On 2007-11-15, Joe Masters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I need some ideas as to setting up a demo of Mutt for netphobic users. > Let me explain. > > When my boss complained about the slowness and unease of use of her > graphical windows email client I foolishly mentioned that I used a > client that did not require mouse usage. Being a trained typist, she was > naturally interested and asked for a demo. > > My problem is that I need to run the demo on a standalone Debian Etch > box. No connection to any other machine. My first thoughts were to set > up a localhost mailserver and create a few users for testing. Then > create messages from each user, filter them through procmail etc. > > But this seems like a LOT of work (I have enough of that already). > > Any ideas?
I would install mutt on the demo box, copy my own $MAIL box from my workstation to the demo box, and copy my own muttrc file to the demo box with the addition of this line: set sendmail=/bin/true That will cover reading and sending mail. You can't really demonstrate procmail anyway and a verbal explanation of what it can do should be enough. I assume that you have _some_ way of transferring data to the demo box, even if it is not connected to anything during the demo. HTH, Gary
