Re: [Outreachy kernel] Help with Mutt

[Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@lip6.fr>]

On Fri, 2 Mar 2018, Shraddha Barke wrote:

>
>
> On Thu, Mar 1, 2018 at 9:56 PM, Nishka Dasgupta
> <nishka.dasgupta_ug18@ashoka.edu.in> wrote:
>       This is with response to your email: I think you will need to
>       give more
>       information. Do you get some error message? Does nothing happen?
>       Does it
>       crash? What did you do before, in terms of setting up
>       configuration
>       files? etc. Any particular thing about the situation that you
>       can think
>       of.
>
>
> Hello Nishka,
>
> You don't need to follow this format of responding to emails. Just respond
> inline.

She can't because she doesn't have her inbox, so she has nothing to
respond to...

julia

>
>       My response to your email is as follows: I followed the
>       instructions at
>       OutreachyfirstpatchSetup and Outreachyfirstpatch at Linux kernel
>       newbies. The instructions said to "say 'no' to creating an inbox
>       for
>       now". That is what I did. If I send an email to myself from
>       within mutt
>       (using the "m" command) it shows up in the inbox; but no other
>       email
>       sent to my account is visible. (Up until now I have been viewing
>       emails
>       and responses in a browser and composing replies in vim.)
>
>       In accordance with the instructions, my muttrc file contains the
>       following lines:
>       set sendmail="/usr/bin/esmtp"
>       set envelope_from=yes
>       set from="Nishka Dasgupta <nishka....ashoka.edu.in>"
>       set use_from=yes
>       set edit_headers=yes
>
>       My smtp and git appear to be set up fine, since those are how I
>       have
>       been sending emails so far. However, I don't know how to ensure
>       that
>       emails sent to my email account show up in mutt. How can I
>       address this?
>
>
> So you are able to send emails but not receive them? Is that all your muttrc
> file contains? Have you also made a .esmtprc file?
> You could try setting up mutt with smtp by searching google for .muttrc
> configuration files that use smtp.
>
>       Thank you for your time.
>
>       Regards,
>       Nishka Dasgupta
>
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