How can I know if error happens when sending mail?

2009-06-01 Thread Chengqi(Lars) Song
Hi, I'm using msmtp to send mail. I've set sendmail_wait=-1 in .muttrc to make sending mail not blocking. But there comes a problem. If any error happens when sending mail, I will not aware about it. And sometimes it cause trouble to my work. How can I solve this problem? I need to be told if

Re: handling very large mailboxes

2009-06-01 Thread Rocco Rutte
Hi, * James wrote: Once Mutt has completely loaded it works fine when poking around on the inbox. When, however, I try to open another mailbox (regardless of size -- sometimes 19 messages, sometimes many thousands), it waits in the sorting messages stage. What precisely is Mutt doing? Is

Re: handling very large mailboxes

2009-06-01 Thread Rocco Rutte
Hi, * James wrote: Maybe my IMAP server is kinda slow then? Seems so... Here's what I have in my .muttrc file (for caching): set header_cache=~/.mutt/cache/headers set message_cachedir=~/.mutt/cache/messages There seem to be files in there, so I imagine that the caching is

Re: handling very large mailboxes

2009-06-01 Thread Rocco Rutte
Hi, * bill lam wrote: set message_cache_clean=yes Settings this permanently decreases performance, especially on large folders. Though I tend to forget to set it only from time to time... so I made it permanent, too... :) Rocco

Re: handling very large mailboxes

2009-06-01 Thread Rocco Rutte
Hi, * James wrote: I'm uncertain, however, why it takes so long for mutt to load at first. Isn't that what the header cache is for? What exactly is mutt doing when it first loads and takes ~20sec (on my end) to load everything? Running with debug will tell you. It would be nice if you could

auto CC to self

2009-06-01 Thread Chengqi(Lars) Song
Hi, I want to CC every mail to my backup mailbox, say larsbac...@gmail.com, is it possible to configure that in mutt? Thanks. Regards Lars

Re: Get Mutt and ISPs

2009-06-01 Thread Markus Maria Miedaner
-Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: Dave Feustel dfeus...@mindspring.com Gesendet: 31.05.09 18:44:33 An: Mutt User List mutt-users@mutt.org Betreff: Get Mutt and ISPs I've tried to get mutt to send email to my ISP's mail server, but so far I have not succeeded (I send mail using

Re: auto CC to self

2009-06-01 Thread Markus Maria Miedaner
-Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: Chengqi(Lars) Song son...@gmail.com Gesendet: 01.06.09 10:34:13 An: mutt-users mutt-users@mutt.org Betreff: auto CC to self Hi, I want to CC every mail to my backup mailbox, say larsbac...@gmail.com, is it possible to configure that in mutt?

Re: auto CC to self

2009-06-01 Thread Chengqi(Lars) Song
it does work, thanks! On Mon, 01 Jun 2009, Markus Maria Miedaner wrote: -Urspr?ngliche Nachricht- Von: Chengqi(Lars) Song son...@gmail.com Gesendet: 01.06.09 10:34:13 An: mutt-users mutt-users@mutt.org Betreff: auto CC to self Hi, I want to CC every mail to my backup

Re: How can I know if error happens when sending mail?

2009-06-01 Thread Markus Maria Miedaner
Hi, I'm using msmtp to send mail. I've set sendmail_wait=-1 in .muttrc to make sending mail not blocking. But there comes a problem. If any error happens when sending mail, I will not aware about it. And sometimes it cause trouble to my work. How can I solve this problem? I need to be

Re: Deleting messages via IMAP

2009-06-01 Thread Kyle Wheeler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On Monday, June 1 at 12:59 AM, quoth Ken Weingold: An alternative is to simply convince mutt to hide these messages from you, which you can do using limit. But it might be simpler to simply have mutt do an automatic sync whenever it enters a

Re: Deleting messages via IMAP

2009-06-01 Thread Ken Weingold
Kyle, fantastic explanation. Thanks a lot. I'll update to the latest. I know I'm using an old version. I've been meaning to update it for years. :) -Ken

Re: Get Mutt and ISPs

2009-06-01 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2009-05-31, Dave Feustel dfeus...@mindspring.com wrote: I've tried to get mutt to send email to my ISP's mail server, but so far I have not succeeded (I send mail using msmtp). So msmtp works fine, but Mutt's SMTP client doesn't. What variables in .msmtprc do I need to set to be able to

Re: How can I know if error happens when sending mail?

2009-06-01 Thread Chengqi(Lars) Song
Hi Markus, Thanks for the method you provided. In fact I thought of that too. But still it's not efficient to watch that log file everytime after sending a mail. Logwatch should work but still I wonder if there is any easier way to do this job. Could we possible wrap msmtp in a shell script,

Re: How can I know if error happens when sending mail?

2009-06-01 Thread Kyle Wheeler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On Tuesday, June 2 at 12:08 AM, quoth Chengqi(Lars) Song: Thanks for the method you provided. In fact I thought of that too. But still it's not efficient to watch that log file everytime after sending a mail. Logwatch should work but still I

Re: Get Mutt and ISPs

2009-06-01 Thread Dave Feustel
On Mon, Jun 01, 2009 at 02:35:45PM +, Grant Edwards wrote: On 2009-05-31, Dave Feustel dfeus...@mindspring.com wrote: I've tried to get mutt to send email to my ISP's mail server, but so far I have not succeeded (I send mail using msmtp). So msmtp works fine, but Mutt's SMTP client

Re: imap folders with '.' (period) do not show up correctly in

2009-06-01 Thread Steve Revilak
james This doesn't seem to be an issue with the IMAP server, but james instead with Mutt. Mutt works great (as it should, opening an james mbox file with a '.' in the file name) in v1.5.19. brendan Yes, it's a mutt bug. You can probably work around it by brendan setting imap_delim_chars to /

Re: How can I know if error happens when sending mail?

2009-06-01 Thread Chengqi(Lars) Song
indeed can not interrupt mutt, but can send a local mail to myself instead i think ... lars On Mon, 01 Jun 2009, Kyle Wheeler wrote: On Tuesday, June 2 at 12:08 AM, quoth Chengqi(Lars) Song: Thanks for the method you provided. In fact I thought of that too. But still it's not efficient

Re: How can I know if error happens when sending mail?

2009-06-01 Thread Kyle Wheeler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On Tuesday, June 2 at 10:09 AM, quoth Chengqi(Lars) Song: indeed can not interrupt mutt, but can send a local mail to myself instead i think ... Actually, now that I think about it... you might be able to use xdialog (or something similar) to

sending mail via exchange

2009-06-01 Thread Chris
I have configured Mutt 1.5.16 to check mail via MS Exchange (IMAP). I can see all my mail boxes, query for email addresses from Exchange etc. However, I cannot send mail from mutt via Exchange. Do I need to use external program like msmtp or is there any configuration I can do in .muttrc to send

Re: sending mail via exchange

2009-06-01 Thread Matthias Apitz
El día Tuesday, June 02, 2009 a las 03:45:14PM +1000, Chris escribió: I have configured Mutt 1.5.16 to check mail via MS Exchange (IMAP). I can see all my mail boxes, query for email addresses from Exchange etc. However, I cannot send mail from mutt via Exchange. Do I need to use external