Re: A word about submitting patches.

2000-05-21 Thread Thomas Roessler
On 2000-05-20 17:08:37 -0500, Will Fiveash wrote: Thomas, I agree with the above. *grin* I do know that I'm bad at documenting changes myself. As a gently reminder, I saw your revised patch for the Gecos regex code and noticed that you removed the comments I had in the original code.

Re: x-mailer header

2000-05-21 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
clemensF proclaimed on mutt-users that: Suresh Ramasubramanian: unset user_agent (mutt 1.2 only) +That+ will get rid of the User-Agent: Mutt 1.2i. I doubt if it will get rid of the X-Mailer tag (which is not generated by newer mutts anyway). i think you repeat exactly what he said, and

'reload .muttrc' removes parens around no-of-lines in index

2000-05-21 Thread Russell Hoover
I've noticed recently that when I'm looking at mutt's index, and I do a 'reload .muttrc', suddenly the parentheses around the number-of-lines field disappear. Also, a zero gets added to the date field just-to-the-left-of the number representing days of the month consisting of a single digit. In

Re: x-mailer header

2000-05-21 Thread clemensF
Suresh Ramasubramanian: :) ... but is there any hassle about X-Mailer: remaining in your mail? I haven't yet seen an RFC raising any objection to X-Foo: headers yet :) it's no rfc matter, it's personal taste. If you don't like to see it you can always set ignore X-Mailer :) but i want

Mutt-1.2 and xbiff (is 'timeout=0' broken?)

2000-05-21 Thread Ulf Erikson
Greetings, As I have understood I am not the only one who wishes to use xbiff to announce new mail instead of Mutt, I assume someone of you know what goes on in the new version 1.2. It seems to me that it no longer is possible to turn off the timeout by using a value of zero or less. A quick

Re: 'reload .muttrc' removes parens around no-of-lines in index

2000-05-21 Thread Mikko Hänninen
Russell Hoover [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on Sun, 21 May 2000: I've noticed recently that when I'm looking at mutt's index, and I do a 'reload .muttrc', suddenly the parentheses around the number-of-lines field disappear. [...] If I change folders (or even 'change' into the same folder), the

Re: A word about submitting patches.

2000-05-21 Thread Will Fiveash
On Sat, May 20, 2000 at 06:02:01PM +0200, Thomas Roessler wrote: When submitting patches for the mutt code, please make sure you follow a couple of elementary guidelines: - Please document your changes. Thomas, I agree with the above. As a gently reminder, I saw your revised patch for the

absolute newbie...

2000-05-21 Thread Manuel Arriaga
Hi everyone, I am trying to send /receive emails from the console, so I went for (and installed) mutt 1.2 and postfix. I believe I configured postfix correctly, but now I haven't got *a clue* on how to use mutt. And I did try to read the provided manual and the man page for mutt, but they

Re: absolute newbie...

2000-05-21 Thread Mikko Hänninen
Hello, Manuel Arriaga [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on Sun, 21 May 2000: How can I, for example send an email? Is there any special configuration necessary before doing so? Well, not really. Mutt needs these things (that I can think of): /usr/bin/sendmail (or something like that), for sending

Re: absolute newbie...

2000-05-21 Thread Emily Slocombe
* Manuel Arriaga [EMAIL PROTECTED] [000521 14:55]: |Hi everyone, | |I am trying to send /receive emails from the console, so I went for (and |installed) mutt 1.2 and postfix. | you can change your editor to anything you want, emacs is a bit bloated. I like Jove -- lighter than emacs or jed.

Re: absolute newbie...

2000-05-21 Thread Gero Treuner
Hi! On Sun, May 21, 2000 at 07:44:58PM +0100, Manuel Arriaga wrote: I believe I configured postfix correctly, but now I haven't got *a clue* on how to use mutt. And I did try to read the provided manual and the man page for mutt, but they don't seem to cover the basics... can anyone point me

Re: absolute newbie...

2000-05-21 Thread Manuel Arriaga
Hi Emily, Mikko and Gero, Thank you all for your replies. This first problem is over! :-) The "export VISUAL" and "export EDITOR" command lines did the trick, and I got to edit the message. Then I closed emacs (I still haven't found a place I can download jove from, but I will try it out,

Re: absolute newbie...

2000-05-21 Thread Emily Slocombe
* Manuel Arriaga [EMAIL PROTECTED] [000521 16:03]: |Hi Emily, Mikko and Gero, | |I guess this means that my postfix install isn't that kosher after all, |right? this doesn't seem to have anything to do with mutt itself; am I |right? | This is not from an official site, but Jove hasn't been

Re: absolute newbie...

2000-05-21 Thread Charles Curley
On Sun, May 21, 2000 at 07:44:58PM +0100, Manuel Arriaga wrote: - Hi everyone, - - I am trying to send /receive emails from the console, so I went for (and - installed) mutt 1.2 and postfix. - - I believe I configured postfix correctly, but now I haven't got *a clue* - on how to use mutt. And

Re: absolute newbie...

2000-05-21 Thread Manuel Arriaga
Hi Emily/all, I just noticed that the 4 highly enthusiastic emails I sent to this list didn't make it to your mailboxes, because postfix is sending my email with the wrong domain name, so the list daemon just blocks my messages... :-( Anyway, I would like to know whether it is possible to have

Re: absolute newbie...

2000-05-21 Thread clemensF
Emily Slocombe: I got a bizarre error from trying to do a reply to all to you and the mutt user group. The message follows: From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun May 21 15:18:32 2000 From: Mail Delivery Subsystem [EMAIL PROTECTED] me too. same error message. -- clemens

Re: absolute newbie...

2000-05-21 Thread Manuel Arriaga
Resync $ But how do I give that command? -Manuel

Success! Do you know which MUA I am using for sending this email??

2000-05-21 Thread root
Hi all/Emily, Success! I just discovered that I had accidentally deleted the symlink in /usr/sbin/sendmail which called postfix, so that was why the messages weren't being sent at all. Then I called a small script (copied from the postfix docs) which flushes the mail queue and In the

success!

2000-05-21 Thread root
Hi Emily, thank you for all the tips! Now everything works fine: I had accidentally deleted /usr/sbin/sendmail, but now postfix already sends my messages correctly (hopefully it will also send this one...! :-). I would just like to know how the "email-gurus" :-) retrieve their email, enter

Re: absolute newbie...

2000-05-21 Thread Mikko Hänninen
Emily Slocombe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on Sun, 21 May 2000: I got a bizarre error from trying to do a reply to all to you and the mutt user group. The message follows: From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun May 21 15:18:32 2000 From: Mail Delivery Subsystem [EMAIL PROTECTED] ... - The

Re: absolute newbie...

2000-05-21 Thread clemensF
Manuel Arriaga: Anyway, I would like to know whether it is possible to have mutt display any new messages that fetchmail retrieved automatically since mutt was yes. read the manual. you can specify the intervals for mutt to look for new mail. also, whenever you say '$' to resynchronize,

.fetchmailrc

2000-05-21 Thread Richard Spencer
When I began using Linux I started with Red Hat 6.0 and used KDE's KMail for a MUA. At that time I was checking 2 email accounts for mail, which was easy to implement, but I wasn't thrilled about the lack of configurability, and wanted a text-based MUA. I then decided to switch to Mutt, and

Re: success!

2000-05-21 Thread Mikko Hänninen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on Sun, 21 May 2000: thank you for all the tips! Now everything works fine: Good to hear that. :-) I would just like to know how the "email-gurus" :-) retrieve their email, enter their MUA and then have it sent to their ISP without using as many

Re: absolute newbie...

2000-05-21 Thread Mikko Hänninen
Manuel Arriaga [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on Sun, 21 May 2000: I just noticed that the 4 highly enthusiastic emails I sent to this list didn't make it to your mailboxes, because postfix is sending my email with the wrong domain name, so the list daemon just blocks my messages... :-( Well, at

Re: success!

2000-05-21 Thread Emily Slocombe
* [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [000521 20:00]: | |#fetchmail |#mutt |#.send (name of a small script that came with postfix) can't really help with pushing the qmail queue, as I don't know much about it. But for fetchmail, you could benefit from running it in daemon mode. Just specify it

[Announce] mutt 1.2 RPMs @ mutt.linuxatwork.at

2000-05-21 Thread Thomas Ribbrock
Hi folks, just to announce that the RPM team has (finally, as some might say... :-} ) built a few RPMs for mutt 1.2 and provided them at http://mutt.linuxatwork.at Right now, we have: Distro| i386 | i586 | i686 | K6 | Sparc | Alpha

Re: .fetchmailrc

2000-05-21 Thread Mikko Hänninen
Hi, Richard Spencer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on Sun, 21 May 2000: But today I tried to use Mutt to check the other account as well. Here's what I did: created a .fetchmailrc like this... This is more of a fetchmail question that Mutt question. I'll answer the fetchmail part as best I

Thank you all.

2000-05-21 Thread root
Thank you all. -Manuel

Re: absolute newbie...

2000-05-21 Thread David T-G
Manuel clemens -- ...and then clemensF said... % Manuel Arriaga: % % Anyway, I would like to know whether it is possible to have mutt display % any new messages that fetchmail retrieved automatically since mutt was % % yes. read the manual. you can specify the intervals for mutt to look

Re: 'reload .muttrc' removes parens around no-of-lines in index

2000-05-21 Thread Russell Hoover
On Sun 05/21/00 at 09:12 PM +0300, Mikko Hänninen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sounds like you have different settings for the $index_format in a stand-alone "set index_format" command and in folder-hooks. This was indeed the problem. Thanks. // [EMAIL

Re: absolute newbie...

2000-05-21 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Actually, one of the people subscribed to this list has a broken procmailrc or a full mailbox. His MTA is returning bounces for every post from mutt-users that tries to reach him. clemensF proclaimed on mutt-users that: Emily Slocombe: I got a bizarre error from trying to do a reply to all