Visualising contents of a Maildir

[raf]

On Thu, Aug 18, 2022 at 10:10:38AM +0200, martin f krafft via Mutt-users <mutt-users at mutt.org> wrote:

> 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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Perhaps notmuch's json output with threading that you mentioned
can be fed into jq which could transform it into csv.

cheers,
raf