On Sun, Jan 08, 2012 at 06:32:07PM +0000, Mick wrote: > Hi All, > > There are a few mutt users here so I thought of asking here first. > I've tried setting up mutt to use as a mail client instead of kmail.
I actually did the change from KMail to Mutt after my KDEPIM kicked the bucket with 4.7.3. > […] GPG questions […] Though I myself have set up a simple GPG key, ther is currently only one person in my list of contacts who does, too. So I don’t have any relevant experience concerning mutt+gpg besides signing my own messages, except for when I’m in certain folders, which can be achieved with: folder-hook . set pgp_autosign folder-hook +some_folder unset pgp_autosign > Finally, kmail has an auto-completion feature for the recipient address and > it > suggests as I type the person to send to. Down arrow and enter is all that I > need to press. > […] > Mutt also does not seem to auto-complete any addresses. It uses aliases, but > that implies that I must set up such aliases and use these every time I want > to enter a particular address. This creates the problem of having to > remember > each and every alias, rather than typing "fre" and getting a list of Freds, > Freddies, Frederics, etc. or part of the Surname, or part of the email > address itself. Mutt has a completion feature; when you enter an address, you can press ^t to trigger autocompletion. Now the trick is to get mutt to use your contacts. For that you need to install lbdb, which is a contacts management thingy, featuring a number of storage backends (almost like what akonadi was originally intended to do, lol). I simply set lbdb up to use KAddressBook’s std.vcf file and then I can query it using lbdbq. Like so: --------- file: ~/.lbdbrc ----------- METHODS="m_inmail m_vcf m_abook m_muttalias" MUTT_DIRECTORY="$HOME/.mutt" MUTTALIAS_FILES="aliases" VCF_FILES="$HOME/.kde4/share/apps/kabc/std.vcf" Now, using lbdbq, I can query the VCF file, my mutt aliases and some other stuff (inmail is an lbdb-internal database to which you can feed addresses from incoming mail, IIRC, and abook is a textbased address book I tried). In order to use lbdbq for autocompletion in mutt, add the following to muttrc: set query_command="lbdbq '%s'" > The other difficulty is the key shortcuts in mutt do not behave as I would > like > them to, but this is that something I could recode so less of a problem. Keyboard shortcuts are always a question of personal preference and of what tutorials/howtos/introductions to mutt you found, read and consider useful. For example, since I converted to vi last year, I added some shortcuts to use m and , (which are below j and k, respectively, to move the pager content up and down, whereas j and k switch messages). -- Gruß | Greetings | Qapla' I forbid any use of my email addresses with Facebook services. The duration of a minute is relative. It depends on the side of the toilet door you are standing on.
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