Re: Sorting mail with mutt and IMAP
Big Brother tells me that Justin R. Miller wrote:
Regarding what Waldemar said before about fetchmail and procmail,
you don't necessarily have to lose the features of IMAP. I have
been doing this with Cyrus IMAPd for about two years. You have
to run fetchmail as root so that it can call Cyrus' deliver
program (or otherwise set up the right permissions). I can give
more information if you have Cyrus and are curious...
As root? Do you have to run cyrus on the IMAP server or on the
client side? It so happens that I run the mail server that I am
using mutt+IMAP to access, but I need an end-user solution...
Right now, I could do it manually. Use 'l' with pattern
'~t root@' to get all of the root mail, and then tag all of them
and save them to '{username@imapsever}root'.
It seems that there ought to be a way to get mutt to automatically
do this on start up...
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Sorting mail with mutt and IMAP
I am using mutt to connect to an IMAP server. I'd like to have mutt automatically grab new mail and put it into separate IMAP boxes, somewhat the way that procmail can sort your incoming mail into separate boxes. How do I go about doing this? Currently, I just use the limit command to limit the display, but this is tedious, since there are about a dozen patterns I have to go through every time... -- "When a bomb starts talking about itself Jack McKinney in the third person, I get worried."[EMAIL PROTECTED] -Lt. Paris, Star Trek Voyager http://www.lorentz.com 1024D/D68F2C07 4096g/38AEF076 PGP signature
Re: MAILDIR, MBOX
Big Brother tells me that Jason Helfman wrote: So this is my current .qmail file: #./Maildir/ |/usr/bin/procmail So what would I add here? #./Maildir/ ./Mailbox |/usr/bin/procmail Shouldn't that last line be | preline /usr/bin/procmail ? I don't use procmail anymore, since qmail's built-in mail sorting features are so powerful. -- "Restore your inalienable human rights. Jack McKinney Vote Libertarian. http://www.lp.org http://www.lorentz.com http://www.harrybrowne2000.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1024D/D68F2C07 4096g/38AEF076 PGP signature
pgp-hook doesn't work...?
I use pgp-hook to define a key for an email address: pgp-hook [EMAIL PROTECTED] ABCD1234 I also tell mutt to always encrypt to this address: send-hook . set pgp_autoencrypt=no send-hook [EMAIL PROTECTED] set pgp_autoencrypt=yes When I send a message to this email address, mutt indeed knows to encrypt this message by default, and to sign it with my key (I have my pgp_sign_as set): PGP: Sign, Encrypt sign as: D68F2C07 MIC algorithm: pgp-sha1 When I hit 'y' to send the message, I get a prompt in the bottom line: Use keyID = "ABCD1234" for [EMAIL PROTECTED]? ([y]/n): OK... so mutt is idiot-proofing. No problem there. However, when I hit y, I get: q:Exit Return:Select c:Check key ?:Help -1 + 1024DSA /87654321 -s Some Body [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2 + 4096ElG /ABCD1234 e- Some Body [EMAIL PROTECTED] ... -- Mutt: PGP keys matching [EMAIL PROTECTED]. Even though I have specified what key to use, and confirmed it at the prompt mutt gives me, it still does a search on the keyring for a key matching the email address. I then have to move my pointer to option 2 (the encryption key) and hit return. Then I get: gpg: using secondary key ABCD1234 instead of primary key 87654321 gpg: No trust check due to --always-trust option gpg: No trust check due to --always-trust option gpg: writing to `-' gpg: ELG-E/TWOFISH encrypted for: ABCD1234 Some Body [EMAIL PROTECTED] gpg: DSA signature from: D68F2C07 Jack McKinney (VP Programming) [EMAIL PROTECTED] It is just as though I had never put the pgp-hook in there... In summary, mutt uses the appropriate key to sign based on the pgp_sign_as variable, but it pretends to use the pgp-hook, but then makes me choose the key anyway. Then, even though I choose the encryption key, it appears to try and use the primary/signing key, causing GPG to choose the encryption key. JIC, I moved my send-hooks ahead of the pgp-hooks in .muttrc, but it made no difference. Is this a known bug? I haven't taken the time to look through the source code, yet. Also... once you are in the key selection process, there is no turning back without exiting mutt altogether and thus losing the message you were working on. -- "Restore your inalienable human rights. Jack McKinney Vote Libertarian. http://www.lp.org http://www.lorentz.com http://www.harrybrowne2000.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1024D/D68F2C07 4096g/38AEF076 PGP signature
Re: Searching in multiple mailboxes
Big Brother tells me that Mark Weinem wrote: On Mon, 23 Oct 2000, Benjamin Korvemaker wrote: See "grepm" and "grepmail" But are there no tools for Maildirs? cd Maildir; find . -type f | xargs fgrep -l searchstring -- "Restore your inalienable human rights. Jack McKinney Vote Libertarian. http://www.lp.org http://www.lorentz.com http://www.harrybrowne2000.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1024D/D68F2C07 4096g/38AEF076 PGP signature
GPG _and_ PGP?
I have a number of contacts that are unable or unwilling to upgrade to GPG or PGP 2.6.*. This means that they must use RSA and IDEA. While GPG now speaks RSA, and can be patched to support IDEA (though I have yet to get this to work, as I haven't had the time to get all of the source patched manually), a simpler solution would be for mutt to handle GPG and PGP. I have some thoughts... Since mutt simply calls the strings in the config file, there is no reason why they could not be replaced with smart scripts. Has anyone done this? What I am looking for is a script replacement that will check both key rings when verify signatures or decrypting files and return the correct results. It would be nice if the script would also process inline signatures (though mutt would need to be patched for this). For encrypting, it would be nice if it could search both keyrings for the key and encrypt it with the appropriate version. Since some of this can't be done with scripting (mutt doesn't call the verify function if it does not see an detached sig, so an inline attached sig is ignored, as is inline encryption. Even though I have revoked my PGP keys, I still get encrypted email from people using 2.6.*, and mutt just ignores it... -- "Restore your inalienable human rights. Jack McKinney Vote Libertarian. http://www.lp.org http://www.lorentz.com http://www.harrybrowne2000.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1024D/D68F2C07 4096g/38AEF076 PGP signature
Re: Searching in multiple mailboxes
Big Brother tells me that Mark Weinem wrote: On Wed, 25 Oct 2000, Jack McKinney wrote: cd Maildir; find . -type f | xargs fgrep -l searchstring Wow, what a comfortable search tool ;-) For those who remember reading news this way, I thought you'd appreciate it. Sometimes simple solutions are best. If one is using zsh, one could try this: mutt -f (cat $(find . -type f | xargs fgrep -l searchstring)). This might not work due to the missing 'From ' line, but that can always be added: mutt -f (for i in $(find . -type f | xargs fgrep -l searchstring) ; do ; grep '^From: ' $i | head -1 | sed s/From:/From/ ; cat $i ; echo ; done) If one is using a lesser shell, something like this might work: for i in `find . -type f | xargs fgrep -l searchstring` ; do mutt -f $i ; done None of these are tested, BTW. I have been meaning to patch the mailindex package I posted about earlier to process maildirs (it would be a lot easier to write than the way it is currently written, which has to parse mailboxes). -- "Restore your inalienable human rights. Jack McKinney Vote Libertarian. http://www.lp.org http://www.lorentz.com http://www.harrybrowne2000.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1024D/D68F2C07 4096g/38AEF076 PGP signature
Re: mutt and hook question
Big Brother tells me that Marco Giardini wrote: I'd like that all the outgoing mail to a certain e.mail address are saved automatically in a special folder instead of in the outbox one. Is it possible? If yes, how? Thanks for replying fcc-hook [EMAIL PROTECTED] +special-folder -- "Restore your inalienable human rights. Jack McKinney Vote Libertarian. http://www.lp.org http://www.lorentz.com http://www.harrybrowne2000.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1024D/D68F2C07 4096g/38AEF076 PGP signature
pgp-hook with GnuPG 1.0.4?
I have GnuPG 1.0.4 installed and have the standard gpgrc in the contrib samples for mutt in my .muttrc. Almost everything works fine. I have these two lines in my .muttrc: .mutt-gpgrc:set pgp_autosign=yes .mutt-gpgrc:set pgp_sign_as=D68F2C07 When I send the message, mutt automatically knows which key to sign with, and asks me for my passphrase. The problem is when sending messages. I use pgp-hook and send-hook to have mutt automatically encrypt for certain email addresses: pgp-hook [EMAIL PROTECTED] 12345678 send-hook [EMAIL PROTECTED] set pgp_autoencrypt=yes Without these lines, mutt presents me with my entire keyring to select from for encryption. When I add the two lines above to my muttrc file and try again, it presents _two_ keys instead of just one: the DSA signing and ElG encryption key for that user. I am providing the keyid in the pgp-hook command, which should identify only the encryption key for that user. Instead, it is acting like I had provided the email address, and selection all keys that match that address. -- "Restore your inalienable human rights. Jack McKinney Vote Libertarian. http://www.lp.org http://www.lorentz.com http://www.harrybrowne2000.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1024D/D68F2C07 4096g/38AEF076 PGP signature
Re: Searching in multiple mailboxes
Big Brother tells me that Wouter Verheijen wrote: There is something that would be nice to have in Mutt: Searching in multiple (or all) mailboxes. Imagine this scenario: You are looking for a specified text in every message you have. It is only possible to search one mailbox, so this might be handy. Not as easy as one would hope. This could be VERY slow, depending on how much mail you have (I currently have 192MB, AFTER compression). A better solution is to index your mail. I wrote a perl/MySQL package to handle this a while back. It has a couple of bugs that still need to be worked out when I get a chance: http://www.lorentz.com/mailindex.tar.gz -- "Restore your inalienable human rights. Jack McKinney Vote Libertarian. http://www.lp.org http://www.lorentz.com http://www.harrybrowne2000.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1024D/D68F2C07 4096g/38AEF076 PGP signature
Re: mailing lists support
Big Brother tells me that Mike Erickson wrote:
things work fine, but if I use the subscribe keyword, the 'from'
address in the index gets replaced with the name of the list, which
prevents me from seeing who the message is from.
Someone already posted that 'L' does a list-reply, but only if
you have a list or subscribe command for that list.
To make the display show the real sender, you have to change your
format string for your display. Here is mine:
set index_format="%4C %Z %{%b %d} %-15.15F (%4l) %s"
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Ref. env variables in muttrc
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Is it possible to use environment variable values in the .muttrc file somehow? What I'd like to be able to do is put my KeyID for my PGP key into an environment variable, and then have my .muttrc reference this, telling mutt "to find his key id, look in the env var $KEYID": set pgp_sign_as=$KEYID My mail is sorted via .qmail files into folders, some of which are for work, and some of which are personal. I have a work key and a personal key. I am subscribed to dozens of email addresses under each ID/key, meaning that it would take well over 100 folder-hook's to supply either of two key-ids to each folder. If I had had the foresight to name the folders work-mbox, work-cisco-users, me-mbox, me-mutt, me-gnupg-users, etc, then I could now use a regexp in a folder hook. Unfortunately, this is not feasible. I currently read my mail via a zsh script I wrote that checks for mail in each of the folders, and sets my MAILHOST/MAILUSER (used by qmail) environment variables accordingly. I could easily add a couple of lines to this script to also set the 'KEYID' environment variable. Alternately, is it possible to supply the keyid on the command line? - -- "Restore your inalienable human rights. Jack McKinney Vote Libertarian. http://www.lp.org http://www.lorentz.com http://www.harrybrowne2000.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1024D/D68F2C07 4096g/38AEF076 -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.2 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAjnsmf4ACgkQimeon9aPLAcBdQCgpBvAWCkULEfouk8HlYi9Ye82 AGsAoLY9u4hHAnmx3QsW2dhHGkPiyCVA =EN3u -END PGP SIGNATURE-
