Hi Patrick,

thank you for answering and for this really good mail client!


> One reason I have not bothered to implement this so far is that in the long run,
> I want to have urwid Tree widgets as top level widgets in thread buffers.
> This would also allow "move to next sibling/parent" and so on.
I did not know that it would be so complicated. But nice to hear that development
is going on.

> So you can of course use this method to set an "Attach" header, but as of now
> alot will not interpret and remove this when reading the edited text.
Exactly!

> I guess one would also want that in the other direction if one really uses this feature:

> When re-editing the message body, the editable headers part of the text should include
> an Attach header line that lists the current attachments..
Even mutt is not able to do this. And I have not missed it. The possibility to attach files this
way is much more interesting.

> When you see the "to>" prompt, type in some prefix of a (realname part of a)
> contact from abook and hit <tab>.
This was my assumption. But it is not working here. Obviously I make a mistake. Here is my
config:
-- BEGIN ~/.config/alot/config --
theme = solarized_dark
editor_cmd = 'vim +/^$ "+normal j" "+:set textwidth=80" "+:set ft=mail"'

[accounts]

    [[work]]
        realname = Joseph Tannhuber
        address = jtannhuber@work.de
        signature = ~/.signature
        sendmail_command = msmtp --account=work -t
        sent_box = maildir:///home/sepp/Maildir/Sent
        draft_box = maildir:///home/sepp/Maildir/Drafts
        [[[abook]]]
            type = abook
-- END --
Is there anything missing?


By the way: Is it possible to set the X11 urgency hint flag when new mail arrives? In principle
one can use the visual bell in the terminal. Then alot must only invoke a shell command:
  echo -e "\b"

Best regards
Joseph