On Fri, Nov 19, 2004 at 12:12:22PM +0000, Richard Lyons wrote: > > expect folders to be inside INBOX, the INBOX can only be read in > mutt at startup. Once you move into another folder, returning to > the top of the tree only shows the folders below it and not the > contents of INBOX itself. So it is necessary to exit mutt and log > on again to see new mail. > All these can be set with proper declarations in .muttrc. For the above problem, the following might help. mailboxes =Inbox =mylug =debian =tuglist =deb-devel =prosper =toms =strchem = With that pressing 'c' shows the mailbox with the new mail. I do not have to log out to see whether a particular folder has received new messages. > - Mutt sends mail by some other route, evidently, because what I send > from it disappears without trace. Well, probably there is a trace > if I knew where to look. What I mean is, it doesn't default to > something that works > You mean the sent-mail sort of thing? Use the following: set record="=sent-mail" > - Mutt's display gets out of sync by a line some of the time, so that > it is easy to delete the wrong message by mistake. Some other process/program is displaying on to the terminal. Happens even to vi/emacs sessions. Press ctrl-l. It redraws the screen. > Even if you notice the error in time, it is difficult to > scroll back to correct the problem because it skips the > messages marked for deletion. > 'J' and 'K' will take the cursor even on to the deleted messages. Regards, -- Sridhar M.A. GPG KeyID : F6A35935 Fingerprint: D172 22C4 7CDC D9CD 62B5 55C1 2A69 D5D8 F6A3 5935 The average income of the modern teenager is about 2 a.m.
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