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Re: mutt: help with saving a messge to a different folder



Quoting Shao Zhang (shao@cia.com.au):
> Hi,
> 	This is not what I want.
> 	I read my mails in ~/mail, so I have already used 
> 	folder = ~/mail.

Surely that's the wrong way round. Put the filenames you read mail from
(i.e. the inboxes files that procmail writes) into a mailboxes command.
This will make the c command prompt with them automatically, notify you
when mail arrives, and allow your status line to tell you how many contain
new messages.

        mailboxes       ! ~/mail/foo ~/mail/bar

The ! is short for the system default mailbox which I don't use but I'd
sure want to see anything that arrived there.

> 	But when I save the message, I want to save it in ~/Mail.
> 	Thanks.

For which the

        set     folder=~/Mail

is intended, a folder for files containing mail. When you give the s
command, the = sign will act as shorthand for ~/Mail/

> > On Wed, Sep 08, 1999 at 12:19:03PM +1000, Shao Zhang wrote:
> >  
> > > > Hi,
> > > > 	I am using mutt to read all the messages in ~/mail.
> > > > 	When I save a message from a person say mutt@mutt.org.
> > > > 
> > > > 	I want to mutt to give me a default filename like this:
> > > > 
> > > > 	~/Mail/mutt@mutt.org
> > > > 
> > > > 	If I only set the save_address, then mutt will default the
> > > > 	filename to ~/mail/mutt@mutt.org. So how do I let mutt to choose
> > > > 	a different folder I want when saving the msg.

Cheers,

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