Re: saving mutt email headers
On Sat, Sep 20, 2003 at 06:14:57PM +0100, Pigeon wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 20, 2003 at 03:34:06AM +0000, p wrote:
> > On Wed, Feb 12, 2003 at 01:23:23AM +0000, p wrote:
> > > in mutt, when i save an email to a
> > > file, how do i save the headers, too?
> >
> > ...thought i'd report back to
> > list.
> >
> > if the "pipe" command "|" is
> > used, the _whole_ (mutt) e-
> > mail, including the headers,
> > can then be saved into a file
> > without the overhead of try-
> > ing to keep bunches of
> > mailboxen straight.
> >
> > for example:
> >
> > |
> > cat > txt_printer_email_09192003_friday_1a.txt
>
> I didn't see this originally, but there's also...
>
> "C" (Copy to mailbox) saves the mail to a file without marking it
> deleted.
> "s" (save) saves the mail to a file and marks it deleted.
>
> Both of these save the headers as well. An mbox-format mailbox is just
> a file with emails in it, so you don't get any "overhead of trying to
> keep bunches of mailboxen straight" apart from the expected overhead
> of trying to keep bunches of files straight. :-)
>
//
point, pigeon.
i was thinking in terms of, say,
a thread by 50 different authors
about printing. if i take the
automatic mailbox default, i would
be creating 50 different mailboxen.
then, finding emails about printing
would be a problem. but i now real-
ize that i could just create a
mailbox called, "printing," and save
those 50 emails there. (i guess it
was the "automatic mailbox naming
feature" that threw me off.
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> What does appear to be missing is a "quote headers in reply" option.
>
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(give me another 7 months and i'll
figure out what that means.)
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> --
> Pigeon
>
> Be kind to pigeons
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kthxbye.
b.
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