Mutt: save message as a text file
I would like to save the message in Mutt as a text file somewhere outside my maildir. Eg ~/documents/notes
. I found instructions for Saving Messages to Files , which says that I have to click either C
or esc-C
(depending on whether I want headers or not) and then enter the directory where I want to save. When I do this and type ~/documents/notes
, Mutt says "/ home / user / documents / notes is not a mailbox."
I want to save a message to a regular directory and not to a mailbox. How can i do this?
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Use C
( copy-message
) or <Esc>C
( decode-copy
) if you want to save mail as a mail message, be sure to in the mailbox. This mailbox can only contain one message, but it will not be a file text/plain
. If the mailbox (file or directory) does not already exist, you should not receive an error message: Mutt will prompt you to create a mailbox.
If you want to keep the body text, then:
- Enter
v
(view-attachments
). - Select the body
text/plain
(this is often the part that is selected by default, so most of the time you don't have to do anything special). - Enter
s
(save-entry
) to save the body to a file.
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