more mutt stuff

[Kerry Hoath]

Ok to answer a mutt question or two.
Setting columns to 200 is likely to cause cursor strangeness;
the screen is not after all 200 colums wide.
You can aleviate this by passing a vga= optiont o the kernel to
make the screen 132 columns wide (really).
Mutt does not show the full subject line and full name because the index is 1
line per message. if the subject or name is too long it would wrap and mess up
the index and the numbers and markers would not line up.
Outlook express and eudora behave this way too so widen the screen
to 132 columns.
You might need to set vga=ask and get a sighted person to get you the mode 
number for 132x43 it changes depending on your video card
the vesa bios on the card and such things.

Reading the mutt manual will tell you to specify a folder that resides
in your ~/Mail directory you need to specify
=foldername
just specifying foldername assumes the folder is in the
current directory. So if you want to save to
~/Mail/junk then specify =junk to the save messages to prompt.
Options in the config file set this location note that mutt uses
~/Mail  and pine uses ~/mail
this can be changed.

Regards, Kerry.

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