Highlight specific messages in Mutt

Posted on August 21, 2008 by Nathan Powell

Let’s say you belong to some high volume lists and generally get a load of email everyday.

You need a way to highlight important message. Using PATTERNS in your muttrc is an easy way to make that happen.

This pattern says if the message is (~f) from her@herdomain.com, AND it’s (~N) new, make it appear brightcyan in color in your index.

color index brightcyan black '~f her@herdomain.com ~N'

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4 Responses to Highlight specific messages in Mutt

  1. Bob Igo says:
    August 21, 2008 at 11:01 am

    I wanted to make a snarky comment here about how normal people send flowers and geeks edit their configuration, but I think it’s really cool that you care enough about Shelly (aka “her”) to make sure her email shows up prominently.

    But why wouldn’t you just use folders? I have a gazillion (1000x a cotillion) thunderbird folders.

  2. Her says:
    August 21, 2008 at 2:43 pm

    My geek IS awesome!!!

  3. Patrick says:
    August 21, 2008 at 8:28 pm

    Ha! Sounds like you deleted an email by accident. ;)

    Good hack, though!

  4. Patrick says:
    August 21, 2008 at 8:34 pm

    Also, a long long time ago at pa.net, silfreed said that “your inbox is only for humans!”; I would suggest that listmail is not human and you might want to try having only two inputs: =inbox and =bulk.