Re: available MDA's: are you satisfied?

2002-01-26 Thread Prahlad Vaidyanathan
Hi, On Fri, 25 Jan 2002 Mathias Gygax spewed into the ether: [-- snip --] i'm subscribed to over 150 mailing lists and get over 1700 mails a day. Holy crap !! How do you cope ? I can't even manage the 200-250 mails I get everyday :-) pv. -- Prahlad Vaidyanathan [EMAIL PROTECTED] Death has

Re: Postfix messed up?

2002-01-26 Thread Ralf Hildebrandt
On Fri, Jan 25, 2002 at 05:38:25PM -0500, Ron Secord wrote: On Wednesday 31 December 1969 06:59 pm, you wrote: what does your postconf -n output look like? what happens in your logs if you do: I tried the postconf -n and got: bash: postconf: command not found Of course this assumes

gpg and mutt: not a detached signature

2002-01-26 Thread Ben Logan
Hello, I noticed recently that when I send a signed message, gpg says not a detached signature. What does that mean, and should I be concerned about it? I'm using the gpg configuration found in the sample gpg.rc file supplied with mutt. I signed this message so that ya'll could see what I'm

Re: I hate to ask this....

2002-01-26 Thread Gary Johnson
On Fri, Jan 25, 2002 at 05:07:02PM -0600, Kelly Scroggins wrote: I hate to ask this. It must be right under my nose. But, I've looked in the headers of this lists messages, I've looked on the web site too, but I can't find anything that tells me how to unsubscribe. This information came

Re: html email

2002-01-26 Thread David Ellement
On 020124, at 08:19:44, Gary Johnson wrote I receive a lot of internal memos from administrative assistants (formerly known as secretaries) formatted as HTML. ... 3. In all fairness [donning flame suit now], HTML e-mail looks better to most users than does plain text. You can change

Re: gpg and mutt: not a detached signature

2002-01-26 Thread David T-G
Ben -- ...and then Ben Logan said... % % Hello, Hi! % % I noticed recently that when I send a signed message, gpg says not a ... % I signed this message so that ya'll could see what I'm talking about. I took a look and found your entire message twice, once bare and once apparently as an

Re: DOS prompts (was Re: char % as quote)

2002-01-26 Thread David T-G
Dave -- ...and then Dave Pearson said... % % On Fri, Jan 25, 2002 at 12:38:57PM -0500, David T-G wrote: % ... % % WinDOS since about 1991 and the last character of the prompt hasn't been % % for that length of time. % % I beg to differ. The old DOS prompt was just ($g) and then became

Re: html email

2002-01-26 Thread David T-G
David -- ...and then David Ellement said... % ... % background or border images. So I'll get a multipart/alternative % message with one or two image attachments, where the text part is % about 300 byte, the html part about 3k bytes, and the images about % 30-100k bytes each. % % The best ones

Re: html email

2002-01-26 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Fri, Jan 25, 2002 at 09:52:26PM -0800, David Ellement wrote: The best ones are from the IT department, rejoicing in their latest efficiency measures... worse - the ones that have the message in plain text, along with a 500kb attachment in M$ Word repeating word-for-word the same

Re: html email

2002-01-26 Thread Michael Maibaum
On Sat, Jan 26, 2002 at 12:05:21PM -0500, Thomas Dickey wrote: On Fri, Jan 25, 2002 at 09:52:26PM -0800, David Ellement wrote: The best ones are from the IT department, rejoicing in their latest efficiency measures... worse - the ones that have the message in plain text, along with a

Re: html email

2002-01-26 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Sat, Jan 26, 2002 at 09:17:14AM -0800, Michael Maibaum wrote: My favorite was the last bi-monthly report from our (win NT dominated...) IT dept...It was a 4Mb word document for about a page and I'm not able to top that. (There are some instances where individuals have sent larger

Re: html email

2002-01-26 Thread Jeremy Blosser
On Jan 26, Michael Maibaum [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote: My favorite was the last bi-monthly report from our (win NT dominated...) IT dept...It was a 4Mb word document for about a page and a half, plus some high res pics, plus all the revisions in the word document. It was sent to every email

Re: html email

2002-01-26 Thread Jeremy Blosser
On Jan 25, David Ellement [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote: I also see this fairly often. Of course, because these folks care about how their message looks, they also include stationery, background or border images. So I'll get a multipart/alternative message with one or two image attachments,

Re: Maildir differences

2002-01-26 Thread David Rock
On Sat, Jan 26, 2002 at 12:28:17AM -0600, Jeremy Blosser wrote: Probably more to do with mismatched mbox-hooks or something. Hard to say without seeing more of your config. Here is my full .muttrc as it looks right now (same as when I started this thread): # source files source

Re: html email

2002-01-26 Thread Jeremy Blosser
On Jan 26, Rob 'Feztaa' Park [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote: Alas! Jeremy Blosser spake thus: one of the managers actually suggested it was a flaw of qmail that it didn't crash at this point, to act as a break point. :) Linux: Too stable for it's own good! That's a new one on me ;)

Re: Maildir differences

2002-01-26 Thread David Rock
Looks like I found what the problem was. It appears to be related to the format of the Maildir folders. What I would do with mbox if I didn't have an existing folder was just touch the file I needed. Following this logic, I would create a new directory for a Maildir that I needed. What I *didn't*

Re: Maildir differences

2002-01-26 Thread Will Yardley
David Rock wrote: Looks like I found what the problem was. It appears to be related to the format of the Maildir folders. What I would do with mbox if I didn't have an existing folder was just touch the file I needed. Following this logic, I would create a new directory for a Maildir that I

Re: available MDA's: are you satisfied?

2002-01-26 Thread parv
in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], wrote Mathias Gygax thusly... i'm subscribed to over 150 mailing lists and get over 1700 mails a day. mutt performs very well, even on not so speedy computers. i thought we were telling roman n. how good or bad is our mda, a la procmail mdforward, of choice?

Re: html email

2002-01-26 Thread Knute
On Sat, 26 Jan 2002, Nick Wilson wrote: * and then Michael Maibaum blurted My favorite was the last bi-monthly report from our (win NT dominated...) IT dept...It was a 4Mb word document for about a page and a half, plus some high res pics, plus all the revisions in the word

Re: html email

2002-01-26 Thread Knute
On Sat, 26 Jan 2002, Jeremy Blosser wrote: Yeah... there's a little more to that... we'd just switched from a Novell Groupwise system to using Exchange for the group mail stuff with qmail on the border handling the real incoming/outgoing mail (talk about your bad news/good news situations).

Re: html email

2002-01-26 Thread Rob 'Feztaa' Park
Alas! Knute spake thus: By the way, why didn't they just put links to the pics instead? Isn't that the reason for a wan or a lan? Give these guys a break, anybody who uses NT by choice can't be very bright ;) -- Rob 'Feztaa' Park [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- When the authorities warn you of the

Re: html email

2002-01-26 Thread Jeremy Blosser
On Jan 26, Knute [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote: Isn't that what logs are for? You know, to help diagnose issues such as that. Yeah. Our group maintains/checks our logs. The others... It's actually been hard for management to adjust to the idea that we can tell them what happened when they

Re: Maildir differences

2002-01-26 Thread David Rock
On Sat, Jan 26, 2002 at 02:08:24PM -0800, Will Yardley wrote: David Rock wrote: Looks like I found what the problem was. It appears to be related to the format of the Maildir folders. What I would do with mbox if I didn't have an existing folder was just touch the file I needed.

Re: html email

2002-01-26 Thread Michael Maibaum
On Sat, Jan 26, 2002 at 05:42:57PM -0600, Knute wrote: On Sat, 26 Jan 2002, Nick Wilson wrote: * and then Michael Maibaum blurted My favorite was the last bi-monthly report from our (win NT dominated...) IT dept...It was a 4Mb word document for about a page and a half, plus

Re: html email

2002-01-26 Thread Joel Hammer
I thought NT stands for New Technology. MS is always trying to make their customers forget about the last operating system. Joel Hr Well, as it is an NT dominated environment, anybody know what NT stands for? No Thoughts

Re: maildir over mbox?

2002-01-26 Thread David Clarke
On Tue, 22 Jan 2002, David Clarke wrote: Don't know why but for me there isn't much of a difference between them, everyone else seems to be getting a big difference. I was however I just noticed the partition I was testing on was actually ext3, which probably explains my results.

Re: available MDA's: are you satisfied?

2002-01-26 Thread Cameron Simpson
On 09:43 26 Jan 2002, Prahlad Vaidyanathan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | On Fri, 25 Jan 2002 Mathias Gygax spewed into the ether: | i'm subscribed to over 150 mailing lists and get over 1700 mails a day. | | Holy crap !! How do you cope ? I can't even manage the 200-250 mails I | get everyday :-)

Re: Don't mention MUAS to fight html email

2002-01-26 Thread Cameron Simpson
On 14:09 25 Jan 2002, Michael Montagne [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | I often read about the evils os HTML email and since I do all my email | with mutt now, I appreciate text email. But something I don't | understand is the argument that it slows down the internet for everyone. | Isn't HTML just

Re: Don't mention MUAS to fight html email

2002-01-26 Thread Cameron Simpson
On 17:28 25 Jan 2002, David T-G [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | Off-topic meandering: | I think it would be lovely to automatically compress all email before | sending and have it opened on the other end, but that not only gets | into more MIME types (I think it could be done pretty easily but haven't

Re: gpg and mutt: not a detached signature

2002-01-26 Thread Ben Logan
On Sat, Jan 26, 2002 at 10:34:20AM -0500, David T-G wrote: I took a look and found your entire message twice, once bare and once apparently as an old-style pgp message. I have no idea why it would send two copies, but the in-line part looks interesting. Can you grep pgp .muttrc