Re: Ideas for a Mutt demo
On 2007-11-15, Joe Masters <joem@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I need some ideas as to setting up a demo of Mutt for netphobic users.
> Let me explain.
>
> When my boss complained about the slowness and unease of use of her
> graphical windows email client I foolishly mentioned that I used a
> client that did not require mouse usage. Being a trained typist, she was
> naturally interested and asked for a demo.
>
> My problem is that I need to run the demo on a standalone Debian Etch
> box. No connection to any other machine. My first thoughts were to set
> up a localhost mailserver and create a few users for testing. Then
> create messages from each user, filter them through procmail etc.
>
> But this seems like a LOT of work (I have enough of that already).
>
> Any ideas?
I would install mutt on the demo box, copy my own $MAIL box from my
workstation to the demo box, and copy my own muttrc file to the demo
box with the addition of this line:
set sendmail=/bin/true
That will cover reading and sending mail. You can't really
demonstrate procmail anyway and a verbal explanation of what it can
do should be enough.
I assume that you have _some_ way of transferring data to the demo
box, even if it is not connected to anything during the demo.
HTH,
Gary