man procmail bug?
i need to set up a .forward file to get procmail happening but the doco seems out of whack. the procmail(1) manpage used to say you needed: "!IFS=' 'exec /usr/local/bin/procmail -f-||exit 75 #YOUR_USERNAME" now (version 3.13.1 and 3.14) it says you only need: "|exec /usr/bin/procmail" but it also says: The #YOUR_USERNAME is not actually a parameter that is required by procmail, in fact, it will be discarded by sh before procmail ever sees it; it is however a necessary kludge against overoptimising sendmail programs: is this paragraph just a left over that needs to be removed, or is the new .forward spec missing bits? at least one of them must be wrong :-) raf
from lines on lists
How can I get the from line displayed in the message index for lists I have defined as lists? thanks. -- "Now you see that evil will always triumph, because good is dumb." - Dark Helmet, Spaceballs "You can't be a real country unless you have a beer and an airline; it helps if you have some kind of a football team, or some nuclear weapons, but at the very least you need a beer." - Frank Zappa
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Re: man procmail bug?
On Wed, Sep 06, 2000 at 06:11:24PM +1100, raf wrote: now (version 3.13.1 and 3.14) it says you only need: "|exec /usr/bin/procmail" but it also says: The #YOUR_USERNAME is not actually a parameter that is required by procmail, in fact, it will be discarded by sh before procmail ever sees it; it is however a necessary kludge against overoptimising sendmail programs: In procmail 3.15 the last paragraph is not present. -- // André
Re: from lines on lists
On Tue, Sep 05, 2000 at 11:14:11PM -0400, Mostly Harmless wrote: How can I get the from line displayed in the message index for lists I have defined as lists? Change the %L (list-from) in $index_format to %F (from) for that mailbox. me PGP signature
Re: Maildir being very slow
Thomas Roessler [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: On 2000-09-05 20:44:42 +0200, Michael Tatge wrote: I switched from mbox to Maildir a few days ago. I always had the feeling that Maildir is much slower - well for big Mailboxes at least - than mbox. Now I did some testing. This might be related to your file system's performance. Could you elaborate? How do you make a file system perform better in relation to maildirs? I use reiserfs and I too think that maildirs are slower when opening folders beyond a certain size. I therefore keep my folders below approx. a 1000 messages. Regards, Morten
copies of sent mail
I'm a new user of mutt and sendmail. I've got everything working, but I can't figure out whether mutt of sendmail is responsible for keeping copies of sent mail, and where they would be. Can anyone help me? thanks, jc --
Re: Maildir being very slow
On 2000-09-06 23:17:27 +0200, Morten Bo Johansen wrote: Could you elaborate? How do you make a file system perform better in relation to maildirs? I use reiserfs and I too think that maildirs are slower when opening folders beyond a certain size. I therefore keep my folders below approx. a 1000 messages. I was more thinking about ext2fs performance with large directories. With reiserfs, the overhead could only come from the larger number of open() and close() system calls. -- Thomas Roessler [EMAIL PROTECTED]
mailbox rotation
Hello all, I'm relatively new to mutt, I've been using it for a couple weeks and really like it so far. What options do I have to rotate my mailbox once it gets too large or on a monthly basis? Mutt doesn't have a builtin function, correct? Can anybody point me towards a script that would do this? If this is answered in a FAQ somewhere, point me to it and shame on me for not looking harder! :) Thanks very much for the help, Brian
Re: copies of sent mail
On Wed, Sep 06, 2000 at 11:55:33AM +, Jeff Coppock wrote: I'm a new user of mutt and sendmail. I've got everything working, but I can't figure out whether mutt of sendmail is responsible for keeping copies of sent mail, and where they would be. From the docs: 6.3.159. record Type: path Default: "" This specifies the file into which your outgoing messages should be appended. (This is meant as the primary method for saving a copy of your messages, but another way to do this is using the ``my_hdr'' command to create a Bcc: field with your email address in it.) The value of record is overridden by the ``force_name'' and ``save_name'' variables, and the ``fcc-hook'' command. I have set record=+Outgoing in my muttrc. -- (T.) Michael Sanders internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Physics Department URL: http://www-personal.umich.edu/~sanders University of Michigan phone: 734/936-0799 Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1120 FAX: 734/764-6843
Re: mailbox rotation
On Wed, Sep 06, 2000 at 05:40:41PM -0400, Brian Smyth wrote: What options do I have to rotate my mailbox once it gets too large or on a monthly basis? Mutt doesn't have a builtin function, correct? Can anybody point me towards a script that would do this? I use procmail for this with entries like :0: * ^TOmutt mutt-users.`date +%Y-%m` in my $HOME/.procmail/lists.rc -- (T.) Michael Sanders internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Physics Department URL: http://www-personal.umich.edu/~sanders University of Michigan phone: 734/936-0799 Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1120 FAX: 734/764-6843
Re: copies of sent mail
* Jeff Coppock [EMAIL PROTECTED] [000906 23:35]: I'm a new user of mutt and sendmail. I've got everything working, but I can't figure out whether mutt of sendmail is responsible for keeping copies of sent mail, and where they would be. Can anyone help me? Try adding the following entry to your .muttrc file: ## Store sent messages set record="=sent-mail" This will save a copy of your outgoing messages to the mailbox "sent-mail" in the default location of your mailboxes (usually ~/Mail). Regards - Juergen.
Re: mailbox rotation
* Brian Smyth [EMAIL PROTECTED] [000906 17:46]: |Hello all, hi, |What options do I have to rotate my mailbox once it gets too large or |on a monthly basis? Mutt doesn't have a builtin function, correct? Can |anybody point me towards a script that would do this? I like this set of configuration files scripts for just this reason: http://mutt.lazygenes.net/ Have fun :) -- Emily Slocombe [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: from lines on lists
Dear mutt users,
hello Mostly Harmless :-)
* Mostly Harmless [EMAIL PROTECTED] [Die 05 Sep 2000 23:14:11 GMT]:
How can I get the from line displayed in the message index for lists I
have defined as lists?
i understand you want to see the names of the persons how wrote the
messages instead of "To:" which list the messages are adressed?
Try:
folder-hook mutt-users set index_format="%4C|%Z|%[%d.%m.%y]|%-20.20n|%4l|%s"
^
^
in your .muttrc
It shows up to 20 chars of the senders real name or email address if
no real name is given.
Ciao, Gregor
Re: mailbox rotation
Thanks for the suggestions, that will fit the bill perfectly. Procmail is a beast I haven't delved into besides simple mail filtering, and it didn't occur to me that the solution would lie there. I appreciate the help! Brian
mbox to maildir
Does anyone have a script that does this? -- /Jason G Helfman "At any given moment, you may find the ticket to the circus that has always been in your possession." Fingerprint: 6A32 3774 E390 33B5 8C96 2AA1 2BF4 BD71 35A1 C149 GnuPG http://www.gnupg.org Get Private! 1024D/35A1C149
Re: mbox to maildir
On 2000.09.06, in [EMAIL PROTECTED],
"Jason Helfman" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Does anyone have a script that does this?
If you have mh or nmh installed, I'd think that you can "inc" the mbox
to a new folder and rename that folder's directory as .../folder/cur,
then mkdir ../folder/{tmp,new} as well.
You can also do something like this:
formail -s sh -c 'cat .../foldername/cur/`expr $FILENO + 1`' mbox
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Re: mbox to maildir
On Wed, Sep 06, 2000 at 07:27:57PM -0700, Jason Helfman wrote: Does anyone have a script that does this? I use Bruce Guenter's script mbox2maildir, available from http://em.ca/~bruceg/mbox2maildir. This is referenced in the 'maildir' section at qmail.org, as are other useful utilities for working with Maildirs. -- Tim Legant [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: mbox to maildir
I had some difficulty running this but the perl script worked,
seemingly, flawless...
thanks for your tip, though.
On Wed, Sep 06, 2000 at 09:42:31PM -0500, David Champion muttered:
| On 2000.09.06, in [EMAIL PROTECTED],
| "Jason Helfman" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
| Does anyone have a script that does this?
|
| If you have mh or nmh installed, I'd think that you can "inc" the mbox
| to a new folder and rename that folder's directory as .../folder/cur,
| then mkdir ../folder/{tmp,new} as well.
|
| You can also do something like this:
| formail -s sh -c 'cat .../foldername/cur/`expr $FILENO + 1`' mbox
|
| --
| -D. [EMAIL PROTECTED]NSITUniversity of Chicago
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