Re: Mutt site

Hello,

On Wednesday, May 17, 2006 at 15:43:40 +0200, Gufo wrote:

It's online a small page with my experience with mutt's configuration.
I'll be glad to have some feedback about it, and hope someone'll find
it useful. http://gufo.dontexist.org/mutt.php

First thank you for sharing your experience: You can be sure it's
useful. Please feel free to link your page from the Mutt Wiki. Some
comments and suggestions now:

-1) You should not hardcode $charset in muttrc, but let it
automatically take the good value from whatever is the current locale.
Example if LANG=it_IT.UTF-8 then ":set ?charset" prints "utf-8".

-2) There are much more sophisticated $reply_regexp and URL coloring
regexps in the cmm and mutt-users archives.

-3) Using TERM=nsterm-16color with Terminal.app would give you both
<F7> and color15. Available in recent terminfo database.

-4) "c?<tab>" is better spelled "<change-folder>?<toggle-mailboxes>".
Using function names is longer, but more readable and portable.

-6) A static profile is needed for when hooks aren't triggered. I can
guess from comments that you call one, but it's not made clear enough.

-7) A default folder-hook before the other ones is needed to reset the
default profile:

| folder-hook . "source ~/.mutt/profiles/default"
| folder-hook =IlgufoGmail\\.com$ "source ~/.mutt/profiles/ilgufo"
| folder-hook =Mailing_Lists/ "source ~/.mutt/profiles/mailing-list"

-8) The pattern in send-hooks is implicitly ~C (all recipients), the
strictest possible regexps are better, and you absolutely need a default
send-hook to reset the profile:

| send-hook . "source ~/.mutt/profiles/default"
| send-hook ^someone@domain\\.it$ "source ~/.mutt/profiles/profileX"


Note that the macro/folder-hook sourced profiles, and send-hook
sourced profiles, have differing design constraints: Using the same
files has some drawbacks (breaks $reverse_name feature, doesn't act for
<bounce-message> function, and doesn't ease reset to whatever previous
profile after a send-hook override).

If applicable, try another scheme:

· change $from and $realname in your macro/folder-hook profile files,
instead of forcing "my_hdr From:".

· Override with "my_hdr From:" in specific send-hook profile files.
While the default send-hook placed first does "unmy_hdr From:".


Bye! Alain.
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