Re: mutt: help with saving a messge to a different folder

1999-09-22 Thread Seth R Arnold
Shao, a thought just struck me. You could use symlinks to move your email folders around a bit -- so mutt only sees a symlink to them. The mutt on my redhat server (blasted...:) doesn't lstat() the symlinks, it just stat()s them. This might be the thing you need, since procmail should be smart eno

Re: mutt: help with saving a messge to a different folder

1999-09-21 Thread David Wright
Quoting Shao Zhang ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > David Wright [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > However, ~/Mail has over 3000 folders already, and I simply cannot > > > afford mutt to scan this directory at all. Therefore, the following > > > won't work for me: > > > > > > mailboxes = ~/mail/Inbox > > > set

Re: mutt: help with saving a messge to a different folder

1999-09-21 Thread Shao Zhang
Seth R Arnold [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Then ensure to hit tab no more than three times? heheheh. :) If I could, then I won't bother post this msg to mutt list, debian list and deja newsgroup. It is my finger's problem, not mine :) > > Honestly, if it bothers you that much, and

Re: mutt: help with saving a messge to a different folder

1999-09-21 Thread Seth R Arnold
On Tue, Sep 21, 1999 at 04:29:18PM +1000, Shao Zhang wrote: > If I press c for change folder and followed by 4 TABs, then the first > TAB mutt will give me a default folder with new msg in it, the second > TAB mutt will give me a complete name of that folder, and the third TAB >

Re: mutt: help with saving a messge to a different folder

1999-09-21 Thread Shao Zhang
David Wright [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > However, ~/Mail has over 3000 folders already, and I simply cannot > > afford mutt to scan this directory at all. Therefore, the following > > won't work for me: > > > > mailboxes = ~/mail/Inbox > > set folder = ~/Mail > > Why not. Again I repeat, what ha

Re: mutt: help with saving a messge to a different folder

1999-09-20 Thread David Wright
Quoting Shao Zhang ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > David Wright [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > If you mean you have a truly colossal number of old mail folders, then > > That exactly what I meant. > > > I recommend you put inboxes in one directory and old mail folders in > > And I have done tha

Re: mutt: help with saving a messge to a different folder

1999-09-20 Thread Shao Zhang
David Wright [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Perhaps this is your problem. As I said, I use the c command to change > inbox. After pressing c, you are prompted with the next inbox containing > new mail (strictly, mail which arrived after you last visited the inbox, > which is not quite the same thing).

Re: mutt: help with saving a messge to a different folder

1999-09-20 Thread David Wright
Quoting Shao Zhang ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Hi, > This is the first thing that I come up with. But it still does not > meet what I need... > > In mutt, when the first TAB pressed for changing the folders, Perhaps this is your problem. As I said, I use the c command to change inbox

Re: mutt: help with saving a messge to a different folder

1999-09-19 Thread Shao Zhang
Hi, This is the first thing that I come up with. But it still does not meet what I need... In mutt, when the first TAB pressed for changing the folders, it will read all the folders from $Mailbox varaible(good), but if I accidently press another TAB, it will

Re: mutt: help with saving a messge to a different folder

1999-09-17 Thread David Wright
Quoting Shao Zhang ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Hi, > This is not what I want. > I read my mails in ~/mail, so I have already used > folder = ~/mail. Surely that's the wrong way round. Put the filenames you read mail from (i.e. the inboxes files that procmail writes) into a mailboxes

Re: mutt: help with saving a messge to a different folder

1999-09-10 Thread Shao Zhang
Christian Hammers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Hi, > > > I am using mutt to read all the messages in ~/mail. > > > When I save a message from a person say [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > I want to mutt to give me a default filename like this: > > > > > > ~/Mail/[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: mutt: help with saving a messge to a different folder

1999-09-09 Thread Christian Hammers
> > Hi, > > I am using mutt to read all the messages in ~/mail. > > When I save a message from a person say [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > I want to mutt to give me a default filename like this: > > > > ~/Mail/[EMAIL PROTECTED] Well, why not trying to use procmail ? I have a .procmail

Re: mutt: help with saving a messge to a different folder

1999-09-08 Thread Shao Zhang
Hi, This is not what I want. I read my mails in ~/mail, so I have already used folder = ~/mail. But when I save the message, I want to save it in ~/Mail. Thanks. Shao. Marcelo Ramos [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Wed, Sep 08, 1999 at 12:19:03PM +1000, Shao

Re: mutt: help with saving a messge to a different folder

1999-09-08 Thread Marcelo Ramos
On Wed, Sep 08, 1999 at 12:19:03PM +1000, Shao Zhang wrote: > > Hi, > > I am using mutt to read all the messages in ~/mail. > > When I save a message from a person say [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > I want to mutt to give me a default filename like this: > > > > ~/Mail/[EMAIL PROTECT

mutt: help with saving a messge to a different folder

1999-09-08 Thread Shao Zhang
Hi, I get no response from the mutt mailing list. Hope someone can help me out here. Thanks. Shao. > Hi, > I am using mutt to read all the messages in ~/mail. > When I save a message from a person say [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > I want to mutt to give me a de