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So, my experiments with mutt continue. Incidentally, if you think that I'm crazy for using a cli email client in this day and age... Well, you're probably right. However, I'm crazy, but not alone, as the dearth of great email clients for Mac OS X is something that's been written about a lot. Anyway, that's a short way of saying that I think that mutt+"a whole bunch of utilities to add functionality to it" is a (at least somewhat) reasonable solution, given the alternatives.

Anyway, linsec.ca has probably the most info there is in one place on integrating mutt with OS X. I really like that lbdb gives me the capability to search the OS X addressbook, but I also wanted to the ability to add addresses directly from mutt. A little bit of dirty hackery with bash and osascript later, I have a working solution. This script assumes a working lbdb install, but beyond that, all you need to do is add the following line to your ~/.muttrc and place the attached script in your ~/bin directory. Then, press 'A' on any message in mutt.

So, I'm wavering between email clients yet again - giving the mutt+isync combination a try this time... Mutt's disconnected imap support is sadly lacking, and I've messed with offlineimap before, but found it a bit too fiddly. Anyway, I thought quicklook would be a nice way to view the many highly important images I often get in my email, as it pops up quickly, and doesn't require an application switch. A quick google scared up the 'qlmanage' utility, and I wrote a quick wrapper script to provide mutt with a 0 exit status instead of the 130 that qlmanage spits out. (ummm, whatever, apple) This prevents mutt from spitting out the 'press any key to continue' message and requiring an EXTRA KEYSTROKE. (picky, picky...) A little adjustment in ~/.mailcap, and away you go...