> I've been using Mutt for a few weeks. I'm impressed with the amount > of flexibility that Mutt offers, and for the most part, I've been > successful in adapting Mutt to my personal tastes. But there's one > thing that I haven't been able to get quite right, and I'm hoping one > of you can offer some insight. > > I use Mutt with three different IMAP accounts. In general, I'd like > Mutt to save messages in ~/mail/messages. BUT, when using one > particular IMAP account (call it "imaps://mail.example.com"), I'd like > the default save folder to be imaps://mail.example.com/messages > instead. > > Put it another way, I'd the default save folder to be "=messages", > relative to the current value of $folder. > > I've tried to do this with a combination of folder and save hooks. > > My default folder-hook is > > folder-hook . 'set folder="~/mail"; \ > set record="~/mail/messages"; \ > set postponed="~/mail/postponed-msgs"; \ > set smtp_url= ... ; \ > set ssl_starttls=yes; \ > set from= ... ; \ > set pgp_sign_as= ...;' > > (Above, "..." isn't a literal string -- it just means that I've > omitted the value, since the setting doesn't seem relevant to the > discussion at hand.) > > The folder-hook for the IMAP account where I'd like to have the save > folder on the IMAP server. > > folder-hook imaps://me@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx \ > 'set folder=imaps://me@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/; \ > set record=imaps://me@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/messages; \ > set smtp_url=smtp://me@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; \ > set from= ...; \ > set pgp_sign_as=...' > > Finally, I have one save hook: > > save-hook . =messages > > > This _almost_ works. If I'm *not* reading mail at > imaps://mail.example.com/, mutt offers the save folder: > > Save to mailbox ('?' for list): =messages > > which appends to ~/mail/messages. This is exactly what I'd like Mutt > to do. > > > When I read mail at imaps://mail.example.com/, Mutt offers the > following: > > Save to mailbox ('?' for list): ~/mail/messages > > If I change the line to > > Save to mailbox: =messages > > Then mutt appends saved messages to imaps://mail.example.com/messages. > > Before giving the "save" command, I've verified that > folder=imaps://mail.example.com/. > > > When reading mail at imaps://mail.example.com, how can I get Mutt to > offer "=messages" as the default save folder, instead of > "~/mail/messages"? I'm sure it's something simple, but I'm just not > seeing it. I found a way to get the behavior I was looking for: move the save-hook into the individual folder hooks: folder-hook . 'set folder="~/mail"; \ set record="~/mail/messages"; \ set postponed="~/mail/postponed-msgs"; \ set smtp_url= ... ; \ set ssl_starttls=yes; \ set from= ... ; \ set pgp_sign_as= ...; \ save-hook . =messages' ## new line folder-hook imaps://me@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx \ 'set folder=imaps://me@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/; \ set record=imaps://me@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/messages; \ set smtp_url=smtp://me@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; \ set from= ...; \ set pgp_sign_as=...; \ save-hook . =messages ' ## new line # save-hook . =messages ## remove this line To give credit where credit is due, I got the idea from <http://zeniv.linux.org.uk/~telsa/BitsAndPieces/muttrc-1.2>. Steve
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