On Sat, Jul 14, 2001 at 03:56:17PM +0200, Carel Fellinger wrote: > On Fri, Jul 13, 2001 at 09:22:44PM -0500, will trillich wrote: > > On Thu, Jul 12, 2001 at 06:01:39PM -0400, D-Man wrote: > ... > > > folder-hook . set sort=date ; set index_format="%4C %Z%{%b%d} > > > %-15.15F(%4l) %s" > > I think this should read: > > folder-hook . 'set sort=date ; set index_format="%4C %Z%{%b%d} > %-15.15F(%4l) \%s"' > > folder hook expects one command, you need a compound command, so group > them with single quotes.
ah. that was ideed the problem. shoulda known. > > when i try setting index_format in ~/.muttrc i get > > %Z: unknown variable > > so i tried %S instead of %Z: > > %S: unknown variable > > i ditched %Z and %S altogether, and got > > %{%b: unknown variable > > aaugh! > > And what is it that you are trying? to set index_format for subscribed folders to reveal the sender, as opposed to the redundant 'this was to the list' stuff. :) > Will, you should know to get good response here, you need to > include as much info as you can, the error codes, but also > exactly what you are doing:] i suppose i could've been more verbose. but it got the job done; thanks for decoding what i was after! -- DEBIAN NEWBIE TIP #85 from USM Bish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : Where should you SEARCH FOR DEBIAN PACKAGES? http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages Also, apt-cache search <package> might get you the info as well. Also see http://newbieDoc.sourceForge.net/ ...