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Re: newbie question on saving SENT emails to some directory with MAILDIR format



I get error messages about $HOME/Mail/sent-mail/ not being
a mailbox  w/ and w/o the slash at the end.

I dunno still.

/CS

On Wed, Oct 15, 2003 at 06:59:21PM -0400, Naitik Shah wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 15, 2003 at 02:35:40PM -0700, seberino@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 
> (seberino@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx) wrote:
> > I switched to MAILDIR.  Mutt works with this new format
> > and procmail can filter incoming emails to right directories.
> >
> > I'm having problems getting SENT emails to go to
> > $HOME/Mail/sent-mail directory.  When I send an email
> > mutt makes an error sound and sends the email.... nothing
> > ever appears in sent-mail directory.
> >
> > Here is my .muttrc...
> >
> > set mbox_type=Maildir
> > set folder=/home/seberino/Mail
> > set record = $HOME/Mail/sent-mail
> > mailboxes +sent-mail
>
> I have an extra '/' after the sent-mail,
>
> set record = $HOME/Mail/sent-mail/
>
> I'm not sure if this is the difference, but that's my muttrc. It may even
> be that you need to have an existing maildir there.
>
> --
> Naitik Shah.
>

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