David Wright [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Perhaps this is your problem. As I said, I use the c command to change
> inbox. After pressing c, you are prompted with the next inbox containing
> new mail (strictly, mail which arrived after you last visited the inbox,
> which is not quite the same thing).
>
> Pressing tab several times at this point has the following effects:
>
> Press
> 1. changes the text of the prompt but with the same default.
> 2. attempts completion, but as it's (obviously) complete, it
> displays a buffer with the sole completed inbox name.
> 3. displays a buffer with all the inbox names.
> 4. displays a buffer with the directory contents.
>
> 3 and 4 now alternate. You can escape with ^G at first, and then q
> (once it starts displaying a buffer).
Agree. My problem is step 3 and 4.
>
> It never scans the messages in any of the files.
I meant scaning each folder, not the messages in each folder.
>
> > [...] it
> > will read all the folders from $Mailbox varaible(good), but if I
> > accidently press another TAB, it will read the folders from
> > $folder. My ~/Mail directory is about 200MB big, and mutt will
> > just take a long time to scan them.
>
> If you mean you have a truly colossal number of old mail folders, then
That exactly what I meant.
> I recommend you put inboxes in one directory and old mail folders in
And I have done that. Puting all my incoming mails in ~/mail.
And all the saved mails in ~/Mail.
> a separate one. The latter are never seen with this sequence of commands.
Yes. I can make it unseen to mutt. But I also want mutt to give
me a default filename to save in ~/Mail not in ~/mail.
ok, let me re-make myself clear with my situation.
I read all my mails in ~/mail/Inbox. When reading your msg and I want to
save it, I press 's', and I want mutt to give me a default filename like
this: ~/Mail/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
However, ~/Mail has over 3000 folders already, and I simply cannot
afford mutt to scan this directory at all. Therefore, the following
won't work for me:
mailboxes = ~/mail/Inbox
set folder = ~/Mail
Cheers,
Shao.
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