Date: Sun, 19 Dec 2004 17:00:22 +0100 From: Peter Schuller <peter.schuller@infidyne.com> To: Nikolas Britton <freebsd@nbritton.org> Cc: freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: migrating from thunderbird to mutt? Message-ID: <20041219160022.GA41058@scode-whitestar.mine.nu> In-Reply-To: <41C4FA1C.4090006@nbritton.org> References: <41C4FA1C.4090006@nbritton.org>
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> How do I get my old email (from thunderbird, mbox?) into mutt? mutt supports mbox/maildir/etc, so if youre using that you should be able to just point mutt to your mail. But then I dunno - perhaps thunderbird uses its own format? I got sick and tired of this issue years ago and now I read all my mail via IMAP, so that I know I am never *ever* dependent on one specific client. > Can mutt handle um like 5+ email address and have them all separated and > be able to send from diffrent email accounts? I dont know if mutt in and of itself supports that; when I need multiple "personalities" i tend to use different startup scripts for mutt that change the settings in question. Though you can surely create keyboard macros that change identities by changing relevant parameters. > If I remember right mutt is just a mail reader, so how do I get mail to > and sent from mutt? Correct. If youre using IMAP, you're done. If you're using pop, I think I remember reading mutt had some sort of support for POP. But in general, 'fetchmail' is probably what you want for downloading mail from remote mailboxes and having it delivered locally using whatever mail delivery mechanism exists on your system. mutt sends mail using the standard sendmail method; so having any properly configured MUA on the client should do (Postfix, qmail, etc...). > How does it handle hyperlinks, if I select something will it open up in > firefox or whatever? That sounds more like a terminal issue. > Message filtering, for example I have all the different freebsd mailing > lists automatically put into different folders, and junk mail sorting? Use "maildrop" or "procmail" for that (procmail is probably more widely used because its the traditional tool; maildrop I prefer personally because of its nicer syntax). maildrop/procmail is plugged into the normal delivery mechanisms, independent of mutt. use mutt to read the already filtered email. > Speell check? Dunno; but i doubt it if you are talking about on-the-fly spell checking as you write. > How do I set the thing up, config file help? www.mutt.org, and/or read through the example muttrc that comes with the freebsd port. -- / Peter Schuller, InfiDyne Technologies HB PGP userID: 0xE9758B7D or 'Peter Schuller <peter.schuller@infidyne.com>' Key retrieval: Send an E-Mail to getpgpkey@scode.org E-Mail: peter.schuller@infidyne.com Web: http://www.scode.org
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