On Sat, Jan 29, 2000 at 02:36:10PM -0500, Jim Breton wrote:
> As some of you may remember I just "discovered" Mutt only a few days
> ago. Well, those few days have been awesome, Mutt is unbelievable!
I felt like this too :)
> I do have a few questions though. :)
>
> For one, I'm always wondering if anyone has any patches for matching
> on something other than the beginning of a Subject line.... ;-)
Just look here:
$ less +/Patterns /usr/local/doc/mutt/manual.txt
(assuming you installed mutt under /usr/local/)
> Also: is it possible to change header settings without changing
> folders (where I am using folder-hooks to change headers)? Something
> like a macro. I haven't tried any run-time reconfiguration yet, I've
> been doing everything in my .muttrc with hooks so far. But let's say
> I wanted to send a msg from this address (jamesb-mutt) but I was in a
> folder which ran a hook that changed my address to something
> different. There must be some way for me to re-config without
> changing folders and without editing the headers by hand?
There are also send-hooks, which can change your headers by looking to
whom you want to send the message. And you can also setup a macro or
two to switch identities.
> Lastly, is there an address-book-ish feature where I can type a
> common-name like "Jim" and it will expand the address to
> "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"? Would aliases in my .muttrc do this?
Yes, they would. Just add
alias jim [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jim Breton)
to your .muttrc and at the To: prompt type `jim', or just `j<TAB>' and
let Mutt complete it for you. Or just hit <TAB> and select recipients
by tagging them in the alias menu.
> Sorry for the newbie-ish questions, I can figure it all out but I've
> had to hammer out tons of mail over the last few days and have only
> had time to "get to know" the most superficial Mutt features so far.
Mutt has a very good manual. If you don't find time to read it, you'll
never know what else Mutt can do to make life easier for you.
> P.S. If I have my spoolfile in /var/spool/mail/$USER but I don't want
> to have to browse to it constantly in the folder list, is it safe to
> make a symlink in my ~/mail/ directory which points to the file in
> /v/s/m/?
>
> If that's a bad idea I could just have my mail written to my home dir
> but I'd rather not do that yet because I have a few other things that
> depend on the file being in /v/s/m/ at the moment.
I do have such symlink. So far nothing has gone wrong. ;) But you do
not really need to browse for your inbox, just type `c!<ENTER>'. `c'
for change-folder, `!' as a shortcut for `/var/spool/mail/$USER' and
<ENTER>... you know what it is for, don't you?
There are a couple of other shortcuts too. You can find them in the
manual (hint hint ;).
Good luck,
Marius Gedminas
--
If A equals success, then the formula is A = X + Y + Z. X is work. Y
is play. Z is keep your mouth shut.
-- Albert Einstein
