Hi All, I setup Fetchmail and wanted to use Mutt to read e-mail. I used to use Pine and I just am sick of GUI e-mail clients these days. Bloat, complication and unreliable. Pine was my first ever e-mail client. I prefer to use POP still as I want may mail on my machine at all times. I can go into mutt and execute: 'fetchmail -v' and watch it bring down my e-mail. But in mutt i dont see anything. I dont see an inbox. no messages. nada. I set my mail to /Users/jtsm/.mail and if I go to that location I dont see anything there. Can anyone help me get setup? Also, can anyone point me how to make mutt look like this: http://linsec.ca/File:Muttscreen.jpg interms of the columns? IIRC there use to be a patch but that was so long ago I dont know if it even applies anymore. I am reading the Wiki, but who knew Mutt was so extensive... -Todd
On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 12:32:44PM -0700, Todd wrote:> Hi All, > > I setup Fetchmail and wanted to use Mutt to read e-mail. I used to use > Pine and I just am sick of GUI e-mail clients these days. Bloat, > complication and unreliable. Pine was my first ever e-mail client. I > prefer to use POP still as I want may mail on my machine at all times.I much prefer getmail. At any rate, you should probably set some sort of inbox in mutt. I have my own page on mutt, that some folks find useful. http://home.roadrunner.com/~computertaijutsu/mutt.html Note that it's basically for mutt 1.5, and I think CentOS may still use mutt 1.4 (Though KB Singh had a 1.5 rpm, IIRC--in my case, I wound up building from source.) Not sure how fetchmail works these days--with getmail, I hand it off to maildrop to do the sorting, but it also offers the option of just putting everything into /var/spool/mail or elsewhere. Regardless, mutt usually offers to create a $HOME/Mail directory, but will also look in /var/spool/mail. Hit c as in change directory, and it will move around various places. There is, if you're more comfortable with Pine, alpine, which I believe is pretty much the same thing. (Based entirely on hearsay, haven't used pine for years. ) -- Scott Robbins PGP keyID EB3467D6 ( 1B48 077D 66F6 9DB0 FDC2 A409 FA54 EB34 67D6 ) gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys EB3467D6
On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 12:32:44PM -0700, Todd wrote:> Hi All, > > > Can anyone help me get setup? Also, can anyone point me how to make > mutt look like this: http://linsec.ca/File:Muttscreen.jpg interms of > the columns? IIRC there use to be a patch but that was so long ago I > dont know if it even applies anymore.Hrrm, that's probably the sidebar patch. Doubt it's included as default in an rpm, though. I'd have to do some digging. -- Scott Robbins PGP keyID EB3467D6 ( 1B48 077D 66F6 9DB0 FDC2 A409 FA54 EB34 67D6 ) gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys EB3467D6