-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Mutt has a great manual that you should look at for answeres to most of these questions and much much more. On my Debian system the manual can be found in /usr/share/doc/mutt/manual.txt.gz. My answeres follow inline. On 11/29/03 5:13 PM -0000, Darragh wrote: > Hello, > I have to say Mutt is a really cool program. I love it. I'm using > fetchmail for getting the mail and sendmail for sending it. I'm getting a > server missmatch when using fetchmail but I'll sort that out in a while. > Everything is working the way its suppose to so its not really causing any > problems. > > I've decided to use vim for composing mail. Its not my favorite editor but > its the only one that I could find a maximumwidth function. I'd prefear to > use emacs so if any one knows of a way of setting the maximum line length in > emacs I'd be very interested in hearing about it. I actually prefer vim, but in my .emacs file I have (setq fill-column 72) (auto-fill-mode) This wraps lines at 72 like textwidth in vim. > I notice that when deleting one letter at a time speakup doesn't speak it. > Is there a way of fixing this? If you are referring to the same issue as I think you don't hear what you backspace over in vim. I couldn't figure out what caused it, but a partial solution/workaround (hack) is to run vim within screen. I don't know why this works and it doesn't without screen though. > This only happens in mutt. Are you sure? Or does it happen when you use vim otherwise. > I'm also having a problem when writing to lists. The message that I get is > at the bottom. Does any one know what's causing it. > > Is there a way of ignoring all the headers when reading mail? If this is > not possible could I get a list of them all so I can put them into the > .muttrc file? In your muttrc: ignore * unignore from: subject: > How do I put a signiture into all messages? In your muttrc: set signature=.signature This is the default I believe and put your signature in .signature in your home directory. > How can I select an entire line, paragraph or document? If you're talking about selecting it in vim to select by letter use v by line use V and by block use ^v then move around until what you want is selected. If you want to copy stuff to the clipboard from the mutt screen then use speakup's cut and paste feature. > How can I delete by word? Example control back space or delete in Windows? Use ^w (ctrl-w) in insert mode in vim. > How can I activate a link in a message? If you have urlview installed use ctrl-b to get a list of links in the message and then arrow to the one you want and press enter. Sometimes there is a hidden end of line character at the end of urls in urlview, so you may have to remove it when urlview lets you edit the url. > How do I set up a kind of address book for keeping track of addresses in > mutt? In your muttrc: set alias_file=~/.mutt/aliases source ~/.mutt/aliases Then use a in mutt to add aliases. You can also add aliases with your editor of choice if you follow the format mut uses.. > How do I get fetchmail to check for message every few minutes? In your fetchmailrc: set daemon=300 # poll every 5 minutes Put this near the top. > Can I have all the headers on one screen while keeping the message on the > second one? Example I press enter on a message, the first screen is after > that. I hit space and the message associated with them headers is > displayed? This would probably leave a few blank lines between the header > and the bottom of the screen. I don't know about doing this, but pressing h while you're viewing a message will toggle displaying of all headers on and off. > I know that's a lot of questions. I'm very sorry. That's okay, that's what we're here for. Well actually that's what the mutt users mailing list is here for. You can subscribe by sending a message with subscribe in the subject to mutt-users-request at mutt.org. Your delivery error looks like some kind of configuration error on your server, but I can't say what exactly, sorry. Good luck and I hope you can get it all working. - -- Unix is a user friendly operating system. It just picks its friends more carefully than others. Thomas Stivers e-mail: stivers_t at tomass.dyndns.org gpg: 45CBBABD -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/yTJt5JK61UXLur0RAvedAKCBYaSoxnhvVNLPyBs9xcHCpDA9vQCfaHp8 xRKbIr4d2xf/XrEGbuqdPjM= =iZEN -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
