On 02Aug2016 08:05, Yubin Ruan wrote:
really appreciate your help.
If you want to be more precise, you can use a modifier such as:
~C mutt-users@mutt.org
to match messages with that in the To or CC headers.
I have tried that, but when I press that ~ key, mutt give me some "key is not
bound. Press ? for help" message.(when I say I press the ~ key, I mean I press
~ , which would give you a ~ when you do normal typing, otherwise it's
just a ` )
Ah. The string above is a pattern expression. It is only meaningful at the
prompt for or or searching. So what I should have asked
you to type was:
T~C mutt-users@mutt.org
so that the "T" () opens the prompt requesting a pattern, and only
_then_ do you type the pattern "~C mutt-users@mutt.org".
You might also want to experiment with "l" (), which restricts your view
of the mailbox to just the messages matching a pattern. This will give you an
easy way to experiment with patterns, and is also a handy way to locate
particular messages in a large mailbox. Use the pattern "." to undo a "limit":
that is a regexp for "any character", and effectively matches every message.
That's weird. I have no idea why, but I guess maybe that's because of
my configuration setting, part of which I copy directly from other's blog:
set index_format='%-20.20L %4C [%Z] %{%b %d} %-15.15F (%?l?%4l&%4c?) %s'
color index green default ~N # new
color index red default ~D# deleted
color index brightmagenta default ~T # tagged
color index brightyellow default ~F # flagged
set pager_index_lines=10
bind index,pager \Ck sidebar-prev #previous folder in sidebar
bind index,pager \Cj sidebar-next #next folder in sidebar
bind index,pager \CO sidebar-open #open selected folder in sidebar
macro index b'toggle sidebar_visible'
macro index \cb 'toggle sidebar_visible'
bind index ddisplay-message
bind index gg first-entry
bind index Glast-entry
bind index hnoop
bind index lnoop
that's all of my conf that are related to index view. Anything wrong ?
There's nothing wrong there, but I would feel unhappy about the "d" macro
above. Normally "d" is bound to , so if you every open someone
else's mutt, or open your own but bypassing the configuration above (which
sometimes one wants to do), then "d" can easily lead to accidental deletion of
messages.
Normally will display a message, and i would advocate removing your "d"
macro and just using . Safer all around.
> Can anyone tell me,
> ** How can I have that Thunderbird message filtering in mutt?(i.e., moving
> some messages from inbox to other mailbox according to the `To` field or
`Cc`
> field)
The simplest way to do that would be as you imagined:
- tag the messages you want to move, for example by typing:
T~C mutt-users@mutt.org
- move ("save" in mutt parlance) these messages to another folder.
The key "s" is bound to . Normally that operates on the current
message. What you want is to operate on all the tagged messages. This is done
by prefixing the command with ";" which is bound to . You can do
this with many operations (copy, delete, etc). So type:
;s
meaning . This will prompt you for a folder name for the
messages.
> ** Is those ~ in mutt's manual(~e, ~T, ~B, etc.) stand for the
> key?(I guess so because I have tried both `~T` and `T`, and only
`T`
> have some effect.) If that is, seriously, why can't the author just place
> something like or in the manual? and what does the =, % prefix
mean?
No, the "~" is a literal tilde character. It does _not_ mean
. The ~T, ~B etc operators are "pattern modifiers" for use in
expressions which match messages. So:
~f c...@zip.com.au
would match any message from me ("c...@zip.com.au" in the From:
header). They are case insensitive: "~t" and "~T" do different
things;>
~f doesn't work either, because the ~ is not bound(as described above)
As discussed above, ~ only has meaning at a prompt asking for a pattern
expression. You need to type "T" or "l" first to get such a prompt.
Normal practice for mutt users is to file messages with a separate
program as they are collected. This works best with local storage:
we collect our email from the server with POP or IMAP and store in
local folders on our computers. We can walk you through setting up
such an arrangement if you decide you want to go this way.
If there's some common practice I would really appreciate to hear some. Figuring
it out myself is kind of hard.
The practice varies very widely.
Many people use mutt to connect directly to IMAP servers such as GMail.
Alternatively, you arrange to collect your email from such servers (or your
ISP's POP service, etc) and store it locally. Then use mutt to browse the local
folders. Note here that mutt tends not to do the collecting, though it has pop
and imap services and you _can_ collect
