Re: Open mutt with only messages from one person

2017-06-24 Thread Cameron Simpson
On 24Jun2017 13:12, Xu Wang wrote: Hi, I have attention problem. Often times I need to check mail but I do not want to see all mail because I feel overwhelm. I just want to see mail I expect potentially from a single person. Suppose I expect important email from Jian. I currently do as follows:

Re: Open mutt with only messages from one person

2017-06-24 Thread Ian Zimmerman
On 2017-06-24 14:59, Thomas Schneider wrote: > You can have the email directed to various files. I direct my email > either to my main email "in" box or to one of several other files. It is also easy to tell procmail to deliver _both_ to a general "inbox" folder _and_ a special pre-filtered fold

Re: Open mutt with only messages from one person

2017-06-24 Thread Thomas Schneider
Xu Wang: >> Just use procmail to filter the interesting mails to folder foo and open >> only this > > Would this have permanent effects? I just want to do temporary. procmail takes the incoming mail and sends it wherever you want. You can have the email directed to various files. I direct my e

Re: Open mutt with only messages from one person

2017-06-24 Thread Matthias Apitz
El día sábado, junio 24, 2017 a las 02:44:14p. m. -0400, Xu Wang escribió: > > Just use procmail to filter the interesting mails to folder foo and open > > only this > > Would this have permanent effects? I just want to do temporary. Have you ever used procmail filtering? You can define a lot of

Re: Open mutt with only messages from one person

2017-06-24 Thread Xu Wang
On Sat, Jun 24, 2017 at 1:19 PM, Matthias Apitz wrote: > On Saturday, 24 June 2017 19:12:03 CEST, Xu Wang > wrote: >> >> Hi, I have attention problem. Often times I need to check mail but I >> do not want to see all mail because I feel overwhelm. I just want to >> see mail I expect potentially fr

Re: Open mutt with only messages from one person

2017-06-24 Thread Matthias Apitz
On Saturday, 24 June 2017 19:12:03 CEST, Xu Wang wrote: Hi, I have attention problem. Often times I need to check mail but I do not want to see all mail because I feel overwhelm. I just want to see mail I expect potentially from a single person. Suppose I expect important email from Jian. I cur

Open mutt with only messages from one person

2017-06-24 Thread Xu Wang
Hi, I have attention problem. Often times I need to check mail but I do not want to see all mail because I feel overwhelm. I just want to see mail I expect potentially from a single person. Suppose I expect important email from Jian. I currently do as follows: mutt -e 'push "l~f'"Jian"'\n"'