PuTTY in Your Hands: Open Source Software Mail Solutions

Written By
JK
Juliet Kemp
Sep 21, 2010

“I still use mutt for my mail but recently rediscovered that on
one remote host when connecting via PuTTY, my default settings left
the line-drawn threading characters unreadable, which in turn
affected scrolling.

“The first solution I found was in this forum post. It suggested
changing the terminal settings, instead of anything in mutt itself.
I added these lines to my ~/.bashrc:”


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JK

Juliet Kemp

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