Bug 15631 – QuickStart Guide to Mutt E-Mail

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: [OLD] Docs-user

[Description mikepolniak 2003-02-13 09:41:21 UTC]

I have attached in XML format the 'QUICKSTART GUIDE TO Mutt E-MAIL-using the powerful 
command line tools': fetchmail procmail mutt SMTP'

My idea was to write a howto for people used to gui mail clents, who might
not know the benefits of the command line tools or think them too much work
to set up.

So everything for a simple setup is included along with a test at each step
of the way to verify a correct setup and prevent the frustrations of
misconfiguration and non-working setups.

I wanted to make it easy and fool-proof for normal gui users to try the
classic, powerful and highly customizable  *nix tools.
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Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
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assign this XML guide to [e-mail]

[Comment 1 mikepolniak 2003-02-13 09:48:00 UTC]

Created attachment 8233 [details]
xml guide

[Comment 2 mikepolniak 2003-02-13 10:03:45 UTC]

Created attachment 8234 [details]
xml guide

[Comment 3 mikepolniak 2003-02-13 13:07:56 UTC]

Created attachment 8240 [details]
gziped file of xml guide

here is the gzipped xml file: guide-to-mutt.xml.gz

[Comment 4 mikepolniak 2003-02-13 18:01:14 UTC]

Created attachment 8256 [details]
gzipped xml file guide-to-mutt.xml.gz

corrections and additions to guide-to-mutt.xml

[Comment 5 mikepolniak 2003-02-14 18:09:07 UTC]

Created attachment 8283 [details]
gzipped xml file

up-to-date guide-to-mutt.xml

[Comment 6 Jungmin Seo (RETIRED) 2003-02-15 00:17:03 UTC]

docs team!

plz read this new doc and comment :)

[Comment 7 John Davis (zhen) (RETIRED) 2003-02-15 11:18:18 UTC]

I will look over it ;-)

[Comment 8 mikepolniak 2003-02-16 21:02:01 UTC]

Created attachment 8352 [details]
gzipped guide-to-mutt.xml

more additions and corrections and proper indentation to
guide-to-mutt.xml

[Comment 9 John Davis (zhen) (RETIRED) 2003-02-17 00:18:06 UTC]

downloaded - commence proofing.

[Comment 10 Ken Nowack (RETIRED) 2003-02-21 11:43:27 UTC]

Minor edits, well done. Added to cvs.

[Comment 11 mikepolniak 2003-02-21 13:20:07 UTC]

Two minor changes you might make:

For the first time user its probably important to add this line to the .muttrc file :
so they see the threads at test #3.

set sort=threads                        #sort by message threads in index                                  

Also these lines are not applicable to gentoo's /etc/mutt/Muttrc:

The system configuration in /etc/mutt/Muttrc has set smime lines for ~/.smime                    files which must be created or commented out for our test, else Mutt will                    complain about not finding them.                                                   

                                                              

[Comment 12 Ken Nowack (RETIRED) 2003-02-23 21:44:02 UTC]

Updated in cvs. Thank you.