X-Git-Url: http://git.madism.org/?p=apps%2Fmadmutt.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=doc%2Fmanual.sgml.head;h=33fb23eae31568d4a17cceed24593fe530733058;hp=4cf19a1b0b26e6177d54d6b79cd396723604b509;hb=85486f8623f6d9a12f7b251445ac9d203d3ae348;hpb=3d937534e7b1ee723f86594b5e4c64c95158a933 diff --git a/doc/manual.sgml.head b/doc/manual.sgml.head index 4cf19a1..33fb23e 100644 --- a/doc/manual.sgml.head +++ b/doc/manual.sgml.head @@ -13,37 +13,39 @@ Introduction

-Mutt Home Page +

This documentation additionaly contains documentation to Mutt-ng Home Page

- + Mailing Lists

-To subscribe to one of the following mailing lists, send a message with the -word - -- low traffic list for announcements - -- help, bug reports and feature requests - -- development mailing list + -- This is where the mutt-ng user support happens. + -- The development mailing list for mutt-ng -Software Distribution Sites

+So far, there are no official releases of Mutt-ng, but you can download +daily snapshots from + + IRC

-Visit channel to chat with other people interested in Mutt. +Visit channel to chat with other people interested in Mutt-ng. + -USENET +Weblog

-See the newsgroup . +If you want to read fresh news about the latest development in Mutt-ng, and get informed +about stuff like interesting, Mutt-ng-related articles and packages for your favorite +distribution, you can read and/or subscribe to our +. Copyright

@@ -411,7 +419,7 @@ you misspelled the passphrase.

(default: L) Reply to the current or tagged message(s) by extracting any addresses which -match the addresses given by the +match the regular expressions given by the commands, but also honor any configuration variable is set. Using this when replying to messages posted @@ -736,20 +744,20 @@ newsgroup entered instead loading from newsserver. Configuration

-While the default configuration (or ``preferences'') make Mutt -usable right out of the box, it is often desirable to tailor Mutt to -suit your own tastes. When Mutt is first invoked, it will attempt to -read the ``system'' configuration file (defaults set by your local -system administrator), unless the ``-n'' option is specified. This file is typically -/usr/local/share/mutt/Muttrc or /etc/Muttrc. Mutt -will next look for a file named .muttrc in your home -directory. If this file does not exist and your home directory has -a subdirectory named .mutt/muttrc. +While the default configuration (or ``preferences'') make Mutt-ng usable right out +of the box, it is often desirable to tailor Mutt to suit your own tastes. When +Mutt-ng is first invoked, it will attempt to read the ``system'' configuration +file (defaults set by your local system administrator), unless the ``-n'' option is specified. This file is +typically /usr/local/share/muttng/Muttngrc or /etc/Muttngrc, +Mutt-ng users will find this file in /usr/local/share/muttng/Muttrc or +/etc/Muttngrc. Mutt will next look for a file named .muttrc +in your home directory, Mutt-ng will look for .muttngrc. If this file +does not exist and your home directory has a subdirectory named .muttng/muttngrc. -.muttrc is the file where you will usually place your to configure Mutt. +.muttrc (or .muttngrc for Mutt-ng) is the file where you will +usually place your to configure Mutt. In addition, mutt supports version specific configuration files that are parsed instead of the default files as explained above. For instance, if @@ -806,6 +814,36 @@ A \ at the end of a line can be used to split commands over multiple lines, provided that the split points don't appear in the middle of command names. +Please note that, unlike the various shells, mutt-ng interpretes a ``\'' +at the end of a line also in comments. This allows you to disable a command +split over multiple lines with only one ``#''. + + +# folder-hook . \ + set realname="Michael \"MuttDude\" Elkins" + + +When testing your config files, beware the following caveat. The backslash +at the end of the commented line extends the current line with the next line +- then referred to as a ``continuation line''. As the first line is +commented with a hash (#) all following continuation lines are also +part of a comment and therefore are ignored, too. So take care of comments +when continuation lines are involved within your setup files! + +Abstract example: + + +line1\ +line2a # line2b\ +line3\ +line4 +line5 + + +line1 ``continues'' until line4. however, the part after the # is a +comment which includes line3 and line4. line5 is a new line of its own and +thus is interpreted again. + It is also possible to substitute the output of a Unix command in an initialization file. This is accomplished by enclosing the command in backquotes (``). For example, @@ -1193,7 +1231,7 @@ someone else. For instance, when replying to a message that you sent to a different party, mutt will automatically suggest to send the response to the original message's recipients -- responding to yourself won't make much sense in many cases. (See .) +id="reply_to" name="$reply_to">.) Many users receive e-mail under a number of different addresses. To fully use mutt's features here, the program must be able to @@ -1202,8 +1240,18 @@ purpose of the Mailing lists

@@ -1222,7 +1270,7 @@ the Mail-Followup-To header is a non-standard extension which is not supported by all mail user agents. Adding it is not bullet-proof against receiving personal CCs of list messages. Also note that the generation of the Mail-Followup-To header is controlled by the configuration variable. +name="$followup_to"> configuration variable. More precisely, Mutt maintains lists of patterns for the addresses of known and subscribed mailing lists. Every subscribed mailing @@ -1242,8 +1290,8 @@ mailing list, you could add ``lists mutt-users'' to your initialization file. To tell mutt that you are subscribed to it, add ``subscribe mutt-users'' to your initialization file instead. If you also happen to get mail from someone whose address is - mailbox. See for information on the exact format of source ~/bin/myscript|). +Configuring features conditionaly

+Usage: +ifdef feature_imap 'source ~/.mutt-ng/imap_setup' +# or +# ifdef imap_user 'source ~/.mutt-ng/imap_setup' +# or +# ... + + +To exit mutt-ng directly if no NNTP support is compiled in: + +ifndef feature_nntp 'push q' +# or +# ifndef newsrc 'push q' +# or +# ... + + +To only set the when the system's SVN +is recent enough to have it: + +ifdef imap_mail_check 'set imap_mail_check=300' + + Removing hooks

Usage: Where EXPR, USER, ID, and SUBJECT are @@ -2115,7 +2211,7 @@ my_hdr directive: send-hook . 'unmy_hdr From:' -send-hook ~Cb@b.b my_hdr from: c@c.c +send-hook ~C'^b@b\.b$' my_hdr from: c@c.c Message Matching in Hooks

+The sidebar, a feature specific to Mutt-ng, allows you to use a mailbox listing +which looks very similar to the ones you probably know from GUI mail clients. +The sidebar lists all specified mailboxes, shows the number in each +and highlights the ones with new email +Use the following configuration commands: + +set sidebar_visible="yes" +set sidebar_width=25 + + +If you want to specify the mailboxes you can do so with: + +set mbox='=INBOX' +mailboxes INBOX \ + MBOX1 \ + MBOX2 \ + ... + + +You can also specify the colors for mailboxes with new mails by using: + +color sidebar_new red black +color sidebar white black + + +The available functions are: + +sidebar-scroll-up Scrolls the mailbox list up 1 page +sidebar-scroll-down Scrolls the mailbox list down 1 page +sidebar-next Hilights the next mailbox +sidebar-next-new Hilights the next mailbox with new mail +sidebar-previous Hilights the previous mailbox +sidebar-open Opens the currently hilighted mailbox + + +Reasonable key bindings look e.g. like this: + +bind index \Cp sidebar-prev +bind index \Cn sidebar-next +bind index \Cb sidebar-open +bind pager \Cp sidebar-prev +bind pager \Cn sidebar-next +bind pager \Cb sidebar-open + +macro index B ':toggle sidebar_visible^M' +macro pager B ':toggle sidebar_visible^M' + + +You can then go up and down by pressing Ctrl-P and Ctrl-N, and +switch on and off the sidebar simply by pressing 'B'. + External Address Queries

Mutt supports connecting to external directory databases such as LDAP, @@ -2242,6 +2391,7 @@ path. ! -- refers to your (incoming) mailbox > -- refers to your file < -- refers to your file +^ -- refers to the current mailbox - or !! -- refers to the file you've last visited ˜ -- refers to your home directory = or + -- refers to your directory @@ -2309,10 +2459,11 @@ than the author of the message. This can create problems when trying to reply directly to the author in private, since most mail clients will automatically reply to the address given in the ``Reply-To'' field. Mutt uses the -variable to help decide which address to use. If set, you will be +variable to help decide which address to use. If set to Linking threads

@@ -2465,15 +2613,10 @@ name="$imap_list_subscribed"> variable. Polling for new mail on an IMAP server can cause noticeable delays. So, you'll want to carefully tune the - + and -variables. Personally I use - -set mail_check=90 -set timeout=15 - -with relatively good results over my slow modem line. +variables. Note that if you are using mbox as the mail store on UW servers prior to v12.250, the server has been reported to disconnect a client if another client @@ -2486,7 +2629,7 @@ As of version 1.2, mutt supports browsing mailboxes on an IMAP server. This is mostly the same as the local file browser, with the following differences: -In lieu of file permissions, mutt displays the string "IMAP", +Instead of file permissions, mutt displays the string "IMAP", possibly followed by the symbol "+", indicating that the entry contains both messages and subfolders. On Cyrus-like servers folders will often contain both messages and @@ -2496,8 +2639,10 @@ following differences: will choose to descend into the subfolder view. If you wish to view the messages in that folder, you must use view-file instead (bound to space by default). -You can delete mailboxes with the delete-mailbox - command (bound to d by default. You may also +You can create, delete and rename mailboxes with the + create-mailbox, delete-mailbox, and + rename-mailbox commands (default bindings: C, + d and r, respectively). You may also subscribe and unsubscribe to mailboxes (normally these are bound to s and u, respectively).