mutt-ng development blog - Features

Scoring in mutt-ng

nospam@example.com (krennmair) — Wed, 19 Oct 2005 09:12:42 +0200

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.

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Shortening hierarchies in the sidebar

nospam@example.com (krennmair) — Tue, 22 Feb 2005 21:31:00 +0100

When you use the sidebar then it happens quite often that the mailbox or newsgroup name is way too long to fit into the sidebar. Well, to overcome this problem, I developed a new option, shorten_hierarchy, to "shorten" or compress mailbox or newsgroup names when they're in hierarchies. An example would be the newsgroup name de.alt.sysadmin.recovery. When you enable the option, you will see this name as d.a.s.recovery instead in the sidebar. Again, see below for some screenshots.

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Better sidebar with IMAP

nospam@example.com (krennmair) — Tue, 22 Feb 2005 12:01:43 +0100

The sidebar in mutt-ng now honors the imap_home_namespace configuration parameter. When you set this parameter correctly, you will have a sidebar that will take up less space and provider a better overview and readability. But see below.
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