On 20131117_123000, Martin Vegter wrote: > On 2013-11-17 11:25, Chris Bannister wrote: > >On Sat, Nov 16, 2013 at 07:12:59PM +0100, Martin Vegter wrote: > >>Dear list, > >> > >>I have just installed mutt, and I am little bit confused. I can see > >>my received emails, but I am not able to "switch" to my sent emails > >>folder. Is this the way mutt is supposed to work (only reading > >>received emails)? > > > >You can set the sent directory. I think there is a default /~/sent(?) > >Have a look in the documentation. ... ahh ... for the 'set record' > >command. > > > > thanks, I have the sent folder set up already. > > set mbox_type=Maildir > > set folder="~/.mail/" > set mbox="~/.mail/" > set spoolfile="~/.mail/inbox/" > set record="~/.mail/sent" > set postponed="~/.mail/drafts" > > The problem is how to access it from mutt (how to see my sent > emails). The only solution I could find is to exit mutt, and start it > with > > mutt -f .mail/sent/ > > Otherwise, when I start mutt normally, I can only see my inbox > (received emails), but I don't know how to switch to sent folders. > > Another question I would like to ask is: I have now three folders: > inbox, sent, drafts (as definded above). I would like to have another > folder "archive", where I could save my emails. (instead of keeping > everything in inbox). But AFAIK, "archive" is not defined in mutt. > What would be the best way to do it (preferably including a > key-binding, so that I could move messages from inbox to archive)? > > many thanks, > Martin >
Martin, You are at the beginning of a great learning adventure. Mutt is 'configurable'. That is good, but Mutt, so far as I know, *must* be configured, and the configuration details must be compatible with details of you computer, and operating system. e.g. good advice for a Debian system is useless gibberish on a Mac. So... tell us what OS and hardware. And what mail system(s) you have used in the past. Look for web sites of colleges in your area that have information on how to use email on campus. Many use and support Mutt. Sunday morning is probably not a good time to get in-depth advice. I hope I'm wrong on that. HTH -- Paul E Condon pecon...@mesanetworks.net
