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  • How do you like mutt so far? :-)

    Btw, I have some suggestions to try in Email for procrastinators [plasmasturm.org]. Particularly, using threaded view as the default and saving sent mail to the inbox is a combination that everyone should at least try once.

    • I'm getting there. I still have a few tricks to learn, but it's not all bad. I've got used to the drag-n-drop of a GUI, so I find I'm having to think a bit more.

      I do have threading set up as default, but I find I miss new entries in some mailboxes. I imagine I should be able to flip between threaded and date order, but I haven't got around to looking that up.

      The next hurdle I need to address (pun intended) is the address book. I have a lot of people I mail, some have more than one address, and it would be

      • You can change sort order by hitting [o]. (mutt will prompt you with the available orders and their shortcuts, so you don’t need to memorise those.)

        The addressbook is handled by the alias command:

        alias ap Aristotle Pagaltzis <pagaltzis@gmx.de>

        With that you could send me mail by saying it’s To: ap. Don’t miss that tab completion for aliases is available on all email address prompts in mutt!

        These commands are usually kept in a file customarily called aliases. You point mutt towards it using set alias_file=/path/to/aliases. If you hit [a], mutt will extract the From: address from the mail you’re viewing (or pointing at), and will append the appropriate command to the aliases file after prompting you for the details. Note however that it won’t actually read this file unless you also have source /path/to/aliases in your .muttrc – so the aliases file is effectively a secondary .muttrc as far as mutt is concerned.

        This custom of keeping the two separate files developed because the alias command format is understood by more mailers than just mutt, and they can all use the same file if you do it this way. But since I don’t use anything but mutt, I gave up on this separation. Instead I just keep my aliases at the bottom of my .muttrc. That allows me to keep aliases for mailing list addresses and their corresponding subscribe commands next to each other, neatly solving the headache it would otherwise be to keep the aliases in synch with distant subscribe commands.

        • Superb. Thanks for all that, it's going to prove very useful. I think I owe you much beer :)

          Ever thought about writing a book?

          • A book? Heh, not really; certainly not about mutt. You think?

            I did go back to collect my comments from your journal entries, though. I want to tidy them up, flesh out the result, and eventually post it as an intro/tutorial on plasmasturm.

            And thanks for the beer offer. :-)

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