On Nov 18, 2007 11:30 AM, Chris G <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sun, Nov 18, 2007 at 10:48:29AM -0800, Kelly Clowers wrote: > > On Nov 18, 2007 9:12 AM, Douglas A. Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Sun, Nov 18, 2007 at 03:34:27PM +0100, Sven Joachim wrote: > > > > > > > There is one tip I have for you: use a mailer that has better support > > > > for mailing lists than your current one, e.g. KMail. Mutt and Gnus > > > > are even better, but they are difficult to set up. > > > > > > I'm wondering what is difficult about setting up mutt. > > > > > > In /etc/Muttrc, the only change I made, other than to ignore some > > > headers, was > > > > > > set record="" > > > > > > so that I don't have a default sent folder. > > > > > > and in ~/.muttrc, other than aliases for family, friends, and mailing > > > lists, I just have the subscribe lists for mailing lists, eg: > > > > > > alias debian-user debian-user@lists.debian.org > > > subscribe debian-user@lists.debian.org > > > > > > > > > Thats it. I send mail and it goes to exim4 that sends it to my ISP as a > > > smarthost, and away it goes from there. > > > > > > Sure, you can get fancy and have mutt or other things sort and slice, > > > dice, and cook the mail. I've never had the need. > > > > Lucky you. I have looked into using mutt, as I tend to be a CLI > > junkie, but I found that would need to do a lot of customization > > before I would enjoy using it. I would need to do much of the > > customization all at once, before I started using it, and to really > > make it worthwhile I also need to use it with imap, which means > > my own mail server. Google now does imap, but I want my own > > mail server for other reasons. > > > > In my opinion, Mutt is quite a bit harder to start using than vim. > > I have a longish vimrc, but the defaults worked well enough at > > first, so all I had to do was memorize key bindings. > > > mutt works fairly sensibly "out of the box" in my experience.
I think I am just too picky about my email :-) > Also why do you say you'd have to use IMAP with mutt to get what you > want? Unless you need to be able to read (using mutt) your mail from > several different systems I don't see how it would help you. I do want to access mail from different locations. I guess I could keep mail locally and ssh to that machine, but I would rather have it on a separate server. Cheers, Kelly Clowers -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]