Going through the mailing list and the documentation on mutt.org, it strikes
me that what we lack is a 'How do I' FAQ (of the sort perl has). Of course,
it'd be semiredundant informationwise since it's all there in the manual,
but it'd be a useful resource for the newbie daunted by the sheer mass
Martin Julian DeMello proclaimed on mutt-users that:
Going through the mailing list and the documentation on mutt.org, it strikes
me that what we lack is a 'How do I' FAQ (of the sort perl has). Of course,
Martin - I've been working on something like this (and it's a bit rough
now). I'll
I'm currently an MH/exmh user, and I'm considering the switch to
mutt.I have tried it out briefly, and browsed the
documentation, so hopefully the following questions aren't too
obvious.
1. Folder changes are really slow. My MH folders (directories)
have thousands of
On Mon, Jun 19, 2000 at 12:02:53AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
...so it can be tested if an X-server is running. What is this program
RunningX ? Is it an utility that comes with X (it is not on my
machine), or a simple script in bash or so (a test about a variable
like $TERM) ?
It's a C
On Sun, Jun 18, 2000 at 11:36:34PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In my .muttrc, I've put a line in the way to set my editor:
set editor="vi -c 'set wrap' -c 'set textwidth=0' -c 'set linebreak'"
It works fine. But in some mailing-lists, one asked me to limit the
length of my messages at
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:
send-hook '~t linux-bruxelles' set editor="vi +set textwidth=72"
what about set editor="vi \"+set textwidth=72\""?
clemens
clemensF proclaimed on mutt-users that:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:
send-hook '~t linux-bruxelles' set editor="vi +set textwidth=72"
what about set editor="vi \"+set textwidth=72\""?
Put this in your .vimrc
set tw=72
--
Suresh Ramasubramanian + [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Five is a sufficiently close
Brett Coon:
1. Folder changes are really slow. My MH folders (directories)
have thousands of messages, which undoubtedly is at least
part of the problem. Would it be faster if I stored messages
in mbox format? Is there anything else I can do to speed
it up other than
Gary Johnson:
...so it can be tested if an X-server is running. What is this program
RunningX ? Is it an utility that comes with X (it is not on my
you might consider just using standard "/usr/bin/test -n $DISPLAY". no
need for special programs, if you test the existence of the x-
Clueless --
...and then Suresh Ramasubramanian said...
% David T-G proclaimed on mutt-users that:
%
% fcc-save-hook \
...
% folders under $HOME/Mail/PALS instead of under $HOME/Mail. I'd really
% like to be able to define a class of pals so that I can say
%
% Call me clueless but this
On 18-Jun-2000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In my .muttrc, I've put a line in the way to set my editor:
set editor="vi -c 'set wrap' -c 'set textwidth=0' -c 'set linebreak'"
I personally separate my vimrc for general editing and for mail
editing. Hence in mutt I put:
set editor = "vi -u
On 19-Jun-2000, clemensF wrote:
Brett Coon:
1. Folder changes are really slow. My MH folders (directories)
have thousands of messages, which undoubtedly is at least
part of the problem. Would it be faster if I stored messages
in mbox format? Is there anything else I can
Brett Coon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on Mon, 19 Jun 2000:
2. The feature I *really* want in a mailtool is the ability to
(conveniently) put various attributes on messages, such as
"answer within 1 week", "delete after 2 weeks", etc, and
have the mailtool act accordingly on messages
Suresh --
...and then Suresh Ramasubramanian said...
% Martin Julian DeMello proclaimed on mutt-users that:
%
% Going through the mailing list and the documentation on mutt.org, it strikes
% me that what we lack is a 'How do I' FAQ (of the sort perl has). Of course,
%
% Martin - I've been
Hi,
clemensF typed:
you might consider just using standard "/usr/bin/test -n $DISPLAY". no
need for special programs, if you test the existence of the x- variable
used to indicate, well, the display to use.
No it's different. If you're in a console while X is running, the
RunningX test will
Hi, folks --
...and then Mikko Hänninen said...
% Brett Coon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on Mon, 19 Jun 2000:
% 2. The feature I *really* want in a mailtool is the ability to
% (conveniently) put various attributes on messages, such as
% "answer within 1 week", "delete after 2 weeks",
David T-G [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on Mon, 19 Jun 2000:
Any way to put the X-Label: contents into $index_format?
I think so. I'm not sure though, it's awhile since it was discussed and
I'm not running the latest dev so I can't test it out or check the docs.
Mikko
--
// Mikko Hänninen, aka.
I'm trying to use emacs as the editor for mutt. Only problem I have is
that the new version of emacs that came with Redhat 6.2 has a much
larger font than previous releases. How do I set the font size to
something a little smaller?
-- dale
ICQ # 67278457
Dale --
...and then Dale Morris said...
% I'm trying to use emacs as the editor for mutt. Only problem I have is
Ick :-)
% that the new version of emacs that came with Redhat 6.2 has a much
% larger font than previous releases. How do I set the font size to
% something a little smaller?
No
On Mon, Jun 19, 2000 at 09:22:07AM -0700, Dale Morris wrote:
- I'm trying to use emacs as the editor for mutt. Only problem I have is
- that the new version of emacs that came with Redhat 6.2 has a much
- larger font than previous releases. How do I set the font size to
- something a little
Ronny Haryanto:
I've converted my mailboxes to maildir once, it turned out to be
slower than mbox, so I converted back to mbox now. Dunno about MH, but
I'm guessing it's about the same speed as maildir since it resembles
maildir.
are your files on a network?
clemens
Virginie [ ML ]:
defaults mda "formail -ds procmail"
one can save one exec and much complexity using:
mda "/usr/local/bin/procmail -t -f-"
clemens
On Sun, Jun 18, 2000 at 05:49:47PM -0700, Brian D. Winters wrote:
Never, never, never filter a mailing list like mutt-users based on
To:, Cc:, From:, Subject:, Reply-To: or Mail-Followup-To: if you can
possibly help it. What happens the first time someone bcc's the list?
Think about it.
On 2000.06.19, in [EMAIL PROTECTED],
"David T-G" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Any way to put the X-Label: contents into $index_format?
My index_format has: "%?y?[%y] ?". From the docs:
The ``X-Label:'' header field can be used to further identify mailing
lists or list subject matter
Hi there. I can't seem to figure this one out. It's like sendmail
is re-writing the Return-Path header and it's making my posts to some
mailing lists bounce for some reason.
I insert a my_hdr Return-Path:... statement into the .muttrc for
[EMAIL PROTECTED] but when it bounced back for the
Rob Reid proclaimed on mutt-users that:
If mutt can't or won't be reorganized in a better way, maybe somebody (else ;-)
could write a script to take alias definitions and produce lists of save-hooks
and fcc-save-hooks. A similar neat trick would be to simultaneously define
mailing lists in
Hi all!
I want to define an implicite send-hook for all mailing lists I am
subscribed to and define a special attribution, use special signatures
and something like that.
Is it possible to process the entries of "subscribe" or "lists" to use
it for send-hook, e.g.:
send-hook ($subsribe) 'set
Hi all,
On Mon, 19 Jun 2000, Ronny Haryanto wrote:
On 18-Jun-2000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In my .muttrc, I've put a line in the way to set my editor:
set editor="vi -c 'set wrap' -c 'set textwidth=0' -c 'set linebreak'"
I personally separate my vimrc for general editing and for mail
* David T-G [EMAIL PROTECTED] [190600 16:42 CET]:
[mutt faq]
Hey, I'm interested :-)
Me too ;-)
%
% it'd be semiredundant informationwise since it's all there in the manual,
% but it'd be a useful resource for the newbie daunted by the sheer mass of
% options and settings to wade
On Mon, Jun 19, 2000 at 10:27:05PM +0300, Mikko Hänninen wrote:
I insert a my_hdr Return-Path:... statement into the .muttrc for
[EMAIL PROTECTED] but when it bounced back for the second
time it showed the Return-Path as [EMAIL PROTECTED] (where
devel.danen.net is the hostname for this
On 2000.06.19, in [EMAIL PROTECTED],
"David Champion" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 2000.06.19, in [EMAIL PROTECTED],
"David T-G" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Any way to put the X-Label: contents into $index_format?
My index_format has: "%?y?[%y] ?". From the docs:
...
Vincent Danen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on Mon, 19 Jun 2000:
Hmmm... I use Qmail as my SMTP server on my server, but not on this
machine. Maybe I should use Qmail on this machine also...
Maybe, no arguments from me. :-) (I use qmail at home too...)
Is there no way to get mutt to talk to
On Mon, Jun 19, 2000 at 07:46:42PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sun, Jun 18, 2000 at 05:49:47PM -0700, Brian D. Winters wrote:
Never, never, never filter a mailing list like mutt-users based on
To:, Cc:, From:, Subject:, Reply-To: or Mail-Followup-To: if you can
possibly help it.
On Mon, Jun 19, 2000 at 11:34:45PM +0300, Mikko Hänninen wrote:
Vincent Danen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on Mon, 19 Jun 2000:
Hmmm... I use Qmail as my SMTP server on my server, but not on this
machine. Maybe I should use Qmail on this machine also...
Maybe, no arguments from me. :-) (I
At 2:11 AM EDT on June 19 Suresh Ramasubramanian sent off:
Rob Reid proclaimed on mutt-users that:
If mutt can't or won't be reorganized in a better way, maybe somebody (else ;-)
could write a script to take alias definitions and produce lists of save-hooks
and fcc-save-hooks. A similar
Hello Dirk!
On Mon, 19 Jun 2000, Dirk Ruediger wrote:
I want to define an implicite send-hook for all mailing lists I am
subscribed to and define a special attribution, use special signatures
and something like that.
Is it possible to process the entries of "subscribe" or "lists" to use
Mrinal Kalakrishnan:
No it's different. If you're in a console while X is running, the
RunningX test will fail, because it actually tries to open the
display. Whereas the $DISPLAY variable still exists, so "test -n
$DISPLAY" test passes. So if you're in a console, while X is running,
then
Mrinal Kalakrishnan:
No it's different. If you're in a console while X is running, the
RunningX test will fail, because it actually tries to open the
display. Whereas the $DISPLAY variable still exists, so "test -n
isn't there some other way (a unix way) for trying to open the x- display?
On 2000.06.19, in [EMAIL PROTECTED],
"clemensF" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Mrinal Kalakrishnan:
No it's different. If you're in a console while X is running, the
RunningX test will fail, because it actually tries to open the
display. Whereas the $DISPLAY variable still exists, so
On Tue, Jun 20, 2000 at 03:04:19AM +0200, clemensF wrote:
isn't there some other way (a unix way) for trying to open the x- display?
is one of the standard /dev/* devices associated with an x- display?
no (there's a socket associated with it, but the location and permissions
vary from one
Vincent Danen writes:
Hi there. I can't seem to figure this one out. It's like sendmail
is re-writing the Return-Path header and it's making my posts to some
mailing lists bounce for some reason.
I insert a my_hdr Return-Path:... statement into the .muttrc for
That is a pretty useless
Lars Hecking [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on Tue, 20 Jun 2000:
I insert a my_hdr Return-Path:... statement into the .muttrc for
That is a pretty useless thing to do, according RFC 822.
Not if you use a MTA (or rather, mail-injection-agent (MIA?)) that
picks out that header and uses it for
I recently have been trying to upgrade from Mutt 1.0.1i to Mutt 1.2i
(using the Debian packages from frozen and unstable respectively). The problem
that I'm running into has to do with PGP support.
I have several friends who use Eudora on Windows (they just won't quit using
Windows) and
I insert a my_hdr Return-Path:... statement into the .muttrc for
[EMAIL PROTECTED] but when it bounced back for the second
time it showed the Return-Path as [EMAIL PROTECTED] (where
devel.danen.net is the hostname for this computer). Since I can't
quite change the hostname on the fly, does
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