On 01:45 Fri 18 Feb , [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi list, > > I have set up mutt, however when I call it with "mutt", the next thing I see > is > /var/mail/root is not a mailbox. When I call it with mutt -y, I can see the > three > mailboxes, but when I press "enter" in order to view them, it says: sh: line > 1: > rxvt: command not found. Any ideas? Thanks in advance.
It looks like you're using the .muttrc from the Gentoo Installation Guide. The guide is setup to use mbox as the mailbox format, while I found when setting up my Mutt that using maildir as my mailbox format was more to my liking and oddly corresponded with the example .muttrc better than using mbox. BTW, the default muttrc found in /etc/mutt/muttrc is setup to use maildir as your mailboxes. Check out man Mutt or look at dotfiles.com to see a little more what I mean. I would comment out the macro that uses the enter key to fire up your .muttrc, it's really not necessary and it gets in the way. If you set it up right, the enter key will display the highlighted message. Also, in the macro to run fetchmail by using shift-G, add "browser" to that macro. I'll attach my .muttrc so you can see what I mean. As far as the rxvt command error, silly question, but do you have aterm installed? If not, then you can change all instances of aterm to your favorite terminal (xterm, Eterm, etc.) It kinda looks to me like you might not have aterm installed, thus the rxvt error. I bound a key combination in Fluxbox to fire up "aterm -e mutt -y" so it automatically displays what I want to see. Any window manager will have the capability to do the same. Once again, change the terminal to something other than aterm if you like. Here's my .muttrc, customized for .maildir but not too different from the example on the Gentoo website: set pager_context=1 set pager_index_lines=10 #show a mini-index in pager set menu_scroll set pgp_verify_sig=no #dont show pgp in pager set status_on_top #put status line at top set sort=threads #sort by message threads in index set mbox_type=Maildir set editor="vim -c 'set tw=78 nobackup'" #set vim as my editor wrapped at 78 set status_format=" %r %b %f %n Del %d Msgs %m %l %> (%P)" set pager_format="%-10.10i %[!%a %b %d %R]" set date_format="!%H:%M %a %d %b " set index_format="%4C %Z %[%b%d] %-16.16L %s" set folder_format="%2C %t %8s %d %N %f" set sendmail="/usr/bin/msmtp" set from="<your email>" #set to your from address set realname="<your name>" set record="$HOME/.maildir/sent" #sent mail is saved here set delete=yes #delete without prompting set include=yes #quote msg in reply set fast_reply=yes #no prompting on reply set beep=no #no noise set markers=no #no + on wrapped lines set confirmappend=no #no prompt for save to =keep set to_chars=" +TCF" #no L for mail_list set spoolfile="$Home/.maildir" set signature="~/.signature" set folder = $HOME/.maildir mailboxes =gentoo-user mailboxes =fluxbox-users mailboxes =vim-user mailboxes =keep <etc.--create your additional mailboxes here> save-hook .* =keep #default mbox to (s)ave mail is =keep bind pager h display-toggle-weed #toggle headers with h key # simulate the old url menu macro index \cb |urlview\n 'call urlview to extract URLs out of a message' macro pager \cb |urlview\n 'call urlview to extract URLs out of a message' #run fetchmail by hitting key of G macro index G "!fetchmail -a -m 'procmail -d %T'\r" macro pager G "!fetchmail -a -m 'procmail -d %T'\r" macro browser G "!fetchmail -a -m 'procmail -d %T'\r" #use to edit .muttrc and then source it...no restart necessary #macro generic ,sm ":source $HOME/.muttrc\r" #macro generic \cj "!aterm -e vim $HOME/.muttrc\r" # default list of header fields to weed out when displaying mail #ignore them all and then unignore what you want to see ignore * unignore Date To From: Subject X-Mailer Organization User-Agent hdr_order Date From To Subject X-Mailer User-Agent Organization ##your Mutt has to have some colors <color stuff to your liking...> ##EOF -- Will Clifton [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [email protected] mailing list
