I've been a mutt user for about 3 years, but I haven't really progressed beyond the minimal requirements that meet my needs. However, my needs do include a good record of my sent e-mail. The mutt config line that you're looking for is set copy=yes set record=+sent-mail The first line says you want to keep a copy of outgoing mail. The second line says where to store it -- in this case messages will be appended to a file called sent-mail in your mutt folder directory. The '+' in "record=+sent-mail" indicates that the sent-mail file is to be put in the mail folder directory. Alternatively you could give an explicit path. You probably already have your folder directory set as part of your configuration file. For example my folder directory is specified as set folder="~/mail" If you want to get fancy you can specify that mail be saved to a file specific to the year/month that you sent it (the date command is enclosed in left single parentheses). set record=+sent-mail-`date +%Y-%m` One last tip: I don't like html e-mail but a lot of people use it. If you have lynx installed you can deal with html mail by having a lynx-interpreted text rendition of it dumped into mutt's e-mail viewer. This is also handy for quoting html e-mail in a text response. To accomplish this you add the line auto_view text/html to your mutt configuration file and text/html; lynx -force_html -dump %s; copiousoutput; to either your /etc/mailcap or ~/.mailcap file (you may need to comment out an existing text/html line in the mailcap). I look forward to seeing responses about mutt configuration tips other people have found helpful. Tyson ---------------------- Tyson Rogers http://www.pinguim.net On Wed, Nov 12 2003 at 04:21:09PM, tclug-list-request at mn-linux.org wrote: > Message: 9 > Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2003 16:16:02 -0600 > From: Dan Rue <drue at therub.org> > Subject: [TCLUG] Mutt Question > To: tclug-list at mn-linux.org > Message-ID: <20031112221602.GA4983 at therub.org> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > > Hey, > Slow day so I thought I'd get this taken care of. > > I've been a mutt user for a while (probably a year or two), and I have > looked around for this for a while, but i'm stumped. Where is my "sent > items" folder? I have read the config a couple times and looked at > online documentation, expecting to see a "sent items folder" variable, > but I don't see anything. So what is the mutt way of doing this? Also, > I would like to hear any mutt tips/tricks - because i really dig mutt > but i find the folder handling in particular a bit tedious. > > Thanks > Dan _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list