smart saving

[Jon LaBadie]

On Fri, Nov 02, 2018 at 08:23:31AM -0400, Ben Fitzgerald wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 02, 2018 at 12:48:20PM +1100, Erik Christiansen wrote:
> > On 01.11.18 19:06, Ben Fitzgerald wrote:
> > > When I hit "s" it would be lovely to have the last folder I saved a message
> > > with the same "meta" (simple case - same "from:").
> > 
> > That is the mutt default, in my experience. Since that is never useful
> > here, I set save-hooks to meet local needs. While most of mine set a
> > second archive mailbox for each delivery mailbox, there is one which
> > parallels your use-case:
> > 
> > fcc-save-hook '%L fam_grp' family
> > 
> > That sets "family" as the default save destination for anything from
> > anyone I've listed in a "alias -group fam_grp rita   rita at example.com"
> > line. It's an fcc-save-hook rather than just a save-hook to put my
> > replies there as well. Now _that_ is smart, and seems far more useful
> > than spraying emails disc-wide based on nothing more than "From:".
> 
> Interesting, I'll check this out. My "From:" example was a bit too
> contrived. Ultimately I'd like this for work, where I end up with
> many emails, from the same 50 people, that could be about different
> things. It might hash the subject and then dump it into the same
> folder I put in the first time.
> 

Don't know if this is something you can use.

I store may received email in mbox format under ~/Mail/<mboxfile>.
Mutt will automatically create the file the first time I receive
and save the email, using the sender's email name.

For some situations it is better to have one mbox for multiple
email addresses.  For example, I communicate with several people
from one business office and would prefer to read emails from
them as a group rather than individuals.

For that I designate one file as "master", and make the other
email names links (hard or soft) to the master.  Then mutt saves
to the current email address but this is simply a link to the
master "office email address".

I also do this for individuals who use multiple emails.  And for
people with hard to remember email names (who can remember that
"enzulumeti" is actually Susan :).

Jon
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