On 2000-01-18 21:14:17 -0600, Bram Shirani wrote:
> 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. New mail comes in, it gets put in inbox.
> Say I exit mutt and come back later - those messages are then
> stored in mbox, (I have it set to do this when I exit...) but any
> new messages are again stored in "inbox." My question is how do I
> get all new messages automaticlly put into mbox, and then have
> mutt start in that directory by default?
You'll have to tweak your local mail delivery agent to put messages
into ~/mbox directly. However, why not use inbox for this purpose
directly and set $hold?
> My second question: I used a mixture of muttrc's, one coming from
> the mutt home page. 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 if there is a special
> option I need to load these terms with. I know this isn't quite a
> mutt question, but I got the idea for the colors off the mutt
> homepage so I figured I'd give it a whirl. Thanks in advance.
Most probably, you'll have to set the TERM environment variable to
appropriate values. For instance, TERM=xterm won't give you colors
on many systems. Note that this is actually a Good Thing for those
who are telnetting around from elderly xterms running on commercial
Unices (for example) - imagine, for instance, a stock X11R5 xterm
which is suddenly confronted with the latest and greatest Xfree86
xterm's color control sequences. You don't want this.
Now, what's the solution? Find out what termcap entry you need for
your terminal. Make sure it's set.
For xterm on a Debian 2.1 sytem, I'm doing this in my
~/.Xresources:
#ifdef COLOR
*customization: -color
*termName: xterm-xf86-v33
#endif
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