X-Git-Url: http://git.madism.org/?p=apps%2Fmadmutt.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=doc%2Fmanual.sgml.head;h=f07f026e83787b7f6284f6180f8a9696af3ef4ca;hp=0dc9691cb09b80b06ffd72a5f49062549ec1667f;hb=5435729df11cfc6ca23e65e66ab034befece0b18;hpb=f404a0ca916be07049af51a3022baaaaab94def6 diff --git a/doc/manual.sgml.head b/doc/manual.sgml.head index 0dc9691..f07f026 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. +(www.freenode.net)"> 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

@@ -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 @@ -1701,6 +1709,19 @@ If the filename ends with a vertical bar (|), then source ~/bin/myscript|). +Configuring features conditionnaly

+Usage: +ifdef imap_keepalive 'source ~/.mutt/imap_setup' + + Removing hooks

Usage: Where EXPR, USER, ID, and SUBJECT are @@ -2161,6 +2185,59 @@ pattern is translated at the time the hook is declared, so the value of that is in effect at that time will be used. +Using the sidebar

+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, @@ -2351,9 +2428,6 @@ either by misconfigured software or bad behaviour from some correspondents. This allows to clean your mailboxes formats) from these annoyances which make it hard to follow a discussion. -If you want to use these functions with IMAP, you need to compile Mutt -with the Linking threads

@@ -2476,15 +2550,10 @@ 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 @@ -2497,7 +2566,7 @@ 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 @@ -2507,8 +2576,10 @@ 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).