On Fri, Jun 18, 1999 at 08:37:39PM +0000, Frederic L. W. Meunier wrote:
> Hi. I have some questions about Mutt (0.96.3i compiled with Slang 1.3.7).
> 1- I'm starting Mutt from an rxvt with root using rxvt -e su user, cd ~ and starting
>mutt.
maybe it is necessary to use su -l user
> In my .muttrc I have set mbox="/var/mail/$USER"
> but Mutt save the messages to /var/mail/root. And if I don't chmod /var/mail 777 I
>get an
> error 13. /var/mail have chown root.mail and chmod 777.
Of course, as far as /var/mail/root is concerned. But chmod 777 should really
be avoided. Login completely as the user and the mentioned problems will
have been vanished.
> 2- I need to change the From: header when sending messages. When I press "m" I just
>get
> the To: header.
.muttrc:
my_hdr From: Mutt User <user@host>
or what else you want to set.
> 3- What's the cmd to expunge the messages like using Pine?
I don't know pine.
If you want to have deleted them: set delete=yes
If you want to have them moved to a different mailbox: set move=yes
> 4- Mutt has a composer built-in or I need to use another editor (I use Jed)?
Yes it has, but you can set editor=whatever you want.
> 5- There's a way to connect to the port 25 like in Pine when you send mail and not
>user
> /usr/lib/sendmail directly?
The latter I don't know.
Bye, Juergen.
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