Re: reconstituting mangled quotes

2001-07-17 Thread Biju Chacko
On Mon, Jul 16, 2001 at 11:20:15AM -0700, Chris Fuchs wrote: On Mon, Jul 16, 2001 at 01:00:09PM -0500, David Champion wrote: Thanks, looks like I'll add vim to my mutt learning curve. Are you already using vim? No reason to start, just to get word wrap. par (under vi) handles this, and I'd

Re: reconstituting mangled quotes

2001-07-17 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Biju Chacko [mutt-users] 17/07/01 12:56 +0530: If you can easily run external programs from it, then look into 'par'. Or fmt - which, as part of the GNU textutils package you can reasonably expect to find on most unix systems. Par is much better, of course ... -suresh -- Suresh

Re: vfolders

2001-07-17 Thread Tracy R Reed
On Fri, Jul 13, 2001 at 02:59:00PM +0200, Ralf Hildebrandt wrote: On Fri, Jul 13, 2001 at 08:56:08AM -0400, Walt Mankowski wrote: I've done some experimenting with Maildirs. I've found it to be quite a bit *slower* than mbox, particularly on big folders. This is on a Linux ext2

print_command ignored?

2001-07-17 Thread Jim Crumley
I'm having problems with the print_command I have set in my muttrc being ignored. These problems are with version 1.2.5. I have print_command set as: set print_command = enscript -2Gr I've also tried setting it equal to a2ps, or even /bin/false, but it always prints to lpr (I've checked this

Re: vfolders

2001-07-17 Thread Ralf Hildebrandt
On Tue, Jul 17, 2001 at 12:48:53AM -0700, Tracy R Reed wrote: Not only that but create a reiserfs filesystem and put your Maildir on it. It will absolutely FLY! reiserfs was designed for handling many small files such as in a Maildir. I've been using reiserfs for a year now with excellent

Re: print_command ignored?

2001-07-17 Thread Dave Pearson
On Mon, Jul 16, 2001 at 05:00:12PM -0500, Jim Crumley wrote: Any hints on how to debug this? I started to look at the configuration file reading part of the code, but C is not my best language so I am not very sure what to look at. What gets printed if you enter: , | :set ?print_command

Re: print_command ignored?

2001-07-17 Thread Jim Crumley
On Tue, Jul 17, 2001 at 11:39:41AM +0100, Dave Pearson wrote: On Mon, Jul 16, 2001 at 05:00:12PM -0500, Jim Crumley wrote: Any hints on how to debug this? I started to look at the configuration file reading part of the code, but C is not my best language so I am not very sure what to

Newbie question

2001-07-17 Thread Fox Mulder
hi all.. finally i have got mutt working with fetchmail and procmail. I am really happy. I have a few questions, and basically want to know if i am doing things the right way. I hav a fetchmail daemon that gets mails from 3 accounts. procmail leaves mail from 1 account in spool, and sends the

Re: Newbie question

2001-07-17 Thread Biju Chacko
On Tue, Jul 17, 2001 at 06:21:44PM +0530, Fox Mulder wrote: Now when i start mutt, i get only the spool. I have to do a c=foldrname to get to the folder. i expect this is normal. Is there some way in which i can get to know if any new messages are in the other folders without actually going

Re: Newbie question

2001-07-17 Thread Fox Mulder
hi... thanks for the quick reply. I could not find any set mailboxes= in the manual. Perhaps you are refering to the mailboxes command, which i have already given. it is something like, mailboxes ! ankit mulder whai i want to know is whether there is a way to find the number of unread

more questions

2001-07-17 Thread Fox Mulder
hi. i already have a few more questions. 1) in the thread view, the indication that i get for a thread is like broken characters, unlike the smooth and better looking ones in the screenshots at the mutt website. I hope you understand what i mean... And this is after i give the set ascii_chars

Re: more questions

2001-07-17 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Fox Mulder [mutt-users] 17/07/01 19:14 +0530: 1) in the thread view, the indication that i get for a thread is like broken characters, unlike the smooth and better looking ones in the screenshots at the mutt website. I hope you understand what i mean... And this is after i give the set

Re: more questions

2001-07-17 Thread Chris Gentle
On Tue, Jul 17, 2001 at 07:14:40PM +0530, Fox Mulder wrote: 2) again at the mutt.org site, in one of the screenshots, i saw menus on the top of the window reading messages, folders, pgp etc. how do i get those? do i need some sort of a patch or something? This is Eterm adding the menus. They

Re: reconstituting mangled quotes

2001-07-17 Thread David Champion
On 2001.07.17, in [EMAIL PROTECTED], Suresh Ramasubramanian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Biju Chacko [mutt-users] 17/07/01 12:56 +0530: If you can easily run external programs from it, then look into 'par'. Or fmt - which, as part of the GNU textutils package you can reasonably expect

Re: more questions

2001-07-17 Thread Fox Mulder
* Suresh Ramasubramanian [EMAIL PROTECTED] [19:39 17/07/01]: Fox Mulder [mutt-users] 17/07/01 19:14 +0530: 1) in the thread view, the indication that i get for a thread is like broken characters, unlike the smooth and better looking ones in the screenshots at the mutt website. I hope you

Re: FCC lines header?

2001-07-17 Thread Paul Cox
On Monday, Jul 16, 2001, Drew Raines wrote: Sure... don't bother with line counts. Just change your index_format to show the size of the message instead. Interesting. Although I like the linecount better, I think. It gives me a better picture of the length of a message at first

Inc?

2001-07-17 Thread Justin R. Miller
Quick question: At the top of my Mutt there are the standard indications, such as Msgs, Del, New, Old, and Inc... what does Inc stand for? I know it's the number of folders with new messages, but what is it an abbreviation for? Just curious. -Justin -- [ ] -- Justin R. Miller - [EMAIL

Re: Inc?

2001-07-17 Thread Fox Mulder
hi.. i am trying to get something like this. how and where do you get these indicators? ankit mohan * Justin R. Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] [20:23 17/07/01]: Quick question: At the top of my Mutt there are the standard indications, such as Msgs, Del, New, Old, and Inc... what does Inc stand

Re: Inc?

2001-07-17 Thread Justin R. Miller
Thus spake Fox Mulder ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): i am trying to get something like this. how and where do you get these indicators? I believe this is what accomplishes it: set status_on_top=yes You can also configure what this looks like with on of those ..._format variables. -Justin --

Re: more questions

2001-07-17 Thread Andre Wyrwa
On Tue, 17. Jul 2001 um 08:00:18PM +0530, Fox Mulder wrote: yea, that is what it looks like. i am on slackware 8.0, and have terminal type set to linux. i get the same even when the terminal type is xterm, only then i dont get colors. also, it is the same in text mode, and xwindows... I'm

Re: Inc?

2001-07-17 Thread Andre Wyrwa
On Tue, 17. Jul 2001 um 08:26:19PM +0530, Fox Mulder wrote: hi.. i am trying to get something like this. how and where do you get these indicators? ankit mohan It's the status bar, normally at button of mutt, but you can switch it to top with the canonical status_on_top . André.

Re: Simple mutt question ... I think?

2001-07-17 Thread Mr. Wade
On Mon, Jul 16, 2001, Chris Fuchs wrote: on Wed,11 Jul 2001, Mr. Wade wrote: Anthony Green [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would just like to find out if its possible in mutt to setup so that if you use a signature file, the signature is added to the top of the email, rather than the

Re: Inc?

2001-07-17 Thread Michael Elkins
On Tue, Jul 17, 2001 at 10:33:28AM -0400, Justin R. Miller wrote: At the top of my Mutt there are the standard indications, such as Msgs, Del, New, Old, and Inc... what does Inc stand for? I know it's the number of folders with new messages, but what is it an abbreviation for? Incoming. It

Re: Inc?

2001-07-17 Thread Dave Pearson
On Tue, Jul 17, 2001 at 10:33:28AM -0400, Justin R. Miller wrote: At the top of my Mutt there are the standard indications, such as Msgs, Del, New, Old, and Inc... what does Inc stand for? I know it's the number of folders with new messages, but what is it an abbreviation for? Just curious.

Re: Simple mutt question ... I think?

2001-07-17 Thread Chris Fuchs
on Tue,17 Jul 2001, Mr. Wade wrote: Yeah,... only the first line of output from the script in backtics. From the manual: Note that since initialization files are line oriented, only the first line of output from the Unix command will be substituted. Hrmm,...

Re: Inc?

2001-07-17 Thread Ken Weingold
On Tue, Jul 17, 2001, Michael Elkins wrote: On Tue, Jul 17, 2001 at 10:33:28AM -0400, Justin R. Miller wrote: At the top of my Mutt there are the standard indications, such as Msgs, Del, New, Old, and Inc... what does Inc stand for? I know it's the number of folders with new messages, but

Re: Newbie question

2001-07-17 Thread Gary Johnson
On Tue, Jul 17, 2001 at 07:00:01PM +0530, Fox Mulder wrote: thanks for the quick reply. I could not find any set mailboxes= in the manual. Perhaps you are refering to the mailboxes command, which i have already given. it is something like, mailboxes ! ankit mulder Yes, I believe that's

Re: Simple mutt question ... I think?

2001-07-17 Thread John Arundel
On 2001-07-17 at 09:28:55, Chris Fuchs warbled: Yes, I quite agree - unfortunately I have to deal and comply with this format Why? -- I had to stop driving my car for a while. The tires got dizzy. - Steven Wright

mail sorting #2

2001-07-17 Thread Lukasz Zamel
Procmail is really cool. I've downloaded a faq and it's not fo hard to configure. But still I have a small problem. I'm getting 'Error writing to ...' even if I set a+rw to those mailboxes. -- Lukasz Zamel [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reg. Linux User: #202048 640K ought to be enough for enybody - Bill

Re: Newbie question

2001-07-17 Thread Andre Wyrwa
On Tue, 17. Jul 2001 um 07:00:01PM +0530, Fox Mulder wrote: whai i want to know is whether there is a way to find the number of unread messages in a folder when i am in another folder, or when i start mutt with the -y option, or if I do a c? I had the same question, but you`ve given me the

Re: Simple mutt question ... I think?

2001-07-17 Thread Chris Fuchs
on Tue,17 Jul 2001, John Arundel wrote: On 2001-07-17 at 09:28:55, Chris Fuchs warbled: Yes, I quite agree - unfortunately I have to deal and comply with this format Why? As a professional courtesy to some of the people I work and deal with. Chris -- Be who you are and say what you

Re: reconstituting mangled quotes

2001-07-17 Thread Contagious Specialist
Suresh Ramasubramanian [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Par is much better, of course ... http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~amc/Par/ Oh! The wasted reformatting keystrokes! However have I survived this long without it? -- MEM set FLOW sum REF LINK LINK SUM MEM MEM LINK TRY sum check LINK loop sum check FLOW-ON

Re: Simple mutt question ... I think? [now miles OT]

2001-07-17 Thread John Arundel
On 2001-07-17 at 11:06:14, Chris Fuchs warbled: As a professional courtesy to some of the people I work and deal with. Ah - yes, I realise that you will receive top-posted mail, and that you don't have time to educate everyone you deal with, but why are you yourself forced to originate this

Re: Simple mutt question ... I think? [now miles OT]

2001-07-17 Thread Ken Weingold
On Tue, Jul 17, 2001, John Arundel wrote: On 2001-07-17 at 11:06:14, Chris Fuchs warbled: As a professional courtesy to some of the people I work and deal with. Ah - yes, I realise that you will receive top-posted mail, and that you don't have time to educate everyone you deal with, but

folder-hook problem

2001-07-17 Thread Drew Raines
Forgive me if this has been asked before, but what's wrong with this line in my muttrc: folder-hook outbox.*$ set index_format=%4C %Z %{%b/%d} %-20.20F (%4c) %s It tells me that %Z is an unknown variable, and proceeds to only shows message numbers in the index once I change to an outbox*

Re: Simple mutt question ... I think? [now miles OT]

2001-07-17 Thread Chris Fuchs
on Tue,17 Jul 2001, John Arundel wrote: For a moment I had a horrible vision of a company which dictated top-posting as a corporate email policy... May as well be around here. RUN!!! Just as soon as the job market allows ;-) -- You lose it if you talk about it. -Ernest Hemingway

About emacs, about quoting text, about writing message.

2001-07-17 Thread Jens Paulus
Hi, three questions: 1.) about emacs text editing, 2.) about mutt quoting text, 3.) about mutt composing a new message 1.) I'm using vim and don't know too much of emacs. One thing I find very useful with vim is that if I want to wrap a very long quoted line with width greater than 80

Re: reconstituting mangled quotes

2001-07-17 Thread Tony Godshall
Par is much better, of course ... http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~amc/Par/ apt-get --simulate install par apt-get install par

Re: folder-hook problem

2001-07-17 Thread Drew Raines
* Andre Wyrwa [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Just a guess, but how about this one: folder-hook outbox.*$ 'set index_format=%4C %Z %{%b/%d} %-20.20F (%4c) %s' I am a moron. Yep, that works. I've seen a hundred people do that before on this list, too. Thanks, Andre. -- Drew (banging head)

Segfault in Mutt 1.2.5i, while executing $ update

2001-07-17 Thread John P. Verel
I produced a segfault in Mutt 1.2.5i as follows. I have a folder hook set for mbox to show only new messages. I started Mutt, went to mbox. Deleted the one message which was marked as new. I then pressed $ to update mbox, thinking this would show the remaining contents (which is over 300

[OT] Re: vfolders

2001-07-17 Thread David
On Tue, 17 Jul 2001, Ralf Hildebrandt wrote: We had several problems with ReiserFS, we even lost a machine due to FS corruption. We rather use XFS... or ext3 Little off topic, but how well has ext3 been working for you? Are you having problems with it? -- Don't tell me I'm burning the

Re: more questions

2001-07-17 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Fox Mulder [mutt-users] 17/07/01 20:00 +0530: yea, that is what it looks like. i am on slackware 8.0, and have terminal type set to linux. i get the same even when the terminal type is xterm, only then i dont get colors. also, it is the same in text mode, and xwindows... Heck, I got a

Re: reconstituting mangled quotes

2001-07-17 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Tony Godshall [mutt-users] 17/07/01 15:14 -0700: Par is much better, of course ... http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~amc/Par/ apt-get --simulate install par apt-get install par cd /usr/ports/textproc/par make install clean HTH HAND --suresh -- Suresh Ramasubramanian + Wallopus

Problems with vvv port on FreeBSD

2001-07-17 Thread Louis LeBlanc
Hey all. I am trying to get the vvv port for FreeBSD built, but it keeps dying on some wchar code. Any ideas what the hangup is there? Thanks Lou -- Louis LeBlanc [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fully Funded Hobbyist, KeySlapper Extrordinaire :) http://acadia.ne.mediaone.net ԿԬ In

Re: Problems with vvv port on FreeBSD

2001-07-17 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Louis LeBlanc [mutt-users] 17/07/01 23:51 -0400: Hey all. I am trying to get the vvv port for FreeBSD built, but it keeps dying on some wchar code. Any ideas what the hangup is there? I personally had no problems. However, there is a note which says vvv can't coexist with Roland's

Re: Newbie question

2001-07-17 Thread Fox Mulder
* Gary Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] [22:24 17/07/01]: No. The reason is that it is very time-consuming to obtain and keep up-to-date that information for large mbox folders. You should see an N indicator by folders containing new mail, though. Hey, i dont get any such indicator. guess i will

Re: mail sorting #2

2001-07-17 Thread Christoph Maurer
Am Die, 17 Jul 2001, schrieb Lukasz Zamel: Procmail is really cool. I've downloaded a faq and it's not fo hard to configure. But still I have a small problem. I'm getting 'Error writing to ...' even if I set a+rw to those mailboxes. Did you set your MAILDIR Variable korrekt (normally

Re: Inc?

2001-07-17 Thread Fox Mulder
* Justin R. Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] [21:31 17/07/01]: I believe this is what accomplishes it: set status_on_top=yes You can also configure what this looks like with on of those ..._format variables. hi.. i tried to do this, but i have the following problem. i put in a %b in front

Re: Newbie question

2001-07-17 Thread Fox Mulder
* Fox Mulder [EMAIL PROTECTED] [10:30 18/07/01]: * Gary Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] [22:24 17/07/01]: No. The reason is that it is very time-consuming to obtain and keep up-to-date that information for large mbox folders. You should see an N indicator by folders containing new mail,

Re: Newbie question

2001-07-17 Thread Fox Mulder
* Suresh Ramasubramanian [EMAIL PROTECTED] [11:42 18/07/01]: Fox Mulder [mutt-users] 18/07/01 11:30 +0530: Hey, i dont get any such indicator. guess i will have to look it up in the manual... I tried to put in the %N to the folder_format. but, i still dont get the an N indicator next