Thanks for the informative reply Kyle. I think I will use the fcc-hook way but before that, just to reconfirm - there is no simple option (say a key binding) that is equivalent to checking the "Save in Sent Mail" checkbook of a web based email client?
Thanks, SK On Feb 12, 2008 7:44 PM, Kyle Wheeler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Tuesday, February 12 at 07:10 PM, quoth SK: > > > As far as I read the amanual, "set copy" allows one to specify > > whether to keep a copy of all sent emails. Is there any way in which > > I can disable this behavior by default (i.e. unset copy) but in the > > compose window speficy that I want to keep a copy on a per-email > > basis? Of course I can CC or BCC myself but that is too much "work" > > :) > > Well, copy is a quad-option, meaning that you can tell mutt to ask you > every time. The valid options are: yes, no, ask-yes, and ask-no (the > two variants of ask specify what the default will be when it asks). > > But if you read the manual (or rather, the muttrc man page), the > description of the $copy option directs you to also check out > fcc-hook, which will allow you to specify where (or if) to save the > message based on pattern matching (e.g. who the email is addressed to, > what the subject line is, that sort of thing). > > For example, you could create a pair of hooks to make sure that > messages aren't saved if they're destined for yourself already: > > fcc-hook . '=Sent' # default > fcc-hook ~p '/dev/null' # don't save things addressed to me > > Adding another would make sure that copies aren't saved for messages > to the mutt mailing list: > > fcc-hook '~C [EMAIL PROTECTED]' /dev/null > > Or, if you've told mutt all about your subscribed mailing lists, you > could do this: > > fcc-hook ~u /dev/null > > Now, I'm pulling a bit of a fast one on you, because saving a message > to /dev/null isn't *exactly* the same as not saving it. All that does > is ensure that it doesn't get stored anywhere, but mutt still goes to > the effort of writing it to /dev/null. Unfortunately, you can't use > fcc-hook to specify "nothing". For example, this won't work: > > fcc-hook ~u "" > > I'm not sure why. But I can tell you that there's a way around it, if > the /dev/null trick doesn't sit well with you. Here's what I do: > > set copy=yes > send-hook . 'set record="=Sent"' > send-hook ~u 'set record=' > send-hook ~p 'set record=' > > That way, mutt doesn't even spend its time writing the message to > /dev/null. But going that far is being anal, and could only possibly > be an inconvenience for extremely large emails. That's just the kind > of guy I am, though. :) > > ~Kyle > - -- > The only fool bigger than the person who knows it all is the person > who argues with him. > -- Stanislaw Jerszy Lec > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Comment: Thank you for using encryption! > > iD8DBQFHsekEBkIOoMqOI14RAuj/AJwKruSo9rkefFaiZlRWKvZQg57+kACgr9c7 > P67MsOoMp/Y+Sxpy+aGkBDQ= > =Eo9d > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- >