On Thu, Jun 13, 2002 at 11:19:34AM -0400, Brett Sanger wrote: I only use mutt for a couple of weeks now, so I can only answer some of your questions. Read below. (I removed questions I don't know the answer to)
One word of advise though. Get someone elses .muttrc and work with that. One of the reasons mutt is so powerful is that you can change everything. You really need to do that to benefit from this program. I can send you mine if you want. I use a couple of files in ~/.mutt/ that are sourced in ~/.muttrc. My files are not very well documented however so it's best to look for some mutt guru on the web who has his/her .muttrc for all to see. > Okay, this is a simple one, but I didn't come across it in the docs. How > do I set my From: address? I tinkered with my EMAIL enviroment, but that > didn't make a difference. See Mutt manual 6.3.55 > Currently, I have three locations for mail: my spool file/dir (forget > which exim uses), ~/Mail/* folders, and ~/mbox. I haven't come up with a > convenient way to navigate between these. "c" lets me hop into any of the > ~/Mail/* easily, but then getting back to the spool or to ~/mbox requires > more work than I'd expect for the "default" places for mail. am I missing > something? (I know I can tell mutt to use an alternate in place of > ~/mbox, but surely there's a better way to get to the mbox its using than > to specifiy path/file?) Define mailboxes. Then you can at least switch easily to boxes with new email and you can use completion like =pri + <tab> for ~/Mail/private > I can mark messages as deleted with "d". How do I purge those aside from > exiting mutt? Syncing the mailbox. Propably bound to $. > Is there an equivalent of the "sent-mail" folder? A convenient way to > make one? If I hand-roll (via perl) the monthly archiving of such folders > to mimic pine's behavior, what locking procedure does mutt use so that I > can ensure I don't trample while it's reading/writing? I am not aware of anything else than "set record=+my_outbox". As far as I know you can't archive sent-mail as you can in Pine from within mutt. At least not without extensive use of macros. > I'm looking at having Mail::Audit parse out my mail to various folders. > Is there a convenient way to watch for traffic in these folders without > entering each one? See my answer to your question regarding locations for mail. Hope this helps, Bob
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