Mrinal Kalakrishnan proclaimed on mutt-users that:
>Why don't you post each FAQ to the list as each one is done (all in
>one thread) so that people can suggest changes, as well as track it's
>development?
'k. Here (as printed in lynx) is what index.html will look like ...
(thanks to Sven for a few additions). Requires a _lot_ of work right now.
Mutt for Newbies
Mutt - the mongrel of Mail User Agents [mutt.gif]
"All mail clients suck. This one just sucks less." - Mike Elkins
^^^^ running mutt line from sven's page
Mutt is a mail program. Actually, it is a mixture of mail programs,
taking only the best features of several mail programs - elm, pine,
and others. It's mixture makes it a "mongrel of mailers" - hence its
name - "mutt". <woof>
The original author of Mutt was Michael Elkins.
Mutt is much lighter and far more configurable than PINE, and (dare I
say it) far lighter and just as configurable as VM on emacs - see for
yourself.
Mutt has much more features than Microsoft Outlook Express and other
such 'doze brokenware, and streets ahead of (say) PINE because
* It sucks less (so says Mike Elkins)
* It rocks (and so say all of us)
* vi is the default editor
* Has lots of other cool features
[I wish there was an extra page for this, eg
http://www.mutt.org/features.html]
Get up and running with mutt
Mutt will work out of the box, but there are a few things which may
have to be tweaked. For example, you might want to get your mail via
POP from within Mutt - then you need to install it such that it
contains the code for POP support. Other installation options add code
for colored text, use of Gnu regular expressions, and protocols such
as GSS, IMAP, PGP, SSL. However, quite a lot of these tweaks will be
to your "muttrc" - the user's configuration file (usually
$HOME/.muttrc).
One of these tweaks is setting your outbound address, ie the one that
will show up in the From: line. For example, I have a linux box called
whack.spammers.cluestick.org, but my address is [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I don't want to send out mails as [EMAIL PROTECTED]
- I wouldn't even get a single reply, and anyone trying to mail me at
this very entertaining address would get a bounce. So, I have to tell
mutt that my address is actually [EMAIL PROTECTED]
The line in my muttrc then would read like this:
my_hdr From: Suresh Ramasubramanian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
There's a few more things I'd love to do - and can do with mutt. Using
PINE, I'd just not bother trying them at all :)
The best way to get a running start is to grab someone's .muttrc and
make a few minor changes.
There are a few very good (and one fair to middling) .muttrcs (in HTML
format) linked below - they are all extensively commented.
* Mike Elkins
* Thomas Roessler
* Sven Guckes (*)
* Felix von Leitner
* Karsten Rohrbach
* Lots more at dotfiles.com
* Oh yeah - I'll throw in my .muttrc as well :)
Or, you could try Mahdi Nazir's online .muttrc generator at
http://mutt.netliberte.org See also:
http://www.math.fu-berlin.de/~guckes/mutt/user.html for some more
pages on mutt with setup files, patches, scripts and more.
Now, you've probably got a serviceable (actually, a pretty good)
.muttrc - quite adequate if you use only one e-mail address and don't
get too much mail (especially from several mailing lists). If you are
a trifle more adventurous, see below :)
* Using multiple e-mail addresses in Mutt
* Managing mailing lists with Mutt
* Using keybindings to customize mutt
* Color setups for folder index, mail header and mail body
* managing mails via IMAP
* managing mails via POP
* using digital signatures
* setup for your language
$Id: mutt/index.html: $Author: Suresh Ramasubramanian - mallet (@)
cluestick.org$ $Date: 2000/06/20 19:17:06$ $Revision: 1.00$
with some additions by Sven Guckes 000628
--
Suresh Ramasubramanian + [EMAIL PROTECTED]
"I used to think I was indecisive, but now I'm not so sure."
