[Nmh-workers] Re: A MH-inspired Maildir handler: coma

[Christian Neukirchen]

Paul Vixie <address@hidden> writes:

> this sounds wonderful. as a die hard mh user, the thing i most need to be
> able to do that you have not yet implemented is something like
>
> rmm all +results
> for x in inbox outbox todo; do
>     pick -seq foo -from address@hidden -and -after '1 jan 2011' +$x
>     refile -link foo -src +inbox +results
> done

I read this as "Gather all mail from me from this year in the folders
inbox, outbox, todo into the folder results".

I don't have refiling/moving/copying yet, but for your purposes, I think
a named sequence (not implemented either) would do it:

, seq results +inbox +outbox +todo from:address@hidden "date>2011-01-01"

Then you can read them with , read results
or show them all at once with , show results

(And if you need a physical directory, , copy results +folder
or directly , copy ... +folder)

I think global sequences are a good idea, since you can easily restrict
them to folders.

> and the even simpler:
>
> pick -seq foo -before '1 jan 2011' +outbox
> refile foo -src +outbox +outbox-2011

, move +outbox "date<2011-01-01" +outbox-2011

I think I'll implement these commands soon.

> if i could do these kinds of things in addition to what your tool already
> does, using Maildir or some other format that was more reliable and faster
> for the imap server, i could consider switching away from MH.

Whoa. :)  Please note it's all alpha software yet.
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