This one time, at band camp, Jamin W. Collins said: > 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. sudo apt-get install html2text in .muttrc: set implicit_autoview=yes HTH, -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- | Stephen Gran | "Ain't that something what happened | | steve@lobefin.net | today. One of us got traded to Kansas | | http://www.lobefin.net/~steve | City." -- Casey Stengel, informing | | | outfielder Bob Cerv he'd been | | | traded. | --------------------------------------------------------------------------
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