Some Mutt related questions

Erik Heil eheil at patmedia.net
Sat Nov 29 13:56:10 EST 2003


Hello there.  if you like using Emacs for your editor, wouldn't it just be
easier to use a LISP-native mail reader for Emacs in conjunction
w/Emacsspeak?  Just my opinion though.  Haven't really Messed around with
Mutt a lot since I'm more of a Pine user.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Darragh" <lists at digitaldarragh.com>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Saturday, November 29, 2003 12:13 PM
Subject: Some Mutt related questions


> Hello,
> I have to say Mutt is a really cool program.  I love it.  I'm using
> fetchmail for getting the mail and sendmail for sending it.  I'm getting a
> server missmatch when using fetchmail but I'll sort that out in a while.
> Everything is working the way its suppose to so its not really causing any
> problems.
>
> I've decided to use vim for composing mail.  Its not my favorite editor
but
> its the only one that I could find a maximumwidth function.  I'd prefear
to
> use emacs so if any one knows of a way of setting the maximum line length
in
> emacs I'd be very interested in hearing about it.
>
> I notice that when deleting one letter at a time speakup doesn't speak it.
> Is there a way of fixing this?
> This only happens in mutt.
>
> I'm also having a problem when writing to lists.  The message that I get
is
> at the bottom.  Does any one know what's causing it.
>
> Is there a way of ignoring all the headers when reading mail?  If this is
> not possible could I get a list of them all so I can put them into the
> .muttrc file?
>
> How do I put a signiture into all messages?
>
> How can I select an entire line, paragraph or document?
>
> How can I delete by word?  Example control back space or delete in
Windows?
>
> How can I activate a link in a message?
>
> How do I set up a kind of address book for keeping track of addresses in
> mutt?
>
> How do I get fetchmail to check for message every few minutes?
>
> Can I have all the headers on one screen while keeping the message on the
> second one?  Example I press enter on a message, the first screen is after
> that.  I hit space and the message associated with them headers is
> displayed?  This would probably leave a few blank lines between the header
> and the bottom of the screen.
>
> I know that's a lot of questions.  I'm very sorry.
>
>
> DarraghSubject: [MAILER-DAEMON at digitaldarragh.com: Returned mail: see
> transcript
> for details]
>
> > ----- Forwarded message from Mail Delivery Subsystem
> <
> MAILER-DAEMON at digitaldarragh.com> -----
>
> >
> > Date: Sat, 29 Nov 2003 14:43:55 GMT
> > From: Mail Delivery Subsystem <
> MAILER-DAEMON at digitaldarragh.com>
>
> > To: <
> darragh at localhost.localdomain>
>
> > Subject: Returned mail: see transcript for details
> > Auto-Submitted: auto-generated (failure)
> >
> > The original message was received at Sat, 29 Nov 2003 14:43:54 GMT
> > from localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]
> >
> >    ----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors -----
> > <
> ilug at linux.ie>
>
> >     (reason: 550 5.7.1 <
> ilug at linux.ie>...
> we do not relay
> <
> lists at digitaldarragh.com>)
>
> >
> >    ----- Transcript of session follows -----
> > ... while talking to mail.digitaldarragh.com.:
> > >>> RCPT To:<
> ilug at linux.ie>
>
> > <<< 550 5.7.1 <
> ilug at linux.ie>...
> we do not relay
> <
> lists at digitaldarragh.com>
>
> > 550 5.1.1 <
> ilug at linux.ie>...
> User unknown
> >
> > Reporting-MTA: dns; localhost.localdomain
> > Received-From-MTA: DNS; localhost.localdomain
> > Arrival-Date: Sat, 29 Nov 2003 14:43:54 GMT
> >
> > Final-Recipient: RFC822;
> ilug at linux.ie
> >
> Action: failed
> > Status: 5.7.1
> > Remote-MTA: DNS; mail.digitaldarragh.com
> > Diagnostic-Code: SMTP; 550 5.7.1 <
> ilug at linux.ie>...
> we do not relay
> <
> lists at digitaldarragh.com>
>
> > Last-Attempt-Date: Sat, 29 Nov 2003 14:43:55 GMT
> >
> > Date: Sat, 29 Nov 2003 14:43:54 +0000
> > From: "Darragh O H'eiligh" <
> darragh at localhost.localdomain>
>
> > To:
> ilug at linux.ie
> >
> Subject: Could someone have a look at this message?
> > User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i
> >
> >
> > ,Hello all, Could any of you have a look at this message and tell me if
> everything looks ok?  I've finished the .muttrc sendmail.cf and .muttrc
> files and everything seems to be working reasonably well but I'd like to
> make sure its legable for sighted users.
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> >
> > Darragh
> >
> >
> > ----- End forwarded message -----
>
>
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