Preparing to change mail client to use Mutt, advice requested.

Luke Yelavich themuso at themuso.com
Sun Jun 20 17:00:51 EDT 2004


At 01:35 AM 21/06/2004, Janina Sajka wrote:
>Hi, Luke:
>
>You didn't ask for it, but I'm offering my .muttrc to you. It provides 
>some optimizations for eyes-free mail handling you might like. You can't 
>use this as is, you have to edit it a little for your circumstance.

Thanks for that, I am aware of having to change it. I have been playing 
around with Mutt and various options for a few days now.

>To answer your specific question, mail you're "reading" is displayed in a 
>pager. Mutt provides one such pager, and it is what i use, but you could 
>just as easily use less or more, for example. So, I don't actually move my 
>cursor through the message until such time as I select reply, forward, 
>etc. But, when I select one of these actions, I have all the power of vim 
>(my choice in editors) at hand. Otherwise, I read with Speakup's screen 
>review, or by invoking one of the commands that presents a different view, 
>such as restricting the display to non-quoted text.

Ok, thanks a lot. Much appreciated.

Luke 






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