Stop mutt from saving a copy of outgoing email

[cjsmall]

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} ***@domain.com

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

Thanks.

[Roger Bell_West]

Post by cjsmall
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.

[Rich]

Post by cjsmall
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]
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}" ***@domain.com

[cjsmall]

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

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.