Re: mutt: help with saving a messge to a different folder
Quoting Shao Zhang (shao@cia.com.au):
> David Wright [d.wright@open.ac.uk] wrote:
> > > However, ~/Mail has over 3000 folders already, and I simply cannot
> > > afford mutt to scan this directory at all. Therefore, the following
> > > won't work for me:
> > >
> > > mailboxes = ~/mail/Inbox
> > > set folder = ~/Mail
> >
> > Why not. Again I repeat, what happens when you press "s"? Does the
an "s" ---------------------------------------------------^
> > session lock up for several seconds. Does the disk thrash?
>
> If I press c for change folder and followed by 4 TABs, then the first
a "c" -------------^
> TAB mutt will give me a default folder with new msg in it, the second
> TAB mutt will give me a complete name of that folder, and the third TAB
> mutt will give me a list of folders specified in mailboxes, and the
> fourth TAB mutt will give me a list of folders specified in $folder.
>
> Since my $folder is very large as I said above, I don't want mutt to scan
> this directory at all.
I'm sorry to have joined in this thread. We're obviously talking
at cross-purposes.
Cheers,
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