Just starting with mutt and I am excited! Have spent nearly 3 days buried in the
documentation and have a few questions I hope some one wouldn't mind answering.
First of all when I send the message mutt sits there for over a minute before coming
back with a 'mail sent' message. Why is this? Is there an asynchronous mode for this?
I am not sure if my Linux box is set up correctly. I have 4 computers on my LAN which
all have 192.168.0.xxx numbers. I don't have a fqdn so I have made something up. I
connect to a IMAP server thro a multitech serial line proxyserver which sits on the
LAN...which is set as the gateway on the linux box. I use fetchmail to get and deliver
mail to the ISP. There is sendmail running and I am not an expert in sendmail but used
linuxconf to configure the very basic info to update sendmail.rc. I use my_hdr to set
my from field to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Can anything in this chain cause this delay? In
any case it all seems to work.
I also have pop mail server at my hosted domain which is now redirected to my local
ISP. Am I better off picking up this mail through fetchmail?
A couple of other usability questions I couldn't figure out.
1. When composing a new msg is there a way to bring up a picklist of pattern matched
aliases?
2. I find myself inadvertently hitting keys..sometimes meant for a different console
and I lose track of focus..and say ending up in the To: prompt when I hit 'm'. ANy way
to escape out of these modal situations? Is there some way to define a global escape
sequence which will get you out of any screen and bring you back to say the index
screen?
3.Finally I can't seem to for the life of me get the following macro to work..
macro index <f1> "!less /usr/doc/mutt-1.0.1i/manual.txt\n" "mutt manual"
it works if I remove the <> and use f,1 keys. Why doesn't it bind to the 'f1' key?
Ineed this help system at this stage of my learning process rather than having the
manual in a seperate window.
Appreciate your patience, thank you.
bakki
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