On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 12:43:40PM -0800, Bryce Harrington wrote: > Last week pitti gave a talk on setting up bug filters to get more use > out of launchpad's emails. I've been following his method for some > time, using the Mutt email client. > > One of Mutt's features is the ability to colorize bug titles based on > sender, subject, or even body contents. I've found this quite handy for > going through large queues of bug emails and quickly spotting important > ones. > > Lines look like this: > > color index default green '~b "Status: .+ .+> Fix Released"' > ^ ^ ^ ^-- regular expression > | | +-- b=body, f=from, s=subject, etc. > | +-- background color > +-- foreground (font) color > > Here's an example .muttrc file similar to what I use: > > http://bryceharrington.org/files/lp-mutt-colors > > When using mutt's threaded view, you can quickly spot "patterns", like a > series of emails ending in one green one usually means that bug got > fixed, so you can skip over it. It's also useful in spotting > replies on bugs you've worked on. ---end quoted text---
I just tried it, it's cool, yet there is a problem if I'm using mutt to access POP/IMAP mailboxes, those coloring rules makes mutt fetch ALL emails' bodies (not just the headers) to implement those color commands. -- أحمد المحمودي (Ahmed El-Mahmoudy) Digital design engineer SySDSoft, Inc. GPG KeyID: 0x9DCA0B27 (@ subkeys.pgp.net) GPG Fingerprint: 087D 3767 8CAC 65B1 8F6C 156E D325 C3C8 9DCA 0B27 -- Ubuntu-motu mailing list Ubuntu-motu@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-motu