[Gllug] Mail programs

[Jonathan Dye]

At 16:42 12/10/01 +0100, you wrote:
>On Fri, Oct 12, 2001 at 03:22:56PM +0200, Jonathan Dye wrote:
>> At 12:29 12/10/01 +0100, you wrote:
>> >On Fri, Oct 12, 2001 at 10:55:23AM +0200, Jonathan Dye wrote:
>> >> Having only used pine (and attempted to use emacs but didn't know
where to
>> >> start) for email under unix I was wondering what anybody's
recommendations
>> >> are for mail progs? I'd like to use pgp encryption from the program
and it
>> >> would be nice if the client supported imap but I might just end up
>> >> downloading the mail locally anyway with fetchmail.
>> >
>> >mutt
>> 
>> What editor does mutt use or is it totally configurable?
>
>As with many unix tools, what is named in $EDITOR, you can override this
with the
>config line 'set editor', which is quite nice if you want to specify some
options
>to the editor (eg I specify 'line wrap' to emacs).

Good, that's what I hoped as I like to use emacs for most stuff but I've
found that lots of stuff ignores $EDITOR.

Cheers,

JD

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