Using mailutils-config to set askcc to False

Question

When it comes to email configuration, I am not a smart man. I know I need to use mailutils-config or mu-tools to change the default value of 'askcc' to False, likely in an /etc/mailutils.rc file ... However, this file doesn't exist. Do I populate it myself and then alter the settings? Is there a one-liner I can use?

I've been all over http://mailutils.org/manual/mailutils.html, and that's how I know what I need to do - but not how to do it. Can anyone help? Thank you.

edit: On Ubuntu 13.10

Answer 1

I installed mailutils just yesterday and today spent hours trying to set the mail variable "savekeep" to True. The mailutils documentation is poor but I got things to work after finding 2.4.7 Personal and System-wide Configuration Files. So then the task is to find out how to write the settings in a mailrc file. You can refer to .mailrc File Format on the ibm.com website.

You need to create the file ~you/.mailrc for user configuration or /etc/mail.rc for system wide configuration. Here is what you need to write in the file to set "savekeep" and "askcc".

set askcc=False;
set keepsave=True;