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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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