Visualising contents of a Maildir

[martin f krafft]

Thanks for your responses so far!

The reason I need this index is that I have to provide evidence of 
"a huge volume of mails" on a given topic, without actually sharing 
the emails. So I need a PDF index. Hence I thought making an HTML 
table, and then printing that. Easiest.

A screenshot/bitmap approach would be very hard to turn into a 
useable PDF, I think.

Sam is right, threads are digraphs, but Mutt displays them in a 
table, and I think that's a good compromise.

>I don't think it will be better or easier than what you've done.  But 
>you could try using a '|' filter in $index_format to append some 
>output to a file as a side effect.  It would still entail manually 
>pgdn'ing through the index.

Not a bad idea, but unfortunately, the Unicode characters used to 
represent threads in mutt's index seem to be some sort of 
ncurses-special, and the whole thing would need parsing. But this is 
definitely an interesting approach, as I could probably craft an 
`$index_format` that generates HTML `<tr>`'s, and PgDn'ing over a 
thousand messages might be something the X repeat buffer can do. ;)

I knew why I'd ask here! ;)

Thanks,

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