At 12 June, 2000 Telsa Gwynne wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 11, 2000 at 11:09:56PM +0200 or thereabouts, Nils Vogels wrote:
> > On Sun, Jun 11, 2000 at 04:44:28PM -0400, David T-G wrote:
As a new and excited happy user of mutt, and only 6 months into Linux, I
would suggest something similar to the newbie files on Linuxnewbie.org,
directions and manuals that are written so simply that a newbie can easily
follow them. I admit to having to be led by the hand occasionally, and
also to polluting the airwaves with stupid questions. I was never able to
get mutt working satisfactorily in redhat 6.1, now 6.2 seems to be working
fine with the addition of a decent .muttrc file. Of course, I wasn't
subscribed to the mailing list in my 6.1 days.
I'm constantly amazed at the variety of nationality's I see represented
on this list! Talk about globalization.. wow! The new Noble
Experiment--mutt. :)
> > > We'll all love that :-) If I may be so bold as to make a suggestion,
>
> Seconded.
>
> > > take a moment *now* to remember those things that were most confusing,
> > > AND write them down so that you won't forget them, so that you can look
>
> Definitely seconded (she says, eyeing an /etc/inittab that is now more
> comments than commands).
>
> > OK, I'm at that point now ;)
> > Been using mutt for some months now, before that I used pine.
> > I would love to add some docu, but what exactly is most wanted ?
>
> >From my memories of getting started and watching this list, it's
> "quick start guides" to specific items. Yes, ninety percent of the
> questions here are answered in the manual, and the other ten percent
> are procmail and fetchmail, but finding them is an absolute pest.
>
> The manual is wonderful as a comprehensive reference. What we need
> are more "How do I get GnuPG working with mutt?", "How do I set a
> different 'From_' line", "What can/can't I do with colours" and
> (ugh) "Pattern-matching for people who want to spend ten minutes
> reading at a maximum and then be able to add one or two simple
> patterns into their muttrc" documents: documents that focus on
> that one thing and nothing else.
>
> I don't know whether those are things that should go into the main
> mutt tarball. I think they're probably better as links off
> www.mutt.org. Someone did a nice guide to something a while ago:
> I think it was Mutt and setting up groups of hooks for particular
> addresses. That's the kind of thing I mean.
>
> Telsa
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