Re: A Laundry List of Mutt Issues
On Mon, Dec 29, 2003 at 01:10:01PM -0500, David T-G wrote:
> Brian --
>
> ...and then Brian M. Sutin said...
> %
> % I have recently been trying to use Mutt from home to remotely read
> % my mail. I have a list of bugs/issues/whatever that I have run into
>
> Didn't you just post this on the 24th? Did all of the turkey put your
> mind to sleep, or did this leak out again accidentally? :-) If, perhaps,
> you meant to just repost the items which are still unanswered, you should
> probably trim the message to make things clearer.
>
> <...snip...>
Yes, well, there's a story there. Since Mutt won't ask me who the mail
should come *from* when I send it, I always forget to set the From: address.
Consequently, I was not a member of the list the first time I tried to
send, since the confirmation reply came from a different address. Thus
the first version was delayed for moderation, the second version got sent
before I saw the first in the digest. Sigh.
Some replies to comments from others:
The reason I am using Mutt 1.4 is that this is the rpm that ships from
Redhat. I have a preference for going with standard rpm's, because
otherwise I would have to spend all of my time upgrading software and
none working. There is a site for Mutt rpm's, but I didn't see a RH9.0
version there (maybe I missed it).
A MUTTRC environment variable would be useful for two reasons. First,
one can imagine wanting several .muttrc files that one can switch between
in a shell script. Second, the reason I want this variable is that
I do wish to lower the clutter in my home directory, and a ~/.mutt...
directory, rather than a file, is still clutter. I put every single
.yadayada file which I write into a directory, and the only .yada file
I add to my home directory is .cshrc.
At any rate, thanks everybody for feedback. Now I just need time to
digest it all...
Brian
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