Going through the mailing list and the documentation on mutt.org, it strikes
me that what we lack is a 'How do I' FAQ (of the sort perl has). Of course,
it'd be semiredundant informationwise since it's all there in the manual,
but it'd be a useful resource for the newbie daunted by the sheer mass
It'd be nice if mutt had an 'abort' key, to, for instance, stop reading a
large mailbox opened accidentally. Has someone written a patch for this? Is
there any reason it'd be a bad idea?
m.
Also spracht Rob Reid...
At 6:14 AM EDT on October 27 Martin Julian DeMello sent off:
It'd be nice if mutt had an 'abort' key,
It does. Control g
You misunderstand. I want to abort the reading of mailboxes in midscan, and
return to the calling stage, the direct motivation being
I tagged a bunch of mails, and saved them to a different folder; most of
them were marked D, but a few at the end were not. (Correctly) surmising
that this was a disk space problem, I synced the mailbox and went to free up
some space. However, it turned out that the folder I saved to was empty;
Also spracht David Thorburn-Gundlach...
Anything you can do inside .muttrc you can do inside mutt by using the
':' command character. Thus, as you're reading a letter that you want
to zoom, you could simply type
:set pager_index_lines=1
and continue reading in your
A friend and I have been trying to write a macro to edit mails in place
(i.e. pipe a mail to your editor of choice, edit and save it back to the
same folder, marking the original D).
The macro to date is
macro index \ce "s/tmp/_f\ny!vim /tmp/_f cat /tmp/_f $HOME/Mail/inbox\n!/bin/rm
-f
Also sprach Brandon Long...
Have you seen edit from the index menu? (default: 'e'). Its in newer
versions of mutt, and allows you to edit the message using the same
compose menu interface you are used to...
Thanks! Just upgraded and it works fine. Should have read the 'new features'
list, I
Back when I was using Pine, I was able to bcc a mail to a bunch of adresses,
and have the To: field fill itsef in as "Undisclosed Recipients" or whatever.
No amount of rtfming has enabled me to do this with mutt - is it possible?
If so, how; if not, why not?
m.
Also sprach Byrial Jensen...
On Fri, Feb 12, 1999 at 17:42:37 -0800, Claus Assmann wrote:
Question: how can I disable the X-Mailer: header?
Apropos the X-Mailer header: I think I somewhere read about a try
to make a standardized "User-Agent" header to replace the various
X-* headers used
