[neomutt-users] How to best configure NeoMutt with multiple

[technical_fora at proton.me]

Proton email addresses?
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On 30.08.2023 09:29, Andrew Sullivan wrote:
>Hi,
>
>On Wed, Aug 30, 2023 at 01:22:22AM +0000, technical_fora at proton.me
>wrote:
>>
>>1) SIDEBAR:  I would like it to show, at a minimum, the following:
[...]
>
>If I understand this correctly, for proton these personal@, technical@
>and so on are aliases (to one principal account).  If I'm correct about
>that, I think what you are aiming to do actually ought to be done
>server-side, with sieve or something equivalent.  I don't think the MUA
>is a good place to be categorizing mail after it's gone to a final
>delivery mailbox unless you intend to read it and dispose of it
>somehow.  I don't know what kind of server-side filtering proton
>offers, so I can't say more about that.

Light bulb moment!  These are indeed aliases that Proton Mail provides.
Now I can visualize how this can be done.  Proton has both a fairly
full-featured interactive filter generation ability (up to 100 active
filters on the paid plan) and the sieve capability, too.  I had not
heard of sieve previously.  Thanks for that.

And I thought from the get-go that the hooks you mention later would be
needed.  I think I now have a viable game plan thanks to your help!

>
>>3) Once I have puzzled out all of the above on this laptop, my intent
>>is to replicate this setup on my Arch Linux desktop at home (I'm
>>currently on an extended-away-from-home trip.).  On the Arch Linux
>>desktop I intend to locally store copies of my emails for posterity
>>and easy searching.
>
>I never do this so can't comment.  I leave everything on the imap
>server.
>

Out of curiosity how do you effectively search through your server-side
mails from within NeoMutt?

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