This one time, at band camp, Cameron Matheson said: > 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). You have to first set the fonts used by the terminal - if you use gnome-terminal, this is trivially easy, as is (3), below. Also, play with the color suggestions, as others have said - it makes life a lot nicer. > 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)). emacs-client, IIRC. > 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? Gnome-terminal does this. > 4) What's the best way to handle HTML mail (please no /dev/null jokes > here ;) html2text installs a mailcap entry, so mutt calls it when you read HTML mail - the only drawback is that it's formatting leaves a little to be desired. > 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. > > Thanks, > Cam -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- | Stephen Gran | What is mind? No matter. What is | | steve@lobefin.net | matter? Never mind. -- Thomas Hewitt | | http://www.lobefin.net/~steve | Key, 1799-1875 | --------------------------------------------------------------------------
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