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Re: mutt tips



On Tue, 09 Sep 2003 the mental interface of 
Alex Malinovich told:

> I'm in the process of trying to switch to mutt for my primary mail
> reader. 

Great ;-)

> 1) How can I set the default folder for mutt to use at startup? I've
> used "set folder="imap://..."" in my .muttrc, but this still requires
> me to do a c, =, <enter> when I start up mutt. I'd like my IMAP folder
> to automatically load up as soon as I start up mutt.

set spoolfile="imap://..."

> 2) Is there any way to have mutt pass options to emacs when invoking
> my EDITOR? I'd like to automatically be in mail-mode with auto-fill
> enabled whenever emacs is called from mutt. (if anyone has suggestions
> for better modes to use, please do tell me) Is there a way of having
> mutt tell this to emacs?

I'am using vim!

> 3) I've set up all of my debian mailing lists in my .muttrc using
> 'subscribed'. Replying to a list using L works great. What I'm looking
> for now is some address book functionality. I'm pretty sure that I can
> set up aliases for quickly addressing messages, but what about storing
> extended info about contacts?

apt-cache show abook

> 4) From looking at my messages on the waiting to be sent screen, it
> doesn't look like my From: line is being filled in at all. I'm sure I
> can set it up in my .muttrc to be whatever I want, but shouldn't it
> default to something intelligent like: 
> 
> Real Name (per /etc/passwd) <email@something.com>

set my_hdr From: <demonbane@the-love-shack.net>
and set envelope_from
for using the sendmail -f option should be enough

> 
> 5) Any tips you might have for making life easier, especially in
> regards to dealing with debian-user.

Check out http://www.mutt.org for some config hints and join
mutt-users@mutt.org

HANN

Elimar

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