[Linux-disciples] Mutt: Copying sent messages to two IMAP outboxes

[Daniel Clark]

On Feb 4, 2008 3:51 PM, Stephen R Laniel <steve at laniels.org> wrote:
> I use mutt for two different IMAP accounts, one at work and
> one at home. I don't know of any good way to do this within
> a single mutt instance, so I have a home_mutt script and a
> work_mutt script, each of which consults a different .muttrc
> that points to a different IMAP inbox.
>
> I'd like to coalesce these mutt instances into a single one.
> Barring that, it'd be nice to have mutt save all outgoing
> messages to two separate IMAP boxes, viz.
>
> 1) imaps://laniels.org/sent
> 2) imaps://work_server.com/sent
>
> I can't see any good way to do this. Has anyone made this
> work?
>
> Maybe now's just the time for me to use Thunderbird, which
> at least supports multiple IMAP boxes by default.

I don't personally use mutt that often, but several friends who are
hardcore mutt fans swear by offlineimap to handle imap with mutt. I
think that would also make it easier to retrieve from several
different places. See:

http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Mutt#Setting_up_for_IMAP
http://software.complete.org/offlineimap/wiki/FrequentlyAskedQuestions#CanIsynchronizemultipleaccountswithOfflineIMAP

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