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On Tuesday, December 4 at 11:07 PM, quoth Pau Amaro-Seoane:
> / is a wonderful tool to search for keywords in the "inbox" BUT not
> in sent... because mutt adds automatically a "To" in the field,
> which seems to spoil the search:
>
> 24 F Dec 03 To Stas ( 13) tomorrow
> 25 F Dec 03 To Guste ( 3) Re: nos vamos
> 26 F Dec 03 To Stas ( 8) Re: tomorrow
> 27 F Dec 03 To Guste ( 36) Re: nos vamos
> 28 F Dec 03 To Stas ( 24) Re: tomorrow
>
> Is there a way to get rid of that "To" in the 5th column?
Generally speaking, no, there isn't. However, that's not what is
breaking your search (trust me). Mutt does not search the text that is
displayed; it searches the underlying details of the messages.
Searching in any index (sent, inbox, whatever) relies on the value of
$default_hook, which defaults to "~f %s !~P | (~P ~C %s)". All mutt
searches rely on simple patterns, and default_hook is a good example
of what can be done with simple patterns. What happens is that the
string you're searching for gets substituted into $default_hook in
place of the %s markers. Thus, if you searched for "foo", that's
equivalent to searching for "~f foo !~P | (~P ~C foo)". Translated
into English, that means: "search for messages originating from foo
but not from me (as defined by the alternates command) OR messages
from me that are addressed to or CC'd to foo".
If you're having trouble searching in your sent folder, then my guess
is that you haven't sufficiently informed mutt of your email addresses
(using alternates).
Personally, I frequently prefer a $default_hook setting of:
set default_hook="(~f %s !~P) | (~P ~C %s) | ~s %s"
~Kyle
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