How to work with googlegroups.com from mutt?

[Jeremy Knirr]

Things like change notification settings, view older emails. I found that you can subscribe and unsubscribe to a group by sending any email to the example+***@googlegroups.com and example+***@googlegroups.com. And I can write to ***@googlegroups.com, and my message will show up. But I'm not getting replies notifications (I turned them on right now through web interface, let's see if I'll start getting notifications).

[Ian Zimmerman]

Post by Jeremy Knirr
Things like change notification settings, view older emails. I found
that you can subscribe and unsubscribe to a group by sending any email
getting replies notifications (I turned them on right now through web
interface, let's see if I'll start getting notifications).

I am on a few googlegroups, and apart from the slightly underdocumented
(un)subscription process it seems to work just like any other mailing
list. WDYM by replies notifications? Are you saying you're not getting
others' posts by email?

[Jeremy Knirr]

Post by Ian Zimmerman

Post by Jeremy Knirr
Things like change notification settings, view older emails. I found
that you can subscribe and unsubscribe to a group by sending any email
getting replies notifications (I turned them on right now through web
interface, let's see if I'll start getting notifications).

I am on a few googlegroups, and apart from the slightly underdocumented
(un)subscription process it seems to work just like any other mailing
list. WDYM by replies notifications? Are you saying you're not getting
others' posts by email?
--
Please *no* private copies of mailing list or newsgroup messages.
Rule 420: All persons more than eight miles high to leave the court.

Well, instead of getting "you got a reply here" immediatly, I'm getting a digest of all posts, at the end of a day. Do all maillists work that way?

[RS Wood]

Post by Jeremy Knirr
Well, instead of getting "you got a reply here" immediatly, I'm getting
a digest of all posts, at the end of a day. Do all maillists work that
way?

That has nothing to do with Mutt; it's a choice you made at
googlegroups. Sign into google groups at their web interface and
change your preference for that or for all groups you've joined.

[Ian Zimmerman]

Post by Jeremy Knirr
Well, instead of getting "you got a reply here" immediatly, I'm
getting a digest of all posts, at the end of a day. Do all maillists
work that way?

That is a setting you can change. Start reading about it here:

https://sites.google.com/a/bbns.org/tech-day/groups/what-is-digest-mode

Anyway, it has little to do with mutt ...

[Jeremy Knirr]

Post by Ian Zimmerman

Post by Jeremy Knirr
Well, instead of getting "you got a reply here" immediatly, I'm
getting a digest of all posts, at the end of a day. Do all maillists
work that way?

https://sites.google.com/a/bbns.org/tech-day/groups/what-is-digest-mode
Anyway, it has little to do with mutt ...
--
Please *no* private copies of mailing list or newsgroup messages.
Rule 420: All persons more than eight miles high to leave the court.

It has just a little to do with it, I'm wondering if this option (the way I'm going to receive notifications) is possible to change directly, without leaving mutt and opening a browser.

Trying to open my browser as little as possible, if that's possible.

btw, I just got this, after trying to reply:
Posting by email is not allowed, to post to this group visit https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/comp.mail.mutt

[Eike Rathke]

Post by Jeremy Knirr
Trying to open my browser as little as possible, if that's possible.

Maybe you should be aware that comp.mail.mutt is a Usenet newsgroup and
not a mailing list and only within Google is called a "googlegroup" and
works like mail, and thus the best is to use a newsreader instead of
a browser or a mail user agent.. and get an account on some Usenet
serving host.

SCNR

Eike

[Ian Zimmerman]

Post by Jeremy Knirr

Post by Ian Zimmerman
Anyway, it has little to do with mutt ...

It has just a little to do with it, I'm wondering if this option (the
way I'm going to receive notifications) is possible to change
directly, without leaving mutt and opening a browser.

In the special case of googlegroups, you may be out of luck here (but I
don't know for sure; there _may_ be another special address, like the
subscribe address, to which you can send commands). Anyway, you only
have to do it once (I guess once per group).

Post by Jeremy Knirr
Posting by email is not allowed, to post to this group visit
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/comp.mail.mutt

That's because this is a Usenet newsgroup, not a mailing list. To
interact with it properly (that is, in a way that bypasses Google), you
need an account on a news server. There is a popular free one here:

http://www.eternal-september.org

Once you set that up, you can (if you're so inclined) tweak your email
system, including mutt, to post to this type of group when replying to
some messages. This is what I do, but it may not be for the faint of
heart.

There are other free (and Google-free) programs, in many ways similar to
mutt, which understand Usenet groups directly. One of them is slrn.

All this said, the mutt-users mailing list is much more active than this
group, and may be a better place for your questions. Read about
subscribing here:

http://www.mutt.org/mail-lists.html

hth,