On Mon, 2 Aug 2004, Kabagambe Kenneth 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.) ----------------------------- > > > Mutt rocks. After using Pine for some years, I played with mutt for > sometime and havent looked back since. > > > > 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 has the alias command which allows you to give email addresses aliases e.g > johndoe-> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
is that from within the mutt ui or its a cli script? > > 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. > > > Yes.There are system wide configuration tools as well as user specific > tools. Mutt allows you to play with files of different formats e.g I > open my word documents, browse through tarballs in mutt. neat:). just > call the program that should perform that function and you are good to > go. > > > > - 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. > That is the system wide configuration. should there not be a .muttrc file in the users home folder by default? it seems the systemwide config file has very few options - a mutt newbie might not find it easy creating a customised .muttrc file in his ~ . > > > - 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 > This depends on your configuration in .muttrc. You can choose to leave the mail in > /var/mail > or move them to ~/Mail but how are folders created and browsed through in mailman? also , are there rules-based mail filters? what about setting outgoing domain name? [something similar to sendmail's masq domain..] cheers, ernest. --------------------------------------------- This service is hosted on the Infocom network http://www.infocom.co.ug
