Re: Basic questions from newbie

[Kyle Wheeler <kyle-mutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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On Friday, September  5 at 08:34 AM, quoth Gary Johnson:
>>> Another way to do it is to set $mbox_type to "mbox" and then save 
>>> (or copy) the message to foo.txt (when mutt asks, tell it that yes 
>>> you want to create the mailbox). Granted, it'll technically be in 
>>> mbox format, but for a single message, that's essentially exactly 
>>> what you want.

> I must be missing something.  How is either the <copy-message> or 
> <decode-copy> command not a "save this message as a text file" 
> command?

It's not *exactly* that because it expects to save to a mailbox. If 
$mbox_type is set to "maildir", for example, and you try to use 
<copy-message> or <decode-copy> (or any of the other variants) to save 
the message to "foo.txt", it will instead create a maildir mailbox 
called foo.txt and put the email in that mailbox. Yes, inside 
foo.txt/new/ there will be a text file with that message, but that's 
pretty roundabout.

In any case, as you can see from the part of my message that I quoted, 
I mentioned that possibility (albeit more succinctly).

~Kyle
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