Re: questions about mutt
* Cameron Matheson <cmatheson3@hotpop.com> [021212 15:44]:
> Hi guys,
>
> Ever since i started using Linux, i have routinely been switching
> between mutt, mozilla mail, and (more recently), evolution. Anyway, i
> kind of like mutt a lot, but i have a few questions/concerns about it:
>
> 1) Using mutt in X. Mutt is really really ugly in an xterm (or at
> least i think it is), is there any fonts or other ways of running mutt
> that work better for people (i don't really like to run it in the
> console because my browser and everything is in X).
Have you set up the colours?
> 2) This one i should probably be able to figure out myself, but i want
> to compose my messages in mutt w/ my already-running emacs. I know
> about the 'VISUAL' option in the muttrc, but that doesn't really seem to
> work for me (when i try to reply to a message, it wouldn't quote the
> message inside the editor IIRC, and it started a new emacs instead of
> using the one already running (same goes for mozilla)).
use gnuclient or emacsclient:
set editor='gnuclient'
> 3) Is there a way to use urlview so that i can just click on the links
> and have it launch a browser instead of copy and pasting them into my
> browser?
You can use urlview by typing ^b. This lets you select links with the
keyboard. If you really want to "click" on a link use a terminal
emulator like gnome-terminal, which will do it for you.
>
> 4) What's the best way to handle HTML mail (please no /dev/null jokes
> here ;)
You can pipe it to a browser and treat it as a web page, or you can
pipe it to a browser and get the browser to dump out plain text. I use
the second solution. This is achieved by an entry in my .mailcap:
text/html; links -dump %s; nametemplate=%s.html; copiousoutput
>
> I think that's about it, i like the fetchmail/spamassassin/procmail/mutt
> system better than the big GUI mail-editor/filter system, so i would
> like to become a permanent mutt user but for the reasons listed above i
> seem to always to back to mozilla mail or evolution.
Well, I think I've provided solutions for 3 of 4.
Cheers,
Nick.
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