On Thu, Jun 06, 2002 at 04:14:30PM -0400, Kevin Coyner wrote: > First, thanks to everyone so far for their help. I'm finding > Mutt challenging but fun, and with the help from this group, > it's even better. > > Second, 3 quick questions: > > 1. Where do D (deleted) msgs go? Is there an equivalent of > trash, or am I truly out of the disneyland GUI world now and > just like using rm on files, there's no going back.
They go to the bit bucket, irretrievably. If you don't like that, there are two solutions. One is to use macros to make 'd' and related commands save the messages to a trash folder. The trouble with that is that it's difficult to catch all the cases, and personally I think a system that saves your deletions only part of the time is worse than one that doesn't save them at all. The second solution is to apply a patch that saves deletions to a trash folder. This should be safer. I don't know offhand where to find it, though. > 2. When I'm in the index mode with all mail listed and I've > marked a bunch with D, is there a keystroke command that will > flush out all of the D items so there's only N or O mail in there? Yes. $ > 3. This is the question that bothers me most: Let's say I have > three email POP3 email accounts on three different ISP/domains. > I've got fetchmail set up to fetch from all three. But what I > can't figure out is how I can, on the fly, select any one of > these accounts to be my From: and Reply-to: address. Presently > I have my .muttrc setup with set from = [EMAIL PROTECTED] and > this has each and every msg going out with that From address. > But there are times when I need to use one of those other two > addresses in the From header. I tried setting 'set alternates = > the other accts', but that didn't seem to do it. So some > general guidance would be appreciated here. I'm getting the > feeling I'll need to use hooks, but I haven't quite figured all > that out yet. In addition to setting 'alternates', set 'reverse_name'. Then, as the manual says, "the default From: line of the reply messages is built using the address where you received the messages you are replying to." If your want your From: line set by some other criterion, such as the recipient's name or the folder, then you will need to use a send-hook or a folder-hook. To set it arbitrarily, a macro is probably best. HTH, Gary -- Gary Johnson | Agilent Technologies [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Spokane, Washington, USA http://www.spocom.com/users/gjohnson/mutt/ |
