Hi, Kyle Wheeler wrote on 09.06.09: > On Tuesday, June 9 at 08:51 PM, quoth Jan-Herbert Damm: > >i am confused about mutt's searching behaviour. snip > ... The *default* $simple_search is: > > ~f %s | ~s %s snip > Presumably, in your sent box, you'd want it to also search the > recipients (since, like I said, all the messages in your sent box were > sent by YOU), so you could change it to being: > > ~f %s | ~s %s | ~C %s > > Check the manual's (or the muttrc man page's) description of "simple > patterns" for more details on what those letters mean.
checked it, changed it, happy now! it is beautifully logical but tricky to figure out on your own. thank you, Kyle.