Re: Lean and clean IMAP client

["Jamin W. Collins" <jcollins@asgardsrealm.net>]

On Sun, Dec 29, 2002 at 01:45:13PM +0100, Rohan Nicholls wrote:

> I have looked around for information about sending mail, and am
> totally confused.  I had exim on my system, but configuring it was not
> very helpful.  I have an smtp server in my domain (exchange server)
> and am happy to send my emails using this or something like
> sendmail/ssmtp which are installed.  Does mutt use some sort of
> default smtp daemon?

It uses the installed MTA and passes the message on the command line,
from the muttrc man page:

   sendmail
      Type: path
      Default: "/usr/sbin/sendmail -oem -oi"

      Specifies the program and arguments used to deliver mail sent by
      Mutt.   Mutt  expects  that  the  specified  program  interprets
      additional arguments as recipient addresses.


> Another problem is that I have many subfolders in my Inbox, and if I
> copy/move a message to them it is aware of the subfolders, but I
> cannot find a command (and I have read the options and man pages) to
> just travel through to these folders and read the mail there. Any help
> with this would be appreciated.

The item you're looking for is:

   mailboxes filename [ filename ... ]
      This  command specifies folders which can receive mail and which
      will be checked for new messages.  When changing folders, press-
      ing space will cycle through folders with new mail.


> Last is displaying html (do I tell mutt to call an application like
> lynx to do this?)

Don't know on this one.  I don't allow any HTML mail into my account.

-- 
Jamin W. Collins