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Re: Mailqueue mailfolder



On Fri, Mar 05, 2004 at 10:11:34PM +0100, Jens Paulus wrote:
> Hi mutt-users,
> 
> for people who are not always connected to an ISP it would be practical
> to have a special mailfolder for queued outgoing mail like many GUI mail
> programs have it. Normally, for example when using mutt with sendmail,
> outgoing mail is queued in the /var tree and at this point only the root
> superuser has still access to it in case the send should be aborted and
> the outgoing mail deleted or changed. To allow the control over queued
> mail I thought it would be fine to have a mailqueue mailfolder and when
> connected to the ISP sending all its content with a single keystroke. I
> thought that maybe the postponed folder could be turned into a mailqueue
> folder but then mail cannot be postponed anymore and there is no command
> to send postponed mail without reediting it. So, I am just curious if
> there would be a way to do this.
> 
> Best regards
> 
> Jens
> 
> 
You can save all sent messages. This isn't quite the same as saving only
queued messages (which as everyone else has said, has nothing to do with
an MUA) but might help. I use this line in my muttrc:

set record=~/Mail/sent

Best wishes.

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