[PLUG] Transition to mutt and Maildir

Jack Morgan jack at bonyari.com
Thu Jan 8 20:27:02 UTC 2004


On Thu, Jan 08, 2004 at 07:34:36PM -0800, Jeme A Brelin wrote:
> 
> First, I figure that since I use procmail for local delivery, it doesn't
> matter if I'm the only one on the system that uses Maildir.  I just modify
> my procmail rules to write maildir and I'm done with that.  Yes?

Yes

> Second, I need to write a good .muttrc that does everything I like,
> particularly handling roles.  There was some stuff in the PLUG archives
> here recently and I've been slowly collecting information about doing that
> properly, but any source of information would be helpful.  Honestly,
> this'll be the first thing I do as I want to make sure I can use mutt and
> THEN move to Maildir.

You might have a look at this linke: http://home.nyc.rr.com/computertaijutsu/mutt.html


> Lastly, I need to make sure I can do all the proper composing with vi.
> Some people here had some really nice ways of handling mail with vi and
> I'd love to open up the discussion of mail handling in vi again.  No
> reason to discuss doing it on other editors, really.  If I wanted to use
> emacs, I'd be moving to gnus (which I tried doing at one point but the
> learning curve was too steep at the time).  Particularly, I'm interested
> in standard quoting and paragraph justification with a fixed line length
> (while handling nested quotes within that paragraph).
>
> And after last, I'll do the basic GPG config stuff.

Here is another good linke: http://codesorcery.net/mutt/mutt-gnupg-howto


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