highlighting messages to/cc me on mailing list?

Sirius sirius at trudheim.com
Mon May 13 06:17:56 UTC 2024


In days of yore (Sun, 12 May 2024), Joe Damato via Mutt-users thus quoth: 
> I am subscribed to some high traffic email lists (linux kernel development
> stuff).
> 
> There are two cases I am trying to deal with which are fairly similar:
> 
>   1. I am subscribed to a mailing list. I start a thread (usually with git
>      send-email) on the list and other developers on the list reply via
>      "reply-all". Since they reply-all, their message will contain the
>      email list I am subscribed to and my personal email address added to
>      the TO or CC line.
> 
>   2. Occasionally, there are existing threads on the list and others will
>      reply to a message I didn't author, but add me to the CC to ask for my
>      input.

Something I do, and there are multiple ways of doing this, is that I want
to see mails addressed to me (period) highlighted. As long as you set
alternates for the addresses that are 'you', you can color the index with

color index              color94    default    ~p

~P is messages _from_ you, ~F is flagged messages and so on.
http://mutt.org/doc/manual/#tab-patterns has all the patterns you can use.
If you want them to really stand out, you can do

#           fg    bg  pattern
color index white red ~p

and they should be hard to miss. This is the same method you would use to
highlight specific headers (like List-Id) in a different colour so they
stand out.

HTH,

-- 
Kind regards,

/S


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