Re: mutt questions

[Laurent PICOULEAU <lcrpic@a2points.com>]

On Thu, 16 Sep, 1999 à 11:14:40AM -0700, Mark Wagnon wrote:
> On Wed 09/15/99 12:11PM, Shao Zhang wrote:
> > 
> > > 
> > > 2) How do I define a default 'save to' folder?
> > 
> > save-hook '~A' your-default-folder
> > 
> 
> I've never saved my out-going email while I've used mutt (most of my
> posts are to mailing lists and usenet, so I can always get a copy
> when I need one), but this thread had inspired me to try to get a
> default folder set up for out-going email. I've tried 
> 
>   save-hook '~A' your-default-folder
>   save-hook mutt +mutt.`date "+%m%y"`
>   
> but they don't seem to do anything. Searching the mutt mailing list
> gave a bunch of articles where people wanted to use save-hook to do
> procmail's job, but no really decent (for me at least, I'm dense.)
> examples on getting this going.
> 
> All I'd like to do is to make sure that any email I compose is saved
> to ~/Mail/sent-mail. The date thing above seems pretty cool (kind of
> like pine), but I'd settle for just one file right now. Is this
> process automatic, or do I need to do something to save a message?
> >From my understanding of the save-hook info in the mutt manual,
> save-hook works on a regular expression in the From: or To: headers
> (I guess depending on whether it's incoming or outgoing).
> 
> I'm assuming you guys save email you've composed to a file too,
> right? 

I do it like that : 
   set record=+sent
in my .muttrc. Works fine for me.

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