On 2007-07-11, Angel Olivera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed 11.Jul.07 09:21, Kyle Wheeler wrote: > [snip] >> I also have an fcc-hook set so that mail I send to mailing lists is not >> saved (instead, I receive copies from the lists, so that I know it was >> successfully posted). > > Our setup is almost identical, with this exception. I am currently saving > my outgoing messages in my "Sent" folder, which is huge and I have to > archive into a bzipped mbox in order for it not to become a problem. Why I > do this is because if my message gets sent out but for some reason never > reaches the mailing list, then I have to retype it instead of resending it. > I would love to only save in my Sent maildir those messages addressed to > non-mailing lists, though. > > So the question is: how do you cope with these situation so that > disappearing MLmessages don't have to be written all over again? > > (Yes, this is very unfrequent. But when it happens it is a major drag.)
By default, copies of all my outgoing messages are saved to one "Sent" folder. However, I have fcc-save-hooks for all my common recipients, so most of my outgoing messages are copied to individual folders, one for each recipient, or group of recipients, or project. For mailing lists, I have a ~/Mail/Incoming/ directory into which a procmail-like MDA delivers all incoming mailing-list messages, one mbox per mailing list. I also have a ~/Mail/Lists/ directory into which I save copies of all outgoing messages to lists, again one mbox per mailing list, using fcc-save-hooks. For this list, for example: fcc-save-hook '~t "mutt-users"' +Lists/mutt-users For monitoring incoming mail, I usually run two instances of mutt: one for my default mailbox and one for mailing lists. I use macros to set 'mailboxes' appropriately for each instance. HTH, Gary
