Re: Someone tell me the secret of mutt
On Thu, Apr 11, 2002 at 06:55:27PM -0700, Jeffrey W. Baker wrote:
| Ximian Evolution really is a foul pig of an MUA. I love pine, but it is
| slow and featureless. I want to try mutt. The problem is, I can't
| figure out in < 10 minutes how to do the most basic things with mutt:
|
| * Configure it to get mail from my IMAP servers.
man muttrc :
imap_authenticators
imap_delim_chars
imap_force_ssl
imap_home_namespace
imap_keepalive
imap_list_subscribed
imap_pass
imap_passive
imap_peek
imap_servernoise
imap_user
You have no lack of control over how it behaves. (I use maildir
myself)
| * Change IMAP folders.
c
(I imagine, just like any other folder change)
| * Set my SMTP server.
man muttrc
sendmail
mutt pipes the message to the command specified in the "sendmail"
directive. The default is fine if you are using exim (debian's
default). Then you need to correctly setup your MTA to use a
"smarthost relay". Search the archives, I've posted detailed
instructions and explanations many times.
| * Use my GPG key.
Dunno, but the Mutt-GPG-Howto on linuxdoc.org is probably helpful.
looking at 'man muttrc' (again!) I see
pgp_autosign
pgp_autoencrypt
pgp_ignore_subkeys
pgp_entry_format
pgp_good_sign
pgp_long_ids
pgp_replyencrypt
pgp_replysign
pgp_show_unusable
pgp_sign_as
pgp_strict_enc
pgp_timeout
pgp_verify_sig
pgp_sort_keys
pgp_create_traditional
pgp_outlook_compat
pgp_decode_command
pgp_getkeys_command
pgp_verify_command
pgp_decrypt_command
pgp_clearsign_command
pgp_sign_command
pgp_encrypt_sign_command
pgp_encrypt_only_command
pgp_import_command
pgp_export_command
pgp_verify_key_command
pgp_list_secring_command
pgp_list_pubring_command
pgp-hook
Looks to me like you have plenty of control and flexibility. Note
that for most things mutt has very sane defaults and you don't really
need to much with it.
| * Delete mail
d or D
(they are different commands, see the manual)
| * Purge mail
$
(or change folders)
| * Undelete mail
u U (and others)
(depends on how you want to undelete -- just the current message, the
whole thread, all messages matching a regex, it's all in the manual)
| * Reply!
r g l
( 'reply' , 'group-reply' , 'list-reply' )
| None of these things are really obvious in mutt.
On the contrary, 'd' 'u' and 'r' are quite obvious. The full name of
the command is also obvious.
| There is a help screen that lists approx. 20000000000000000 commands
| that I can't remember and
Yeah, but
| there isn't a particularly obvious way to search.
/<regex>
(just like in less and vim, many UNIX tools tend to operate similarly)
(and the full name of the function is often obvious and has a
description as well)
| Because I'm a lazy dude, I would appreciate it if someone would give me
| the Really Short Guide to Mutt for Pine Users.
www.mutt.org
They've got a real good manual there that begins simply and progresses
to more advanced operation. Just FYI the keys are real similar to
elm, but the features are much more advanced and flexible (and the
license is free-er). It's not hard to pick up basic usage, and you
progress through the more advanced stuff little by little as you find
it useful.
You may also want to set 'pager' and 'editor' if you don't like the
defaults. I use
set editor=vim
set pager=less.vim
"less.vim" is a shell script in ~/bin that looks like
~~~~~~
#!/bin/sh -e
exec view -c 'source /usr/share/doc/vim/macros/less.vim' ${@:--}
~~~~~~
It uses vim to obtain the syntax highlighting (very cool!) yet with
that plugin it has less-style keybindings and semantics.
BTW, mutt is very cool!
-D
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