doubled messages by copying

2009-05-11 Thread Jan-Herbert Damm
Dear List, after using the "C"-command to copy messages from my inbox to some other folder i *sometimes* find these messages twice in the other folder. why? jan

Re: doubled messages by copying

2009-05-11 Thread Joost Kremers
On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 12:58:07PM +0200, Jan-Herbert Damm wrote: > after using the "C"-command to copy messages from my inbox to some other > folder i *sometimes* find these messages twice in the other folder. Perhaps because C doesn't move to the next message after copying, so that you sometime

Re: doubled messages by copying

2009-05-11 Thread Jan-Herbert Damm
Hello, > > after using the "C"-command to copy messages from my inbox to some other > > folder i *sometimes* find these messages twice in the other folder. Joost Kremers wrote on 11.05.09: > Perhaps because C doesn't move to the next message after copying, so that > you sometimes inadvertently

Re: doubled messages by copying

2009-05-11 Thread Monte Stevens
On 2009-05-11, Jan-Herbert Damm wrote: > I want to *move* read messages to another mailbox (mbox format) for archiving. > I'm using "C" plus "d" because I haven't yet found a smarter way to move mails > among mboxes. I think this line from my .muttrc should help you do what you describe above. ma

Re: doubled messages by copying

2009-05-11 Thread Noah Sheppard
On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 06:53:17PM +0200, Jan-Herbert Damm wrote: > [..] > I want to *move* read messages to another mailbox (mbox format) for archiving. > I'm using "C" plus "d" because I haven't yet found a smarter way to move mails > among mboxes. You just want to move messages? Then use s (),

Re: doubled messages by copying

2009-05-11 Thread Gary Johnson
On 2009-05-11, Jan-Herbert Damm wrote: > I want to *move* read messages to another mailbox (mbox format) for archiving. > I'm using "C" plus "d" because I haven't yet found a smarter way to move mails > among mboxes. If you want to move messages, use "s" (save-message). That will copy and mark

Re: doubled messages by copying

2009-05-11 Thread Christian Ebert
* Jan-Herbert Damm on Monday, May 11, 2009 at 18:53:17 +0200 > I want to *move* read messages to another mailbox (mbox format) for archiving. > I'm using "C" plus "d" because I haven't yet found a smarter way to move mails > among mboxes. save-message, bound to s by default iirc. c -- Was heiß

Re: doubled messages by copying

2009-05-12 Thread Jan-Herbert Damm
Hello, > You just want to move messages? Then use s (), which > copies the message to whatever mailbox you specify, then marks the copy > in the current mailbox as deleted. Thank you Monte, Christian, Gary and Noah. Embarrassingly i wasn't aware of . I realize that the german explanation of

Re: doubled messages by copying

2009-05-12 Thread Joost Kremers
On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 11:22:46AM +0200, Jan-Herbert Damm wrote: > Embarrassingly i wasn't aware of . I realize that the german > explanation of its function (nachricht in datei speichern = save to a file) > confused me into thinking would produce some file "outside" of > mutts mbox format. Har

Re: doubled messages by copying

2009-05-12 Thread Noah Sheppard
On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 11:39:23AM +0200, Joost Kremers wrote: > On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 11:22:46AM +0200, Jan-Herbert Damm wrote: > > Embarrassingly i wasn't aware of . [..] > Hardly embarrassing, [..] I had similar troubles at first as well. Perhaps the wording of that command's description com

Re: doubled messages by copying

2009-05-12 Thread Rocco Rutte
Hi, * Joost Kremers wrote: > Hardly embarrassing, I'd say. Even though I've known for a long time what > does, both its name and the explanation (the English docs > also say "save to a file") don't sound right to me. They suggest the > message is saved to e.g. a .txt file, not that it is simply