Re: Help for the newbie

["Russell L. Harris" <rlharris@xxxxxxxxxx>]

* Umut Tabak <umut.tabak@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> [061122 10:39]:
> Hi list,
> 
> I have been checking mutt configuration manual for a while but it is a 
> little bit repulsive for a mutt beginner(at least for me :-{ ).
> 
> Is there a step by step manual explaining what to do for a minimal 
> configuration.

The situation is much better than it was a few years ago, because
within the past few years a number of good introductory articles have
been written.  Following are some which I found helpful, together with
some which were less helpful; use discretion.  Note that the articles
are listed in no particular order.  If a URL is invalid, suspect a
typographical error on my part, and search with Google:

-> "A Quick Gude to Mutt" 
   http://www.scottro.net/mutt.html

-> "A Man and His Mutt" by Vikram Vaswani

-> "Mutt Setup - Configuration Hints"
   http://www.math.fu-berlin.de/~guckes/mutt/setup.html

-> "Mutt:  An e-mail user's best friend" by Steve Manuel [Parts 1 & 2]
   http://www.linuxnovice.org/main_printer.php?t_id=146 
   http://www.linuxnovice.org/main_printer.php?t_id=164

-> http://linux.ucla.edu/guides/impatientmuttrc

-> http://linux.ucla.edu/guides/muttrc

-> "Mutt and Procmail Guide" by Terry Chow (UCLA Linux Users Group)
   http://linux.ucla.edu/guides/mailguide.php3

-> "More on properly training Mutt :: How to set scores for incoming
   messages and work with SMTP servers" by Nicholas Petreley
   http://www.linuxworld.com/linuxworld/lw-1999-12/lw-12-mutt.html

-> "A Mutt that isn't a dog" by Nicholas Petreley
   http://www.linuxworld.com

-> "Man's best friend" by Nicholas Petreley
   http://www.linuxworld.com

-> "The Mutt Mailer" by Larry Ayers
   http://www.linuxgazette.com/issue14/mutt.html

-> "Gary Johnson's Mutt Page"
   http://www.spocom.com/users/gjohnson/mutt/

-> "Axel's Mutt Page"
   http://fsinfo.cs.uni-sb.de/~abe/mutt/

-> "My First Mutt" by Bruno Postle and others [12 or 13 parts]
   http://mutt.blackfish.org.uk/

-> "Email for the single user in Debian" by Nicholas Lativy
   http://www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/~lativyn/articles/debian-mutt/

-> "A Quick Guide to Mutt"
   http://home.nyc.rr.com/computertijutsu/mutt.html

-> "Email client:  Mutt" by Aaron Malone
   http:www.linuxchix.org/content/reco???/mutt.html

RLH