mutt indexing (was Re: Orca & tbird issues)

[Janina Sajka]

True. But it also provides full search capibilities, including all the
standard operators like and and not, and all the grouping and piping
functions. And, it provides the ability to limit each such statement to
a particular aspect of the mail being searched. I like that a lot, and
use it all the time.

Joel Roth writes:
> Most email clients have built-in search, however mutt
> requires an external indexer. I've done well with mu. It
> integrates by mapping search to one key (e.g. F8), you input
> text and ENTER, then hit another key (e.g. F9) to view search
> result. Takes one more keystroke than I'd like, but works
> okay.
> 
> http://www.djcbsoftware.nl/code/mu/
> 
> Janina Sajka wrote:
>  
> > Mutt does have one command I absolutely love, and I wonder whether the
> > gui clients have something similar. There's the usual 'r' for reply to
> > the sender, and 'g' for reply to all, but I particularly appreciate
> > Shift+L for "reply only to the lists, and not the individuals."
> > 
> > I must confess, though, that I'm impressed that people have found a
> > browser interface to email fully usable. To me this suggests that
> > familiarity with the particular environment is still the most important
> > factor for success with whatever one chooses to use.
> > 
> > Janina
> > 
> > Tim Chase writes:
> > > On November  9, 2016, Jeffery Mewtamer wrote:
> > > > Personally, I've never seen the point of e-mail clients and have
> > > > always used a web browser to check my e-mail. 
> > > 
> > > I think the big advantage is off-line usage.  If you are connected
> > > all the time and have dual-mode access for redundancy (say, a home
> > > internet/wifi connection, and a 4G aircard), and don't roam much,
> > > then a web-based mail client solves a lot of problems.  But when
> > > internet access is spotty or unreliable, it's nice to have full
> > > access to your email offline.  Fortunately, there are lots of
> > > options, both within the GUI with varying degrees of accessibility
> > > (Thunderbird, Kmail, Claws Mail, and Evolution come to mind) and
> > > within the terminal (mutt and alpine being the dominant players, but
> > > "alot" and mailx/heirloom mailx also come to mind as well as several
> > > available within emacs).
> > > 
> > > -tim
> > > 
> > > 
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Janina Sajka,	Phone:	+1.443.300.2200
			sip:janina at asterisk.rednote.net
		Email:	janina at rednote.net

Linux Foundation Fellow
Executive Chair, Accessibility Workgroup:	http://a11y.org

The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI)
Chair, Accessible Platform Architectures	http://www.w3.org/wai/apa