On 2013-11-17 18:24, Paul E Condon wrote:
On 20131117_123000, Martin Vegter wrote:
On 2013-11-17 11:25, Chris Bannister wrote:
On Sat, Nov 16, 2013 at 07:12:59PM +0100, Martin Vegter wrote:
Dear list,
I have just installed mutt, and I am little bit confused. I can see
my received emails, but I am not able to "switch" to my sent emails
folder. Is this the way mutt is supposed to work (only reading
received emails)?
You can set the sent directory. I think there is a default /~/sent(?)
Have a look in the documentation. ... ahh ... for the 'set record'
command.
thanks, I have the sent folder set up already.
set mbox_type=Maildir
set folder="~/.mail/"
set mbox="~/.mail/"
set spoolfile="~/.mail/inbox/"
set record="~/.mail/sent"
set postponed="~/.mail/drafts"
The problem is how to access it from mutt (how to see my sent
emails). The only solution I could find is to exit mutt, and start it
with
mutt -f .mail/sent/
Otherwise, when I start mutt normally, I can only see my inbox
(received emails), but I don't know how to switch to sent folders.
Another question I would like to ask is: I have now three folders:
inbox, sent, drafts (as definded above). I would like to have another
folder "archive", where I could save my emails. (instead of keeping
everything in inbox). But AFAIK, "archive" is not defined in mutt.
What would be the best way to do it (preferably including a
key-binding, so that I could move messages from inbox to archive)?
many thanks,
Martin
Martin,
You are at the beginning of a great learning adventure. Mutt is
'configurable'. That is good, but Mutt, so far as I know, *must* be
configured, and the configuration details must be compatible with
details of you computer, and operating system. e.g. good advice for a
Debian system is useless gibberish on a Mac. So... tell us what OS and
hardware. And what mail system(s) you have used in the past. Look for
web sites of colleges in your area that have information on how to use
email on campus. Many use and support Mutt. Sunday morning is probably
not a good time to get in-depth advice. I hope I'm wrong on that. HTH
First of all, thanks everybody for your kind advice.
I am using Debian OS and Postfix as my mail server. I was using Alpine
in the past as my email client, but now I have switched to Mutt because
of maildir support.
It is not easy for a complete beginner to get all the information from
the manual. Sometimes I have the feeling, the manuals are written for
the people who already understand it (and by the people who understand
it, obviously).
thanks,
Martin
