An off-topic query concerning spamassassin:
Can it be set to delete spam automatically (I'm not so interested in
just *marking* spam, because if it only marks spam I still have to
sift through it), without getting too many false positives?
I'm thinking of doing something about the 20+ spam
I don't like the user interface for the [a]lias command.
When I add an alias, it prompts me through a series of one-line
prompts in the status bar. If I make a mistake, I have to press Ctrl+G
and start the whole series of prompts over. And, it asks me at the end
where I want to save the alias
I just got this e-mail message, and when I looked at it in the pager,
all I saw was this:
Date: Tue, 4 Jun 2002 02:40:08
From: Ryan Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Classic Cars or parts for sale
[-- text/plain, is
On Mon, May 13, 2002 at 09:59:40AM -0500, David T-G wrote:
% I'm trying to get a new message flag to display in front of my
% folder name in the folder index view. So I'm doing the following:
%
%set folder_format=%2C %N %8s %d %f
% I'm seeing:
%
%10 66442 May 13
Scenario: I want to write a memo to myself that appears in my inbox.
What's the easiest/fastest way to do this?
Right now I'm doing m, pmakENTER, subjectENTER and then
typing it. A side effect of this is that the memo ends up in my
sent-mail folder too.
Oh, is it a bug that when I press y to
On Wed, Mar 06, 2002 at 09:01:09AM -0500, Ben Logan wrote:
Yes, it doesn't have nice and point-and-clicky interface, but I don't like
them, anyway.
Like many of you on this list probably do, I get several hundred
messages a day (up to 600). I almost hyperventilate at the thought of
I configured mutt to automatically delete messages from mailing lists
that are older than 21 days, provided that the message is not flagged
or addressed to me. Here's what I came up with, in case it's useful to
anyone else:
my_hdr From: Philip Mak [EMAIL PROTECTED]
# alternate e-mail addresses
On Sat, Feb 23, 2002 at 12:27:15PM +0100, Martin Karlsson wrote:
The 'USER: unknown' bit makes me think you should try just:
set pop_user = jerryvb
Otherwise the POP-server thinks you're trying to log in as
[EMAIL PROTECTED]@pop3.ispwest.com.
I don't think that's the problem. I tried
In the Reference section of the manual, I recommend adding a warning
at the place where it describes imap_pass and pop_pass:
mutt's bug reporting program will send the user's .muttrc file to
everyone on the development list, so imap_pass and pop_pass should
really be put in a separate file
When I reply to a message that was composed without line wrapping
(i.e. each paragraph is one long line), how can I make mutt wrap it
before inserting ? e.g. instead of:
You know I have a question...is anyone else besides me and Erica looking at these
vids? Just checking, because if no one on
On Thu, Feb 21, 2002 at 05:26:19PM -0800, Will Yardley wrote:
I suppose I could code some sort of startup code in 'vi' to find and
wrap long lines, but how would I make it only trigger when 'vi' is
being started on composing a new reply (and not any other time, e.g.
editing an existing
When I press 'q' to abort a message being composed, is there a way to
make it ask:
Abort this message? (y/N)
(answering y will exit the message composing screen and throw away the
message; answering n will do nothing, i.e. don't postpone it, but
don't throw it away either)
instead of asking me
Does anyone know of a program that I can set as a cron job to go
through an mbox file, and delete all messages that are from a mailing
list and are 21 days old?
I'm a bit confused about how to use maildir_trash.
If maildir_trash is off, then when I quit mutt, if I answer no to
purging the messages, then it will lose all the Deleted flags.
If maildir_trash is on, then that works. However, then it doesn't seem
to be possible to purge deleted messages
One thing that I've always missed since I switched from pine to mutt
was pine's more verbose e-mail notification. Instead of just saying
New mail in this mailbox. it would say something like:
[New mail from Philip Mak re New mail notification ideas]
Also, pine checks for new mail when
On Tue, Feb 12, 2002 at 09:05:37AM -0800, Carl B. Constantine wrote:
Wrong. It's actually part of one of the internet RFC's. MUTT is not the
only client that does this. All E-mail programs place a quoted symbol
'' for most people by the word From if it's the first word in a
paragraph.
Going
I couldn't find the answer in the manual, so I'm asking it here:
How do I make mutt not bother checking PGP signatures on messages
(since I don't have anyone's PGP keys anyway)?
I'm having trouble reading messages from people who don't wrap their
lines. They have it so that one paragraph is a very long line, but it
seems to cut off after about 255 characters, i.e. I can only see the
first 255 characters of each line in the pager.
I can't reproduce this always, though.
When I use the [e]dit command in mutt to edit a message in my folder
(e.g. to add my own annotations to it), it deletes the old message and
delivers the message I just edited as a new message into my mailbox.
Wouldn't it make more sense for mutt to just apply the edit to the
message without
On Tue, Feb 05, 2002 at 12:46:17AM +0800, Charles Jie wrote:
2. The 'ls' don't group directories/files into two part.
- If you code something to achieve it, you lose the COLORs.
Try typing this and see if it does what you want:
ls -d `find * -type d -maxdepth 0`; ls `find * -type f
I have the following lines in my .muttrc file:
set mail_check=5 # check for new mail every 5 seconds
set timeout=10 # if no keypress in 10 seconds, check for new mail
It doesn't seem to work correctly always, though. What's been
happening is that I run screen and I leave multiple instances of
I think that it would be nice to have the ability to move (not [S]ave)
a message to another folder in a single atomic operation, without
having to [$]Synchronize. (Assuming that the current folder is a
Maildir, where moving a message is just moving a file.)
In my conceptual model of e-mail, I
On Thu, Jan 31, 2002 at 07:25:41PM +0100, Adam Byrtek wrote:
On Thu, Jan 31, 2002 at 01:03:32PM -0500, Philip Mak wrote:
So, it makes sense for me to keep my inbox clean so that it only
contains messages that I still have to do something about. Any
messages that I have finished, I move
On Thu, Jan 31, 2002 at 12:46:03PM -0600, Knute wrote:
Right now, in order to make the moved message disappear immediately
from the message listing, I would have to synchronize, which would
also delete any messages (and also takes a second or two; synchronize
is not instantaneous).
How do I save a message to a file (like the [E]xport command in pine)
such that all text attachments are included, as well as the headers of
the message?
The best way I've found is to press [e]dit, then use the :w command in
vi to write it out to a file. That takes a few more keystrokes than
it
On Thu, Jan 31, 2002 at 11:29:57PM -0800, Michael Elkins wrote:
How do I save a message to a file (like the [E]xport command in pine)
such that all text attachments are included, as well as the headers of
the message?
If your $mbox_type is set to mbox, then a simple C (copy-message) will
On Tue, Jan 08, 2002 at 02:06:37PM -0600, David wrote:
I did a quick check for maildir in the manual as well as a quick archive
search but couldn't hit what I wanted. I just switched a couple of my
boxes to maildir to deal with NFS not setting mtime and atime properly.
Only trouble so far is
set mail_check configures how often (in seconds) mutt should look
for new mail. I have it set to 5, but new e-mail that I receive does
*not* show up within 5 seconds.
It seems that it only shows up if I press a key in mutt.
Does anyone have any ideas?
On Mon, Jan 07, 2002 at 11:18:06AM +0100, René Clerc wrote:
| set mail_check configures how often (in seconds) mutt should look
| for new mail. I have it set to 5, but new e-mail that I receive does
| *not* show up within 5 seconds.
|
| It seems that it only shows up if I press a key in
On Mon, Jan 07, 2002 at 01:13:59PM +0100, Michael Tatge wrote:
Philip Mak muttered:
set mail_check configures how often (in seconds) mutt should look
for new mail. I have it set to 5, but new e-mail that I receive does
*not* show up within 5 seconds.
It seems that it only shows up
name and e-mail address here, since my server hosts
# multiple domain names.
my_hdr From: Philip Mak [EMAIL PROTECTED]
# List e-mail addresses being received by this mailbox, separated by a
# pipe (|).
set [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Mon, Jan 07, 2002 at 08:50:16PM +0100, Michael Wagner wrote:
I have this in my mailcap file:
text/html; html2text %s; copiousoutput; nametemplate=%s.html
because the output is much better than this lynx or w3m. Try it.
The problem that I see with lynx, w3m and links is that the -dump
On Mon, Jan 07, 2002 at 08:59:04PM -0500, Derek D. Martin wrote:
Mike L, if you have tricks for figuring out WHICH mozilla window the
page will pop up in, I'd like to see that.
Yeah, that'd do it, but I'd rather just leave one up and have it use
the same one all the time. No need to
On Sun, Jan 06, 2002 at 09:21:25PM +0700, budsz wrote:
How can I make mutt able to display text/html attachments inline, WITHOUT
making it pick text/html (instead of text/plain) when the original message
was sent as multipart/alternative? I find the text/html versions to be
formatted worse.
On Fri, Jan 04, 2002 at 12:37:03PM +0800, Charles Jie wrote:
I didn't find suitable setting to make mutt not to abandon composing a
mail without content. Help, please.
charlie
set abort_nosubject=no # allow sending messages without subject
set abort_unmodified=no # allow sending messages
I just had another thought: Might it make sense to store sent mail
together with normal messages?
A fundamental problem is that mutt's Search feature cannot search over
multiple mailboxes. Thus, if I want to review a series of e-mails that I
exchanged with someone about a specific topic, then it
, when I send e-mail to
[EMAIL PROTECTED], I think the SMTP transaction goes something like
this:
$ telnet localhost 25
HELO localhost
MAIL FROM:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
RCPT TO:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
DATA
From: Philip Mak [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Mutt Users' List [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Where's the MAIL
On Tue, 1 Jan 2002, Sudhir Kumar wrote:
We have qmail installed in our system and the default delivery mechanism
is Maildir.How can I configure mutt to read mails from Maildir.
Put this in /etc/profile (or equivalent file if your system use something
else):
MAIL=$HOME/Maildir/
Does mutt
On Wed, 2 Jan 2002, Charles Jie wrote:
Is it possible to have mutt record the time I use to read or write a
mail? I hope to know how much time I spend in a folder (a kind of info).
Further, I want a timer to alert me when I'm going to run out of the
pre-set time for reading or writing a
On Wed, 2 Jan 2002, Thorsten Haude wrote:
I've just got used to the built-in pager and thought their combination
is not bad. Thus I might not plan to replace it with 'less'.
You might try $display_filter.
I was thinking about $display_filter... that command is indeed executed
when the user
Is it possible to see the SMTP MAIL FROM line of a message in my
mailbox, or does Maildir format strip that information out before storing
it?
On Mon, 31 Dec 2001, Benjamin Michotte wrote:
just to say that I finally win :)
I convert 3 friends to use mutt and they're really happy now ;)
On Tue, Dec 11, 2001 at 10:18:50PM, Benjamin Michotte wrote:
Is it possible to ask mutt sending signed messages in line or must I
force my
I think I did something recently (it had to do with answering no when
mutt asked me whether I wanted to purge deleted messages) that caused mutt
to lose track of which messages had D (Deleted) flags on them.
Does anyone know what I did, and how to avoid doing it again? I think
someone recently
On Sat, 29 Dec 2001, Andy Spiegl wrote:
I hope I can make this clear, when mutt modifies a file (mbox) it
doesn't update the timestamps.
Sure, I know this problem very well and started a long thread about this,
but in the end I was told that it's not a bug, but a feature. I still
don't
2001 -0500
Date: Sat, 10 Nov 2001 03:17:28 -0500 (EST)
From: Philip Mak [EMAIL PROTECTED]
X-Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
cc: James Ventrillo [EMAIL PROTECTED],
Mike Little [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: IP address problems on buildreferrals.com
Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
MIME
On Thu, 27 Dec 2001, Ivan Castillo Escobar wrote:
Somebody can tell me how to write the exact command to send a mail with
an attachment using the command line (mutt), without the need to enter
the vi editor to write the message body???. I need to use a mutt command
to be executed in a UNIX
Scenario: When I press $ to purge the deleted messages in my mailbox,
and it asks me:
Purge 8 deleted messages? ([yes]/no):
and I answer yes, if new mail has arrived that mutt didn't see yet, it
will show the new mail and *abort* the purge operation. Is this a bug/is
there a workaround for
On Thu, 27 Dec 2001, Brian Clark wrote:
if new mail has arrived that mutt didn't see yet, it
will show the new mail and *abort* the purge operation. Is this a bug/is
there a workaround for this?
If you don't want to be asked, I think you want this:
### delete
### Type: quadoption
###
Does anyone have a vim configuration to make writing bullets/lists easier?
e.g. when I'm writing something like this:
--- begin example ---
1. Pick one of the RaQs to be the DNS server.
2. E-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] and ask him for an additional IP for
that RaQ.
3. When you get the IP, tell me
I was thinking about the merits of keeping one large mailbox, versus
keeping a mailbox that's rotated monthly/quarterly/yearly. Some people
prefer to keep one huge mailbox, and some other people prefer to rotate
it. I'd like to explore the reasons why people do it one way and not the
other.
On Thu, 27 Dec 2001, Benjamin Smith wrote:
I was thinking of that too, but since mutt still knows how to mark the
messages to be deleted after the purge, why not delete them after the
check... ?
Good question... Currently the code just does this (in
mbox_sync_mailbox):
/* Check to
Regarding the From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wed Jun 06 18:44:53
2001 lines in an mbox file...
What is the regular expression for matching whether the line in an mbox
file is the beginning of a new message?
What is the regular expression for matching lines like From that should
have the removed before
On Wed, 26 Dec 2001, David T-G wrote:
Your MDA will also escape any ^From_ in the body to avoid confusion with
a message separator line -- if it's delivering to an mbox file.
That doesn't seem to be true. For example, in one of my sent-mail files
from pine, I saw this line (there was no
Someone sent me an attachment called designview.jpg with MIME type of
application/octet-stream. Since it wasn't image/jpg or image/jpeg,
mutt didn't know how to view it correctly.
How could I have made mutt treat that as image/jpg (by making it look at
the filename extension, perhaps) despite
Here's a beta version of code that I made for myself. My desktop is a
Windows system, but I run mutt through SSH. I'd like to be able to have
HTML and image attachments come up directly on my web browser, so I made
this code.
Prerequisites:
- mutt (of course!)
- SecureCRT SSH client (or other
Is there a way to make it so that when I use the c command to change to
a different folder, the original one remains open?
My ~/Maildir/ folder has 1 messages, and my =sent folder has 6000
messages, so it's slow to switch between them if they get closed each time
I switch.
BTW, I just
* Cleber S. Mori [EMAIL PROTECTED] [011207 22:32]:
Mutt have just one problem. It is slow to open folders, because
it does not cache them. Pine did it, and it feels much more fast.
I don't know if there is a option for that, but I believe not.
mutt takes 7 seconds to open my 1 message
chgrp -R mail ~$x/Maildir
done
#!/usr/bin/perl
# Simple but Perfect mbox to Maildir converter v0.1
# by Philip Mak [EMAIL PROTECTED]
# Usage: perfect_maildir ~/Maildir mbox
# Simple - only converts one mbox (can use script in one-liners)
# Perfect - message Flags/X-Flags are converted
I'm used to using pine's editor, which handles filling of paragraphs (even
if they start with due to quoting) fairly nicely.
How can I achieve the same thing in vi? I'd like to be able to bind a key
such that when I press it, it automatically refills the current paragraph
smartly. Some
I did some digging around Google and came up with this:
[pmak@lina pmak]$ cat .muttvimrc
map C-J {gq} # Ctrl+J rejustifies current paragraph
set formatoptions=tcroqv# see :help formatoptions
set comments=nb: # rejustify quoted text correctly
set tw=75
I tinkered around a bit more and came up with this code for making Ctrl+J
(justify paragraph) work, even with quoted text.
It assumes that ^[ ]*$ is the paragraph separator, meaning that any line
which is blank or only contains '' and ' ' separates a paragraph. Here is
the full code for making
On Wed, 26 Dec 2001, Charles Jie wrote:
In my .mailcap:
text/html; mozilla -remote openurl\(file:%s\)
always fails because %s is expanded as ''
The quotes are the problem because they mix up in the URL.
How about this?
text/html; mozilla -remote openurl\(file:`echo %s |
I had an interesting little idea on how to view HTML files on my desktop
web browser, even though I'm running mutt through SSH!
I put this in my .mailcap:
text/html; opera %s
opera is a simple perl script to rename the attachment to a value that
is guaranteed to be unique (time_pid.html),
Even in the latest (beta) version, mutt displays the size of all messages
as 0 if they are in a Maildir.
I looked at the FAQ and it has a workaround that uses procmail to insert a
Lines: header, but I'm wondering if there's a less kludgy way to do
this.
Wouldn't it be relatively easy to patch
[Summary: Is there a simple mbox-Maildir conversion tool that preserves
the Replied, Seen, Trashed and old/new status of the messages?]
---
I've looked through 3 different mbox-Maildir conversion tools
(http://www.qmail.org/top.html#maildir), but none of them seem to address
the problem of
On Tue, 25 Dec 2001, Jeremy Blosser wrote:
[Summary: Is there a simple mbox-Maildir conversion tool that preserves
the Replied, Seen, Trashed and old/new status of the messages?]
---
Yes, use mutt itself.
1) mutt -f mbox
2) tag all
3) tag copy/save to new maildir
Nice. It preserved
On Tue, 25 Dec 2001, Philip Mak wrote:
Wouldn't it be relatively easy to patch mutt so that it displays bytes
instead of lines? In a Maildir, it only takes a simple stat() operation to
find the size of a message. I'm more used to seeing bytes anyway since I
come from using pine...
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