Re: Open mutt with only messages from one person

2017-06-26 Thread Xu Wang
On Sun, Jun 25, 2017 at 4:08 PM, Matthias Apitz wrote: > El día sábado, junio 24, 2017 a las 03:48:03p. m. -0700, Ian Zimmerman > escribió: > >> On 2017-06-24 14:59, Thomas Schneider wrote: >> >> > You can have the email directed to various files. I direct my email >> > either

Re: Open mutt with only messages from one person

2017-06-25 Thread Matthias Apitz
El día sábado, junio 24, 2017 a las 03:48:03p. m. -0700, Ian Zimmerman escribió: > 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

Re: Open mutt with only messages from one person

2017-06-25 Thread Marcus C. Gottwald
Xu Wang wrote (Sat 2017-Jun-24 13:12:03 -0400): > mutt -e 'push "l~f'"Jian"'\n"' Note that this might not do what was expected, if your intention was to make sure that Mutt would see the double quotation marks around »Jian« (so »Jian« can contain spaces?). Your shell will see the opening

Re: Open mutt with only messages from one person

2017-06-25 Thread Marcus C. Gottwald
Xu Wang wrote (Sat 2017-Jun-24 13:12:03 -0400): > It almost work. But for a splitted second, the screen shows all emails > (because it takes time to process filter request). I know this sound > weird to all, but even in this splitted second I see all emails and I > get nervous with everything I

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

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

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

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

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

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

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"'