* Martin Siegert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002-07-09 18:09]:
> I am planning to replace elm and pine with mutt
> as the university wide default email reader.

danger will robinson!

> This will only be possible, if it is "convenient" to switch to mutt.

mutt is not convenient in that way.
mutt is too good for most people.

> Thus, the biggest show-stopper I can find right now that
> mutt does not seem to have an "option" menu that allows
> users to modify the default settings to their liking.

it keeps those away who won't RTFM.  feature!

> While copying the system wide Muttrc file to ~/.muttrc
> and editing that file is good enough for myself, this is
> not really an option for university wide deployment.

mutt is not for everybody.  just like some other great programs.

> Thus, the question is: has anybody expanded mutt to include
> something like an option menu that can be called from within mutt?

nope.  such a feature will only be bloat.

there is, however, a web based config file generator thingie.

Sven  [too lazy to look it up though]

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"let them use dead trees!"

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