[SOLVED] Mutt - sidebar stuff not working

Question

So I compiled mutt-sidebar from AUR and configured it according to the sample file at http://lunar-linux.org/index.php?page=mutt-sidebar (and also checking brisbin's config at http://pbrisbin.com:8080/dots.html), and I am getting errors when trying to start mutt.
Here is the error:
Error in /home/$USER/.mutt/muttrc, line 9: certificate_file: unknown variable
Error in /home/$USER/.mutt/muttrc, line 89: /home/janis/.mutt/alias: No such file or directory
Error in /home/$USER/.mutt/sidebar.muttrc, line 2: xterm_set_titles: unknown variable
Error in /home/$USER/.mutt/sidebar.muttrc, line 3: sidebar_width: unknown variable
Error in /home/$USER/.mutt/sidebar.muttrc, line 4: sidebar_visible: unknown variable
Error in /home/$USER/.mutt/sidebar.muttrc, line 5: sidebar_delim: unknown variable
Error in /home/$USER/.mutt/sidebar.muttrc, line 12: sidebar: no such object
Error in /home/$USER/.mutt/sidebar.muttrc, line 13: sidebar_new: no such object
Error in /home/$USER/.mutt/sidebar.muttrc, line 17: sidebar-prev: no such function in map
Error in /home/$USER/.mutt/sidebar.muttrc, line 18: sidebar-next: no such function in map
Error in /home/$USER/.mutt/sidebar.muttrc, line 19: sidebar-open: no such function in map
Error in /home/$USER/.mutt/sidebar.muttrc, line 20: sidebar-prev: no such function in map
Error in /home/$USER/.mutt/sidebar.muttrc, line 21: sidebar-next: no such function in map
Error in /home/$USER/.mutt/sidebar.muttrc, line 22: sidebar-open: no such function in map
Error in /home/$USER/.mutt/sidebar.muttrc, line 29: index: unknown command
Error in /home/$USER/.mutt/muttrc, line 91: source: errors in /home/$USER/.mutt/sidebar.muttrc
source: errors in /home/$USER/.mutt/muttrc
I have no clue to why that would be. I will not post the file as it is a direct copy of http://lunar-linux.org/index.php?page=mutt-sidebar
Last edited by Stalafin (2009-09-02 18:04:07)

Answer 1

Stalafin wrote:Regarding the color_sidebar: That one you have to rename into color sidebar_new, then it should work.
i originally had 'color sidebar whatever whatever' which set the color of a no-new-messages sidebar folder, seems that is now deprecated (i'm guessing it just takes the 'color normal whatever whatever' option and applies that).
Stalafin wrote:xterm_set_titles and certificates_file - what are those? And the latter sounds rather important...
xterm_set_titles was used in muttng to set the titlebar b/c i guess mutt 1.5.17 didnt do that, now that this patch is applied to 1.5.20 this is automatic.
certificate_file (no s) seems to work for me now (dunno what happened there...), but if an option like that is unset mutt will usually just use some default in /var/lib/mutt or /usr/share/mutt or something, i dunno.  i wouldn't be too worried.
glad it's working now, and thank you for the post, i like mutt-sidebar _much_ better than muttng, it colors things appropriately, isn't as buggy, and i get to use 1.5.20!
also, don't forget to add [SOLVED] .