> On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 05:41:58AM +0100, Frank Steinmetzger wrote: > > On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 10:49:23AM +0800, Conghui He wrote: > > > Hello all > > > > > > I am a newbie to mutt and want to read the emails from the mailing > > > list. But I don't know how. I follow the instructions by just adding > > > 'lists comp.lang.c' > > > 'subscribe comp.lang.c' > > > into my ~/.muttrc. However, I doesn't work. No emails were sent to my > > > mailbox. > > > > I guess you are mixing up mailing lists with usenet newsgroup, which the > > names > > that you gave are (though there are gateways between the two). I haven't > > used > > mutt with NNTP yet, but if you want to do so, then you need to set up an > > NNTP > > server, for example. > > > The name "comp.lang.c" is short for > "[email protected]". I used to read the mails there. I > refer to the google group home page reading the information about > comp.lang.c and finally found that "comp.lang.c" is a Usenet group. > Thanks for pointing it out. > > > As far as I know, the lists and subscribe variables are means to tell mutt > > which e-mail adresses are known to be mailing list addresses, so you can use > > mailing list functions on appropriate messages (such as reply to list). > > > The original message is sent to [email protected] and I have listed > and subscribed it in my configuration file. However I when I type 'L', > the status bar shows "unknown mailing list", why is that?
Hehe, we fell victim to what I call the presentation effect. -- I was explaining a thing but didn't follow it myself. I.e. I replied to you alone instead of to the list. That's why there was neither the list address in my message, nor any other ML header. Thus, your mutt could not find any mailing list information in my message. Even when I commented out the subscribe line in my muttrc, mutt is still able to find out about a mailing list if the message in question carries the appropriate ML headers, such as List-Post (press h to see all headers when reading a message). PS.: With the lists string you tell mutt about addresses which you know are mailing lists. And with the subscribe string you tell it to what lists you are actually subscribed. Subscribed addresses are considered known, so there is no need to add an address to both subscribe and lists (see the mutt manual for a detailed explanation¹). ¹ http://www.mutt.org/doc/manual/manual-4.html#ss4.8 -- Gruß | Greetings | Qapla' I forbid any use of my email addresses with Facebook services. Efficiency is but the laziness of the intelligent.
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