linuxgeek: Re: [LINUX_Newbies] Two users on one computer

Thursday, September 19, 2013

Re: [LINUX_Newbies] Two users on one computer

On 19Sep2013 18:03, highskywhy@yahoo.de <highskywhy@yahoo.de> wrote:
| > | I open tb and I can see all emails.
| > | When I used a text based software like mutt
| > | can I see also all emails or onyl file names in one directory?
| >
| > Mutt generally shows you only one mail folder at a time, but you
| > can change folders easily enoguh, and also tell it to monitor various
| > folders for the arrival of new email.
|
| So I can see
| only the name of the sender of the email and the topic?

You can tune what is in the lines in the message index.
Here's a snapshot of mine, showing your message:

20Sep2013 02:11 Steven Aftergoo ! Secrecy News -- 09/19/13 KNOWN, Personal 11K
20Sep2013 02:03 highskywhy@yaho ! ┌> KNOWN, LNXNewbies, Personal 0.7K
13Sep2013 07:14 To LINUX_Newbie - ┌>Re: [LINUX_Newbies] Two users on one computer 0.6K
14Aug2013 19:43 To LINUX_Newbie - ├>Re: [LINUX_Newbies] Two users on one computer 1.2K

Your mail reader may fold those lines up, making them very ugly.
Make it as wide as possible.

There should be exactly 4 lines above, each showing:

message date and time (in my local time)

message author (you can see your message on line 2)

flags (the "!" means I should pay this more attention)

threading and subject
see the "|->" ? They show how messages in a single thread are related
your message is thus clearly a reply to my message on 13Sep2013

x-label (a header written by my mail filing program, and used by mutt)
this marks some messages with a "category"
this is quite useful in mixed folders, where I file several
related mailing lists; it is obvious which mailing list the
message is from

message size
really there just for interest, but sometimes handy when looking
for attachments, or for "long" messages

See the "index_format" variable in the mutt documentation:

http://www.mutt.org/doc/manual/manual-6.html#index_format

My config line says:

set index_format="%D %-15.15F %S %?M?(%M) ?%?H?[%H] ?%s%> %y %4c"

Cheers,
--
Cameron Simpson <cs@zip.com.au>

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