> "John P. Looney" wrote:
> > Mutt will do all this and more. Though I'm not sure on the "multiple
> > mail" thing. Mutt will let you "postpone" sending a mail, and
> doesn't get
> > /too/ cranky when you have multiple mutt's looking at the same mailbox
> > (whether it's IMAP, POP, Mbox (like netscape) or MailDir.
>> ok,what i really want to be able to do is reply to a message, and then
> be able to refer back to other messages without closing the reply
> window. so the not "too" cranky is worrisome. how do you mean?
Hit 'x' rather than 'q' to exit the second and subsequent instances
so that they don't write changes to /var/spool/mail/$USER.
If you hit 'q' the first instance will spot that the mailbox has been
modified and resync, but you might lose flags on messages.
I've never seen it lose mail, so don't worry too much.
> also, i currently have netscape queue emails until i'm at home. can
> mutt do this? i'd rather not have sendmail do this since there's a
> hefty pause for failed dns lookups.
Set sendmail_timeout to -1 in your muttrc and it will background sendmail
immediately after sending the message, leaving you to get on with other
stuff while sendmail's DNS lookups timeout.
Later,
Kenn
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