On Thu, Apr 11, 2002 at 06:55:27PM -0700, Jeffrey W. Baker wrote: | Ximian Evolution really is a foul pig of an MUA. I love pine, but it is | slow and featureless. I want to try mutt. The problem is, I can't | figure out in < 10 minutes how to do the most basic things with mutt: | | * Configure it to get mail from my IMAP servers.
man muttrc : imap_authenticators imap_delim_chars imap_force_ssl imap_home_namespace imap_keepalive imap_list_subscribed imap_pass imap_passive imap_peek imap_servernoise imap_user You have no lack of control over how it behaves. (I use maildir myself) | * Change IMAP folders. c (I imagine, just like any other folder change) | * Set my SMTP server. man muttrc sendmail mutt pipes the message to the command specified in the "sendmail" directive. The default is fine if you are using exim (debian's default). Then you need to correctly setup your MTA to use a "smarthost relay". Search the archives, I've posted detailed instructions and explanations many times. | * Use my GPG key. Dunno, but the Mutt-GPG-Howto on linuxdoc.org is probably helpful. looking at 'man muttrc' (again!) I see pgp_autosign pgp_autoencrypt pgp_ignore_subkeys pgp_entry_format pgp_good_sign pgp_long_ids pgp_replyencrypt pgp_replysign pgp_show_unusable pgp_sign_as pgp_strict_enc pgp_timeout pgp_verify_sig pgp_sort_keys pgp_create_traditional pgp_outlook_compat pgp_decode_command pgp_getkeys_command pgp_verify_command pgp_decrypt_command pgp_clearsign_command pgp_sign_command pgp_encrypt_sign_command pgp_encrypt_only_command pgp_import_command pgp_export_command pgp_verify_key_command pgp_list_secring_command pgp_list_pubring_command pgp-hook Looks to me like you have plenty of control and flexibility. Note that for most things mutt has very sane defaults and you don't really need to much with it. | * Delete mail d or D (they are different commands, see the manual) | * Purge mail $ (or change folders) | * Undelete mail u U (and others) (depends on how you want to undelete -- just the current message, the whole thread, all messages matching a regex, it's all in the manual) | * Reply! r g l ( 'reply' , 'group-reply' , 'list-reply' ) | None of these things are really obvious in mutt. On the contrary, 'd' 'u' and 'r' are quite obvious. The full name of the command is also obvious. | There is a help screen that lists approx. 20000000000000000 commands | that I can't remember and Yeah, but | there isn't a particularly obvious way to search. /<regex> (just like in less and vim, many UNIX tools tend to operate similarly) (and the full name of the function is often obvious and has a description as well) | Because I'm a lazy dude, I would appreciate it if someone would give me | the Really Short Guide to Mutt for Pine Users. www.mutt.org They've got a real good manual there that begins simply and progresses to more advanced operation. Just FYI the keys are real similar to elm, but the features are much more advanced and flexible (and the license is free-er). It's not hard to pick up basic usage, and you progress through the more advanced stuff little by little as you find it useful. You may also want to set 'pager' and 'editor' if you don't like the defaults. I use set editor=vim set pager=less.vim "less.vim" is a shell script in ~/bin that looks like ~~~~~~ #!/bin/sh -e exec view -c 'source /usr/share/doc/vim/macros/less.vim' ${@:--} ~~~~~~ It uses vim to obtain the syntax highlighting (very cool!) yet with that plugin it has less-style keybindings and semantics. BTW, mutt is very cool! -D -- If your life is a hard drive, Christ can be your backup. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]