No one has responded to this thread so hopefully the issue is not
widespread, but, in case someone needs a solution: I've just written a blog
post explaining the fix:

http://matt.hackinghistory.ca/2016/11/30/using-mu4e-and-org-mime-together/

Basically,

(setq mail-user-agent 'mu4e-user-agent)


plus a small change to an internal function in mu4e-compose.el

On Fri, Oct 28, 2016 at 9:29 PM, Matt Price <moptop99@gmail.com> wrote:

> I've been using org-mime for a while but now that I have mu4e up and
> running I would like to save the outgoing mails sent but message-mode to
> the default mu4e sent folder (which is in a Maildir). Is there a
> straightforward way to do this?
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