On 2009-05-07, jac...@gmail.com wrote: > On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 10:31, Haines Brown > > To save a message in mutt, if I hit the "s" key I'm prompted > > for a mailbox. However I'm used to saving messages as a plain text > > I was super confused on this same issue for a while. Every so often i > need a plain text copy of an email with headers and everything. Just > hit "s", and give a path. It'll save just fine. It says it's saving as > a mailbox, because it is. Just so happens mbox format mailbox is a > bunch of plain text emails appended in a single file. > > Also, you'll note the default behaviour of "s" is more like moving, so > it'll mark the message for deletion. Just remove the delete flag. I'm > sure you can macro "s" to behave more like a copy command.
There already is a copy command, copy-message, bound by default to C. There is also decode-copy, bound by default to <esc>C, that will undo the message encoding, such as quoted-printable, before writing the file. You can type ? in the index or pager to see a list of these commands. Regards, Gary
