On Sun, Apr 18, 1999 at 10:20:00PM +0800, Chad A. Adlawan wrote: > thanks for the hot tip. now how do i mark 20 files out of the 80 i just > received and move them over to some folder called debian-user ... > presently i copy the selected emails to that folder (one by one) then i > delete them afterwards ... (im a new mutt convert) > TIA, > chad
I'm not sure I completely understand what you're asking, but I'll give it a shot. If you're just looking to separate debian-user mail from everything else, one suggestion is procmail. I have the following procmail rule in my .procmailrc: :0: * ^TOdebian-user@ debian-user This files away all traffic from this list into ~/.mail/debian-user instead of my normal ~/.mail/inbox for new mail. Then, inside .muttrc, I define which mailboxes receive new mail like so: mailboxes =inbox <snip> =debian-user This way, mutt will alert me when new mail has arrived in debian-user, and when I press 'c' (for change folder), mutt will supply the name of the next mailbox with new unread mail automatically. Another way to go about this, if you still want all of your mail to arrive in your inbox, but then get sorted after you read it, is to use a mutt save-hook. For example, for debian-user, you do save-hook ^debian-user-request =debian-user Now, inside of mutt, whenever you hit 's' over a message from debian-user, it "guesses" that this belongs in the debian-user folder. You can still change this, of course, but you can save your mail by hitting 's', <enter>, over and over. To be really efficient, you use message tagging. So you hit 't' over all messages from debian-user as you read them, and they get a little asterisk next to them (in the default configuration, at least). When you're done, press ';' (that's the tag prefix, makes the next operation apply to all tagged messages), then 's', and the folder they belong in (if you've set up a save-hook, you won't even have to type this). So basically, there are lots of ways, either with mutt or with mutt in combination with other tools, to do this without copying the messages over and then deleting. Hope I've been of some help. -- Ian Peters "I never let schooling interfere with my education." [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Mark Twain