On Tue, Jan 18, 2000 at 09:14:17PM -0600 or thereabouts, Bram Shirani wrote:
> Howdy all, I've got two questions.
Eek, can you put line breaks in? This came out as five lines long
when I started to reply :)
> When I get new mail, it does not go to 'mbox'. I assume, therefore, it
> goes to a directory I'll call inbox for now, just to keep them separate.
Arriving mail is stored in somewhere like /var/spool/mail/username
(the exact path depends on what OS and flavour you're using, I believe)
until you start to read email with mutt or pine or something.
Some (many?) people use programs like procmail to sit around, inspect
anything that arrives in that file and do things like putting it into
a different file as it arrives on the machine.
There may well be a simpler program than procmail to use if you just
want to put incoming email in a different place. I like to leave most
of mine there in case a mailing list explodes, because /home and
/var are different partitions on my machine :)
Not sure on how you move stuff from the spool file (which you can
reach again with "c!") to mbox in mutt, nor whether you can. I
use procmail for that.
> From there I took the color schemes and changed them a bit to suit
> my tastes. These work fine when I load mutt on a console, or telnet
> into my box through the network, but when I load mutt in an xterm,
> eterm, gnome-terminal, or rxvt, I don't get any colors. All the ls
> colors work fine without any adjustments to my terms, so I'm wondering
I don't think it's very clearly marked in the FAQ, but there is
something about this there. You may have a mutt compiled against
slang rather than ncurses (libraries which deal with moving the
cursor round the screen and colouring things and stuff, I believe).
If so, try this:
export COLORFGBG="default;default"
Then try mutt again. If it's doing the right colours now, stick
that line in your .bash_profile. (This is assuming you're using
Linux, which comes with bash. If not, in the dotfile for whatever
shell you're using.)
Telsa
