the message below has appeared in my spam mail file, diverted there by the presence of "please" in the subject. i find it rather suspicious & seem to recall an article re some sort of virus or worm or other deviant creature, which hid behind this type of subject & message. i also find it difficult to believe that anyone on Mandrake-Expert would have a message with the subject below filtered thro' an automated mail-handler of this kind, which one way or the other puts me to a bit of trouble.
does Dave Kufta really do this? is there some other explanation? ----- Forwarded message from [EMAIL PROTECTED] ----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Please confirm your message Date: Sat, 26 Oct 2002 13:03:01 -0400 (EDT) To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Delivery-Agent: TMDA/0.62 Hi, you MUST reply to this note before Dave Kufta will ever see your message sent with the subject "Re: [expert] Mutt via KDE: flashing status line" This is Dave Kufta's automated mail-handling gremlin. I've received a message from you addressed to him. I have been requested to reject all anonymous messages and bulk/spam mail messages, and I'm not sure whether your message identifies you, and I don't know if it's bulk/spam mail. If you reply to this notice, you are acknowledging that Mr. Kufta doesn't want to receive bulk/spam and anonymous mail. You also confirm that your message identifies you and is not part of a bulk/spam mailing, and finally, you agree to pay Dave $250USD if your message is in fact anonymous or part of a bulk/spam mailing. I won't look at the contents of your reply; a simple OK is fine as long as you send it back to the address shown above. You don't have to include a second copy of your message. If your mailer is unable to reply to the address, here is a link for convenience: To release your message for delivery, please send an empty message to the following address, or use your mailer's "Reply" feature. [EMAIL PROTECTED] This confirmation verifies that your message is legitimate and not junk-mail. [ This notice was generated by TMDA/0.62 (http://tmda.net/), an automated junk-mail reduction system. ] --- Enclosed is a copy of your message. Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Received: (qmail 16541 invoked from network); 26 Oct 2002 17:02:58 -0000 Received: from tomts7.bellnexxia.net (HELO tomts7-srv.bellnexxia.net) (209.226.175.40) by pool-141-151-72-10.phil.east.verizon.net with SMTP; 26 Oct 2002 17:02:58 -0000 Received: from sympatico.ca ([65.95.209.244]) by tomts7-srv.bellnexxia.net (InterMail vM.5.01.04.19 201-253-122-122-119-20020516) with SMTP id <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Sat, 26 Oct 2002 13:02:46 -0400 Received: by sympatico.ca (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Sat, 26 Oct 2002 13:02:46 -0400 Date: Sat, 26 Oct 2002 13:02:46 -0400 From: "Philip Webb" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Dave Kufta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Mandrake expert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [expert] Mutt via KDE: flashing status line Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] References: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i 021026 Dave Kufta wrote: > On Sat, Oct 26, 2002 at 07:50:05AM -0400, Philip Webb wrote: >> usually, i start Mutt from the command-line of a Konsole (on KDE), >> but i thought i would try to get it to start automatically at logon >> by using the entry in the KDE menu Networking -> Mail -> Mutt . >> this starts a working version of Mutt in a terminal, >> but the Mutt status line flashes continually. >> i've looked in the Mutt dox & tried obvious things (eg read new messages), >> but the status line just keeps on flashing. >> can anyone explain & advise how to stop this irritating behaviour? > I'm not sure what is causing your status line to flash, well, that was my question ... (smile) > 'xterm -e mutt' or 'konsole -e mutt' should work fine for you. xterm is ok; konsole is the one which creates the flashing status line. i have changed the KDE menu entry to use 'xterm -e /usr/bin/mutt' with the 'start in terminal' box unchecked, which is ok (i'm using it now). > If you have a konsole in X when you logout & ask kde to save the session, > next time you start the wm it should automatically be started for you. yes, i have discovered that KDE 3.x now starts applications, eg Galeon & GVim, which were left running at the end of the previous session: Galeon knows to start where it left off (so configured), GVim starts empty. so again, anyone know why Konsole causes Mutt's status line to flash when it is started from the KDE menu? anyone care to test reproducing it? -- ========================,,============================================ SUPPORT ___________//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Centre for Urban & Community Studies TRANSIT `-O----------O---' University of Toronto
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