Re: Emulating certain Pine foldering behaviour

[gj@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]

On Fri, Jul 08, 2005 at 04:48:13PM +0200, Robert Svoboda wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> * gj@xxxxxxxxxxxxx <gj@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> [2005-07-07 23:00]:
> > I am trying to emulate pine's behaviour for managing
> > sent-mail folders.  basically, on the first of the month it
> > (a) renames sent-mail to sent-mail-{mon} where {mon} is the
> > previous month; and (b) offers to delete old sent-mail
> > folders.  Towards those ends, I intend to alias mutt to the
> > following shell function I have written:
> 
> How I do similar stuff:
> 
> muttrc:
> 
> set record="=sent-`date +%Y-%m`"
> 
> this saves outgoing mail to folders like this:
> 
> sent-2005-04
> sent-2005-05
> 
> use cron to delete old mail
> 
> Hope this helps

Yes this does help in its own way. I see that you can simply
set mutt variables to the output of shell, every time.  

I guess I could have been clearer with my goal which is kind
of like an advocacy project for mutt.  What I want to do is
emulate Pine *as closely as possible*.  Therefore, I want
even the internal prompts, etc. to be the same insofar as it
is possible.

Thanks,
GJ