On Wed, Dec 05, 2001 at 09:16:27PM +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Could somebody please tell me the steps to configure mutt > and nmh, and please tell me which is better. >
Both serve as MUA (Mail User Agent). Whereas mutt is easier to use, and pretty powerful, nmh is ONLY for the real power user who wants to incorporate mailing through scripts or has specific mailer requirements. nmh has almost 40+ execu- tables, and NO interface at all. Imagine just typing "next" on the shell prompt, displays the next unread mail in your nmh spool, which user "more" as a pager! Or typing "inc" to get all your mail from the mail spool to your maildir ! If you do not have specialised mailing requirements, avoid nmh. Most people grossly underutilise the raw power of nmh, and use it with frontends like exmh and sylpheed. If you are on emacs, then it is worth installing ... Recommended, stick to mutt. The mutt documentation is very exhaustive, and detailed. All your preferences are executed through .muttrc. Can send you one with common preferences, or look through Suresh's page (http://www.hserus.net/). You would still have to have fetchmail, procmail, sendmail combo installed. As a matter of fact, you can have mutt and pine working concurrently on the same mbox files if you keep your maildirs synchronised. > I currently use PINE-fetchmail , and do not know > how to use an address-book. > 1. To send mail to someone already on your addresses: Main Menu --> Address Book (A) --> Compose To (C) 2. To add/ delete entries in addressbook: Main Menu --> Address Book (A) --> "@" to add --> "D" to delete 3. To yank an address from a mail you are reading to your address book, press "T""L" ... You can then choose all the addresses to yank to your addressbook from a List of addresses on that mail. HTH Bish -- : ####[ Linux One Stanza Tip (LOST) ]########################### Sub : Password protection in vim LOST #170 Afraid that root is snooping into your personal files ? Before quitting in vim (viz :wq), use ':X' to encrypt your file (vim will prompt for a password). Next edit needs password negotia- tion. [For further details ':help :X' in vim command mode]. ####<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>######################################## : _______________________________________________ linux-india-help mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-india-help
