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== Interfacing Recoll and Mutt
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It is possible to either use Mutt as a Recoll search result viewer, or
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start Recoll from the Mutt search.
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=== Starting Mutt to view Recoll search results
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This method and the associated
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link:http://www.recoll.org/files/recoll2mutt[recoll2mutt script] were kindly
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contributed by Morten Langlo.
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This allows finding mail messages in recoll and then calling *mutt*
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or *mutt-kz* to read or process the mail.
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Installation:
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- Copy the [[http://www.recoll.org/files/recoll2mutt|recoll2mutt script]]
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somewhere in your PATH, and make it executable.
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- In the **recoll** GUI menus:
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_Preferences->GUI configuration->User interface->Choose editor applications_
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change the entry for "message/rfc822" to: +recoll2mutt %f+
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The script has options for setting a number of parameters, you may not need
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to set any of them, the defaults are:
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- -c mutt
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- -F .muttrc
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- -m Mail
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- -x "-fn 10*20 -geometry 115x40"
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Example:
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recoll2mutt -c mutt-kz -F .mutt_kzrc -m Mail -x "-fn 10*20 -geometry 115x40" %f
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The option +-x+ is passed to *xterm*, which is used to call *mutt* or
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*mutt-kz*.
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The script works for both _mbox_ and _maildir_ mail boxes, and it
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expects the configuration file for mutt and the mail directory to reside in
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your $HOME and the spool file to be '/var/spool/mail/$USER' if it is
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not in your mail directory. But it is easy to change the values in the
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script if you need to.
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*mutt* is opened with the right mailbox and limit set to _Date_ and
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_Sender_. In theory you could set limit to _Message-Id_, but very often
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*mutt* reports, that there are invalid patterns in _Message-Id_, so do it
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safe, even though all emails in the opened mail box with the same date from
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the sender are shown.
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=== Starting Recoll from the Mutt search
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This will work only when using maildir storage (messages in individual
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files). It will not work with mailbox files. The latter would probably be
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possible by extracting the individual result messages using the Python
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interface, but I did not try.
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The classic way to interface Mutt and a search application is to create a
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shortcut to an external command which creates a temporary Maildir
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containing the search results.
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There is such a script for Recoll, you will find it link:https://bitbucket.org/medoc/recoll/raw/41d41799dbac4c69a34db985b3ab9f1597c9c742/src/python/samples/mutt-recoll.py[here].
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Copy the script somewhere in your PATH, and make it executable, then add
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the following line to your '.muttrc':
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macro index S "<enter-command>unset wait_key<enter><shell-escape>mutt-recoll.py -G<enter><change-folder-readonly>~/.cache/mutt_results<enter>" \
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"search mail (using recoll)"
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Obviously, you can replace the 'S' letter with whatever will suit you (e.g:/)
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