Hi there,
thanks everyone for the kind responses. See below for comments.
> From: Thorsten Haude <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Re: Email HowTo [was: Re: Searching big gobs of e-mail]
>
> Very, very good idea. I found that many people know about email, and
> you can even find people eating sendmail.cfs for breakfest, but there
> are few or none documents covering the middle ground.
Yes, that made me think about writing this document. No
documentation is needed to use the mailer in Mozilla and such,
there's lots of stuff on doing particular things with sendmail,
postfix, whatever, but virtually none that would tell a naive user
_what_ sendmail is; where it fits in the big picture of
sending/receiving email.
> I did something /much/ smaller at www.vranx.de/mail/mail.html. Please
> find errors.
I think it's bad practice to reinject mail by SMTP. As noted in the
getmail docs (IIRC), this can easily lead to loops and bounces.
> A similar thing may even hold true for your docuentation: Keep at
> least part of it so /small/ that nobody will be deters by the size
> alone.
This is a valuable hint I'll try to keep on my mind.
Thanks!
> From: Cliff Sarginson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Re: Email HowTo [was: Re: Searching big gobs of e-mail]
>
> Mutt
> ----
> Explain scoring and how it can be used.
Ok. Will require me to start using it, or someone else to write such
a section.
> I am sure I am not the first to be suprised by what the arrow keys do
> when you are in the pager with part of the index displayed
> on the screen (jumps to the next index entry rather than goes
> down the text being paged).
Well, this one is... There are two things you might want j/k do in
pager: jump to prev/next message, or scroll by one line. I had these
keys originally rebound to do the scrolling, but went back later. I
still haven't figured out suitable keys for the scrolling, but will
cover this in the howto.
> And lots and lots of other things.
> Maybe later when I am less tired I may send some more :)
Looking forward. :)
> In general.
> Tell them there are other (safer,securer,simpler) MTA's than sendmail.
Sure. A snip from the HowTo:
"It is a full-blown SMTP server, and one that's notoriously known
for its cryptic configuration. We'll ditch it."
> Warn them that procmail is a nightmare invented by someone with
> a grudge against the human race, and eats cpu cycles like they
> are going out of fashion.
Well, since I saw quite a few bitter remarks about procmail, and
since maildrop is really easier on the eye, I use that. But... I'd
like to make use (in the howto, I don't care much, personally) of
some of the antispam filter packages, I was contemplating plugging
procmail either between getmail and maildrop, or inside .maildroprc.
(Procmail would be used as a 'black box', receiving minimal coverage
in the howto.) This would of course create additional load, which
I'd like to avoid. Are there any [good] antispam filter packages for
maildrop?
> That mutt is an MUA and it's inbuilt pop capabilities are
> strictly last-resort.
>
> If you can clear up for beginners where an MTA ends and an MDA
> begins that would help. Since MTA's are also "MDA's" (in the
> literal sense of the words), it is better to see MDA's as a delivery
> processing agent (or whatever).
Yes. This is where it began. To explain the terms. Later is began
growing in the direction "the terms mean this-and-that, the programs
are this-and-that, and you set them up this-and-that way".
> From: David T-G <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Re: Email HowTo [was: Re: Searching big gobs of e-mail]
>
> I'd love to see it!
I have the latest revision at home, but will post it tomorrow.
> You might also see how you could contribute to the mutt-newbie guide
> (surf over to
>
> http://mutt-newbie.sourceforge.net
Will take a look. thanks.
> From: Prahlad Vaidyanathan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Re: Email HowTo [was: Re: Searching big gobs of e-mail]
>
> Not really - here are some stuff I thought was lacking :
>
> - Scoring
Well, since there were two replies to my message mentioning the
scoring coverage in the mutt manual as lacking, maybe the manual
itself should be improved?
> - A list of apps to be used in the mailcap file .I've tried to collate
> whatever I could find at http://www.symonds.net/~prahladv/mutt.html.
Yes. .mailcap is definitely among things that need to be covered.
Thanks for the URL.
> - Some notes on email etiquette : sig-dashes, mail-followup-to, etc.
Good idea, thank you!
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