In revision 553, we fine-tuned the scoring functionality of mutt-ng in order to make it more usable, especially for reading newsgroups. Basically, the fine-tuning consists of enabling patterns to match against the realname of headers containing mail addresses, e.g. From:, Cc:, To:, etc., which was deactivated before for whatever reason.
In order to illustrate this a bit more, I simply show some practical cases of how I use the scoring feature.
First of all, my own mails and postings gets the highest score:
score "~f 'Andreas Krennmair'" 1000
Then, all the people that write interesting stuff or that are my friends are scored up, too (this list is only a very small snippet of my actual file):
score "~f 'Alexander Bartolich'" 100
score "~f 'Martin Piskernig'" 100
score "~f 'Michael Prokop'" 100
score "~f 'Nico Golde'" 100
score "~f 'Rocco Rutte'" 100
Using the ~f 'Real Name' feature has been disabled before, so this is the new and interesting part. Basically, you can put any regular expression there, and it will be matched not only against the email address, but also against the real name.
Another thing that I have enabled is that I score up postings that are "children" of a posting of myself:
score "~x '@synflood\.at'" 5
In order to actually see the differences of different scores, it is a good idea to color such postings differently based on the score:
color index yellow black "~n 5-"
color index brightyellow black "~n 100-"
color index brightgreen black "~n 1000-"
The mutt-ng manual also contains a section on message scoring, although this doesn't reflect those latest changes yet. If you have other interesting, more complex scoring setups, feel free to post them in the comments.
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