On Wed, Mar 01, 2000 at 01:53:34PM +0100, Thomas Roessler wrote:
> On 2000-03-01 23:09:22 +1100, Chuck Dale wrote:
>
> > One way to make things clearer would be to have sections like
>
> > [colors]
> > [keybindings]
> > [mailboxes]
> > [lists]
> > [folder_hooks]
>
> You are completely free to c
On Wed, Mar 01, 2000 at 11:09:22PM +1100, Chuck Dale wrote:
> One way to make things clearer would be to have sections like
> [colors]
> [keybindings]
> [mailboxes]
> [lists]
> [folder_hooks]
This seems to work on the assumption that all ~/.muttrc files are one large
monolithic list of settings
Wrote Eugene Lee on Wed, Mar 01, 2000 at 04:50:09AM -0800:
> I don't know if this division of labor will work for all but the most
> simplest configurations. An example would be a complex set of folder
> hooks where colors, key bindings, save hooks, and other settings.
> Now imagine you had diffe
Wrote Matthew Hawkins on Wed, Mar 01, 2000 at 11:46:58PM +1100:
> On 2000-03-01 23:09:22 +1100, Chuck Dale wrote:
> >
> >
> > The problem (as I see it) is that .muttrc goes against the principles
> > which Mutt is following. Particularly in modularisation. The .muttrc
> > contains absolutely eve
On 2000-03-01 23:09:22 +1100, Chuck Dale wrote:
> One way to make things clearer would be to have sections like
> [colors]
> [keybindings]
> [mailboxes]
> [lists]
> [folder_hooks]
You are completely free to create a set of configuration files, and
then source them. For instance, create a very
On Wed, Mar 01, 2000 at 11:09:22PM +1100, Chuck Dale wrote:
:
:
:
:The problem (as I see it) is that .muttrc goes against the principles
:which Mutt is following. Particularly in modularisation. The .muttrc
:contains absolutely everything configurable in the program - it defines
:the interface (ke
On 2000-03-01 23:09:22 +1100, Chuck Dale wrote:
>
>
> The problem (as I see it) is that .muttrc goes against the principles
> which Mutt is following. Particularly in modularisation. The .muttrc
> contains absolutely everything configurable in the program - it defines
> the interface (keys, colu
> They *are* settable within the interface. Just type ":set "
> (and keep repeating pressing tab until you get to the setting you want
> to change). :-) Of course it won't save the settings
>
> Anyway, all silliness aside, what's different from doing the changes
> "within the interface" as
On Wed, Mar 01, 2000 at 10:13:41AM +1100 or thereabouts, Chuck Dale wrote:
> Wrote Mikko Hänninen on Tue, Feb 29, 2000 at 09:34:37PM +0200:
> > If you ask me, I wouldn't use sendmail as a newbie's MTA, the beast is
> > not for the faint at heart.
>
> And the ironic thing is that sendmail is prett
Mikko Hänninen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote :
>
> You can actually get by with *no* .muttrc, pretty much everything in
> Mutt has reasonable defaults.
When I was starting with mutt I just get Sven's config, edit hostname and
headers and run mutt. When I needed to change something I look into
docum
Chuck Dale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on Wed, 01 Mar 2000:
> Sure, keep the software modular, but that doesn't mean you have to have
> really mean documentation. As sendmail is the default with all
> distributions I can think of,
Debian uses Exim. :-)
> include links for it and for qmail and
> Po
Wrote Mikko Hänninen on Tue, Feb 29, 2000 at 09:34:37PM +0200:
> This would probably benefit from having more explanation of the mail
> sending process in the Mutt docs. I don't agree that Mutt should give
> specific pointers to sendmail documentation, because even though
> sendmail is the curren
Chuck Dale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on Wed, 01 Mar 2000:
> 1. Sendmail configuration
> This was one that got me for a while. Having always used web based email
> clients or clients with their own SMTP stuff in them, my sendmail has
> been badly configured at home for at least a year. The mutt hel
Dear Mutts,
You've got one happy Mutt convert here. At least for the moment. After
half a day grappling with getting things configured nicely I like it.
I had two main gripes with getting Mutt going. I'll give some
recommendations for how I see the user experience could be made easier.
Please d
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