On Tue, May 21, 2013 at 06:56:56AM +0100, David Woodfall wrote: > On (20/05/13 20:33), Patrick Shanahan <ptilopt...@gmail.com> put forth the > proposition: > >* David Woodfall <d...@dawoodfall.net> [05-20-13 20:01]: > >>I've found that sending mail as root saves a copy in /root/mail/Sent/, > >>whereas sending as my user doesn't seem to keep a record at all. > >> > >>The only difference between root and user is that root is using mbox > >>and user is maildir. > >> > >>Is there some way around this? > > > >There is a setting for sent mail, it is called "set record". You probably > >have it set for root in root's .muttrc, but not your own, or you have it > >incorrectly set. I believe maildir needs a trailing "/", ie: > > ~/mail/outbox/ > >whereas mdir does not, ie: > > ~/mail/outbox > > Nope, I have record set in both. In fact they are almost identical > except that root's is mbox.
Could this be a permissions problem? You might want to show us your config settings just as they are in your config file(s) -- minus sensitive info, of course. Paul. -- Paul Hoffman <nkui...@nkuitse.com>
