Re: Would like to drop Pine for Mutt
And if you start mutt with "mutt -y" it will startup showing a list of
mailboxes along with how much mail is in them.
Pat
On Sun Jan 24, 1999 at 02:47:39PM -0700, JD wrote:
> Quoting Peter Berlau (pberlau@muenster.de):
> > On Sun, Jan 24, 1999 at 11:19:45PM +0200, Daniel Mashao wrote:
> > Hi Daniel,
> >
> > > I would like to drop pine to move to mutt but my main problem is that mutt
> > > does not seem to have a folder listing like pine. I like the folder
> > > listing as it allows me to move through all my folders and see if they
> > > have new messages.
> > You can add the folders in Your ~/.muttrc like
> > mailboxes ! = jmb != thomas !=rainer ! =debian-de ! =debian-us !=debian
> > mailboxes ! =isdn ! =~/Mail/slink ! =tex ! =Mail/mbox ! =sahrens
> > I don't know if the '!' is always needed, but it works
>
> Actually, the only folders that you need to define in this manner, are the
> ones that you want Mutt to watch for new mail, such as various folders that
> you may have procmail dump mail into. Beyond that, anytime you are changing
> folders, or saving to a folder, just hitting '?' will give you a list of all
> available folders. And lastly, no, the ! is not needed except the one time.
> That merely tells mutt to monitor your spool for new mail. Beyond that, the
> '=' tells mutt to expand from your defined Mail directory. the above
> statement could be condensed down to something like:
>
> mailboxes ! =jmb =thomas =rainer =debian-de =debian-us =debian =isdn
>
> You get the picture. This also assumes that you want mutt to watch ALL of
> these folders for new mail. You would also want to: set folder=~/Mail so
> that mutt know where to start expanding from...
>
> HTH,
> jdk
>
>
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