Re: saving mutt email headers
On Sat, Sep 20, 2003 at 03:34:06AM +, p wrote: On Wed, Feb 12, 2003 at 01:23:23AM +, p wrote: in mutt, when i save an email to a file, how do i save the headers, too? ...thought i'd report back to list. if the pipe command | is used, the _whole_ (mutt) e- mail, including the headers, can then be saved into a file without the overhead of try- ing to keep bunches of mailboxen straight. for example: | cat txt_printer_email_09192003_friday_1a.txt I didn't see this originally, but there's also... C (Copy to mailbox) saves the mail to a file without marking it deleted. s (save) saves the mail to a file and marks it deleted. Both of these save the headers as well. An mbox-format mailbox is just a file with emails in it, so you don't get any overhead of trying to keep bunches of mailboxen straight apart from the expected overhead of trying to keep bunches of files straight. :-) What does appear to be missing is a quote headers in reply option. -- Pigeon Be kind to pigeons Get my GPG key here: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=getsearch=0x21C61F7F pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: saving mutt email headers
On Sat, Sep 20, 2003 at 06:14:57PM +0100, Pigeon wrote: On Sat, Sep 20, 2003 at 03:34:06AM +, p wrote: On Wed, Feb 12, 2003 at 01:23:23AM +, p wrote: in mutt, when i save an email to a file, how do i save the headers, too? ...thought i'd report back to list. if the pipe command | is used, the _whole_ (mutt) e- mail, including the headers, can then be saved into a file without the overhead of try- ing to keep bunches of mailboxen straight. for example: | cat txt_printer_email_09192003_friday_1a.txt I didn't see this originally, but there's also... C (Copy to mailbox) saves the mail to a file without marking it deleted. s (save) saves the mail to a file and marks it deleted. Both of these save the headers as well. An mbox-format mailbox is just a file with emails in it, so you don't get any overhead of trying to keep bunches of mailboxen straight apart from the expected overhead of trying to keep bunches of files straight. :-) // point, pigeon. i was thinking in terms of, say, a thread by 50 different authors about printing. if i take the automatic mailbox default, i would be creating 50 different mailboxen. then, finding emails about printing would be a problem. but i now real- ize that i could just create a mailbox called, printing, and save those 50 emails there. (i guess it was the automatic mailbox naming feature that threw me off. // What does appear to be missing is a quote headers in reply option. // (give me another 7 months and i'll figure out what that means.) // -- Pigeon Be kind to pigeons Get my GPG key here: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=getsearch=0x21C61F7F // kthxbye. b. // -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: saving mutt email headers
On Sun, Sep 21, 2003 at 01:02:43AM +, p wrote: On Sat, Sep 20, 2003 at 06:14:57PM +0100, Pigeon wrote: i was thinking in terms of, say, a thread by 50 different authors about printing. if i take the automatic mailbox default, i would be creating 50 different mailboxen. then, finding emails about printing would be a problem. but i now real- ize that i could just create a mailbox called, printing, and save those 50 emails there. (i guess it was the automatic mailbox naming feature that threw me off. Sure, eg. Esct (tag thread) followed by ;C (copy tagged), then give it a filename of your choice. What does appear to be missing is a quote headers in reply option. (give me another 7 months and i'll figure out what that means.) Discussions on this list, for example, frequently make reference to some feature of the headers of someone's posts, often for reasons like pointing out misconfiguration. It would be handy to have a variant on the include message in reply? option that allowed the inclusion of the headers as well as the message body for purposes of geeky nitpicking. -- Pigeon Be kind to pigeons Get my GPG key here: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=getsearch=0x21C61F7F pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: saving mutt email headers
On Sat, Sep 20, 2003 at 06:14:57PM +0100, Pigeon wrote: __snip__ What does appear to be missing is a quote headers in reply option. On Sun, Sep 21, 2003 at 01:02:43AM +, p wrote: (give me another 7 months and i'll figure out what that means.) On Sat, Sep 20, 2003 at 06:14:57PM +0100, Pigeon wrote: Discussions on this list, for example, frequently make reference to some feature of the headers of someone's posts, often for reasons like pointing out misconfiguration. It would be handy to have a variant on the include message in reply? option that allowed the inclusion of the headers as well as the message body for purposes of geeky nitpicking. -- Pigeon Be kind to pigeons Get my GPG key here: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=getsearch=0x21C61F7F // ah, now i see. pigeon,...much appreciated. kthxbye. b. // -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: saving mutt email headers
On Wed, Feb 12, 2003 at 01:23:23AM +, p wrote: debs, in mutt, when i save an email to a file, how do i save the headers, too? kthxbye. b. // // debs, ...thought i'd report back to list. if the pipe command | is used, the _whole_ (mutt) e- mail, including the headers, can then be saved into a file without the overhead of try- ing to keep bunches of mailboxen straight. for example: | cat txt_printer_email_09192003_friday_1a.txt kthxbye. b. // -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: saving mutt email headers
* p ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030211 18:39]: On Tue, Feb 11, 2003 at 05:41:16PM -0800, Vineet Kumar wrote: * p ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030211 17:26]: debs, in mutt, when i save an email to a file, how do i save the headers, too? How do you _not_ save the headers? in view mode, i try to save the email into a file. Ah, I see. You know that 'v' is really bound to 'view-attachments', yes? I suspect you may be hitting 'v' on each message you want to view, rather than just hitting enter? I only ever use 'v' to view, save, or delete individual attachments. Using 's' from either the index or pager will save the whole message (including all headers and all body parts), rather than a particular attachment part (in the case you were seeing, just the text/plain body) good times, Vineet -- http://www.doorstop.net/ msg30390/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
saving mutt email headers
debs, in mutt, when i save an email to a file, how do i save the headers, too? kthxbye. b. // -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: saving mutt email headers
On Wed, Feb 12, 2003 at 01:23:23AM +, p wrote: in mutt, when i save an email to a file, how do i save the headers, too? What are you using to save the mail to a file at the moment? If you use 's' or 'C' to move or copy the mail to a file, it's exactly the same as moving or copying to another mailbox: everything is saved, including headers and the mbox From header. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: saving mutt email headers
On Wed, Feb 12, 2003 at 01:23:23AM +, p wrote: in mutt, when i save an email to a file, how do i save the headers, too? I just saved a copy of your message in mutt. I looked at the saved copy with less, and the headers were there. -- Seneca [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: saving mutt email headers
* p ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030211 17:26]: debs, in mutt, when i save an email to a file, how do i save the headers, too? How do you _not_ save the headers? good times, Vineet -- http://www.doorstop.net/ -- Under no circumstances will I ever purchase anything offered to me as the result of an unsolicited email message. Nor will I forward chain letters, petitions, mass mailings, or virus warnings to large numbers of others. This is my contribution to the survival of the online community. - Roger Ebert, The Boulder Pledge msg30220/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: saving mutt email headers
On Wed, Feb 12, 2003 at 01:32:01AM +, Colin Watson wrote: On Wed, Feb 12, 2003 at 01:23:23AM +, p wrote: in mutt, when i save an email to a file, how do i save the headers, too? What are you using to save the mail to a file at the moment? If you use 's' or 'C' to move or copy the mail to a file, it's exactly the same as moving or copying to another mailbox: everything is saved, including headers and the mbox From header. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] // hi, 1) i hit v (for view); 2) then i hit, s (for save); 3) then i give the email a file- name. i just get the body of the email, which is cool, of course, but i'd like to capture the headers with it. kthxbye. b. // -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: saving mutt email headers
On Tue, Feb 11, 2003 at 05:41:16PM -0800, Vineet Kumar wrote: * p ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030211 17:26]: debs, in mutt, when i save an email to a file, how do i save the headers, too? How do you _not_ save the headers? good times, Vineet -- http://www.doorstop.net/ -- Under no circumstances will I ever purchase anything offered to me as the result of an unsolicited email message. Nor will I forward chain letters, petitions, mass mailings, or virus warnings to large numbers of others. This is my contribution to the survival of the online community. - Roger Ebert, The Boulder Pledge // hi, in view mode, i try to save the email into a file. (am i wrong for trying to save emails as files? -- ...seems like a reason- able approach to keeping the mbox a decent size. also it's easier for me to keep track of great emails, especially by the deb community, simply by giving them catagory-type file names, e.g., email_debian_printers_ _info_ 02112003_tuesday_1a, *1b, *1c) kthxbye. b. // -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: saving mutt email headers
On Wed, Feb 12, 2003 at 02:22:05AM +, p wrote: 1) i hit v (for view); 2) then i hit, s (for save); 3) then i give the email a file- name. i just get the body of the email, which is cool, of course, but i'd like to capture the headers with it. If you also want to save the headers, save the message from the initial pager without going into the 'v'iew screen first. -- The freedoms that we enjoy presently are the most important victories of the White Hats over the past several millennia, and it is vitally important that we don't give them up now, only because we are frightened. - Eolake Stobblehouse (http://stobblehouse.com/text/battle.html) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: saving mutt email headers
On Wed, Feb 12, 2003 at 02:36:43AM +, p wrote: ... in view mode, i try to save the email into a file. don't go into view mode, but save from the index instead. -- groetjes, carel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
