Re: [OT?] Replying to posts in debian-user
On Nov 18, 2007 11:30 AM, Chris G <cl@isbd.net> wrote:
>
> On Sun, Nov 18, 2007 at 10:48:29AM -0800, Kelly Clowers wrote:
> > On Nov 18, 2007 9:12 AM, Douglas A. Tutty <dtutty@porchlight.ca> wrote:
> > > On Sun, Nov 18, 2007 at 03:34:27PM +0100, Sven Joachim wrote:
> > >
> > > > There is one tip I have for you: use a mailer that has better support
> > > > for mailing lists than your current one, e.g. KMail. Mutt and Gnus
> > > > are even better, but they are difficult to set up.
> > >
> > > I'm wondering what is difficult about setting up mutt.
> > >
> > > In /etc/Muttrc, the only change I made, other than to ignore some
> > > headers, was
> > >
> > > set record=""
> > >
> > > so that I don't have a default sent folder.
> > >
> > > and in ~/.muttrc, other than aliases for family, friends, and mailing
> > > lists, I just have the subscribe lists for mailing lists, eg:
> > >
> > > alias debian-user debian-user@lists.debian.org
> > > subscribe debian-user@lists.debian.org
> > >
> > >
> > > Thats it. I send mail and it goes to exim4 that sends it to my ISP as a
> > > smarthost, and away it goes from there.
> > >
> > > Sure, you can get fancy and have mutt or other things sort and slice,
> > > dice, and cook the mail. I've never had the need.
> >
> > Lucky you. I have looked into using mutt, as I tend to be a CLI
> > junkie, but I found that would need to do a lot of customization
> > before I would enjoy using it. I would need to do much of the
> > customization all at once, before I started using it, and to really
> > make it worthwhile I also need to use it with imap, which means
> > my own mail server. Google now does imap, but I want my own
> > mail server for other reasons.
> >
> > In my opinion, Mutt is quite a bit harder to start using than vim.
> > I have a longish vimrc, but the defaults worked well enough at
> > first, so all I had to do was memorize key bindings.
> >
> mutt works fairly sensibly "out of the box" in my experience.
I think I am just too picky about my email :-)
> Also why do you say you'd have to use IMAP with mutt to get what you
> want? Unless you need to be able to read (using mutt) your mail from
> several different systems I don't see how it would help you.
I do want to access mail from different locations. I guess I could keep
mail locally and ssh to that machine, but I would rather have it on a
separate server.
Cheers,
Kelly Clowers
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