On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 10:49:23AM +0800, Conghui He wrote: > Hello all > > I am a newbie to mutt and want to read the emails from the mailing > list. But I don't know how. I follow the instructions by just adding > 'lists comp.lang.c' > 'subscribe comp.lang.c' > into my ~/.muttrc. However, I doesn't work. No emails were sent to my > mailbox. > The above commands in your muttrc file only affect how mutt handles the mailing list messages. If you weren't receiving messages from the comp.lang.c mailing list before adding the commands then nothing at all will be changed. You still need to go off to a web site somewhere and subscribe to the list (or send special E-Mail messages to the list server).
> Now I am using offlineimap to retrieve gmail periodically. But I am > confused with the mailing list. Should I download them locally and if > so, how? I don't make any modification in my ~/.offlineimaprc now. > Same applies, if the E-Mail list messages are getting to gmail then, presumably offlineimap will copy them to your local machine where you're running mutt. However if you haven't subscribed to the list(s) with your gmail address you're not going to see any list E-Mails. If this is all absolutely obvious to you then sorry but I thought it was worth checking! -) -- Chris Green
