Long term organization

2002-09-24 Thread Brett Sanger
[This may or may not be mutt related, depending on the answer] Recently different posters have mentioned their different ways of organizing their email (by target, by date, etc). I'm currently having mutt pull everything from my spool and sticking it into =Inbox, where I have all my personal

Re: mutt.bak

2002-09-17 Thread Brett Sanger
On Tue, Sep 17, 2002 at 07:10:21PM +0200, Hanspeter Roth wrote: Hello, under certain circumstances after sending messages there appear backup files of mutt in /tmp which name is mutt-host-pid-x.bak. I have ispell set to `ispell -x' to tell ispell not to keep a backup copy. How can I make

navigation questions from a newbie

2002-06-13 Thread Brett Sanger
Okay, just started using mutt, (previously used pine, decided to make the switch). I've heard pretty much nothing but good things about mutt, so I'm assuming most of my issues can be resolved, I just don't know how. I haven't used elm, so I can't import any knowledge from that. Before I get to

Re: navigation questions from a newbie

2002-06-13 Thread Brett Sanger
Okay, this is a simple one, but I didn't come across it in the docs. How do I set my From: address? I tinkered with my EMAIL enviroment, but that didn't make a difference. See Mutt manual 6.3.55 My .muttrc file: set from = [EMAIL PROTECTED] (yes, so far it's just one line) Yet when

Re: navigation questions from a newbie

2002-06-13 Thread Brett Sanger
If you want to do it on just one line, you'll have to replace that with my_hdr From: Brett Sanger [EMAIL PROTECTED] to force the header into place. Just to make sure I comprehend -- this is the not the best solution since it precludes using hooks? (My attachment to a small .muttrc is two

Telling me of new mail

2002-06-13 Thread Brett Sanger
so the beep_new says whether to beep on new mailbut how do I get it to update the screen without an action? I like to have my client open and glance at the screen now and then to see if anything has shown up. From my tests so far, the screen updates only when I press a key. TIA