threads by default

# primary sorting method set sort_aux=last-date # date of the last message in thread set sort_browser=alpha # how to sort files in the dir browser thanx for any help -- Eric Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Vodacom 082 780 7888

command line mailing of attachments

Hi Has anyone ever managed to get mutt to do encoded attachments of multiple files from the command line like: mutt you -s "lots of pics enclosed" -a pic1.jpg -a pic2.jpg -a pic3.tif \ -a redundantformat.doc /dev/null thanx -- Eric Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Vodacom 082 780 7888

Re: configuring from field

And it was said by Juergen Descher on Thu, Apr 08, 1999 at 03:28:36PM +0200: : Quoting Peter van Dijk [EMAIL PROTECTED]: : On Tue, Apr 06, 1999 at 11:44:13PM +0200, Eric Smith wrote: : Hi : : Can some1 please advise how I configure mutt to report in the From field, : [EMAIL PROTECTED

mailing output stream as a file [borderline off topic]

"A Subject" -a attachment.tar.gz joe Mutt comes upo interactively - if I try from another Account it works fine - what should I toggle in my muttrc? Thanx for your help -- Eric Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel. 021 236 111

more than one alias per address

aan thanx -- Eric Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel. 021 236 111

send hook for signature

-- Eric Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.fruitcom.com Tel. 021 423 6111

rxvt xterm and thread characters and colors

Hi With xterm I get: no color, the real line drawn arrows for threading With rxvt I get: color and those horrible characters for threading. How do I get the best of both worlds? Thanx -- Eric Smith 021 4236111 If Bill Gates had a dime for every time a Windows box crashed

Re: take e-mail addresses from a mail

keybinding to make mail Raju K V] spool /var/mail/rajukv as the current folder? Raju K V] Raju K V] Thanks in advance, Raju K V] Raju -- Eric Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] The dark ages were caused by the Y1K problem.

autounzipping

really want is to be able to save and autounzip a zipped attached file to a specific location - is this possible? Thanx -- Eric Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Secret hacker rule #11: hackers read manuals.

interactive options on mailcap

when I press on it, now is it possible to have the routine prompt me for what destination dir I wish to unzip to? (As a matter of interest Netscape reads this .mailcap as well and when you download it also unzips on the fly). -- Eric Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] We've had reports that on Linux

Re: interactive options on mailcap

rint "$!"; #print "Click anything to carry on"; #(); #system "cp $base $dir"; -- Eric Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Pass calmly through the clamour of the bungled.

Postpone _and_ send

Is it possible to send your mail and also postpone it. Like if you wanted to send off a draft and then continue later with improving the message. Thanx

Re: managing folders

And on Mon, Oct 18, 1999 at 02:09:20PM -0500 it was said by David DeSimone: | Eric Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | | Byrial - | | mutt -f folder-to-expire -e 'set delete;push D~r20denterq' | | Been looking for something like this for ages - great to put into a | cron job script

automatically running the '$` command

Is it possible to set up so that the `$' command or refresh runs every n minutes? This way your deleted messages are automatically expunged. -- Eric Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Where do you think you're going today?

ageing folders non-interactively

of the $1_aged and creste if necc. 2. Occasionally the procedure exits mutt after doing its thing and sometimes it dont. If the latter then non-interactive use would be a bit problematic, Thanx for any help. -- Eric Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Byte perfect with perl.

expiring messages

Hi What is the muttrc entry to expire incoming mail after say one hour (if that is indeed possible)? -- Eric Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] 00 27 21 4265311 Where do you think you're going today?

prompt for Fcc

How may I set mutt to prompt for an Fcc in the case that there is no Fcc hook or rule already? -- Eric Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] 00 27 21 4265311 True wealth is measured not by what you accumulate, but by what you pass on to others - Larry Wall.

df

How may I best send an attachment to certain recipients and not others all receiving the the same email? thanx -- Eric Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] 00 27 21 4265311 The fact that something is "tried and tested", says nothing about whether it has been found to actually work or not.

selective signatures

I often send mail to a number of recipients some (often lists) have their own send hook with a special signature, but what happens is that all the recipients then get this signature appended. Is it possible to have the sig apply only to the one recipient who triggered the hook? thanx -- Eric

color index for list mail

Is is possible to have mail from mailing lists coloured according to a color index recipe: a la color index brightmagentablack ~l # List mail thanx -- Eric Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] 00 27 21 4265311 It is easier to fix Unix than to live with NT.

Re: color index for list mail - changed to color of select bar

is in top of it? -- Eric Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] 00 27 21 4265311

Re: color index for list mail - changed to color of select bar

bight color - which is weird. thanx -- Eric Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] 00 27 21 4265311 Most things never happen.

Re: color index for list mail - changed to color of select bar

According to Thomas Roessler on Tue, Feb 22, 2000 at 10:32:50AM +0100: | On 2000-02-21 20:32:02 +0200, Eric Smith wrote: | | Is it poss. to have like a mixture of conditions giving a certain color | like | ~N and ~l is bold yellow | ~l only is yellow | | Yes. | | Generally, folks, when

Re: color index for list mail - changed to color of select bar

. | Actually, quoting patterns seems to be always a good idea in .muttrc. bingo :) -- Eric Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] 00 27 21 4265311 ... that hapless path of needless complexity.

mapping the `y' to enter in compose menu

I would like to be able to press just enter when I am in the compose menu and have a mail that is edited and ready to send. I tried macro compose \r y and macro compose enter y But they both do not rebind the enter key so that it sends the mail. How would I achieve this? -- Eric Smith [EMAIL

color coding index according to string matching

.. the kind of power that procamil has -- Eric Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: color coding Reg expression question [and mixing with

flags] Reply-To: In-Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; from [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Wed, Apr 26, 2000 at 04:51:25PM -0300 According to Francisco D. Borges on Wed, Apr 26, 2000 at 04:51:25PM -0300: | » Eric Smith wrote: | | Has the following feature been dreamed up / implemented yet? | | I

setting to indicate in index whether message has an attachment

I have tried briefly to learn from the manual how I may indicate in the index whether message has an attachment. What should I set for this? thanx -- Eric Smith

more colors

Is it possible to have mutt recognise more than the "standard" colors. Like I can get vim to display all the colors like lightblue or darkcyan etc? -- Eric Smith also on 082 373 1224

Eric, I am sorry no matches in rep for reoncilia*sql

Eric, I am sorry no matches in rep for sfdgrwgrw

Eric, I am sorry no matches in rep for fdsgghtd

my apologies

Please excuse my unintended postings from a script that I was debugging - my sincere aplogies. -- Eric Smith Fruitcom.com

Re: my apologies

According to Nils Vogels on Fri, Jul 21, 2000 at 01:32:23PM +0200: | On Fri, Jul 21, 2000 at 01:28:08PM +0200, Eric Smith wrote: | Please excuse my unintended postings from a script that I was | debugging - my sincere aplogies. | | You might want to make it mail to test-addresses, not live

TERM problem

the linux terminfo? (I am accessing both machines with an ssh client putty.) thanx Eric Smith

compile error

make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/s/mutt-1.2' make: *** [all-recursive-am] Error 2 there appeared to be no errors in the slang install. Any suggestions? thanx -- Eric Smith Fruitcom.com Amsterdam Wire phone : +31 20 528 7340 Mobile: +31 6 241 259 16 www.fruitcom.com

keeping mail in postponed

it in put I want the message to be copied lesewhere as well for archive purposes. A possible soution is to Fcc into two folders - but how? Else there may be another solution? thanx -- Eric Smith Fruitcom.com

Re: Viewing application/msword thingies.

; cupiousoutput I use: application/msword; /usr/local/bin/mswordview %s -o - --nocredits| \ /usr/local/bin/html2ascii|sed 's/\\[.*.gif\\]//';copiousoutput You will need to install mswordview (which is worth doing). The `\' indicates an unwanted line break. HTH -- Eric Smith Fruitcom.com Amsterdam Wire

mailing a stream as a file

correctly. -- Eric Smith

sending a stream as a file

ht as well? -- Eric Smith Fruitcom.com Amsterdam

attaching multiple files with edit-headers

the ^Xf which completes file names. And now the question: Is it possible to attach more than a single file in this way? -- Eric Smith Fruitcom.com Amsterdam Wire phone : +31 20 528 7340 Mobile: +31 617 232 304 www.fruitcom.com

resizing error - compiling

[all-recursive] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/s/mutt-1.2.5' make: *** [all-recursive-am] Error 2 Its failing at one of the functions that I have a problem with viz. mutt_resize_screen. TO fix ... ? Thanx -- Eric Smith

Re: resizing error - compiling

According to Eric Smith on Sat, Jan 20, 2001 at 03:45:02AM +0200: | Reply-To: | I am trying to fix an annoying problem in mutt in that it refuses to | resize - stick at 24 lines for example. | | Installed ncurses 5.0 and tried | [root@apple mutt-1.2.5]# ./configure --with-curses=/usr/include

binding synchronise mailbox function

0806eb8c t mh_sync_message 080709d8 T mx_sync_mailbox 08070220 t sync_mailbox But all of these gave an error viz: :bind index space sync_mailbox sync_mailbox: no such function in map -- Eric Smith

Re: binding synchronise mailbox function - SOLVED

confused .. let me see ... in mutt: variables use and underscore funtions use a minus - but in the source, functions use an underscore :) -- Eric Smith Fruitcom.com Benelux Wire phone +31 212 72 82 Wireless +31 617 232 304

concatenating in a macro

Is it possible to map return to the following such that after completing the ispell, mutt will automatically execute the send-message ? macro compose return ":set ispell=newsbody-ispell\nispell" "ispell-english" -- Eric Smith

URL becomes header automatically

Often I send an url like http:/somewhere.com/whatever The line of the URL is the only line in the body - mutt takes the line and makes a header out of it. /not/ what I want. How do I get round this? -- Eric Smith Fruitcom.com Benelux Wireless +31 617 232 304

how do I color all mails with attachments?

like this: colour index brightred black ~? -- Eric Smith

Re: how do I color all mails with attachments?

According to David Champion on Mon, Apr 23, 2001 at 03:25:17PM -0500: | On 2001.04.23, in [EMAIL PROTECTED], | Eric Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | like this: | colour index brightred black ~? | | Check this thread: | | http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mutt-users/message

patch to auto-execute command in compose view

(within the second) so that I may do some work in the compose screen. Currently I am binding return in compose as follows: macro compose return :set ispell=newsbody-ispell\nispellsend-message -- Eric Smith

Re: color examples?

default color quoted5blue default color quoted6magentadefault color quoted7reddefault color quoted8green default color quoted9cyan default -- Eric Smith

functions for editing Subject: and To: in vim

() normal ms let argument = input(Enter Subject: ) let string = argument execute %s/^Subject:.*/Subject: . argument normal `s endf map \e :call Edit_subject()cr ' -- Eric Smith

highlighting quotes in pager

What is the muttrc entry I need to make quotes one two three each come up in its own color? -- Eric Smith

highlighting quotes in pager

What is the muttrc entry I need to make quotes one two three each come up in its own color? -- Eric Smith Fruitcom.com Benelux Wire phone: +31 20 681 6889 Wireless: +31 617 232 304

nntp patch is http://mutt.org.ua/download/

http://mutt.org.ua/download/ -- Eric Smith

avoid prompt of postponed message

Is there a way to avoid the prompt that asks if I wish to send a postponed mail when pressing `m' in the index or pager? -- Eric Smith Fruitcom.com Benelux Wire phone: +31 20 681 6889 Wireless: +31 617 232 304

Re: spontaneous sync-mailbox

According to Cedric Duval on Mon, Aug 13, 2001 at 01:03:48PM +0200: | Hi Eric, | | * Eric Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] [08/13/01 12:03]: | Is this possible to implement without pathcing the source? | | I mean, Instead of having to explicitly calling it with '$' | | You just have to define some

automatically prepend the '=' (default location) to mailbox input

. -- Eric Smith

using lists array in regex

Is it possible to apply all that comprise lists in the `lists' or `subscribe' command to regex such as this send-hook ~C mutt-users 'set signature=echo Eric Smith|' So instead of explicitly specifying mutt-users, one may specify all the lists in one statement. Thanx -- Eric Smith

Re: vim / ispell

-- Eric Smith

Re: vim / ispell

-- Eric Smith

sourcing a file in a macro

in the file when last edited) Problem is I want to source the muttrc directly. how? -- Eric Smith

two commands one a single send-hook

How do I put these two commands into a single statement? send-hook ~C x[sm]l 'my_hdr X-currently-using: xalan saxon fop xep on linux' send-hook ~C x[sm]l 'set signature=echo -e Eric Smith\nSee mail headers for processors used|' -- Eric Smith

Re: two commands one a single send-hook

According to darren chamberlain on Mon, Sep 24, 2001 at 08:50:15AM -0400: | Eric Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] said something to this effect on 09/24/2001: | How do I put these two commands into a single statement? | | send-hook ~C x[sm]l 'my_hdr X-currently-using: xalan saxon fop xep on linux

Re: two commands one a single send-hook

According to René Clerc on Mon, Sep 24, 2001 at 03:41:57PM +0200: | * Eric Smith [24-09-2001 15:09]: | | | | How do I put these two commands into a single statement? | | | | | | send-hook ~C x[sm]l 'my_hdr X-currently-using: xalan saxon fop xep on linux' | | | send-hook ~C x[sm]l 'set

displaying recipient in index

How do I display the recipient name in the index in the form of: To Email Recipient instead of it displaying my name in respect of emails sent by myself? -- Eric Smith

Fcc saving to multiple folders

Is it possible to save an outgoing to more than a single folder? Also should not (or can not) the Bcc: details be saved in the loval folder - this is useful information. thanx -- Eric Smith

concatenating mail and send-message in a macto

? What is the way to do this? -- Eric Smith

concatenating mail and send-message in a macto

? What is the way to do this? -- Eric Smith

concatenating mail and send-message in a macto

? What is the way to do this? -- Eric Smith

default directory for change-folder

- but this workaround is no longer convenient for me. Also you could map macro index c change-folder= But then you lose the (partially useful) functionality of the last active folder being offered by mutt as the default. Is there something wrong with this proposal? -- Eric Smith

Re: default directory for change-folder

According to Sven Guckes on Fri, Nov 30, 2001 at 06:56:11PM +0100: * Eric Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] [011130 14:14]: At first it sounds good, but what happens if I want to change to an IMAP folder? Prepending = obviously doesn't work. Then just have a .muttrc option like Set

Re: default directory for change-folder

of a MUA so something that makes this more convenient by obviating a silly keypress each time can IMO, hardly be regarded as adding a kitchen sink. (The reading and attaching problem, may be fixed if with the set editor command you could cd to another dir before launching your editor). -- Eric

Re: default directory for change-folder

According to Sven Guckes on Sat, Dec 01, 2001 at 11:46:29AM +0100: * Eric Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] [011201 09:09]: Changing and navigating folders is one of the most fundamental functions of a MUA... or so it should be, one would think. then again, managing messages could be regarded

Re: displaying name of attachment in title bar

According to David T-G on Fri, Dec 07, 2001 at 07:31:30AM -0500: Eric -- ...and then Eric Smith said... % Well I am not sure what you call that information bar above the % pager. But would it not be useful if the names of the % attachments of the current email were listed

save all outgoing messages to Fcc _and_ =sent

so that I may look in one place to check all the outgoing mail regardless of where is is fcc'ed? a simple (mutt) solution? -- Eric Smith

Re: save all outgoing messages to a common folder - implemented

According to Rob 'Feztaa' Park on Mon, Dec 17, 2001 at 05:29:52PM -0700: On Tue, Dec 18, 2001 at 12:28:42AM +0100, Eric Smith (dis)graced my inbox with: so that I may look in one place to check all the outgoing mail regardless of where is is fcc'ed? a simple (mutt) solution? my_hdr

Re: save all outgoing messages to a common folder - implemented

I must apologize for spacing out there; I apparently didn't pay any attention to the Subject: line and failed to note that you wanted to save two copies of the outgoing email. Don't worry I figured ... % % For those wishing to implement this - % I did it this way % % .muttrc: %

Re: save all outgoing messages to a common folder - implemented

was referring to when editing (for me in vim with edit_hdrs set). .. let me peep a few lines up in vim ... ah here ... From: Eric Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: David T-G [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Mutt Users' List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bcc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: save all outgoing messages to a common folder

adding an attribution-like line for Cc's

as I want. -- Eric Smith

Re: adding an attribution-like line for Cc's

According to Charles Cazabon on Tue, Jan 15, 2002 at 09:35:44AM -0600: Gary Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Jan 15, 2002 at 03:39:14PM +0100, Eric Smith wrote: Occasionally, I Cc an email and the recipient of the Cc assumes that the email is directed to them (and not just copied

execute command on all attachments

How do I from within mutt apply a command (like scp) to all the attachment in the current message? -- - Eric Smith

global case insensitivity on hooks

For example, I have the following hook, send-hook ~t `cat ~/recipients_list` 'set signature=... And I want the matching of everything in the recipients_list file to be case insensitive without having to specify each address in the file with a regex. Thanks -- - Eric Smith

Re: global case insensitivity on hooks

is compound viz: send-hook ~t `cat ~/recipients_trustfood` ~C ([EMAIL PROTECTED]|.*\cl) 'set signature=cat signature_chile ... Thanks -- - Eric Smith Michael Elkins said: On Wed, Nov 14, 2007 at 11:21:52AM +0100, Eric Smith wrote: For example, I have the following hook, send-hook ~t `cat

change folder and immediately apply filter conditions to new folder

Is this possible? -- - Eric Smith

Re: change folder and immediately apply filter conditions to new

conditions. -- - Eric Smith Rocco Rutte said: Hi, * Eric Smith wrote: Is this possible? Yes, see folder-hook in the manual, combined with limit. Rocco

Re: change folder and immediately apply filter conditions to new

What do you mean by filter condition? If not limit... do you mean you want to filter what folders you're allowed to type in? yes, limit as in which messages to display. So i want to change to folder =foo and see only 2w From: bar

apply filter conditions to new folder from command line

I am getting an error, too many arguments to push when I try: $ mutt -f l/mutt-users -e 'push limit ~d 4w' -- - Eric Smith

Re: apply filter conditions to new folder from command line - SOLVED

Eric Smith said: I am getting an error, too many arguments to push when I try: $ mutt -f l/mutt-users -e 'push limit ~d 4w' thus: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~] $ mutt -f l/mutt-users -e 'push limit ~r2w '

Removing Reply-To: from header list

Headers above this line are: From: Eric Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: mutt-users mutt-users@mutt.org Cc: Bcc: Subject: Removing Reply-To: from header list Reply-To: How do I prevent the Reply-To: from appearing? I have the following set set editor=vim -c '/^$/+1' -- - Eric Smith

Re: Removing Reply-To: from header list

How do I get that to work silently. My efforts with variations of: set editor=vim -c ':silent! /^Reply-To:$/d' -c '/^$/+1' all failed. -- Eric Smith Tel Amsterdam: +31 20 8080088 Original Message Christian Ebert on Thu-17-Jan 08 5:09PM . * Eric Smith on Thursday, January 17, 2008 at 11:07

sidebar patch - performance

responsive. Am I alone in experiencing this? It also seems strange to me that the sidebar feature is not seen as a high priority by the general mutt community. -- - Eric Smith

Re: sidebar patch - performance

I use the sidebar patch myself and the only performance problem I see with my mutt is that loading mailboxes with quite a few messages takes some time. I don't know, however, if this is related to the side bar patch. Same here.

alarm when attaching xml files

I sent hundreds of pdf files for every xml file. Hoever, because of the way I generate the pdf files, I often mistakenly attach the xml source. Is there a way to configure (without source changes) mutt so that it will issue a warning or to even refuse to attach xml files? -- - Eric Smith

fork process on reply

the initial instance of mutt intact together with mailbox, filters and sorting method. doable? -- - Eric Smith

run mail command with recipient of selected email

the only one that is constantly looking up mail addresses from previous emails to or from a certain contact? Of course I use my aliases file a lot as well. -- - Eric Smith

select most recent mail after limit command

When I open a new mailbox, the most recent mail is automatically selected. However, when I perform a limit command, the filtered list is displayed but the selected mail is the oldest. How do I have the most recent mail selected after a limit command? Thank you. -- - Eric Smith

save in folder of all recipients including CC

Is there a patch for mutt to save mails in the folders of all To: recipients and all Cc: recipients as specified in the save-hook command? -- - Eric Smith

auto pipe to script on viewing message with output to pager

only the text part to the script (and pager) and only the body and not the headers although Subject: would be nice I guess. Thank you Eric Smith GOOGLE TRANSLATION com numeração à linguagem [pt] *: 1] Eu quero executar um script de tradução automática ao ver um e- mail no pager. 2

Re: auto pipe to script on viewing message with output to pager

This macro which could be an autocommand of course, works okay but does not send the output to pager which I want. macro index z view-attachmentssearchtextenterpipe-entrytranslate_scriptenter -- - Eric Smith Eric Smith said: I want to run a translation script automatically when viewing

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