Hi, I used to mixed text files amongst my email messages prior to using mutt and still do so, although I wonder whether there is a better way. Basically I use this as a means of storing notes and other tidbits related to mail received around the same general time. Obviously this is using mutt in a manner for which it wasn't designed and there are arguments for and against it - which I would like to solicit (being new to mutt and not familiar with the relevant RFCs): 1) Right now I send myself a blank email. This ends up in my spool mailbox after which I edit it, leaving the header intact except for the Subject:, and then save it in the appropriate mailbox/maildir; ie, the From: and To: fields both have my address. This works but is ugly. I would rather not have to bother the mail server. 2) An alternative, which I haven't yet gotten to work yet would be to create a template text file with a header which has my address in both the From: and To: fields and then get it into mutt by using "cat textfile | procmail". I could make a macro out of this - but it is still butt ugly. Right now when I save to something other than the spool mailbox the resultant time displayed for the message in the index menu is 'Jan 1'. 3) An extension to the 'alternates' configuration variable in which 'to_chars' would have another flag say 'M' which can stand for memo, message, etc. The flag turns on when mutt detects that the From: and the To: field contain your address but all other fields are blank (ie Cc:, Bcc:, Fcc: etc). In response mutt would go to a new configuration variable which would contain a string that it would display as the receipient - if not set it would just show the default "To <address_in_from_field>". Was this already considered when 'to_chars' was set up? If so what's the background? Adding this feature would require more than meets the eye - I'm not up enough on mutt to know precisely what... has anyone's bloat detector gone off yet? Does anyone else do something like this? Chris -- "To ask the hard question is simple. -W. H. Auden
