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IDEAS

Ideas for future enhancements. We collect those here so they don't clutter up the Github issue list, i.e. without any clear plan for adding in the near future.

mu

• Support indexing PDF (and other) attachments. This can be done extending process_message_part in mu-message.cc; instead of using something PDF-specific, we could pipe a PDF through some tool to extract text; and we'd need some way for users to specify a MIME-type => tool mapping (in Config). https://github.com/djcb/mu/issues/2117
• Include "message summary" in message information, for display in the headers buffer: https://github.com/djcb/mu/issues/1821 It's not so easy to get a useful one line description… perhaps the first line after the "Dear x,"? Moreover, this requires new functionality on the headers-view side as well.
• Try to guess the encodings; sometimes people send messages that e.g., claim they are ISO-8859-1 but actually use windows-1252, resulting in some characters being shown incorrectly. Perhaps best solved by GMime, but maybe mu can do something. https://github.com/djcb/mu/issues/2700
• More sorting options: in mu4e, display the messages from old-to-new (still get the newest though) https://github.com/djcb/mu/issues/2759. Or, from new-to-old, reversed in thread: https://github.com/djcb/mu/issues/2807

mu4e

• Allow for muting messages https://github.com/djcb/mu/issues/636 Useful; probably need to do this by remembering the thread-id of muted messages; and management (unmute etc.). Perhaps at the mu side, a list of thread-id to add to each query for what not to match.
• Support creating calendar invitations. https://github.com/djcb/mu/issues/2308 Shouldn't be too hard, for someone that uses the functionality.
• Support "aggregate actions" apply to a set of messages, e.g. apply patch-set in a set of messages. That'll require some advanced scripting, maybe using Guile. https://github.com/djcb/mu/issues/301 https://github.com/djcb/mu/issues/2704
• Make sorting stable if there are multiple messages with the same date. We could do this by adding some random millisecs to each message's timestamp; or complicating the search (i.e., the message hash?). Maybe leave as is? https://github.com/djcb/mu/issues/2527
• Perhaps better support file names with commas.. perhaps temporarily add some invisible unicode to fool crm-separator? https://github.com/djcb/mu/issues/2768
• Org-link type for any message matching some reference See: https://github.com/djcb/mu/issues/2787. Some first steps implemented (searching for references).
• Reply/forward/… to multiple messages at once. This is sometimes useful, and Gnus supports it. Does not seem trivial to re-use the Gnus code… (see gnus-summary-work-articles etc.). https://github.com/djcb/mu/issues/2799
• Add some way to add a quick bookmark for (e.g.) the current thread https://github.com/djcb/mu/issues/2804

• Support running mu4e over tramp https://github.com/djcb/mu/issues/2815 Seems this is mostly possible already:

  1. set mu4e-mu-binary to a shell script that sshes into the mail machine
  2. added a custom file-name-handler-alist handler that implements file operations for my mail directory by proxying to tramp

  But perhaps can be documented.

• Allow for watching notifications externally, perhaps using alert.el https://github.com/djcb/mu/issues/2825

Done

• Support mu4e-mark-handle-when also for when leaving emacs (kill-emacs-query-functions). https://github.com/djcb/mu/issues/2649
• Support automatic handling for List-Unsubscribe headers and more in general, handle mailing-list commands https://github.com/djcb/mu/issues/2623 and https://github.com/djcb/mu/issues/2724 This seems useful, but probably requires a lot of testing to get right. Can we re-use the Gnus code for this? Yes: this is implemented now, in 1.12.9. Various Gnus' mailing list commands are now available in the mu4e message view as well, such as gnus-mailing-list-subscribe, gnus-mailing-list-unsubscribe.
• perhaps use --personal-addres instead of --my-address for consistency https://github.com/djcb/mu/issues/2806 (done as per 1.12.12)