> Subject: Re: Searching big gobs of e-mail
> From: Eric Kidd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: "Robert R. Wal" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Date: 06 Dec 2001 17:06:43 -0500
>
> [A bit of UI criticism: The main mutt UI is very good (it even includes
> a menu bar of all important commands for novice users!), but these
> extended features lack "discoverability"--they can't be figured out
> simply by screwing around with the program. A HOWTO would have been
> very helpful.]
I'm writing [somewhat slowly] an email howto which covers mutt
(among other things). It's aimed at helping unix newbies grok the
new terminology (MUA, MTA, MDA), and set their machines up for email
"the hard way" (ie. avioding Mozilla etc., and going the
"traditional" way instead - getmail, stunnel, maildrop, mutt, pgp,
vim, abook, nullmailer, .mailcaap, etc.). Right now, it mostly
covers stuff I, and one of my friends found underdocumented or hard
to grasp, and where I write about mutt, I mostly cover the way _I_
use it (of course).
So... I would really like to get some info from others: what parts
of mutt's documentation have you found lacking? What are your
patterns of use of mutt, and did you have hard time setting it up
the way you wanted, or was everything you needed obvious from the
manual?
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