Re: filter message display in 'summary'?

[David Abrahams <dave@boostpro.com>]

At Fri, 12 Mar 2010 16:15:24 -0500,
Matt Price wrote:
> 
> At Fri, 12 Mar 2010 12:01:41 -0800,
> Erik Hetzner wrote:
> > Matt Price wrote:
> > > when I used to use mutt, one of my favourite features was the 'limit'
> > > command, whereby I could very quickly filter the messages displayed in a
> > > folder summary. Is there a siilar command in wl -- in which you enter
> > > a string, and wl checks quickly for that string in certain headers (in
> > > mutt I think the default was sender, addressees, and subject)?  I
> > > would love to be able to do something like that.
> > 
> > Try:
> > 
> >   V body foo
> > 
> > To select only messages with body containing foo. You can use
> > many header fields.
> > 
> >   To leave selection: C-u V
> > 
> > Note that the speed of the search can depend on the speed of your IMAP
> > server.
> 
> 
> Thank you both for your quick replies -- I guess I was thrown off by
> the term 'virtual folder' in the definition of V.  Now I see how it
> works
> 
> It is quite a bit slower than the similar operation used to be on mutt
> when I used fetchmail.  would it be quite a bit quicker if I used
> offlineIMAP or osmething similar?  I haven't looked into that yet.  

FYI, I tried it with offlineIMAP and a local dovecot and saw no
significant speedup.  YMMV of course.


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