On Sun, Jul 01, 2001 at 11:32:59AM -0500, Nate Straz wrote:
> In your .muttrc, you should look at:
> 
> set delete=ask-yes	# Ask to purge deleted messages, default yes
> set quit=ask-no		# Ask to exit Mutt, default no
> set mark_old=no		# Don't change New messages to Old
> 
> I have mutt set up this way at work since I usually keep my mail open
> all the time.  I want to be asked when I accidentally or intentionally
> try to quit.  There are a whole bunch of these settings you should look
> at.  There at lots of example .muttrc's on the mutt hope page.  I could
> post parts of mine with explainations if anyone is interested.

Well, since we're talking about mutt and how great it is, I just thought
I'd chime in about "send-hook".  "send-hook" allows you to set options in
mutt only when you need them.  For example, I use them to change my sig
depending on who I'm sending a message to.

# set default sig
send-hook . "set signature=~/.signature"

# simple sig for people who know me
send-hook '~t person1' 'set signature=~/.altsig'
send-hook '~t person2' 'set signature=~/.altsig'
send-hook '~t person3' 'set signature=~/.altsig'

There are hooks for all kinds of other things as well (e.g. hooks for when
you save a message).  Although I used used Pine in my early Unix days, mutt
is just so much more configurable, that I can't help but use it.  Anyway,
mutt good. :)

Gabe
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Gabe Turner                                             gabe at msi.umn.edu
SGI Origin Systems Administrator,
University of Minnesota Supercomputing Institute
 for Digital Simulation and Advanced Computation         www.msi.umn.edu
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