Re: Sent mail

[Kyle Wheeler <kyle-mutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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On Saturday, January  5 at 09:42 AM, quoth Rem P Roberti:
> "Sent," as defined by $record, is indeed my dedicated "sent" 
> mailbox.  But it is itself a file to which all of the copies of 
> outgoing mail are appended.  All of my other mailboxes, including 
> inbox, are directories, which are refered to in .muttrc by 
> "mailboxes <path to mailbox>".  And all of these are read to via 
> Procmail.  I guess I'm asking why should not "sent" be handled in 
> the same manner.

It can be, you just have to tell mutt to do so. What the difference 
appears to be is that your "sent" file was created by mutt and the 
others were created by procmail, thus the difference is just that mutt 
has to be told to create Maildir's rather than Mboxes when creating 
new folders. In other words, add this to your muttrc:

     set mbox_type=Maildir

Then, of course, you'll need to convert your existing Sent box to 
Maildir. The easiest way is to open it up in Mutt, save all the 
messages to a new folder (e.g. "foo"), delete the old Sent file and 
then rename the "foo" folder to "Sent".

~Kyle
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