> That's probably more information than you needed, but maybe that helps > you understand why mutt is doing what it's doing.
No, Kyle, the information was useful. Thank you. > Hmm. Okay, I have a better idea of *what* you're doing, but still not > *why* you're doing it. Is this large and complex directory tree > convenient for some important piece of software? > > I mean, based on what you've said so far, I can only assume that your > real goal here is that you want to be able to search and find your > email quickly, right? And then, once you've found them, you want to > read them with some piece of software... perhaps a text editor, > perhaps something like mutt (I assume that mutt's display of email is > sufficient for your needs?). Sorry to have dragged things off topic, but in short, my immediate question was resolved, which is that I can name a message whatever I want and subsequently move it from ~/Mail to where I want it. I work on material in terms of their location in several thousand subdirectories rather than separate files located by means of a subject line search such as provided by mutt. When I do have to search, I grep a subdirectory tree. Thanks, Kyle, for your patience and help. Haines Brown
