[vox-tech] HOWTO: fiddle with mutt

Joel Baumert vox-tech@lists.lugod.org
Thu, 1 May 2003 12:57:49 -0700


How do you forward attachments with mutt?

Joel

On Thu, May 01, 2003 at 03:19:14PM -0400, Mike Simons wrote:
> I figured posting some .muttrc style changes would be of interested 
> to people.  Here are part of my ~/.mutt/muttrc file... 
> 
>   If anyone else has mutt tips or tricks send them along.
> 
>     Later,
>       Mike
> 
> - alternates: is a list of names mutt will recognize as you... so that
>   it will flag the messages with '+' for only to you, 'T' to you and
>   some other people, 'C' for you are cc'ed on the email, 'F' you
>   sent the email.
> 
> - my aliases are stored in a separate file ~/.mutt/aliases
> 
> - all outbound mail is copied into ~/Mail/sent
> 
> - the pager does not put '+' marks at the beginning of wrapped lines
>   (makes pasting long urls much easier :)
> 
> - When showing a mail message. show only a very small number of headers
>   are show to me in default mode, I can see the rest if I want by 
>   pressing 'h'.
> 
> - there is a list of mailboxes which procmail makes for me from
>   lists I'm on... hitting 'y' from inside mutt or running 'mutt -y'
>   will give me a overview of which mailboxes have new mail.
>   hitting 'r' will refresh this list of mailboxes, they will be sorted
>   newest mailbox first.
> 
> - The default sort order is threaded, and the youngest message in a
>   thread controls what order they display in (threads with newest messages
>   on bottom).
> 
> - I want my mail pgp-signed and mutt should forget my pass-phrase 
>   if I haven't sent a message in 8 hours (or when I hit ^F)
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