A long time ago, I sent a wishlist bug report about Mutt for support of virtual folders:
680: Opening/searching several folders at once Package: mutt; Severity: wishlist; Reported by: Hugo Haas <hugo@larve.net>; 689 days old.
I have discovered today that it is possible with an external program: Mairix.
Since I have two sets of folders and need to index them before doing a search, I have written a script to do so:
#! /bin/sh # # Usage: mairix-index (mail|private-mail) ... # # (c) 2003 Hugo Haas http://larve.net/people/hugo/ # Created 5 July 2003 MAIRIX=mairix RM=/bin/rm if [ $# -lt 1 ]; then exit 1 fi TEMPCONF=/tmp/mairixrc-temp-hh.$$ trap "$RM -f $TEMPCONF; exit" 0 1 2 3 15 cat << EOF > $TEMPCONF base=$HOME/$1 database=$HOME/.mairix_index_$1 vfolder=archives/vfolder EOF echo "folders=`ls $HOME/$1 | grep -v -F 'archives/' | tr -d / | xargs echo | tr \ :`" >> $TEMPCONF shift echo "Created $TEMPCONF as a mairixrc:" cat $TEMPCONF echo "Updating index" $MAIRIX -f $TEMPCONF -p echo "Running mairix search:" $MAIRIX -f $TEMPCONF -v "$@"
Then, from Mutt, I have macros to to do a search and see the results:
########################################################################## # Virtual folders: mairix macro index \eM "<shell-escape>$HOME/.mutt/mairix-index BASE " "Run a Mairix search" macro index \eF "<change-folder-readonly>=archives/vfolder/\n" "Switch to Mairix virtual folder"
Note: BASE is either mail or private-mail and is set with my M4 muttrc preprocessing.
Then, I can a search for "Hugo" with \eM Hugo and then see the results with \eF.
Hella cool!