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by: cjsmall - Mon, 16 May 2022 18:09 UTC

Mutt 1.13.2 package on Xubuntu 20.04. (Latest in the archives)

I have a feeling that this will turn out to be an obvious answer, but I didn't see an appropriate option on the mutt manual page.

I have some cron shell scripts that email me notifications regarding system status. I am getting copies of these notifications in my default mbox when they are sent and I would like to stop these copies from being saved. the command in the scripts is:

cat <file> | /usr/bin/mutt -s ${PROGNAME} user@domain.com

Is there an option to stop saving the outgoing message, or some other trick to suppress this.

Thanks.

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by: Roger Bell_West - Mon, 16 May 2022 18:48 UTC

On 2022-05-16, cjsmall wrote:

>cat <file> | /usr/bin/mutt -s ${PROGNAME} user@domain.com
>
>Is there an option to stop saving the outgoing message, or some other trick to suppress this.

Don't use mutt for a thing it's not really good at. Whatever basic
`mail` is already on your system is the right tool for this job.

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by: Rich - Tue, 17 May 2022 02:07 UTC

cjsmall <jefferysmall@gmail.com> wrote:
> Mutt 1.13.2 package on Xubuntu 20.04. (Latest in the archives)
>
> I have a feeling that this will turn out to be an obvious answer, but
> I didn't see an appropriate option on the mutt manual page.
>
> [cut]
>
> cat <file> | /usr/bin/mutt -s ${PROGNAME} user@domain.com
>
> Is there an option to stop saving the outgoing message, or some other
> trick to suppress this.

Yes, and it is documented in the manual...:

cat <file> | /usr/bin/mutt -e "set copy=no" -s "${PROGNAME}" user@domain.com

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by: cjsmall - Tue, 17 May 2022 04:10 UTC

On Monday, May 16, 2022 at 7:07:31 PM UTC-7, Rich wrote:
> cjsmall <jeffer...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Mutt 1.13.2 package on Xubuntu 20.04. (Latest in the archives)
> >
> > I have a feeling that this will turn out to be an obvious answer, but
> > I didn't see an appropriate option on the mutt manual page.
> >
> > [cut]
> >
> > cat <file> | /usr/bin/mutt -s ${PROGNAME} us...@domain.com
> >
> > Is there an option to stop saving the outgoing message, or some other
> > trick to suppress this.
> Yes, and it is documented in the manual...:
>
> cat <file> | /usr/bin/mutt -e "set copy=no" -s "${PROGNAME}" us...@domain.com

Perfect. Thanks Rich. I was looking for a command line option in the manual
page and I never thought about setting rc file options like this with mutt. Realizing
this opens many more possibilities. Much appreciated.

May Euell Gibbons eat your only copy of the manual!

computers / comp.mail.mutt / Re: Stop mutt from saving a copy of outgoing email

Subject	Author
Stop mutt from saving a copy of outgoing email	cjsmall
Re: Stop mutt from saving a copy of outgoing email	Roger Bell_West
Re: Stop mutt from saving a copy of outgoing email	Rich
Re: Stop mutt from saving a copy of outgoing email	cjsmall