[CS-FSLUG] QOTW: Mail Clients

[Brian Derr]

On Sun, Oct 31, 2004 at 11:27:12PM -0600, Ruth Marlene Friesen wrote:
> Brian, can you tell me more about how that works? I've seen references 
> to this Mutt kind of email, but am not sure how to set up or use it. I 
> do prefer plain to HTML emails!

Well, find the mutt package for your distro and install it (if it isn't
installed already).  At the command line type 'mutt', it'll probably ask
you if you want to create the ~/Mail directory if you haven't created it
already.  By default mutt will read from /var/spool/mail/<username> but
it is easy to change it to something else in ~/.muttrc.

Your ~/.mailcap file is very easy to setup, here is mine:

   brian at hefeweizen:~$ cat .mailcap
   image/*; mutt_bgrun xv %s
   video/quicktime; xine %s
   text/html; mutt-firebird %s; nametemplate=%s.html
   text/html; lynx %s; nametemplate=%s.html
   application/msword; mutt_bgrun abiword %s
   application/pdf; mutt_bgrun xpdf %s

Basic syntax is <file type>; <application>  (The %s is the filename.)

Give it a whirl, I've been using it for years now without changing mail
clients.

Especially because of it's easy to use listserve setup and compatibility
with PGP/GPG.  If I want to reply to the group I hit ^L, if not then
just r for reply to sender.  However, this doesn't always work because
most listserves, including this one, munge the Reply-To header.  Quite a
fiesty debate but I can't complain because I don't run the server.  :-)
(By the way, thanks Timothy!)

Brian

-- 
The just man walketh in his integrity:
his children are blessed after him.  -- Proverbs 20:7
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