On Thu, February 2, 2017 10:37 pm, sunrise wrote:
> I already had getmail set up but didn't have msmtp installed.
If exim4 is installed and configured, there is no need for msmtp, unless you
need the profile feature of msmtp which gives you the ability to send
messages through any of a number of s
On Thu, February 2, 2017 10:37 pm, sunrise wrote:
> Thanks a lot for both replies; I feel I am now several steps closer to
> getting a working system. I already had getmail set up but didn't have
> msmtp installed.
The Mail Transfer Agent (on Debian, typically Exim4) handles outgoing
messages on t
On Thu, February 2, 2017 8:44 pm, sunrise wrote:
> I would like to start using mutt but am somewhat intimidated by all the
> possible options in the muttrc config file. Would someone be willing to
> provide me with a basic muttrc I could use to get started?
That's why they make search engines; you
> Whatever you choose to do, once you get used to it, it's the best email
> client out there ...
Of the various mail user agents I have investigated, only mutt
and gnus offer good efficiency in the handling of a large volume of
messages. Not coincidentally, neither mutt nor gnus makes use
of the
>>
>>"%4C %Z %?X?@& ? %{%b %d} %-15.15n (%?M?ยป%3M&%4c?) %s"
>>
> This is fantastic. This answers my question, before I had time to ask
> it. Could you please describe how this works: "%?X?@& ?"
Those are string formatting directives.
First of all, you need to be searching the Mutt manual as a
> On Sun, Nov 17, 2013 at 01:59:04PM -0600, rlhar...@oplink.net wrote:
> I tried switching to mutt about 4 years back. I spent about a couple of
> days to figure out the details, but failed (I was relatively new to *nix
> at the time). I tried it again last year. I got everything working in
> 3-
> On Sun, Nov 17, 2013 at 04:41:30PM +0100, Rejo Zenger wrote:
>> ++ 17/11/13 08:16 -0600 - rlhar...@oplink.net:
>> >$ mkdir -p ~/.mail/archive/(cur,new,tmp)
>>
>> That should have curly brackets and read:
>>
>> mkdir -p ~/.mail/archive/r{ur,new,tmp}
>
> Correcting the typo:
>
> mkdir -p ~/.mai
> On Sun, Nov 17, 2013 at 04:41:30PM +0100, Rejo Zenger wrote:
>> ++ 17/11/13 08:16 -0600 - rlhar...@oplink.net:
>> >$ mkdir -p ~/.mail/archive/(cur,new,tmp)
>>
>> That should have curly brackets and read:
>>
>> mkdir -p ~/.mail/archive/r{ur,new,tmp}
>
> Correcting the typo:
>
> mkdir -p ~/.mai
> On Sun November 17, 2013 1200pm Martin Vegter wrote:
...
> I am using Debian OS and Postfix as my mail server. I was using Alpine
> in the past as my email client, but now I have switched to Mutt because
> of maildir support.
...
On Debian (thanks to the Debian maintainer), Mutt works "right out
> On Sun November 17, 2013 5:30 am Martin Vegter wrote:
...
> I have the sent folder set up already.
>
> set mbox_type=Maildir
>
> setfolder="~/.mail/"
> set mbox="~/.mail/"
> set spoolfile="~/.mail/inbox/"
> setrecord="~/.mail/sent"
> set postponed="~/.ma
"Martin Vegter" wrote:
> I have just installed mutt, and I am little bit confused.
> ...
On the web you can find a number of good Mutt guides which you can print
out and use for reference. For example:
=> The Beginner's Guide to the Mutt E-Mail Client
=> My First Mutt
=> The Woodnotes Gu
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