[notmuch] Fcc, Maildir, and Emacs message-mode -- a bit of code
Jesse Rosenthal
jrosenthal at jhu.edu
Thu Jan 21 10:36:38 PST 2010
Dear all,
First of all, many thanks to Carl and others for writing notmuch.
Some folks on IRC were bemoaning message-mode's annoying inability to
save sent-mail to a Maildir using Fcc. I mentioned that I had written a
bit of Maildir elisp code for that purpose a while back, and it was
suggested that I share it with the list.
Some caveats:
- I've tested this a good number of times, but not very robustly, since
I don't actually use it (I found that I prefer blind-copying
myself). Please test it out somewhere safe, on a maildir you can
afford to lose.
- The hardlinking performed by `add-name-to-file' might be platform and
filesystem specific. I'm using linux/ext3, and it works here. I don't
know what will happen anywhere else.
- I imagine there's a much better implementation inside of Wanderlust,
if you can dig through all the libraries.
- It's not really commented, but I hope the function names are pretty
self-explanatory.
- It requires that the directory in the `Fcc:' header already exist and
be a maildir (i.e. have cur/, new/, and tmp/). It should be pretty
simple to add in a prompt for creating a directory if it points to a
nonexistent place.
Anyway, here it is:
http://jkr.acm.jhu.edu/jkr-maildir.el
To use it, set one of the following:
If you want Fcc'd messages to be marked as read:
(setq message-fcc-handler-function
'(lambda (destdir)
(jkr/maildir-write-buffer-to-maildir destdir t)))
If you want Fcc'd messages to be marked as new:
(setq message-fcc-handler-function
'(lambda (destdir)
(jkr/maildir-write-buffer-to-maildir destdir nil)))
Best,
Jesse
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