thanks. that worked great, now I need to know if there's anything "debian-specific" to get outgoing mail to work. To be honest, exim4 completely baffles me. I can get fetchmail to poll my pop3 server and pull in the mail but I don't even get errors back when I try to send through Mutt. also I notice that after exiting the edotor to compose the message I'm put in that Mutt thing where it shows the to, cc and other fields, but the from field is always blank. I really like some aspects of Debian Linux, but I wish there was a "debian for dummies", or equivalent. I have gotten browsers to work, and I installed Ncftp, but email remains elusive. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gregory Nowak" <greg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Thursday, January 26, 2006 2:03 PM Subject: Re: Mutt question > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > What I do is to export the EDITOR and VISUAL variables in my > $HOME/.bash_profile like so: > > export VISUAL=/usr/bin/emacs > export EDITOR=/usr/bin/emacs > > . This makes emacs be my default editor for mutt, and everything > else. Since you want to use nano, your lines would obviously look > different, but the above should give you an idea of what you need to > do. Remember that any changes to .bash_profile will not take effect > until you logout, and login again, or just doing > > source .bash_profile > > should also work without logging out and in. Hth. > > Greg > > > On Thu, Jan 26, 2006 at 01:25:53PM -0500, Dan Murphy wrote: > > I have just started looking at Mutt on my new Debian system and I'm a bit > > puzzled. > > Somehow in the installation, the default editor became Vim. How can I > > change it to Nano? > > I see references to editor bindings in /etc/Muttrc, but nothing about > > changing the actual program. > > Help would be appreciated. > > thanks. > > > > Greenwood Bbs, Lake Placid, NY > > telnet://greenwoodbbs.homeunix.com > > telnet://greenwoo.synchro.net > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Speakup mailing list > > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > - -- > web site: http://www.romuald.net.eu.org > gpg public key: http://www.romuald.net.eu.org/pubkey.asc > skype: gregn1 > (authorization required, add me to your contacts list first) > > - -- > Free domains: http://www.eu.org/ or mail dns-manager at EU.org > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQFD2R0f7s9z/XlyUyARAiKuAJsEh0sqJ0+v0q8VUgL37MwZNEI2kgCgrhbw > tsUaJ9YhbWurs04XJlpReOs= > =hPx8 > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >
