I think this is a good idea. I will use
it.
Thanks Martti,
Kelly
Quoting Martti Rahkila <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> On Thu May 18, 2000 at 09:44:31AM +0100, Telsa Gwynne muttered:
>
> > On Thu, May 18, 2000 at 12:38:31PM +0530 or thereabouts, Suresh Ramasubramanian
>wrote:
> > > Martti Rahkila proclaimed on mutt-users that:
> > >
> > > >http://www.iki.fi/martti.rahkila/mutt/profiles.html
> > >
> > > You could send your .muttrc to dotfiles.org if you think it is special, so
> > > that other users can adapt it to their needs.
> >
> > That would be cool.
>
> Hmm, I'm not sure if there's anything special in my muttrc apart
> from the profile macros. In fact, my muttrc is pretty much the
> same as Roland Rosenfeld's ultimate mutt settings execpt that
> I have all the sender related parameters in separate profile files.
>
> > > >Maybe it's even worth adding to the Mutt link page or FAQ
> > > >once its ready?
> > >
> > > I dunno, The mutt faq and manual documents this pretty ok, afaik :)
> > > Pretty good one though.
> >
> > I think it's worth linking. The problem with the manual is that it's
> > so very massive and organised in a particular fashion. It's a fantastic
> > reference once you have an idea of what's going on. It's not great if
> > you are new and simply want to know "How do I (set up profiles|get
> > PGP/GnuPG working|organise folders)?": ie, one particular little task
> > which involves some stuff from section 4 about patterns, and a whole
> > bunch of variables which are scattered through section 6 in alphabetical
> > rather than "things which are often tweaked together" order.
> >
> > I'm not complaining about the manual, btw: I think it's great, and I
> > don't think you can combine both a reference and a list of such tasks
> > easily into one document. I do think, however, that as well as all
> > the muttrcs linked off www.mutt.org where we all try to explain
> > every variable we use, some things like this which explain one particular
> > task would be great.
>
> I agree, the idea of a profile is simple but in order to make good use
> of it, you have to dig up several things from the manual.
> Like how to define macros, what variables affect sending,
> replying, pgp and so on.
>
> For example, I would have never thought of procmail filtering incoming
> mail for getting pgp to work properly :-)
>
> Anyway, thanks, Telsa and Suresh, for your quick response!
>
> Martti Rahkila
> - yet another (happy) Mutt-user
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
