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I would like to save a message in Mutt as a text file somewhere outside of my maildir. For example, ~/documents/notes. I have found instructions for Saving Messages to Files which says that I should press either C or esc-C (depending on if I want headers or not) and then enter the directory I want to save to. When I do this and enter ~/documents/notes, Mutt says: "/home/user/documents/notes is not a mailbox".
I want to save the message to a plain directory, not a mailbox. How can I do this?
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This script saves the file to the first argument (i.e. in the muttrc example above, the email will save to /tmp ). The format of the file name is YYMMDD SUBJECT.eml.
User Configuration file of Mutt : If you want to set some specific configuration for a particular user for Mutt, you can configure those settings in ~/.muttrc or ~/.mutt/muttrc files. To read emails of the user with you are currently logged in, you just need to run “ mutt ” on the terminal, it will load the current user’s mailbox.
The mutt command pipe-message (default shortcut |) can be used for this. It opens a command line and you write cat > DESIRED-FILE-PATH. The "pipe-decode" option controls what happens to headers and mime parts when you save a message this way.
Download the text message attachment and click "Save" when the download pop-up appears. Create a name for the file and save it as a text file, like a.doc or.txt. If the message was sent as text only in the e-mail, copy and paste the text into a text editor like Notepad or Word. Click "File," and then "Save as."
Use C (copy-message) or <Esc>C (decode-copy) if you want to save the mail as a mail message, necessarily in a mailbox. This mailbox can contain only one message if you want, but it won't be a text/plain file. If the mailbox (file or directory) doesn't exist yet, you shouldn't get an error: Mutt will propose you to create the mailbox.
If you just want to save the text of the body, then:
v (view-attachments).text/plain body (this is often the part that is selected by default, so that you won't have to do anything special here in most cases).s (save-entry) to save the body to a file.
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