Office moves and fresh Installs
I moved to my new office on MG road this week. Because of some legal shit , we are not allowed to take out old machines. So it was that time of the year when I start with fresh BSD install, then download wmaker/fetchmail/galeon etc etc. Have done it after a long time and finally things are falling in place. Atleast the hardware of my new box rocks.
The laptop came to the rescue. I could move all my data around from my laptop. ( though it still runs only winXP ).
With the new machine, I intend to move to firebird from galeon, mutt from pine. Lets see how both of them will go.
So it was that time of the year when I start with fresh BSD install
Kalyan.The weekend is here. 😉
Moving to Mutt….
The most important line in a muttrc if you are moving from pine.(moving back and forth even accidentally can cause serious damage!)
# Miscellaneous stuff
set move=no # Prevents major disasters like August 2001
I lost 3 months of mails because of this during my first shot at moving to mutt… if pine sees a ~/mailbox … it’ll move all the mail from your spool into that box without prompting! And mutt keeps prompting if you want to move all read mails into ~/mailbox.)
Don’t screw the weekend installing BSD 🙂
BTW now that you’re at MG Road, I’ll prolly drop in sometime ;-D I live opposite your office, but only come home on weekends 🙂
I think I sent you my muttrc, best of luck with it! 🙂
Do you want it again?
where ?
I didnt know there was an oracle office right opp to my office
Re: Moving to Mutt….
SO did you finally move to pine ?
Yep. I have it on my inbox. I still am setting up my mta. Once I am done and have pine workin.. I will move to mutt ( ofcourse after I backup all my data )
Re: Moving to Mutt….
Moved *out* of pine for good this year… one New Year resolution that I managed to keep. 🙂
Re: where ?
Not Oracle, my $HOME 🙂 I’m put up behind KidsKemp (opp. Oberoi).
Re: Moving to Mutt….
Yeah, Pine can be hard to give up. I’ve been using Mozilla Mail/Thunderbird for a year now. v0.2 was released just a few days back.
Re: where ?
Dude.. most normal people prefer to “live” at *home* and “work” at their office!
What you still not setup mutT!! you loser.!
My laptop runs only WinXP too 🙁
( XP => eXasPerating ? )
Re: Moving to Mutt….
shanu hooked me onto mutt..about 9 months back. .. still at it 🙂
you might want to use this : muttrc builder
helped me quite a bit, and worked without any damage.
as kingsly was saying : be very careful
Re: Moving to Mutt….
Oh yes, speaking of which, I wanted to let ya into this.
Try adding:
my_hdr From: jessyleen@youremailaddress.net (Jessica Prabhakar)
inside your ~/.muttrc using your favorite editor. I noticed your mailer does not currently have a sender-name set.
Also, you might want to run /usr/bin/chfn and since /usr/bin will likely be in your path, just “chfn” at a shell prompt should work …