Re: Sorting incoming mail by domain
On 2009-05-07, jace42@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 10:31, Haines Brown
> > To save a message in mutt, if I hit the "s" key I'm prompted
> > for a mailbox. However I'm used to saving messages as a plain text
>
> I was super confused on this same issue for a while. Every so often i
> need a plain text copy of an email with headers and everything. Just
> hit "s", and give a path. It'll save just fine. It says it's saving as
> a mailbox, because it is. Just so happens mbox format mailbox is a
> bunch of plain text emails appended in a single file.
>
> Also, you'll note the default behaviour of "s" is more like moving, so
> it'll mark the message for deletion. Just remove the delete flag. I'm
> sure you can macro "s" to behave more like a copy command.
There already is a copy command, copy-message, bound by default to
C. There is also decode-copy, bound by default to <esc>C, that will
undo the message encoding, such as quoted-printable, before writing
the file. You can type ? in the index or pager to see a list of
these commands.
Regards,
Gary