Re: [orca-list] OT: A Christmas gift for Mutt-users and anyone willing to give Mutt a try

["B. Henry" <burt1iband gmail com>]

First things first, I had not tested enough with a couple of the extra keybindings implemented when I sent 
out the link to the muttrc file this morning, 
and there were two conflicts. 
These are corrected now. 
Be advised that to switch back to nano if you were using gedit to write email you now press control t e 
instead of ce.
The signature position commands now use Capital aq and Bq. 
The one problem with mutt is that they though of a lot of use cases, and bound most letters, and there 
capitals as well, and often control and escape as 
well, so there's not much left for us to use to add aditional functionality. Quite a few of the bindings are 
for things that I'd never use, but others 
might, so it'll take careful review to decide which if any of the default bindings can be unbound and 
reassigned to more useful features.
Here are the missing bits I promised this morning, well, yesterday morning it would be now for me.
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/7478895/mutt_extras.tar.bz2
includes two files that need to go in to your ~/.mutt directory.
Make sure that sorta is executable.
chmod 755 path-to-sorta
once you've untarred/extracted the archive file downloaded from the url above.
It just puts your address aliases file in alphabetical order, handy sometimes when looking for an email 
address to use somewhere other than mutt.
A lot more can be put in to the mail cap.
Use your /etc/mime.types file to see how different file extensions are categorized.
With the starter included you read html mail, .doc attachments, and make a copy of .docx attachments 
converted to .txt in your ~/.mutt/tmpdir directory,
and can listen to or watch multimedia content from several popular file types using vlc.
Ubuntu already has a nice mailcap file by default I think, as do some other distros.
 Oh, you'll also need antiword, (in just about anyone's repos I think), docx2txt, and either elinks or lynx. 
When you have a GUI open and your display exported you can use programs like libreoffice for opening 
attachments as well as command line interface apps 
like the ones I have in the starter mailcap.
Here's the url for the muttrc with updated keybindings.
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/7478895/muttrc 
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>      B.H.
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On Wed, Dec 24, 2014 at 02:31:59PM -0600, B. Henry wrote:
> I wish I had something ready that would be appreciated  by all visually impaired Linux-users, but I can't 
> think of anything that I have that fills that 
> bill; so, here's a little something for some of you anyway.
> https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/7478895/muttrc
> Will get you a copy of a rather nicely customized Mutt configuration file, ready to go for gmail users 
> after changing username for your username and a 
> few small similar details. The file is heavily commented, so hopefully a read will explain most of what's 
> going on. 
> There's a link close to the top of the file to a Mutt configuration how-to I wrote for the Vinux Wiki that 
> will explain pretty much everything you have 
> to know that's not in the many comments in the muttrc itself. 
> I've added several extra keybindings to allow one to change some configurations on the fly, some are pretty 
> non-standard configurations, so take a look. 
> For instance you can type "ge", (minus the quotation marks), to use gedit to write your email even though 
> you are running Mutt from a virtual terminal 
> console. Start mutt in a console where you've exported your display first, e.g. 
> export DISPLAY=:0
> hit enter and type mutt, press enter again, and assuming you have a GUI session running gedit can be used. 
> To go back to using nano to edit the bodys of email messages; new replies, etc., type ce.
> There are keystrokes to switch between quick replying, i.e. to and subject header fields are not shown, 
> (offered for edit), when you hit the r to reply 
> to a message.
> I've also used a much simpler and cleaner/probably more stable, method for interfacing with gpg compared 
> with that used in 98% of the how-tos and demo 
> muttrc files I've seen online. 
> I don't have time to list all the other tweaks and departures from Mutt defaults, but I think and feel that 
> this makes the excellent Mutt email client 
> quite a bit more effective and or usable than other sample set-ups floating around.
> Feel free to write me off-list with any questions or suggestions for improvements or new functional,ity. 
> BTW, Mutt is alright to use with Orca, but I highly recommend running it in a console instead of gnome, 
> mate, or other terminal emulator so that you can 
> use speakup. Now with an easy way to use GUI editors to write your mail there's no reason to bother with 
> starting Mutt itself from those graphical 
> terminals. Whether or not you choose to use gedit, or configure a graphical alternative, you can open 
> attachments with GUI aps by configuring a mailcap 
> file, either to live in /etc, or in ~/.mutt. 
> I'll tar-up a starter mailcap file, an address alias sorting script and maybe one or two other bits and 
> upload it in a bit, so stay tuned.
> Even if you've never thought you'd like a CLI mail program, I'd seriously consider giving a well configured 
> mutt installation a try  for a week or two.
> I'm a big thunderbird fan, and used it for years before ever trying mutt, but I must say that Mutt has won 
> my heart and mind, and there's not much risk 
> of new accessibility issues popping up like has been known to happen to us with t-bird. I can read and sort 
> mail quite a bit faster with Mutt than 
> anything else I've tried, and you can filter mail to suit your individual needs and tastes relatively 
> easily/updates won't break extensions like often 
> happens with Mozilla apps...smile
> So, scarey Christmas, and happy New Fears my friends and fellow Linux-users. 
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