muttrc for gmx.com emails

Kevin J. McCarthy kevin at 8t8.us
Sat Aug 6 16:59:21 UTC 2022


On Sat, Aug 06, 2022 at 12:00:19PM -0400, D.J.J. Ring, Jr. wrote:
>On Sat, Aug 6, 2022 at 8:05 AM José María Mateos <chema at rinzewind.org> wrote:
>
>>I don't use `record`, but I think you need either a + or a = sign in 
>>front of the mailbox name.
>>
>> set record="+Sent"
>
>If I put the + as you suggest, mutt wants to save a copy to 
>/home/username/Mail/Sent but I want it to send a copy to the IMAP 
>folder which I can see is named "Sent" by pressing c in mutt.

'=' or '+' will substitute the value of $folder at the beginning of 
$record.

However, $folder must be set before $record, in order for it to work 
properly.  Otherwise the default value of $folder, which is "~/Mail", 
will be used instead.

It sounds like that might be the problem in this case.

-- 
Kevin J. McCarthy
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