[neomutt-devel] Tagging Emails

Elimar Riesebieter riesebie at lxtec.de
Sat Feb 27 16:32:06 CET 2021


+1

-- 
   Elimar

* Jakub Jindra <jakub.jindra at socialbakers.com> [2021-02-27 15:54 +0100]:

> I would expect "User's sort order"
> 
> JJ
> 
> On 2021-02-27 14:42, Richard Russon wrote:
> > Background: I'm trying to improve how NeoMutt internally handles tagged sets of emails.
> > 
> > If I tag ten emails, then perform an operation on them,
> > in which order would you expect them to be worked on?
> > 
> > For example, if you piped them to an external program
> > 
> > - User's sort order
> >  Top to bottom in the order they'd appear in the index
> >  (including any threading)
> > 
> > - Selection order
> >  The first email tagged would be processed first, and so on.
> >  Typically, the user would tag top-to-bottom in the index,
> >  so this could be the same as the sort order.
> > 
> > - Unseen order -- dependent on other factors, e.g. the mailbox type
> >  - Maildir:   Alphabetical
> >  - Imap:      By UID (Unique ID)
> >  - Generally: By memory address (for speed)
> > 
> > What do you think?
> > 
> > Cheers,
> >    Rich / FlatCap

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