Re: Unsubscribing from mailing-list threads (was: Preferred way to get imap emails)

2019-07-30 Thread Samir Benmendil
On Jul 30, 2019 at 7:40, Matthias Apitz wrote: A solution must be based on some kind of a local "database" file of threads marked as "bad" threads (perhaps as patterns) and one must actively store the given "bad" thread into it, for example with M and then a D would later, even in the next mutt

Re: Preferred way to get imap emails

2019-07-30 Thread Marcus C. Gottwald
Pankaj Jangid wrote (Sat 2019-Jul-27 20:58:20 +0530): > My 2nd question is - is there a way to pre-fetch all the emails in inbox. Fetch them as soon as new mail becomes visible or once after entering a folder? Maybe the latter can get achieved using a folder-hook (or a manually executed key pre

Re: Preferred way to get imap emails

2019-07-30 Thread Pankaj Jangid
On Tue, Jul 30, 2019 at 03:05:15PM +0200, Marcus C. Gottwald wrote: > Fetch them as soon as new mail becomes visible or once after entering > a folder? Maybe the latter can get achieved using a folder-hook (or a > manually executed key press) triggering the execution of a macro along > the lines of

Re: Unsubscribing from mailing-list threads (was: Preferred way to get imap emails)

2019-07-30 Thread Mark H. Wood
On Tue, Jul 30, 2019 at 07:40:02AM +0200, Matthias Apitz wrote: > El día martes, julio 30, 2019 a las 06:36:35a. m. +0200, Francesco Ariis > escribió: > > > On Tue, Jul 30, 2019 at 06:31:42AM +0200, Matthias Apitz wrote: > > > > > > I'm a mutt user for many years. From time to time I do miss a fe

Re: Unsubscribing from mailing-list threads (was: Preferred way to get imap emails)

2019-07-30 Thread José María Mateos
On Tue, Jul 30, 2019 at 10:08:02AM -0400, Mark H. Wood wrote: > You may want to examine some netnews clients for ideas. They tend to > have exactly this: a database of killed threads, easily augmented with > a simple keystroke. This. Having used slrn in the past, I was surprised mutt didn't have

Re: Unsubscribing from mailing-list threads (was: Preferred way to get imap emails)

2019-07-30 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2019-07-30, José María Mateos wrote: > On Tue, Jul 30, 2019 at 10:08:02AM -0400, Mark H. Wood wrote: > >> You may want to examine some netnews clients for ideas. They tend to >> have exactly this: a database of killed threads, easily augmented with >> a simple keystroke. > > This. Having used s

Re: Preferred way to get imap emails

2019-07-30 Thread Derek Martin
On Tue, Jul 30, 2019 at 01:47:35AM +0530, Pankaj Jangid wrote: > On Mon, Jul 29, 2019 at 03:13:37PM -0400, Dan Ritter wrote: > > IMAP is, explicitly, a mail protocol for clients to do the > > minimal amount of fetching necessary. You can do a full sync on > > top of it, but that's not what it's the

Re: Preferred way to get imap emails

2019-07-30 Thread Derek Martin
On Tue, Jul 30, 2019 at 03:00:32AM +0530, Pankaj Jangid wrote: > On Mon, Jul 29, 2019 at 01:50:54PM -0700, Kevin J. McCarthy wrote: > > If you want to participate in development, then please do so by starting > > small and showing me I can trust your patches. After you've done that, we > > can tal

Re: Preferred way to get imap emails

2019-07-30 Thread Pankaj Jangid
On Tue, Jul 30, 2019 at 02:52:27PM -0500, Derek Martin wrote: > > Honestly speaking, I have tried a couple of tools - offlineimap, mbsync > > and fetchmail. All are flawed. > > I don't know what you think the flaws are with this, but I can say > that I use fetchmail + procmail for this purpose my

Re: Preferred way to get imap emails

2019-07-30 Thread Pankaj Jangid
On Tue, Jul 30, 2019 at 02:57:26PM -0500, Derek Martin wrote: > Joining any community requires to at least some extent that you gain > that community's trust. Your posts thusfar have not earned you that. > May be over time, I'll gain it. :-) all well now. -- Pankaj Planet Earth. "" A nasty l