Re: doubled messages by copying

2009-05-12 Thread Jan-Herbert Damm
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

Re: doubled messages by copying

2009-05-12 Thread Joost Kremers
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

Re: doubled messages by copying

2009-05-12 Thread Noah Sheppard
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

Re: doubled messages by copying

2009-05-12 Thread Rocco Rutte
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

doubled messages by copying

2009-05-11 Thread Jan-Herbert Damm
Dear List, 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. why? jan

Re: doubled messages by copying

2009-05-11 Thread Joost Kremers
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

Re: doubled messages by copying

2009-05-11 Thread Jan-Herbert Damm
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

Re: doubled messages by copying

2009-05-11 Thread Monte Stevens
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

Re: doubled messages by copying

2009-05-11 Thread Noah Sheppard
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

Re: doubled messages by copying

2009-05-11 Thread Gary Johnson
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

Re: doubled messages by copying

2009-05-11 Thread Christian Ebert
* 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