On Wed, 16 Jul 2003, Gary wrote: > Hi Andreas, > > --On Wednesday, July 16, 2003 12:51:49 PM +0200 Andreas Aardal Hanssen > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > This may sound contradictory, but I warmly recommend Pine - it's my main > > client. I have no experience with Mutt, but I know others who use it and > > are happy with it. > > Mutt is like Pine on steroids... many more features, like total control > over headers, including different envelope sender and from headers, which > is great on ezmlm groups for spam control. Also can use and design any > macros, total key remapping, and many, many more things.. what makes it > most powerful are the folder or sender hooks. When you set it up, and if > you are on a lot of groups, each different name you use for that group is > automatically added when you reply to that specific group. You can use > your favorite editor too, I have a macro that changes from vi to emacs, > as my editor for my whim for the day <g> > > > Since you say Mutt only displays !INBOX, I'll try to > > set it up and see if I can figure it out. :-) > > > > Pine is a Pain to set up, folders must be inserted manually, but once > > they're in pine is very good. > > I'll save you some time Andy... He is missing something in his .muttrc > folder. He needs to identify the folders that he has. For example: > > > mailboxes =INBOX =INBOX/sent =INBOX/mutt =INBOX/store > mailboxes =INBOX/bsd =INBOX/dns =INBOX/binc >
Tried this, no difference. I don't have any mailboxes set, instead set folder=imap://my.imap.server which works fine for Courier, not for Binc. Pressing 'c' then '?' asks me for my password the first time round, then I see 1 IMAP + INBOX which when selected shows all my sub folders. > could also add a cert file, so he does not have to ask/answer all the > time. > > set certificate_file=~/.mutt/certificates > I'll do that once I'm in SSL mode - at present I'm just using plain ol' text. > > Then Adrian would just hit "c" and either "?" or "tab" to view his > folders, which is normal in Mutt to move around folders. That's it. > > When stuff doesn't work it's usually me to blame, and it's really frustrating to be so close, yet so far... -Adrian
