Re: mutt users?

["Thomas O'Dowd" <tom@example.com>]

On Thu, Jun 28, 2001 at 07:08:20AM -0700, kristofer.bergstrom@example.com wrote:
> 
>   Hello all.  I'm trying to use Mutt to write mail offline and pop mail off my server.  I'm getting really close but am having difficulty getting a feel for everything.
> 
>   Does anyone know where I can find Mutt-newbie info more understandable than the mutt manual.txt?  
> 
>   I don't understand how to compose messages or how postponing for later sending works.

Hmmm. Well you compose a mail by typing "m", then entering a To: and a 
Subject entry. It will then open the editor of choice and you enter your
text in there. Save and quit the editor when you're done typing and it
will show you the envelop information. "y" sends the message, "q" quits
it and it will ask you if you want to postpone it. If you do, press "y",
if not "n" (which discards it). If you postponed it, then the next time
you press "m" to compose a new mail it will ask you if you want to recall
a postponed message or compose a new one... If you want to recall, the
press "y" and select the postponed message if there is more than 1.
Then edit some more and send or postpone as before.

If you postpone, mutt saves the unsent mail in a file called "postponed"
in your home directory.

Mutt is really configurable though, so you can even change some of the
questions that mutt will prompt you for, like never asking to postpone
a message. I can't say I've ever really read any guide other than F1,
but then again, my first mail reader was mail, then elm and then mutt and
that's all I've really used for the last 10 years, apart from a brief
year of being forced to use LookOut (it's gonna crash) at work.

>   Thank you very much for any help you're able to provide.  Sorry to bother you with such a random and simple question...

I hope that was a suitably random answer.

Tom.
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