Going GUI...er

[Jon LaBadie]

On Sun, Apr 05, 2020 at 12:45:09PM -0700, Felix Finch wrote:
> On 20200405, Akkana Peck wrote:
> > Is there any way to configure mutt to alert me at the top of the
> > message if there are any text/calendar or image/* attachments
> > anywhere in the message, even as part of a multipart/alternative?
> > I feel like I miss a lot in mail messages because mutt doesn't tell
> > me about attachments.
> 
> I wonder if the number of attachments could be shown in the index?
> 
> I don't know if that would be sufficient; a lot of work emails are loaded with stupid company logos and such.
> 
> Maybe the index could include a count of attachments only of specific types enumerated in a mutt var.  Or maybe a count of attachments not enumerated in a mutt var.
> 
>  set show_attachments=text/calendar;text/html
>  set hide_attachments=image/png
> 
> %p is unused.  Let it stand for the number of parts:
> 
>  set index_format="%4C %Z %{%b %d} %-15.15L %p (%?l?%4l&%4c?) %s"
> 

%X is already defined as the number of attachments.
%Maybe that would suffice instead of a new %p.

Jon

> Just spitballin'!
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