Re: Mutt stuff (was Re: [ILUG] RE: [ILUG} PDA's )

From: John P. Looney (john at domain antefacto.com)
Date: Wed 20 Jun 2001 - 15:57:02 IST


On Wed, Jun 20, 2001 at 03:48:34PM +0100, Donncha O Caoimh mentioned:
> One thing that's annoyed me about Mutt whenever I tried it was it's
> support for folders..
>
> It's been a while, but I either found the folders eventually or not at
> all and in any case I was wondering how you know when you get new mail
> in a certain folder? Do you have to use an external Biff/mail checker
> program?

 Nope. You should just specify the folders; for my IMAP folders:

mailboxes {dogbert}INBOX {dogbert}INBOX.personal {dogbert}INBOX.work

 When new mail comes in, it'll report it. Pressing "c" will offer to
change you to the first folder with new mail in it.

> Procmail I know about.. it'll do the task of filtering your emails into
> different files and I remember you can tell Mutt that a certain folder
> points at a specific mail file, but I don't recall any nice display of
> message folders and "NEW" or something written next to it to inform you
> of new mail. What do people use?

 What you can do, when you press "c" is hit tab, which will autocomplete.
Hitting tab twice will bring up a nice menu of all your folders (and on
Mutt 1.3 will say how many new/old mails are in each one).

 Mutt kicks ass.

Kate

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