Cygwin mutt barfs on spaces in set variable?
I am having a problem setting variables whose contents should contain (one or more) spaces. I don't know if it is something I am doing wrong or what is going on. Here is an example: folder-hook mutt set from=Gary Jones my@emailaddress to which mutt says Jones: unknown variable when I enter the folder. Is it me? Is there a solution? Here is some info which may or may not be useful: $ mutt -v Mutt 1.2.5i (2000-07-28) [..] System: CYGWIN_98-4.10 1.3.12(0.54/3/2) [using ncurses 5.2] Compile options: -DOMAIN -DEBUG -HOMESPOOL -USE_SETGID -USE_DOTLOCK +USE_FCNTL -USE_FLOCK +USE_IMAP -USE_GSS +USE_SSL +USE_POP -HAVE_REGCOMP +USE_GNU_REGEX +HAVE_COLOR +HAVE_PGP +BUFFY_SIZE -EXACT_ADDRESS +ENABLE_NLS TIA.
Re: Feature request: cross-mbox threading
Hi,
* Benjamin Pflugmann [02-07-05 23:56:08 +0200] wrote:
On Fri 2002-07-05 at 01:36:52 +0200, Rocco Rutte wrote:
* Benjamin Pflugmann [02-07-05 00:44:50 +0200] wrote:
[...]
I misunderstood him (completely) but one may specify a
limit pattern to show only the mails of one
correspondence.
How?
Hmm, is that a trick question? You limit to mails from you
to A and to mails from A to you. Or did I miss something,
again?
But my point was that your suggestion would have all the
mails in one folder instead. I cannot see loading 3 x 1000
messages being significantly slower/faster than 1 x 3000.
It would be the same.
You can also make mutt save the mail to the folder it
was sent from.
I already have in- and outgoing mails in the same folder.
Don't know if that matters to the original poster.
I think so. The scenario was to have incomming in +inbox and
outgoing mail in +outbox.
You can limit to every mail not from you. If you don't
need the thread anymore, move it to the archive.
Well, that is exactly the point. If I moved it to the
archive and get a new message and have to look it up...
Well, that is a question of how long you keep stuff. For
lists it's unlikely that a response will be send to a mail
which is a few weeks old, for example.
The problem arises (or more precisly: the requested
feature could be of use), when a new mail arrives, which
belongs to an done thread and I have to look it up in
the archive.
In this case you know how important reasonable quoting can
be... ;-) Seriously, you're right allthough I see this as a
question of how long you keep mail. I do have extra-lookups,
too, but not very often. And as my archive is quite big
(because it keeps just everything in one place) it's no
difference to me wether I start a second mutt loading a few
thousand mails or turning this feature on. In the latter
case mutt would have to iterate through the whole big
archive, too.
As I said, that mainly happens only with support mails to
me, so maybe you simply do not encounter this, because you
do no support? This includes two things: Getting mails
after a long period of time (more than a month), which
continues an old thread, and people unable to quote
significant context in such mails.
So, I guess that in your case this feature would be usefull.
Or you just set up a newsserver and use mutt as your
newsreader. ;-)
I don't want to say that such a feature would be useless
at all, I just say it's useless to me since I've
organized my communication to not require such features.
Or because you do not get the kind of mails I get? ;-)
Bcc me and we'll see... ;-)
I just wanted to show that the requested feature would
indeed solve a problem which has no direct solution yet.
And all I tried to say is that there're great features one
may use to achieve the same. I know that a line has to be
drawn somewhere because working around everything would work
like a charm ('telnet localhost pop') but isn't very
convenient.
Cheers, Rocco
Re: Cygwin mutt barfs on spaces in set variable?
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) muttered: I am having a problem setting variables whose contents should contain (one or more) spaces. I don't know if it is something I am doing wrong or what is going on. Here is an example: folder-hook mutt set from=Gary Jones my@emailaddress to which mutt says Jones: unknown variable when I enter the folder. Is it me? Is there a solution? 6.3.55. from Type: e-mail address Default: When set, this variable contains a default from address. It can be overridden using my_hdr (including from send-hooks) and $reverse_name. Defaults to the EMAIL environment variable's content. set from=my@emailaddress set realname=Gary Jones folder-hook mutt 'my_hdr From: Gary Jones myother@emailaddress' HTH, Michael -- I once witnessed a long-winded, month-long flamewar over the use of mice vs. trackballs...It was very silly. (By Matt Welsh) PGP-Key: http://www-stud.ims.uni-stuttgart.de/~tatgeml/public.key
making Mutt re-read its config file ?
'allo, I am a relatively new user of Mutt and was wondering how to get it to re-read its config file, without quiting out of it everytime. Is there a way to do that ? thanks, mehul
Re: making Mutt re-read its config file ?
* Mehul N. Sanghvi [EMAIL PROTECTED] [07-06-02 10:36]: 'allo, I am a relatively new user of Mutt and was wondering how to get it to re-read its config file, without quiting out of it everytime. Is there a way to do that ? :source ~/.muttrc provided your config file is .muttrc AND located in your $HOME directory. NOTE: The ':' opens a command-line at the bottom of mutt and is required. -- Patrick Shanahan Registered Linux User #207535 @ http://counter.li.org
Re: making Mutt re-read its config file ?
Patrick, Thanks for the help. Just what I was looking for. mehul On Sat, Jul 06, 2002 at 10:47:25AM -0500, Patrick wrote: * Mehul N. Sanghvi [EMAIL PROTECTED] [07-06-02 10:36]: 'allo, I am a relatively new user of Mutt and was wondering how to get it to re-read its config file, without quiting out of it everytime. Is there a way to do that ? :source ~/.muttrc provided your config file is .muttrc AND located in your $HOME directory. NOTE: The ':' opens a command-line at the bottom of mutt and is required. -- Patrick Shanahan Registered Linux User #207535 @ http://counter.li.org -- Mehul N. Sanghvi email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Superior software is always free! URL: http://kirsun.com/~mehul
Re: Deleting portions of large mail folders
On Fri, 05 Jul 2002, Rob 'Feztaa' Park wrote: Alas! Wayne Chapeskie spake thus: snip You see, I don't have a .muttrc. I have a perl script that generates my .muttrc for me, every time mutt is run. It automatically detects all my mboxes, and writes mbox hooks for them ;) mind sharing it ? you can send it to me offlist if you want. regards, Sharukh. -- Dr. Sharukh K. R. Pavri Homeopath and Linux Enthusiast. Mumbai, India. http://www.pavri.net/ msg29414/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Deleting portions of large mail folders
Alas! Dr. Sharukh K. R. Pavri. spake thus: On Fri, 05 Jul 2002, Rob 'Feztaa' Park wrote: Alas! Wayne Chapeskie spake thus: snip You see, I don't have a .muttrc. I have a perl script that generates my .muttrc for me, every time mutt is run. It automatically detects all my mboxes, and writes mbox hooks for them ;) mind sharing it ? you can send it to me offlist if you want. I'd rather not. It's highly specific to my system and my tastes. It would be totally worthless to you in anything but concept. You're probably better off making your own. You don't have to use perl ;) -- Rob 'Feztaa' Park http://members.shaw.ca/feztaa/ -- When a woman becomes a scholar, there is usually something wrong with her sexual organs. -- Friedrich Nietzsche msg29417/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
newbie: getting mail outta the box
using debian sid (mostly), i386, exim, fetchmail. Using pine (the old standby) I can send out mail (I'm using that now) and it actually arrives at a final destination. Using mutt, I can get/read mail, but sending it from mutt seems to drop the mail in the bitbox. Mutt seems to think that it sent it (it says so, anyway), but I don't know if it is talking to exim correctly. Like I said, pine is on speaking terms with exim. There's bound to be something in the .muttrc that makes mutt work too. Any ideas would be great. (I can send stuff to myself locally, btw). Nice program, all. I've got the GPG working nicely now, I just need to 1) be able to send, and 2) somehow not have to manually delete this stupid blank line(s) that keeps appearing in /var/mail/jbmaxson (causing not a valid mailbox-type errors). TIA, Jeff -- Jeff Maxson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
