#notmuch

Well, the previous attempt to solve this problem was a bust, for the following reasons:

• The template only applied to new mails, not replies
• The round trip thing where messages had to get filed on the server, then pulled down again by mbsync was slow and annoying

Update:

See part 2 for a better solution.

Original post:

I recently moved to using aerc for email after using mutt (and then neomutt) for some number of years. Today I decided to go beyond a simple maildir for organizing mails locally, and use the notmuch backend for aerc. I use neomutt + notmuch for $dayjob, so I'm no stranger to creating tag 'rules' and searching, etc. What I was unprepared for is that aerc does not care about sent mails after pushing them to smtp. Contrast this to mutt and it's record setting that will save sent mails to some configured location.