"All mail clients suck. This one just sucks less." :-) I'm new to the list and wanted to say "Hi!" to everybody.
I'm also new to mutt, vim and even Linux. Previously I used to handle all my mail under Windows. The program of my choice was The Bat! - IMHO the best mail client for Windows. OK. Enough. It's The Mutt Users List. I've read some tutorials. I installed mutt, vim and procmail (because mutt does not filter incoming mail). So far this trio works fine, but it still needs some improvements. I have a few questions: 1. Displaying of X-Headers. My favourite newsreader is slrn. I could define there sth like this: Show the following headers (visible headers): From: Date: X- Headers to hide: !X-Mime !X-MSMail !X-Priority !X-Complaints So I could see all important to me X-headers and hide those stupid ones... Possible in mutt? 2. While scrolling the message with Spacebar it scrolls one line too much. Can it be changed? I like to see the last line of the previous page (hope you know what I mean). 3. In The Bat! I had a filter which colored all replies to my mails. It based on References: header and my unique Message-ID. Possible in mutt? 4. Folders - it really sucks! I even cannot see how many read/unread messages there are in a particular folder if I don't enter it... 5. Using up/down arrows I scroll through messages (index view). Why it skips whole page? I'd like it to work same as in slrn. 6. What's the default shortcut for "Mark all tagged messages as read"? 7. C - copies messages to a different folder. What key moves them? 8. Can I import my Address Book from The Bat!? 9. Au! There is no address book built in. What would you suggest? Abook or sth else? 10. I still do not understand this "Tab completion" thing - it seems that sometimes it simply DOES NOT work as expected. 11. What's the newest version of mutt? Is there a lot of problems using beta versions? (when I used TB! it was almost always the newest beta). 12. How do I create multiple identities? Different from, attribute line and language settings for different mailing lists. Possible? How? Folder-hooks or only send-hooks? 13. How can I move old mail to a different folders? Automatically of course. For example for this list? How? 14. Can I send within mutt mail to all users on my system? vim related problems: 15. It's very very tiring manually stripping those signatures and manually adding "> " signs when reformatting a paragraph. In TB! it was automatic... 16. I have ispell installed. It works fine. I can switch between english and polish dictionaries. Is it possible to automatically set proper dictionary? I mean: English for english language mailing lists and polish for polish language lists? 17. When spellchecker underlines a word - can I add it to the user dictionary? How? I'm having only console - so no mouse right click. 18. Why ispell spells too much? It even tries to spell quoted text or header lines. It's stupid. Can I change it? Well... I'm pretty sure I have more questions, but I can't remember all of them now. regards, -- kocurek
