[gentoo-user] Re: any gentoo mutt users?

[Grant Edwards]

On 2009-05-02, James <jtp@×××××.com> wrote:
> I've recently discovered the awesomeness of mutt. (I may be a little
> late, but better late than never!)
>
> I'm use it for my work email. I have a rather complex and lengthy set
> of folders, and an equally complex procmail to go along with it. Mutt
> is blazing fast at opening mail folders and sorting things, but I'm
> wondering how to check when a new messages comes into a folder and
> skips the inbox.
>
> I've heard of xbuffy and gbuffy, but xbuffy isn't in portage
> and gbuffy fails to compile every time (and it's masked)
>
> Any other suggestions? Something very lightweight would be
> awesome -- even text based would be okay. What are you mutt
> users to check email in all your folders?

I used gbuffy for years, but finally gave up on it -- it was
unmaintained and just wouldn't build any longer.

After that, I switched to gkrellm for a while, but had to make
a _lot_ of modifications to the mail-indicator program to get
it to work with multiple folders/servers.

I've recently switched to XFCE's mailwatch panel plugin.  I
have a separate panel for nothing but mailwatch instances. If
you're already using XFCE, it's pretty lightweight.  It does
have some problems with instances randomly vanishing
(permanently) and taking configuration files with them.  To
solve that problem, I've created some bash/sed scripts I use to
re-create the instances and config files after they've
vanished. :/

It's also a PITA to configure it so that it displays folder
names. I ended up creating a set of svg/png icons containing
the folder names (one in red when there's new mail, and one in
black when there isn't).

-- 
Grant