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From: "Malcolm Boekhoff" <Malcolm DOT Boekhoff AT actfs DOT co DOT uk>
To: "Mutt Users Mailing List" <mutt-users AT mutt DOT org>,
        "Mutt Developers Mailing List" <mutt-dev AT mutt DOT org>,
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Subject: Mutt: Reading POP3 mail and moving the messages to folders based on To: and Cc: headers, before the messages are read.
Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2001 09:44:21 -0000

I want to retrieve messages from a POP3 mailbox and move them into folders (using Mutt's pattern recognition expression operator
"~C") depending upon their To: or Cc: headers.

N.B. I don't want to read the messages before they are moved. I want them moved into separate folders, so that I can switch to those
folders to read the messages.

Once they have been moved into such folders, I don't want them moved again.

Can somebody please tell me what I should set up to do this? I have been lead to believe that I can use a macro to switch the
"spoolfile", use the 'G' <fetch-mail> command then switch the spoolfile back to $MAIL, however, I don't really understand what I
should set "spoolfile", "mbox" to. I thought I could maybe use "save-hook"s to do this, but the documentation is not very helpful on
these, for simple-minds like mine.

What I want is:

+mutt
+cygwin
+mbox

I want all messages downloaded from the POP3 server to go into +mbox, but those matching "~C *cygwin*" to go into +cygwin and those
matching "~C *mutt*" to go into +mutt. I want the messages moved before I read them.





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