On Monday 02 August 2004 19:29, Ernest Byaruhanga wrote: > On Mon, 2 Aug 2004, Paul Bagyenda wrote: > > http://linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=7564 > > > > PostgreSQL gets it again. Firefox also gets one. Am just not sure about > > Mutt getting one! (But then I've never used it, so those who have might > > comment.) ----------------------------- > > i have been trying to switch from pine to mutt. partly due to time, i have > not seen how easily mutt accomodates the following: > > - does mutt have an address book? mutt does not have an address book, but several options exist that can do the job. You can check out abook (http://abook.sourceforge.net/).
mutt features an external query feature that can allow you to pull email addresses from a wide variety of sources. There is a good set of tools (http://www.spinnaker.de/lbdb/) that does this. lbdb can do searches through your pine,evolution, and _even_ abook addressbooks! > - is it easy to set default behaviour? (am sure its a config > file somewhere. > - my distro comes with the .muttrc file in the /etc folder, instead > of the /home folder. anyways, this is easy to solve, but wonder > why this was SuSe's choice. > - i have not seen yet how easily folders are created > - it seems it automatically transfers read mail to some other folder > other than the dafault mail folder > - not sure wether it's tailored for maildir or mbox yet .. see http://www.smps.ntu.edu.au/mutt.html for a lot of tips on using mutt, some of which I have already talked about - Martin - --------------------------------------------- This service is hosted on the Infocom network http://www.infocom.co.ug
