On 07Feb2018 22:37, kalle <ka...@projektwerkstatt.de> wrote:
In the manual v.1.9.2, chapter "2.1 Index" it says
"The index is the screen that you usually see first when you start
Mutt. It gives an overview over your emails in the currently opened
mailbox."
The problem is: there are no mails to see, because there is no mailbox
of mine open and I don't know how to do this.
It is the third time already that I try to learn mutt but having no
mails to start with, not knowing what is meant by a 'mailbox' and how
to administrate it, even when reading in the newbie manual not getting
to a point.
I usually use thunderbird and thus already have some experience with
e-mail, but what I got from trying to learn mutt is just depressing for me.
Ok, it sounds like mutt is presenting the local default UNIX mailbox on your
system.
If you are using Thunderbird then it is likely that either your mailbox is an
IMAP service hosted at your ISP or at some place like Google Mail.
Is this the case?
Without some configuration, mutt looks in your local machine's mail system. It
is likely that nothing is using that if it is a personal machine such as a
laptop, so you have no local mail.
Instead, you'll need to configure mutt to access your ISP-hosted mail server,
if that is what you are using.
Could you please elaborate on your Thunderbird setup (obviously omitting
account passwords, and if you like using placeholder names like "my-login-name"
instead of you actual mail login name)?
It seems likely that we need to guide you through a basic setup to use the same
mail arrangements as your Thunderbird.
Cheers,
Cameron Simpson <c...@cskk.id.au> (formerly c...@zip.com.au)
