Joshua Haberman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on Sun, 30 Jan 2000:
> A few quick questions I hope someone can answer:
Can't help you with the Mandrake question, sorry -- I don't use RPMs.
:-)
> 2. I found the documentation concerning mailboxes/folders (are they
> the same thing?) confusing.
Generally, the terms "mailbox" and "(mail) folder" are used
interchangeably. Sometimes I've seen mailbox to refer to "your
incoming mailbox", leaving "mail folders" to be specifically
everything else but the incoming mailbox/folder. However I think
that the Mutt manual just uses the two words interchangeably.
> Does mutt filter mail into different
> mailboxes, or is that procmail's job?
Mutt doesn't filter mail; though you can make it do that with clever
keyboard macros and hooks and such, generally it's suggested that you
use a proper mail filtering too such as procmail to do that.
> How do I create/edit different
> mailboxes?
Mutt will create mail folders for you, if you try to save/write an email
to folder that doesn't exist. The $confirmcreate variable controls
whether you get prompted for confirmation to create the folder or not.
The default is set (confirm with a prompt).
The type (mbox, MH, MMDF, Maildir) for the new mail folder depends on
the $mbox_type setting. Default is mbox, the standard unix mail folder
file.
I don't know what you mean with "edit folders". You can change to a
folder with the c(hange-folder) command, then browse the contents and
delete any messages you like, or reply to them or whatever. You can
also edit individual messages with the e(dit-message) function.
> What exactly does the "list" directive do?
First, it's "lists", not "list". It specifies a mailing list or lists,
so Mutt knows that the particularly address is a mailing list. For
example,
lists [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
... lets Mutt know that the two Mutt list addresses are mailing lists.
This is useful so that when you're reading mailing list messages, you
can press just use the L(ist-reply) command to send a reply that will
go to the mailing list. Specifying lists also means that a correct
Mail-Followup-To header gets generated for list emails.
If you're using Mutt 1.0, specifying a list with the lists command means
that it's a subscribed mailing list. For the developement version
(1.1.x), the behaviour is slightly different, there are separate "lists"
and "subscribe" commands. "lists" specifies an unsubscribed list,
"subscribe" a list to which you are subscribed. (As I've understood it,
this distinction is necessary for setting up the MFT header correctly
for unsubscribed lists as well.)
Hope this helps,
Mikko
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