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neilhwatson
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 Posted: Tue Jul 29, 2003 11:52 pm Post subject: mutt questions |
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I've heard alot about mutt so I thought I'd give it a try. First I setup procmail to deliver all my email from spool to ~/Mail. Inside ~/Mail I have several mbox files.
my .muttrc file:
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# mailbox type
set mbox_type=Mbox
# folder where local mailboxes are stored
set folder=~/Mail
# mutt will open this file when it starts
set spoolfile=~/Mail/inbox
# outgoing messages are appened to this file
set record=~/Mail/sent-mail
# these folders are checked for email
mailboxes ! +gentoo +inbox +mason +modperl +resume +vim
set index_format="%4C %Z %{%b %d} %-16.16L %s"
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If I understand correctly, I cycle though mboxes looking for new mail (the c command). However, as I do mutt prompts me:
| Code: | | Move read messages to /home/neil/mbox? ([no]/yes): |
Where did that come come from and what does it mean?
Is there a way for mutt to show me all new mail, in all folders when it starts.
Unless I start mutt from ~/Mail it will not find folder when I try to change folders (c, typing vim as the folder name). Why is that?
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| Posted: Wed Jul 30, 2003 10:09 am Post subject: |
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It asks this by default because it's operating under the assumption that you're reading your inbox from a system-wide mail spool directory and wish to keep messages locally once you've viewed them.
Given your setup, with procmail dumping mail locally already, you don't want this. Put the following line into your ~/.muttrc and it will go away:
Welcome to the wonderful world of mutt!
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neilhwatson
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Thanks for the tip. New question: sendmail mail from mutt. When I try to send mail I get this error:
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sendmail: Cannot open mail:25
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My machine is running postfix locally. What is the problem?
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| Posted: Wed Jul 30, 2003 5:10 pm Post subject: |
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Problem solved. Seems the application was looking for a host called mail. Added it as an alias to localhost and all is well.
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