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Is there a way to configure mutt to have the same behaviour as the mail command (from mailutils package), i.e. move messages from user-system-mailbox (e.g. /var/mail/root) to personal-mailbox (e.g. /root/mbox or /root/Mail) after reading ?

The current behaviour (after a fresh mutt installation on Ubuntu 23.10 without any tuning) is that messages stay in the index after reading.

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Mutt will move read messages to the mailbox specified by the mbox option (by default ~/mbox) if move is set to yes or ask-yes (default is no).

So, for example, using the default value of mbox (save read messages in ~/mbox), getting Mutt to ask whether to save read messages would mean adding the following to your Mutt configuration:

set move = ask-yes
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    That's what I was looking for, thanks a lot. Commented Apr 12, 2024 at 9:10

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