On Thu, 10 Jan 2002, Michael Maibaum wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 10, 2002 at 02:00:18PM -0500, David T-G wrote:
> > Michael --
> >
> > ...and then Michael Maibaum said...
> > %
> > % Hi all,
> > % name to the top level of my Mail dir and to please my slightly
> > % obbsessive sense of tidieness I would like to move them to a subdir
> > % called outbox/
> > % this seems easy enough to do if you are saving all the mail to a single
> > % mailbox, but is there a way to do it if you are saving to recipeint
> > % named mailboxes?
> >
> > Use the %O expando (that's an oh and not a zero, mind you) as outlined in
> > section 6.3.80 (index_format) in a hook something like
> >
> > fcc-save-hook . =outbox/%O
>
> OK, in theory, this is exactly what I want... except it doesn't work, it
> always saves to my name :( outbox/mike
>
> looking at the manual, it says fcc-save-hook will match the author or
> the recipient, although the way it is written it looks like it is
> supposed to match recipients alone if you are the author (maybe?).
> if this is looking at both from and the to fields, then the save-hook
> implicit in fcc-save-hook will overide the mailbox and put it in mike
> as that is what it matches first
>
> commenting out the save hook restores the saving to the correctly named
> file, just in the wrong place.
>
> so, still confused...
>
> Michael
>
So then set it up like this:
fcc-save-hook ~f. =outbox/%O
That should tell it to match anything in the from field.
(Unless I have even less of a clue as to setting these up than I think!)
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