> You *did* miss something, I believe :^) > > from an open terminal in mutt, type the following > : will give you a command line at the bottome of the window > set ?alias_file will provide the config that mutt is using > > I believe that you have set your config file to an abnormal location, > ~/.mutt/muttrc, and nameing convention. > > Mutt looks for its configuration at: ~/.muttrc > and the file name is: .muttrc > > it is documented: search for .muttrc in "man mutt" > > try starting mutt from the command-line as: > mutt -F ~/.mutt/muttrc > this should act as you expect.
thanks, but i have to say that my muttrc works well in ~/.mutt/muttrc with nothing error. all things i set up there is loaded as my wish. ( sort, thread, scroed, etc, i'm not using the default mutt setting) I would like to apologize that I dont describe my problem clearly. all the setting in my ~/.mutt/muttrc is well loaded, it means it loads my special alias file ~/.mutt/aliases usable. , the problem rise up only when i type "a" to save the one i want to alias, it by default remind me in ~/.mutt.alias, which i dont even have file. it must be some value build-in mutt, and i has to type my mutt alias file manual(which means i have to kill the text value <~/.mutt.alias>, and type in the new one <~/.mutt/aliases> , *everytime* when i want to save an alias. and i just want to change that. or in other words, if i $ mv ~/.mutt/muttrc ~/.muttrc The problem remains. B/R FYI -- Liu An Institution of modern physics, Shanghai, China
