From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Nov 28 15:35:56 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 407FD16A559 for ; Tue, 28 Nov 2006 15:35:56 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from frank@esperance-linux.co.uk) Received: from mailout.zetnet.co.uk (mailout.zetnet.co.uk [194.247.47.231]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0087343C9D for ; Tue, 28 Nov 2006 15:35:51 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from frank@esperance-linux.co.uk) Received: from irwell.zetnet.co.uk ([194.247.47.48] helo=zetnet.co.uk) by mailout.zetnet.co.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Gp4zv-0007Fe-Cy for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Tue, 28 Nov 2006 15:35:51 +0000 Received: from esperance.zetnet.co.uk (54-144.adsl.zetnet.co.uk [194.247.54.144]) by zetnet.co.uk (8.13.8/8.13.8/Debian-2) with SMTP id kASFZoOA004343 for ; Tue, 28 Nov 2006 15:35:51 GMT Received: (qmail 1518 invoked by uid 1001); 28 Nov 2006 15:35:45 -0000 From: "Frank Shute" Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2006 15:35:45 +0000 To: Graham Bentley Message-ID: <20061128153545.GA1416@melon.esperance-linux.co.uk> References: <002201c712d8$2e511490$1c07a8c0@CPC> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <002201c712d8$2e511490$1c07a8c0@CPC> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.2i X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 6.2-RC1 i386 X-Organisation: 'Esperance Linux' X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-2.0.2 (zetnet.co.uk [194.247.46.1]); Tue, 28 Nov 2006 15:35:51 +0000 (GMT) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Quick mail advice / Laptop use X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: Frank Shute List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2006 15:35:56 -0000 On Tue, Nov 28, 2006 at 10:30:09AM -0000, Graham Bentley wrote: > > Hi All, > > I noticed that fetchmail created a file mbox but > Mutt creates a 'Mail' directory however the mail > seems to download into /var/mail > > Mutt asks me on exit to copy to mbox format. > > The Mail directory also has only one folder and > on exit is empty. /var/mail still has copies. > > Can anyone clear up my confusions ; > > Where should mail be located ? Depends om what softs you are using. I use qmail, procmail and getmail so I use Maildirs > How can I configure a 'sent items' for Mutt? I don't know what this means. If you want a copy of all your outgoing then put: set copy=yes in .muttrc > How can I create an address book for Mutt? touch a file called .mail_aliases in your homedir and fill it with your addresses, one per line. E.g: alias b FreeBSD UK Put: set alias_file=~/.mail_aliases source .mail_aliases in .muttrc You should then be able to mail freebsd-users UK by putting b in the To: field (it will expand). Or hitting t and then tab will bring up all your aliases to choose from. Once you've got a few addresses in .mail_aliases run it through sort(1) to make it more easily readable. > > I know this would be better on the Mutt list > but I also know there are some big Mutt fans > here and asI am trying this on FreeBSD maybe > more relevent ? Your best bet is either to join the mutt mailing list or comp.mail.mutt. This is OT for freebsd-questions. -- Frank echo "f r a n k @ e s p e r a n c e - l i n u x . c o . u k" | sed 's/ //g' --->PGP keyID: 0x10BD6F4B<---