On Thu, Aug 23, 2001 at 09:10:41AM +0200, Rune Mossige wrote:
> 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.
>
Have you seen the Pine.rc file in your mutt distribution? This may make
your migration easier.
Also, Pine2mutt <http://www.icewalk.com/softlib/app/app_01285.html> may
be useful to you.
> 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?
In .muttrc, put a line like
mailboxes ! =in.mbx =friends.mbx =boring.mbx =spam.mbx
The "!" is your mailspool (/var/spool/mail/rune , or whatever) --
the "=" signs signify your root mailfolder. I have
set folder=~/Mail/current
in my .muttrc to point to my mailboxes. Note that you can also use
backquotes to generate your list of mailboxes. I use this:
mailboxes ! =tips.mbx =haddock.mbx =out.mbx `ls -D1 ~/Mail/current | sed 's/^[
*]*/=/g' | xargs echo`
Which shows me my mailspool, tips , haddock and out mailbox first, then
a full list of all the other directories in my mailbox directory (I use
maildir). The stuff in the backquote is a set of shell commands that
output the list of mailboxes.
>
> 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?
When you hit 'c' you should see this prompt:
Open mailbox ('?' for list):
Just hit '?' for the selection box!
>
> 3) How do I set up a distributionlist using mutt's aliases?
>
How about
alias friends [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]
in the .mail_aliases file. Is this what you mean?
> 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?
You know, I've always wondered that myself.
>
> 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.
The sync-mailbox command (bound to the '$' key) does this.
Hit '?' at any point to see a list of other commands.
>
> 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.
Not sure about this one.
