I have been using Pine for the last 6-8 years, and have come to
be used to the way Pine works.
However, over the last few months, I have heard more and more
good things about mutt, and have decided to switch over.
In this switchover process, there is still some things that
I was used to in pine, that I am not able to do as easy as
in pine. I'll try to summarize them:
1) How do I set up mutt to cycle all the mailfolders where I
have procmail store new messages inside? Pine had an
'incoming-folders' setting, where I set the folder names,
and the order to look in them. How do I do that in mutt?
2) When I do 'c' to change folder, is it possible to get a
selection box, where I can scroll with the cursor, and select
a folder by hitting return, instead of typing in the name
of the folder I want to change to?
3) How do I set up a distributionlist using mutt's aliases?
4) When I have marked several messages for deletion, and scroll
the index of messages, the cursor jumps over the messages
marked for deleting. This is fine, but sometimes I do not
want this...I want to scroll to a deleted message, and then
undelete it. How do I do that? Do I have to 'jump' to that
message number?
5) How do I 'expunge' all messages marked for deletion, similar
to pine's 'eXpunge' command? I do not want to have to quit
mutt, or change to a new folder, just to expunge a number
of messages.
6) How do I make mutt display norwegian characters? I have set
set charset="iso-8859-1"
set allow_8bit=yes
but I still get emails where the sender have that special
character listed as '?'. I am using a Sun workstation,
Solaris2.6, with a US keyboard, so I can not type these
characters myself, but it would be nice to be able to
display them.
I have now been playing around with mutt for some 2+ weeks, and
have read most of the manual.txt, but there is still some
items that I do not fully understand. I might ask more questions,
as I discover new unknown stuff.
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