* Gregor Zattler ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
Hi Thomas,
which 7 other ml headers did you mean?
Mailing-List: list
Sender: owner-
X-BeenThere:
Delivered-To: mailing list
X-Mailing-List:
X-Loop:
X-List:
X-ML-Name:
My full lists.rc is at http://voi.aagh.net/code/lists.rc if you want a
real
* savanna ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
A slightly offtopic question - I'm using procmail for my mail
filtering, just wondering what people are using to catch all of the
mutt-users email.
Nice generalised solution:
:0:
* ^Sender: owner-\/[^@]+
lists/`echo $MATCH | sed -e 's/[\/]/_/g'`
Repeat
* Ken Weingold ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
I think I remember a while back someone haveing a script to take lines
randomly from a text file to put into a custom header. Does anyone
have this?
Replace \n with \n%\n and run it through strfile. Then run fortune
over the generated data file.
* John Buttery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
* Michael Tatge [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2002-03-30 13:35:04 +0100]:
NO. It's Period. Please don't make a new OT thread out of this,
especially you David. ;-)
^ The problem with using just '' is that the quote string merges with
the text and becomes
* Cedric Duval ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
John Buttery said:
* Carl B. Constantine [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2002-03-18 08:43:58
-0800]:
HEADDEFANGED_META HTTP-EQUIV=REFRESH CONTENT=0
URL=http://cedricduval.free.fr/mutt/;/HEAD
Really, is there some content that could be seen as malicious in
* [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
I recently moved to maildir/Evolution, but Evolution is still somewhat
unstable. So I finally got around to be a Mutt user. I have to say
it's love at first sight.
One thing I haven't figured out yet is how to speed up the opening
of very
* Dominik Mierzejewski ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
On Tuesday, 05 March 2002, Thomas Hurst wrote:
* Christopher S. Swingley ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
And then I have recipes for my mailing lists:
:0:
* ^Sender:\ owner-mutt-users@mutt\.org in-mutt-users
Pfft, you want
* Adam Byrtek ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
On Mon, Mar 04, 2002 at 11:05:26AM -0600, Knute wrote:
I use gkrellm to show me what mailbox I have mail in. It can be set
up for an audible alarm as well.
Me too... but it only supports single mailbox...
gkrellmmailwatch is one solution to this.
* Christopher S. Swingley ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
And then I have recipes for my mailing lists:
:0:
* ^Sender:\ owner-mutt-users@mutt\.org
in-mutt-users
Pfft, you want automatic list filtering, not this one-rule-per-list crap
;)
Sometimes the duplicates that procmail
* Michael P. Soulier ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
On 28/02/02 Thomas Hurst did speaketh:
I doubt I'd last long with mutt with the default keys.. makes quick
backup of ~/.src
I'd be interested in seeing the changes you made. I like the
default keys, but then, I like Vi. :)
I like vim
* Sven Guckes ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
echo you cannot do this with netscape | mutt netscape-weenie
nuff said.
But I can't view all my HTML pr0n spam without an external program, mutt
sucks111
I have guided some Linux people to switch from Netscape to mutt. So
far they are not
* Rob Reid ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
At 2:35 PM EST on February 23 Thomas Hurst sent off:
Easy, just run it through something that gives more detailed errors:
test.rb:2: invalid regular expression; there's no previous pattern,
to which '*' would define cardinality at 2:
Can you tell
* Michael Seiwert ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
Hi,
mutt detects an error in one of the following lines but I can't find
an error maybe you see the error.
color body green black ((;|:|8\\:|\\=)(-|=|~|_|-'|%||)(\\)|Q|P|\\)%))
color body redblack
* Thomas Baker ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
Death, evil reverse-quoting Pine user!
I have discussed this with my department's system support, and they
point out it could mean alot of additional work getting my various
hardware configurations (with docking station, without, etc) set up
under
* Philip Mak ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
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 planning a generic mail archiving tool that will allow this, as
well as moving messages
* Cameron Simpson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
On 09:43 26 Jan 2002, Prahlad Vaidyanathan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Fri, 25 Jan 2002 Mathias Gygax spewed into the ether: Holy crap
!! How do you cope ? I can't even manage the 200-250 mails I get
everyday :-)
Much as I do I guess -
* David T-G ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
Off-topic meandering:
I think it would be lovely to automatically compress all email before
sending and have it opened on the other end,
Gzip your message body and you'll probably find half of mutt-users have
it decompressed and viewed automatically :)
* Alexander Skwar ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
So sprach »Ricardo SIGNES« am 2002-01-27 um 11:02:07 -0500 :
that Maildir is faster.
Well, saying it so broad as you did, the only answer to this is,
that your statement is wrong. On certain filesystems Maildir may be
a little faster than
* David T-G ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
...and then Thomas Hurst said...
Gzip your message body and you'll probably find half of mutt-users
have it decompressed and viewed automatically :)
That would make tools like grep pretty useless.
Well, zgrep takes care of that, too, but it just
* Roman Neuhauser ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
dunno about real csh (csh == tcsh on FreeBSD), but % is the default
for 0UID in zsh.
We could always switch to XML and seperate this metadata from the
data itself :)
What's the bet that OE or so actually impliments something like this
sometime in
* Roman Neuhauser ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
Procmail:
+ lots of prepackaged antispam filters
SpamAssassin rules all.
- config files resemble uuencoded assembler
They're quite easy to understand once you grasp them.
Would you prefer an XML format? :)
- quite resource-hungry
* Derek D. Martin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
At some point hitherto, Will Yardley hath spake thusly:
our office mail machine is (unfortunately) linux with ext2, and i
can attest to the fact that Maildir is pretty slow on ext2.
And most other filesystems... Try it on FAT. =8^)
I think
* Dave Price ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
On Mon, Jan 21, 2002 at 05:25:56PM +1100, Cameron Simpson wrote:
Where it's merely inconsiderate to not trim quotations when replying
ordinarily, when replying to a blind user it becomes outright rude.
Learn to use your screenreader better, and
* Nick Wilson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
* On 21-01-02 at 14:40
* Thomas Hurst said
Being able to skip quotes is no excuse not to trim them; not caring
whether people will simply ignore your message because it appears to
have no content isn't either.
How do you tell if you
* David T-G ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
...and then Michael Tatge said...
Quoting tar's man page:
-r, --append append files to the end of an archive
Works like charm.
No kidding! I've never seen one work. What version of tar are you
running?
It should work fine provided tar
_Replying to a message_
By: Rob 'Feztaa' Park [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Mutt Users' List [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On: Monday, January 21, 2002, 16:54:47 -0700
Re: blind etiquette Re: mutt for blind computerusers
Alas! Nick Wilson spake thus:
* On 21-01-02 at 23:17 Brian Foley said
I think it
No, the most annoying way is to indent using spaces, with Outlook style
replies (i.e, 2-3 lines right at the top of the message). Nice huh? :)
Several times I've found myself reading the quoted text thinking it's
the actual reply and wondering why it looks so familiar..
* Brian Clark ([EMAIL
* Igor Pruchanskiy ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
# above copyright notice, this permission notice, and the following
^
# disclaimer appear on all copies.
^^^
Hey, at least it's not the
* Michael Elkins ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
Hanspeter Roth wrote:
Some mailinglists prefix every subject with the name of the list.
Is it possible to suppress this prefix in the index_format? How? Or
is this a case for procmail?
It's more efficient to do it with procmail since you only
* mike ledoux ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
On Tue, Jan 08, 2002 at 09:22:45AM +0100, René Clerc wrote:
I couldn't _disagree_ with you more. For example, C source code is
text to: I bet you'll want your editor to know that it's editing C
source code ;)
I'd perhaps disagree that it should
* Gregor Zattler ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
* Thomas Hurst [EMAIL PROTECTED] [Die 25 Dez 2001 12:14:19 GMT]:
[ ... reformating paragraphs in replys ... ]
I use par(1), http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~amc/Par/
How (with which parameters) do you use it? I saw it a few months ago
but got
* Rob 'Feztaa' Park ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
Alas! Thomas Hurst spake thus:
I stole PARINIT=grTbiqR B=.?_A_a Q=_s:| from someone and call it
with
If I'm not mistaken, that looks _exactly_ like what the man page tells
you to use if you want to use par now, but understand it later
* Philip Mak ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
A fine-grained rotation scheme might work better; e.g. I could have
a primary folder that holds the last 3 months of messages, and an
archive folder that holds everything else.
I have a script scan all my mailspools (I use mbox) and move anything
older
* Benjamin Smith ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
How does it scan your mailboxes, does it use grep mail or some other
methods? If its short could you perhaps post it?
It reads the file line by line looking for ^From lines.
It's not very well written, but it works. I really should make use of
* Philip Mak ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
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 automatic line wrapping would be nice,
too... I'm wondering what configurations for .vimrc
* [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
When I started using mutt, I just accepted the default mail folder
type. But, I like the idea of these new formats that keep the
messages in independent files. How can I make mutt create a new folder
using the MH or Maildir formats? (Currently
* giorgian ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
i haven't found anything in the man pages about mail filters;
initially i decided to try procmail, but it is decisely too much
insane for me: i'm a member of at least 15 MLs (plus this one :) ),
and my .procmailrc is an awful mess, so i gave up.
Giblets
Ooops, proof that that X-Uptime header's not entirely useless. Just
noticed I had a locked-up proftpd process that's been there for the last
4 hours :)
* Gary Johnson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
I've RTFM and haven't seen a way for mutt to send (not display)
multipart/alternative attachments.
* Gary Johnson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
On the other hand, maybe giving them an explicit choice of formats
would be better.
Personally I'd multipart/alternate the Word version so even if word
breaks they can still read the message, and give a choice of not
including the word version at
% tim lupfer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
On Dec 17 at 01:39PM Thorsten Haude wrote:
* David T-G [EMAIL PROTECTED] [01-12-09 20:12]:
could your attribution string be any more inane? I mean, come on, an
asterisk? they just aren't IN anymore.
How about @? @'s always in :)
Oh, I know, %
* John P Verel ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
I have the following in my .muttrc: folder-hook =mbox 'push
odendl~Nenter
What it does when I open my mbox, sorts the entries by date, goes
to the last (bottom) one and then just shows new (unread) entries.
Perhaps this will help you?
I think he
* Rob 'Feztaa' Park ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
On Mon, Dec 17, 2001 at 09:39:29AM -0500, David T-G (dis)graced my
inbox with:
Great! I predict the same thing with %_ and mutt. I look forward
to the time when 80% of everyone else will use mutt right along with
us -- and perhaps find
* Benjamin Smith ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
On Sun, Dec 16, 2001 at 11:53:27AM +0200, Jussi Ekholm wrote:
subscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED]
-clip-
It can get long, huh? :-)
Not when you generate it automatically. I have about 4 lines for 45 lists :)
The originator of this thread also does
* Michael Montagne ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
I've searched and searched.how do I control the default string
above quoted replies? The one that says something like On 1/1/01
spectacleboy wrote:
set attribution=On %{%d/%m/%y} %n wrote:\n
--
Thomas 'Freaky' Hurst - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
* Jussi Ekholm ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
David T-G [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm always looking for ways to cut down on spam, but I haven't
come up with a good rc.spam file (I have a fairly simple
$HOME/.procmailrc and a bunch of $HOME/.procmail/rc.* includes).
Would you care to post
* Slava Pechenin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
I am trying to make Mutt quote my replies in the following smart
way: if original email is from Tom Buddy then quote string must be
TB .
The problem with this sort of thing is some users like to use 'TB', so you end up
with crap like:
TB | Foo
* David T-G ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
...and then Thomas Hurst said...
Seriously, what's so wrong with ' ' that it isn't acceptable for
everyone? :)
Do you want my semi-canned answer, or should I just keep quiet on this
one? :-)/2
I want your answer, so I may decide on a suitable
* David T-G ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
and finally posited wrote it, not who's replying to it ;)
^^^ This is more than one character ;)
Not if you encode it properly. After all, with nearly six billion
people on the planet and many of them with multiple personas
* Will Yardley ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
you can do the exact same thing with a simple procmail recipe. it
can be argued (and as the gnus manual points out) that this might be
unreliable. i use it anyway since i get loads of dupes. you can save
them to a separate folder rather than deleting
* Rob 'Feztaa' Park ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
On Sat, Dec 08, 2001 at 08:56:24AM +, Thomas Hurst (dis)graced my
inbox with:
My filters look like:
:0:
* ^X-Mailing-List: \/[^@]+
lists/`echo $MATCH | sed -e 's/[\/]/_/g'`
Sorry, it's early and my brain isn't firing on all
* David T-G ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
...and then Thomas Hurst said...
I have a nice lists.rc which will filter most mailing list messages
automagically if anyone wants it.
Tips and tricks are always appreciated. If you don't post it for the
group, please send me either a copy
* Will Yardley ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
Steven Schneider wrote:
What program is the best to use for sorting my incoming messages
into different folders? I've heard that Procmail is user-hell, but
I know people who swear by it. Is there a better program to use, or
is Procmail the
* Volker Moell ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
In replied messages it's the realname part in From:, so now I want
the realname part in To: (prompted after typing m). Is this so
illogical?
It is when you allow editing of headers (doesn't everybody? :)
I'd recommend allowing editing of headers
* Paul Brannan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
I accidentally hit 'r' instead of 'L', so the last two iterations here
were in private. René suggested that I forward his response to the
list.
Is there a good way to prevent me from doing this again in the future?
Maybe rebind 'r' to list-reply
* Prahlad Vaidyanathan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
On Fri, 30 Nov 2001 Thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED] spewed into the ether:
[-- snip --]
Initial perl version at:
http://freak.aagh.net/code/quotefix.pl
Does this grok ^http: and stuff ? Doesn't seem to do it here.
It should do, the ruby one
I have set followup_to in my .muttrc, I have subscribe set (although
only with the first part of the list name, i.e. cvs-all not
[EMAIL PROTECTED] list-reply works fine, but for some reason mutt .24
isn't setting Mail-Followup-To.
Is it only set in original mails, not replies?
Hm, it is being
* David T-G ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
...and then Nicolas Rachinsky said...
On Sun, Dec 02, 2001 at 11:24:53PM +, Thomas Hurst
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
* Thorsten Haude ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
I have no solution, but will work on one based on Mail::Audit.
Could do
* Thorsten Haude ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
* Thomas Hurst [EMAIL PROTECTED] [01-12-03 00:24]:
Hm, thread-wise is conciderably more expensive - date-wise involves
just scanning the maildir, grabbing all the time()'s, sorting them
and cutting off the top 1 week.
I know, but I really
I've got quite a few folders, but a number of them haven't had any new
mail for the last few days - is there a function similar to limit to
limit the folder view to, for instance, folders with a last modified
date 24 hours?
--
Thomas 'Freaky' Hurst - [EMAIL PROTECTED] -
* Cliff Sarginson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
However these evil people who top-post mean that unless you want to
complete addle the thread logic you also have to top post, in which
case a sig at the end is a little weird.
If someone top posts I just nuke all their quotes and reply as normal
* Curt W. Zirzow ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
Wow, I knew maildir was slower but not by that much. I guess it has to
do with reading each individual file instead of scanning the mbox.
A lot seems to depend on how well your fs copes with lots of operations
on small files. UFS seems to cope
Mutt and procmail are still handling my mail load with ease, but I guess
I better come up with a proper mail archival system before it gets too
much.
The most common solution seems to be to have procmail deliver mail to
[folder]-[date] or similar, but the problem with this is once it rotates
you
* Thorsten Haude ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
I have different views on Maildirs (see other thread), and I would
move the mails thread-wise, but on all other points, I agree.
Hm, thread-wise is conciderably more expensive - date-wise involves
just scanning the maildir, grabbing all the
* Dairy Wall Limey ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
Thomas Hurst wrote:
* Samuel Padgett ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
But won't people who aren't subscribed to the lists not receive
your messages?
A rare special case, especially since the majority of the lists I'm
on don't even allow
* S. William Schulz ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
On Fri, Nov 30, 2001 at 04:16:47PM +0100, René Clerc wrote:
I don't know, David ;)
It's written in Ruby (http://www.ruby-lang.org/), but I can do a
Perl version if anyone really doesn't want to install Ruby.
I'll wait for a perl
* Thorsten Haude ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
Yeah, the basic brain-dead-mailer-problem and its reply-to-munging or
group-reply answer. Fortunately, there's Mutt. I use group-reply about
once a year.
I have 'r' rebound to list-reply for all my mailing lists (bar one
broken one). Nice having a
This isn't entirely mutt related, but I'm sure some of you will be
interested.
I just finished (for tonight :) tweaking a script designed to rebuild
quote strings with the One True Quote String (' ', obviously), even if
you're replying to someone with a really evil one. For instance:
name : |%
* Samuel Padgett ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
Thomas Hurst [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I have 'r' rebound to list-reply for all my mailing lists (bar one
broken one). Nice having a MUA this flexible, means all the lists
that use (or don't use) Reply-To: act the same :)
But won't people
* Vineet Kumar ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
* Thomas Hurst ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [011127 15:43]:
The other thing, which it seems is often overlooked and
underappreciated, is the ability to use nice things like grep, find,
xargs and the like on your mail the way it oughta work.
Hm
* David T-G ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
Thomas --
:set mbox_type=Maildir
T.
;C/tmp/TestMailFolder/
Thanks.
Well, let's see, here... Now I'm finally curious. First I opened
my big funnies folder and converted it to Maildir; on about 9400
messages that took mutt about 7 minutes to
* Paul Roberts Student lab engineer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
On Mon, Nov 26, 2001 at 01:56:23PM +0100, Gregor Zattler wrote:
I'm interested in such thing. Where can i get this?
Try: http://grepmail.sourceforge.net/
There's a link on that page to the mutt front-end too.
* Samuel Padgett ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
So the advantage of Maildir is speed, and the disadvantage is that
it eats inodes for breakfast?
I was under the impression Maildir was extremely slow, just without
locking issues, making it a good option for pop3 servers.
I do tend to leave
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