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

[Adam Rosi-Kessel]

Daniel Clark wrote, on 2/4/2008 8:14 PM:
> 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

Oh, yes, I too have sworn by offlineimap. Many times. To Steve. But he 
keeps ignoring me.