Re: doubled messages by copying
Hello, You just want to move messages? Then use s (save-message), which copies the message to whatever mailbox you specify, then marks the copy in the current mailbox as deleted. Thank you Monte, Christian, Gary and Noah. Embarrassingly i wasn't aware of save-message. I realize that the german explanation of its function (nachricht in datei speichern = save to a file) confused me into thinking save-message would produce some file outside of mutts mbox format. Monte's Macro is a nice find for me. I will keep my eyes peeled for the original problem of doubled messages anyhow. jan
Re: doubled messages by copying
On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 11:22:46AM +0200, Jan-Herbert Damm wrote: Embarrassingly i wasn't aware of save-message. I realize that the german explanation of its function (nachricht in datei speichern = save to a file) confused me into thinking save-message would produce some file outside of mutts mbox format. Hardly embarrassing, I'd say. Even though I've known for a long time what save-message does, both its name and the explanation (the English docs also say save to a file) don't sound right to me. They suggest the message is saved to e.g. a .txt file, not that it is simply moved to another mail folder. -- Joost Kremers Life has its moments
Re: doubled messages by copying
On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 11:39:23AM +0200, Joost Kremers wrote: On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 11:22:46AM +0200, Jan-Herbert Damm wrote: Embarrassingly i wasn't aware of save-message. [..] Hardly embarrassing, [..] I had similar troubles at first as well. Perhaps the wording of that command's description comes from mbox, in which moving a mail to another mailbox really is little more than saving the message to a file. By any chance was Mutt originally developed with only mbox support, and then Maildir support added later on? -- Noah Sheppard Assistant Computer Resource Manager Taylor University CSE Department nshep...@cse.taylor.edu
Re: doubled messages by copying
Hi, * Joost Kremers wrote: Hardly embarrassing, I'd say. Even though I've known for a long time what save-message does, both its name and the explanation (the English docs also say save to a file) don't sound right to me. They suggest the message is saved to e.g. a .txt file, not that it is simply moved to another mail folder. I've fixed that to be consistent with the description for copy-message. It won't get any better as the description is shared with save-entry in the attachment menu. Rocco
Re: doubled messages by copying
On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 12:58:07PM +0200, Jan-Herbert Damm wrote: after using the C-command to copy messages from my inbox to some other folder i *sometimes* find these messages twice in the other folder. Perhaps because C doesn't move to the next message after copying, so that you sometimes inadvertently copy the same message twice? -- Joost Kremers, PhD University of Frankfurt Institute for Cognitive Linguistics Grüneburgplatz 1 60629 Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Re: doubled messages by copying
Hello, after using the C-command to copy messages from my inbox to some other folder i *sometimes* find these messages twice in the other folder. Joost Kremers wrote on 11.05.09: Perhaps because C doesn't move to the next message after copying, so that you sometimes inadvertently copy the same message twice? I doubt that, because i delete the original in the inbox right afterwards. Sadly i cannot reproduce the strange behaviour on purpose. I want to *move* read messages to another mailbox (mbox format) for archiving. I'm using C plus d because I haven't yet found a smarter way to move mails among mboxes. jan
Re: doubled messages by copying
On 2009-05-11, Jan-Herbert Damm wrote: I want to *move* read messages to another mailbox (mbox format) for archiving. I'm using C plus d because I haven't yet found a smarter way to move mails among mboxes. I think this line from my .muttrc should help you do what you describe above. macro index,pager M save-message?toggle-mailboxes move a message to a mailbox (The above should be one line only.) So, I select a message, press M and then I see a list of my mailboxes. I select the one I want to receive the message and press enter. The message goes to the destination I selected and the view returns to the mailbox I moved from; the moved message is marked as deleted. I also use this to move multiple messages with tagging. Tag, tag, tag, ;M. -- Monte
Re: doubled messages by copying
On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 06:53:17PM +0200, Jan-Herbert Damm wrote: [..] I want to *move* read messages to another mailbox (mbox format) for archiving. I'm using C plus d because I haven't yet found a smarter way to move mails among mboxes. You just want to move messages? Then use s (save-message), which copies the message to whatever mailbox you specify, then marks the copy in the current mailbox as deleted. Apologies if I've missed something obvious in the conversation that makes such an answer incorrect for this problem... -- Noah Sheppard Assistant Computer Resource Manager Taylor University CSE Department nshep...@cse.taylor.edu
Re: doubled messages by copying
On 2009-05-11, Jan-Herbert Damm jan-h-d...@web.de wrote: I want to *move* read messages to another mailbox (mbox format) for archiving. I'm using C plus d because I haven't yet found a smarter way to move mails among mboxes. If you want to move messages, use s (save-message). That will copy and mark as deleted in one step. HTH, Gary
Re: doubled messages by copying
* Jan-Herbert Damm on Monday, May 11, 2009 at 18:53:17 +0200 I want to *move* read messages to another mailbox (mbox format) for archiving. I'm using C plus d because I haven't yet found a smarter way to move mails among mboxes. save-message, bound to s by default iirc. c -- Was heißt hier Dogma, ich bin Underdogma! [ What the hell do you mean dogma, I am underdogma. ] _F R E E_ _V I D E O S_ http://www.blacktrash.org/underdogma/ http://www.blacktrash.org/underdogma/index-en.html
