings from using GMail and all their fancy features. While GMail > in general is minimalistic, it's not enough for me. I need more. Mutt seems > to suit my needs but I am curious. Is it possible to have mutt do the > following > > * import/use/sync my contacts from the mail server?
A program called 'goobook' will help with this. > * properly label (I think mutt calls it tagging) my e-mail based on the > labels I have already created in the Web Interface. (While I suspect the > answer to this is no, I also suspect the answer to be yes with procmail, this > would require I actually learn regex (which I haven't had time to get around > to yet).) This depends on how you're integrating mutt with gmail. If you're using IMAP then procmail doesn't come into play. To use procmail -- which would help with this problem -- you'd need to sync your gmail mailbox down to wherever you run mutt. That might be obvious to you but for the archive's sake it's worth making clear. As far as I know, there is no way to retrieve the tags associated with a given message using Gmail's IMAP interface. You can retrieve messages with a given tag by selecting that tag/folder in the IMAP folder browser, but you can't go the opposite way. So there's no way to implicitly make that information available comprehensively to mutt. If Google did provide a virtual header that listed all labels associated with a message when you retrieve the message via POP/IMAP, I'd definitely support it in the keywords code I'm maintaining. Bonus points if it's a sort of approximately standard header. (I know we have had some gmail engineers on this list....) -- David Champion • d...@uchicago.edu • IT Services • University of Chicago
