For the sake of completeness, the version of mutt that I use on my redhat server (can't change it, thems the rules..) allows this line in its .muttrc: set record = "\=outgoing"
Yeah, the thing gets huge. Thats what gzip is for. :) On Thu, Sep 16, 1999 at 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? > > Any insight will be greatly appreciated. > -- > ( __ _ > Mark Wagnon ) Debian GNU/ -o) / / (_)__ __ ____ __ > Chula Vista, CA ( /\\/ /__/ / _ \/ // /\ \/ / > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ) www.debian.org _\_v____/_/_//_/\_,_/ /_/\_\ > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null -- Seth Arnold | http://www.willamette.edu/~sarnold/ Hate spam? See http://maps.vix.com/rbl/ for help Hi! I'm a .signature virus! Copy me into your ~/.signature to help me spread!