Aborted unmodified message

2001-06-28 Thread bren

Hi All,

Hoping that you might help me with a slight problem. I've got a .muttrc
file that was working fine on my work machine. When I copied the .muttrc
over to my home box, I can fire up mutt fine, and can even download
messages from my POP account, but when I try to create a message I get all
the way through inputting the To: and Subject: fields and then I get the
message Aborted unmodified message.

Any ideas on where I should start? Is there an error logging function that
I can turn on?

thanks!

--
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Re: Aborted unmodified message

2001-06-28 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian

bren [mutt-users] 27/06/01 21:17 -0700: 
 Hoping that you might help me with a slight problem. I've got a .muttrc
 file that was working fine on my work machine. When I copied the .muttrc
 over to my home box, I can fire up mutt fine, and can even download
 messages from my POP account, but when I try to create a message I get all
 the way through inputting the To: and Subject: fields and then I get the
 message Aborted unmodified message.
 Any ideas on where I should start? Is there an error logging function that
 I can turn on?
 
What's the path to your editor?  Maybe vi (or vim) is at a different location?

set editor=/usr/bin/vim -c ':0;/^Subject: '

edit that in your .muttrc

-suresh




Re: Aborted unmodified message.

2000-09-28 Thread Byrial Jensen

On Wed, Sep 27, 2000 at 18:42:38 -0400, David T-G wrote:
 Yep, that was what I meant.  Did you try a simple
 
   :set shell=/sbin/sh
 
 from within mutt?  Did you try
 
   :set ?shell
 
 to see what mutt thinks $shell is holding?

The $shell variable is /only/ used for the shell-escape command
(default bound to ! in all menus), so this is not relevant for
this case.

Check instead that EXECSHELL have an absolute path to a valid shell
like this:

$ mutt -v | grep EXECSHELL
EXECSHELL="/bin/sh"
$

EXECSHELL is used for caling all external programs (including the
$shell shell when using the shell-escape command). It defaults to
/bin/sh, but can be changed when mutt is configured with
"./configure --with-exec-shell=EXECSHELL". Se the INSTALL file for
reasons to do that.

 How interesting...  With a valid $shell setting you can't even 
 
   !ls

This doesn't require a valid $shell (try to set $shell to some bad
value and try it - it still works if it worked before), but it
certainly require a valid EXECSHELL.

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Re: Aborted unmodified message.

2000-09-27 Thread Marc van Dongen

Suresh Ramasubramanian ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:

: I rather suspect that the path to vim is wrong in his .muttrc
: Especially if he had an rpm install which would dump vim in /bin or /usr/bin -
: and then compiled a new vim from a tarball, that'd put it into /usr/local/bin
: 
: Use `which vim` to locate where the vim is on your box - and edit the editor
: variable in your .muttrc to reflect the new location.

That wasn't it. The ``path'' to vim was correct---It was using an alias.
I explicitly set the path to where vim resides but that didn't work.

Thanks.

Regards,


Marc van Dongen



Re: Aborted unmodified message.

2000-09-27 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian

Marc van Dongen proclaimed on mutt-users that: 

 That's not the problem. Mutt doesn't seem to let me edit
 at all. With this setting, I can postpone a message for
 later, then recall it and use `e` to edit but mutt won't
 let me

Then check if your tmpdir directory is set properly, or is over-full.
Especially if your copy of vi makes backups of each post ... 

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Re: Aborted unmodified message.

2000-09-27 Thread David T-G

Marc --

...and then Marc van Dongen said...
% David T-G ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
% 
% : %  Aborted unmodified message.
% : % 
% : % Any suggestions how to overcome this problem?
% : 
% : You might start by checking your $editor setting in your muttrc and your
% 
% My editor setting points to an existing vim which works.

Hokay.  That's a good start...


% 
% : $EDITOR and $VISUAL settings in your shell; if they're still pointing to
% 
% EDITOR=VISUAL=

That shouldn't matter much if your $editor is explicit, but at least it's
not confusing.


% 
% : setting to "yes" instead of one of the other possibilities) so mutt will
% : throw it away.
% 
% I can see that.

Good enough.


%  
% : If you can't figure out what's up, try setting mutt's $editor to a
% : quickie script which calls vim and then waits for a keypress before
% : exiting so that you can see any error messages that go by.
% 
% I changed the editor setting to a script that prints something,
% reads a line and then starts to edit. It doesn't seem to be
% called when I press `e.' I still get the `unmodified' message.

No, make sure that you *first* call vim and you *then* wait.  You need to
see that vim is really called and see what messages, if any, it returns.


% 
% So should I set EDITOR and VISUAL to something? I just upgraded
% to a higher solaris 8. Maybe that has to do something with the
% problem as well.

Possbile, but not probable.  I'm still betting on a vim config, though a
full /tmp as already mentioned might be a good place to start (my vim
tmpdir is $HOME/tmp; I forget about the defaults sometimes :-)


% 
% Regards,

HTH  HAND


% 
% 
% Marc van Dongen


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Re: Aborted unmodified message.

2000-09-27 Thread Marc van Dongen

David T-G ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:

[snip]

: % : If you can't figure out what's up, try setting mutt's $editor to a
: % : quickie script which calls vim and then waits for a keypress before
: % : exiting so that you can see any error messages that go by.
: % 
: % I changed the editor setting to a script that prints something,
: % reads a line and then starts to edit. It doesn't seem to be
: % called when I press `e.' I still get the `unmodified' message.
: 
: No, make sure that you *first* call vim and you *then* wait.  You need to
: see that vim is really called and see what messages, if any, it returns.

I overlooked the purpose of you suggestion. It doesn't
make any difference. The script doesn't get called.
 
[snip]

: Possbile, but not probable.  I'm still betting on a vim config, though a
: full /tmp as already mentioned might be a good place to start (my vim
: tmpdir is $HOME/tmp; I forget about the defaults sometimes :-)

I'll have a look at that. Thanks.


Regards,


Marc van Dongen



Re: Aborted unmodified message.

2000-09-27 Thread David T-G

Marc --

...and then Marc van Dongen said...
% David T-G ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
% 
% [snip]
% 
% : % : quickie script which calls vim and then waits for a keypress before
% : % 
% : % I changed the editor setting to a script that prints something,
% : % reads a line and then starts to edit. It doesn't seem to be
% : % called when I press `e.' I still get the `unmodified' message.
% : 
% : No, make sure that you *first* call vim and you *then* wait.  You need to
% : see that vim is really called and see what messages, if any, it returns.
% 
% I overlooked the purpose of you suggestion. It doesn't
% make any difference. The script doesn't get called.

Oho; I see what you mean.  Now *that* is an interesting one.  That answer
will require some thought :-)


%  
% [snip]
% 
% : Possbile, but not probable.  I'm still betting on a vim config, though a
% : full /tmp as already mentioned might be a good place to start (my vim
% : tmpdir is $HOME/tmp; I forget about the defaults sometimes :-)
% 
% I'll have a look at that. Thanks.

Sure thing...


% 
% 
% Regards,
% 
% 
% Marc van Dongen


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Re: Aborted unmodified message.

2000-09-27 Thread Mikko Hänninen

Marc van Dongen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on Wed, 27 Sep 2000:
 I changed the editor setting to a script that prints something,
 reads a line and then starts to edit. It doesn't seem to be
 called when I press `e.' I still get the `unmodified' message.

What doesn't get called when you press e, the script?  (Just making
sure I got that right..)

One way to try to figure out things is to check the current $editor
value from within Mut:

  :set ?editor

This will give you the current editor setting, so you can verify it's
correct.  If it's correct, you can check that Mutt can execute it, with
the ! command:

  !/path/to/your/editor/here


You don't say what the values are, so something to try (if you haven't
yet) is to put full paths into the settings.  Maybe our PATH setting
isn't set up the way you think it is, if you're launching Mutt via some
graphical shell for instance.  This shouldn't be a problem if it's
started from a shell window though.  Still worth a try...


Hope this helps,
Mikko
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Re: Aborted unmodified message.

2000-09-27 Thread Marc van Dongen

Mikko Hänninen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:

: Marc van Dongen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on Wed, 27 Sep 2000:
:  I changed the editor setting to a script that prints something,
:  reads a line and then starts to edit. It doesn't seem to be
:  called when I press `e.' I still get the `unmodified' message.
: 
: What doesn't get called when you press e, the script?  (Just making
: sure I got that right..)

The script to which the editor setting in my .muttrc points doesn't
get called.
 
: correct.  If it's correct, you can check that Mutt can execute it, with
: the ! command:
: 
:   !/path/to/your/editor/here

Good one. I hadn't thought of trying that. It fails
Other shell commands fail as well
 
: You don't say what the values are, so something to try (if you haven't
: yet) is to put full paths into the settings.  Maybe our PATH setting

The path is set up properly. As a matter of fact, the editor
setting in the .muttrc is an absolute pathname.

: isn't set up the way you think it is, if you're launching Mutt via some
: graphical shell for instance.  This shouldn't be a problem if it's

I'm launching mutt from the command-line prompt in a ``regular''
window.

Thanks.

Regards,


Marc van Dongen



Re: Aborted unmodified message.

2000-09-27 Thread Mikko Hänninen

Marc van Dongen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on Wed, 27 Sep 2000:
 :   !/path/to/your/editor/here
 
 Good one. I hadn't thought of trying that. It fails
 Other shell commands fail as well

Well, that's the "reason" then why your editor isn't getting called.

I have no idea why you couldn't run any commands from within Mutt
though, I've never heard of this kind of problem.  Can you even
start /bin/sh (or your own shell)?


Regards,
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Re: Aborted unmodified message.

2000-09-27 Thread Marc van Dongen

Mikko Hänninen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:

[snip]
:  Good one. I hadn't thought of trying that. It fails
:  Other shell commands fail as well
[snip] 
: I have no idea why you couldn't run any commands from within Mutt
: though, I've never heard of this kind of problem.  Can you even
: start /bin/sh (or your own shell)?

Nope. All commands fail. As I mentioned earlier on, I upgraded
from sparc-sun-solaris-2.7 to sparc-sun-solaris-2.8 and
rebuilt mutt from scratch. I did this before as well without
serious problems. I haven't gor a clue what is going on here.
Maybe this is an operating system related problem. I am using
the CDE desktop at the moment but the problem also manifests
itself if I use the openwindows desktop.

Regards,


Marc van Dongen



Re: Aborted unmodified message.

2000-09-27 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian

Marc van Dongen proclaimed on mutt-users that: 

 Maybe this is an operating system related problem. I am using
 the CDE desktop at the moment but the problem also manifests
 itself if I use the openwindows desktop.

Get out of both desktops into the sun shell... try mutt there.

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Re: Aborted unmodified message.

2000-09-27 Thread Marc van Dongen

Suresh Ramasubramanian ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:

: Get out of both desktops into the sun shell... try mutt there.

No success either:-(

Regards,


Marc van Dongen



Re: Aborted unmodified message.

2000-09-27 Thread Bruce DeVisser

On Wed, Sep 27, 2000 at 04:09:04PM +0100, Marc van Dongen wrote:
 Suresh Ramasubramanian ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
 
 : Get out of both desktops into the sun shell... try mutt there.
 
 No success either:-(

And what does  :set ?shell   return?

-- 
- Bruce



Re: Aborted unmodified message.

2000-09-27 Thread Marc van Dongen

Bruce DeVisser ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:

: And what does  :set ?shell   return?

shell="/usr/bin/bash"

which is correct.

Regards,


Marc van Dongen



Re: Aborted unmodified message.

2000-09-27 Thread Morten Liebach

On 27, Sep, 2000 at 01:36:46PM +0100, Marc van Dongen wrote:
 David T-G ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
 
 [snip]
 
 : % : If you can't figure out what's up, try setting mutt's $editor to a
 : % : quickie script which calls vim and then waits for a keypress before
 : % : exiting so that you can see any error messages that go by.
 : % 
 : % I changed the editor setting to a script that prints something,
 : % reads a line and then starts to edit. It doesn't seem to be
 : % called when I press `e.' I still get the `unmodified' message.
 : 
 : No, make sure that you *first* call vim and you *then* wait.  You need to
 : see that vim is really called and see what messages, if any, it returns.
 
 I overlooked the purpose of you suggestion. It doesn't
 make any difference. The script doesn't get called.
  
 [snip]
 
 : Possbile, but not probable.  I'm still betting on a vim config, though a
 : full /tmp as already mentioned might be a good place to start (my vim
 : tmpdir is $HOME/tmp; I forget about the defaults sometimes :-)
 
 I'll have a look at that. Thanks.

This _is_ a long shot, but: what happens when you try to invoke vim from
your shell?

Just a thought I got reading this thread, and I know I myself has
overlooked the blindingly obvious at times ...

HTH, HAND
Morten

-- 
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Re: Aborted unmodified message.

2000-09-27 Thread David T-G

Marc --

...and then Marc van Dongen said...
% Bruce DeVisser ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
% 
% : And what does  :set ?shell   return?
% 
% shell="/usr/bin/bash"
% 
% which is correct.

It may be correct, but it isn't stock :-)  Try settin $shell to /sbin/sh,
which is guaranteed to be completely self-contained.  If *that* works,
then try using /bin/sh to see if your shared libs are all healthy.
If *that* works, then it's all bash's fault.

Note that I don't want to start a shell war; in fact, as much as I
hate to admit it, I think I'm becoming a bash convert because of ksh
limitations :-)


% 
% Regards,

HTH  HAND


% 
% 
% Marc van Dongen


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Re: Aborted unmodified message.

2000-09-27 Thread Marc van Dongen

Morten Liebach ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:

[snip] 
: This _is_ a long shot, but: what happens when you try to invoke vim from
: your shell?

It works great!

[snip]

Regards,


Marc van Dongen



Re: Aborted unmodified message.

2000-09-27 Thread Marc van Dongen

David T-G ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:

: It may be correct, but it isn't stock :-)  Try settin $shell to /sbin/sh,
: which is guaranteed to be completely self-contained.  If *that* works,

I am assuming you are asking me to write a wrapper script around
mutt to set the shell. That didn't work.

Now I am assuming you are asking me put a shell= line in my .muttrc.
That didn't work either.

: then try using /bin/sh to see if your shared libs are all healthy.
: If *that* works, then it's all bash's fault.

That didn't work for the wrapper nor for the shell= variant.
 
: Note that I don't want to start a shell war; in fact, as much as I
: hate to admit it, I think I'm becoming a bash convert because of ksh
: limitations :-)

Good lad!

Thanks again.

Regards,


Marc van Dongen



Re: Aborted unmodified message.

2000-09-27 Thread Mikko Hänninen

Marc van Dongen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on Wed, 27 Sep 2000:
 Bruce DeVisser ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
 
 : And what does  :set ?shell   return?
 
 shell="/usr/bin/bash"
 
 which is correct.

OK..  And you can get a shell (via a terminal window), so you know the
binary is executable etc.?  


Marc van Dongen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on Wed, 27 Sep 2000:
 : I have no idea why you couldn't run any commands from within Mutt
 : though, I've never heard of this kind of problem.  Can you even
 : start /bin/sh (or your own shell)?
 
 Nope. All commands fail.

Well, this is obviously the problem here. :-)  Unfortunately it doesn't
help yet that much in knowing the solution.  But not being able to start
any programs is Very Bad.

 As I mentioned earlier on, I upgraded
 from sparc-sun-solaris-2.7 to sparc-sun-solaris-2.8 and
 rebuilt mutt from scratch. I did this before as well without
 serious problems. I haven't gor a clue what is going on here.
 Maybe this is an operating system related problem.

I don't know the exact details (haven't looked at the source), but I
would guess that the way Mutt starts an external program is with the
system() sytem-function-call.  If your Mutt can't run programs this
way, then something is Seriously Wrong in your setup.

Trying to debug this gets quite hairy though.  On Linux, I would run
Mutt with strace and trace the syscalls it makes, in the hope that I
could see what's the status of the system() function.

For Sun, I don't know what the system call trace program is called --
truss maybe, or was that some other OS?  It may not have one
(installed).

Like I said, if your Mutt can't start programs, things are Seriously
Wrong, and because of it gets quite complex to try to figure out what
is going wrong.

 I am using
 the CDE desktop at the moment but the problem also manifests
 itself if I use the openwindows desktop.

Like someone else suggested, try getting a shell without a windowing
environment, and then try with that.  That way you can check the values
of PATH etc., and know for sure it's not the windowing environment
getting in the way.  I don't actually think it is, however since weird
things are happening I'd try to eliminate every potential source of
confusion.


Regards,
Mikko
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Re: Aborted unmodified message.

2000-09-27 Thread Bruce DeVisser

On Wed, Sep 27, 2000 at 10:57:14PM +0300, Mikko Hänninen wrote:
 I don't know the exact details (haven't looked at the source), but I
 would guess that the way Mutt starts an external program is with the
 system() sytem-function-call.  If your Mutt can't run programs this
 way, then something is Seriously Wrong in your setup.

The help doc mentions /bin/sh -c in relation to mime mailcap stuff...
hopefully that is not a hard-coded path and if so hopefully only used
in a limited place. I have not checked the source (obviously).

-- 
- Bruce



Re: Aborted unmodified message.

2000-09-27 Thread Marc van Dongen

Mikko Hänninen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:

: OK..  And you can get a shell (via a terminal window), so you know the
: binary is executable etc.?  

I am not exactly sure what you mean. External programs, like knews
can start vim as an external program to compose an email message.
 
[snip]

: Like someone else suggested, try getting a shell without a windowing
: environment, and then try with that.  That way you can check the values
: of PATH etc., and know for sure it's not the windowing environment
: getting in the way.  I don't actually think it is, however since weird
: things are happening I'd try to eliminate every potential source of
: confusion.

That doesn't work there either.  Thanks.


Regards,


Marc van Dongen



Re: Aborted unmodified message.

2000-09-27 Thread David T-G

Marc --

...and then Marc van Dongen said...
% David T-G ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
% 
% : It may be correct, but it isn't stock :-)  Try settin $shell to /sbin/sh,
% : which is guaranteed to be completely self-contained.  If *that* works,
% 
% I am assuming you are asking me to write a wrapper script around
% mutt to set the shell. That didn't work.

Nope, that wasn't it.


% 
% Now I am assuming you are asking me put a shell= line in my .muttrc.
% That didn't work either.

Yep, that was what I meant.  Did you try a simple

  :set shell=/sbin/sh

from within mutt?  Did you try

  :set ?shell

to see what mutt thinks $shell is holding?


% 
% : then try using /bin/sh to see if your shared libs are all healthy.
% : If *that* works, then it's all bash's fault.
% 
% That didn't work for the wrapper nor for the shell= variant.

How interesting...  With a valid $shell setting you can't even 

  !ls

manually, eh?  Still more thinking on my part :-)


%  
% : Note that I don't want to start a shell war; in fact, as much as I
% : hate to admit it, I think I'm becoming a bash convert because of ksh
% : limitations :-)
% 
% Good lad!

*grin*


% 
% Thanks again.

HTH  HAND


% 
% Regards,
% 
% 
% Marc van Dongen


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Re: Aborted unmodified message.

2000-09-27 Thread Byrial Jensen

On Wed, Sep 27, 2000 at 22:57:14 +0300, Mikko Hänninen wrote:
 
 I don't know the exact details (haven't looked at the source), but I
 would guess that the way Mutt starts an external program is with the
 system() sytem-function-call.

Mutt has its own implementaion of system() to have better control
on signal handling and redirection. It uses execl() like this to
execute a program:

   execl (EXECSHELL, "sh", "-c", cmd, NULL);
   
EXECSHELL can be set with the configure script, and the compiled-in
value can be seen with "mutt -v". I advise to check this as a bad
value for EXECSHELL can prevent Mutt from executing any external
program.

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Re: Aborted unmodified message.

2000-09-27 Thread Aaron Schrab

At 22:57 +0300 27 Sep 2000, Mikko Hänninen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 For Sun, I don't know what the system call trace program is called --
 truss maybe, or was that some other OS?  It may not have one
 (installed).

truss is correct.  I'd probably use:

  truss -o /tmp/mutt.truss -f -t exec mutt

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Aborted unmodified message.

2000-09-26 Thread Marc van Dongen

Hi there,

I just re-installed vim on my system.
When I now try to compose a message
after  I enter the name of the recipient
mutt does not allow me to write a message.
Istead it displays a
 Aborted unmodified message.
message.

Any suggestions how to overcome this problem?

Thanks in advance.


Marc van Dongen
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PS: This message was sent by a different mutt from a different machine.




Re: Aborted unmodified message.

2000-09-26 Thread David Champion

On 2000.09.26, in [EMAIL PROTECTED],
"Marc van Dongen" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 Hi there,
 
 I just re-installed vim on my system.
 When I now try to compose a message
 after  I enter the name of the recipient
 mutt does not allow me to write a message.
 Istead it displays a
  Aborted unmodified message.
 message.

set abort_unmodified=ask-no

Wow, two questions in a row I'm dealing with as they roll in.  

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Aborted unmodified message.

2000-07-05 Thread User Jasapp

Hey, I'm having some trouble with mutt. I'm using mutt-1.2.2i, compiled
with the --enable-pop, running
on FreeBSD 4.0 Stable. I can check my mail fine, but when I try to send
mail, it doesn't work.
First, I hit "m", for new mail, then type in the address on the "to:"
line, and hit enter. Then it just says,
"Aborted unmodified message.". I can send mail using other muas just
fine, and I've
checked all ther permissions. Can someone help me out?

Jeff
(Please reply directly, I'm not on the list)




Re: Aborted unmodified message.

2000-07-05 Thread Mikko Hänninen

User Jasapp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on Wed, 05 Jul 2000:
 First, I hit "m", for new mail, then type in the address on the "to:"
 line, and hit enter. Then it just says,
 "Aborted unmodified message.".

Sounds like the execution of your editor fails.  That is, after Mutt
has created a template email file (with your signature and possibly
any quoted text from an email you're replying to), it's running your
editor on that file, but the command fails.

What editor are you using?  Do you have the environment variables
VISUAL and/or EDITOR defined?  You can check what Mutt thinks the
editor command is by doing:

  :set ?editor

... within Mutt.  You can also set the editor to some command, with:

  :set editor=/path/to/my/editor

(leave out the : from the beginning if you're putting that command in
the .muttrc file)


Hope this helps,
Mikko
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Re: Aborted unmodified message.

2000-07-05 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian

User Jasapp proclaimed on mutt-users that:

First, I hit "m", for new mail, then type in the address on the "to:"
line, and hit enter. Then it just says,
"Aborted unmodified message.". I can send mail using other muas just
fine, and I've checked all ther permissions. Can someone help me out?

vi (or vim) is the default editor - put this in your .muttrc

set editor="/path/to/vim" (usually /usr/bin/vim or /usr/local/bin/vim).
Of course, feel free to use whatever other editor you want (say
/path/to/pico -t -z" if you want to be sacrilegeous) :)

To find out where your editor is, do 

$ which vim (or pico or joe or ...)

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