On Nov 18, 2007 9:12 AM, Douglas A. Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Nov 18, 2007 at 03:34:27PM +0100, Sven Joachim wrote: > > > There is one tip I have for you: use a mailer that has better support > > for mailing lists than your current one, e.g. KMail. Mutt and Gnus > > are even better, but they are difficult to set up. > > I'm wondering what is difficult about setting up mutt. > > In /etc/Muttrc, the only change I made, other than to ignore some > headers, was > > set record="" > > so that I don't have a default sent folder. > > and in ~/.muttrc, other than aliases for family, friends, and mailing > lists, I just have the subscribe lists for mailing lists, eg: > > alias debian-user debian-user@lists.debian.org > subscribe debian-user@lists.debian.org > > > Thats it. I send mail and it goes to exim4 that sends it to my ISP as a > smarthost, and away it goes from there. > > Sure, you can get fancy and have mutt or other things sort and slice, > dice, and cook the mail. I've never had the need.
Lucky you. I have looked into using mutt, as I tend to be a CLI junkie, but I found that would need to do a lot of customization before I would enjoy using it. I would need to do much of the customization all at once, before I started using it, and to really make it worthwhile I also need to use it with imap, which means my own mail server. Google now does imap, but I want my own mail server for other reasons. In my opinion, Mutt is quite a bit harder to start using than vim. I have a longish vimrc, but the defaults worked well enough at first, so all I had to do was memorize key bindings. Cheers, Kelly Clowers -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
