Re: Save external imap emails to a local maildir folder

2022-02-18 Thread Jean Louis
* Piet [2022-02-19 00:17]: > Dear List, > > I use Mutt with two external imap accounts. > At the moment the only thing I miss by using Mutt is to filter and move > emails to local folders. > To be honest, I red a lot of howtos but do not understand, how to > deal with folders. That is exactly

Re: Default path for saving attachments?

2022-02-17 Thread Jean Louis
* José María Mateos [2022-02-17 20:42]: > Hi all, > > When I want to save an attachment, the default path is the path where mutt > was launched (typically my home folder). I'd like to know if there's any > config variable to set the destination folder for saved attachments. I know > the

Re: Slightly OT: I'm looking for a tool to merge maildirs

2022-01-23 Thread Jean Louis
* Chris Green [2022-01-23 13:59]: > This is a bit off topic for mutt specifically but it's about doing > things to the mail I read using mutt, so it's not *very* OT. :-) > > I'm looking for a way to keep an archive (as in a maildir hierarchy) > of *all* my mail into which I can merge my current

Re: How to 'hook' different programs to view text/html?

2022-01-18 Thread Jean Louis
* Chris Green [2022-01-18 20:45]: > I have the fairly standard setup for viewing HTML messages in mutt:- > > auto_view text/html > unalternative_order * > message-hook ~A "alternative_order text/html text/plain text" > > (The unalternative_order is because I have one special case

Re: pretty-print mutt emails

2021-11-24 Thread Jean Louis
* Anders Damsgaard [2021-11-22 12:05]: > * Globe Trotter via Mutt-users [2021-11-22 00:47:10 > +]: > > > What is the recommended way to pretty-print mutt emails? I found a > > sourceforge perl script called muttprint but that was last updated in 2008, > > and I was wondering what folks

Re: pretty-print mutt emails

2021-11-22 Thread Jean Louis
* Globe Trotter via Mutt-users [2021-11-22 03:48]: > What is the recommended way to pretty-print mutt > emails? I found a sourceforge perl script called > muttprint but that was last updated in 2008, and I was > wondering what folks here recommended? I use muttprint without problems. Find it

Re: How to create local label and enlist/see them

2021-09-18 Thread Jean Louis
* Bhaskar Chowdhury [2021-09-18 07:31]: > Well, I am trying to figure out ,how it could be done . As the subject line > said , I need to create specific label on certain message and later wanted to > view them in pager . Probably if I wish , selecting one of them and see those > specific

Re: using mutt with postfix and localhost:25

2021-09-13 Thread Jean Louis
* Ofer Inbar [2021-09-13 16:17]: > On Mon, Sep 13, 2021 at 08:33:43AM +0300, > Jean Louis wrote: > > > * Ofer Inbar [2021-09-13 02:15]: > > > > All I do is: > > > > > > > > sudo  ssh -L 25:mailhub:25 username@your_server > > > &g

Re: using mutt with postfix and localhost:25

2021-09-12 Thread Jean Louis
* Ofer Inbar [2021-09-13 02:15]: > > All I do is: > > > > sudo  ssh -L 25:mailhub:25 username@your_server > > > > And then, configuring 'localhost' as my smtp server on port 25 > > gets my mail sent directly forward through the SSH link. I have just tried the method and mutt somehow got the

Re: using mutt with postfix and localhost:25

2021-09-12 Thread Jean Louis
* Globe Trotter via Mutt-users [2021-09-12 17:47]: > Thank you for this. OK, so you are correct in that doing nothing > works on my office machine but not when I connect to it remotely to > deliver my mail using ssh -L etc and am using that server to deliver > my email. Good that you explained

Re: displaying html links inside mutt

2021-09-10 Thread Jean Louis
* Jean Louis [2021-09-10 09:56]: > > I can open the html in an external browser and there I find the > > link, but I would like an in-mutt solution (I don't really like > > going to the browser to read my email if I can help it). This is > > becoming quite a big conc

Re: displaying html links inside mutt

2021-09-10 Thread Jean Louis
* Globe Trotter via Mutt-users [2021-09-10 07:30]: > Hello, > > I am still new to mutt (having moved from sylpheed) and finding my way. > Great, but one of the major issues that I have been having is that sometimes > I get some e-mail which is written in html but which has no indication of any

Re: Faster message body searching

2021-08-20 Thread Jean Louis
* Chinmaya Nagpal [2021-08-20 23:20]: > Is there any way to make it faster to do ~b limits in maildir mailboxes? > I don't really use notmuch for much other than message body searching so > I'm considering if I should get rid of it entirely. If you don't know who is the correspondent and you

Re: Retrieve inbox contents and email body

2021-07-07 Thread Jean Louis
* Julius Hamilton [2021-07-07 22:57]: > Unfortunately, I have been trying to get going with some simple tools like > grepmail and mail and I can't find an answer to a simple question I > have. I recommend that you re-phrase the simple question. How I have understood, you wish to see if there

Re: Retrieve inbox contents and email body

2021-07-07 Thread Jean Louis
* Jon LaBadie [2021-07-08 08:37]: > > Could anyone provide me with some simple steps to download my Gmail inbox > > to my filesystem as a mailbox, so that I could grepmail through it? I did > > read that the mailbox could be saved to var/mail or just $HOME. In either > > case I think grepmail can

Re: Retrieve inbox contents and email body

2021-07-07 Thread Jean Louis
* Julius Hamilton [2021-07-07 22:57]: > Could anyone provide me with some simple steps to download my Gmail inbox > to my filesystem as a mailbox, so that I could grepmail through it? I did > read that the mailbox could be saved to var/mail or just $HOME. In either > case I think grepmail can

Re: Retrieve inbox contents and email body

2021-07-07 Thread Jean Louis
* Julius Hamilton [2021-07-07 20:27]: > Thanks. > There is a lot of good stuff here to look into. > I think I will try with grepmail first. > I was wondering what the simplest way to send an email might be - the > mentioned "mail" unix utility, perhaps? Mutt is the way. Use whatever you have

Re: Retrieve inbox contents and email body

2021-07-07 Thread Jean Louis
> The context is that I just would like to send emails and check for > responses in a more precise and quick way than opening my inbox. I would > like to have commands at my disposal when I am working on something to just > send an email directly and later check for responses to that email, or >

Now about CRM functions - Re: How to intercept recipient before reply, and before sending?

2021-07-01 Thread Jean Louis
* P. Mazart [2021-07-01 09:18]: > > This is all good as brainstorming. > > Nice, any chance that this system will be talked about in a blog or > something like that? This CRM of yours sounds like an interesting read. My business does depend on Mutt. Yesterday I was thinking how much we are

Re: How to intercept recipient before reply, and before sending?

2021-07-01 Thread Jean Louis
Dear P. Mazart, Thanks, I think I have solved the first part of my need, though it is not any more the same as what I was doing before. Here is the macro: macro index,pager r "ef > ~/tmp/ef-email" program `ef' is compiled with GNU Mailutils libraries, but it could be probably a specialized

Re: Is there any programmatic way of changing message recipients (specifically To:)?

2021-07-01 Thread Jean Louis
* Chris Green [2021-07-01 11:04]: > The subject says it all really. :-) > > Is there any way that mutt can change the To: header of a message? > This could be either on its way to 'compose' or on its way out from > 'compose'. > > Basically I want to automate changing To: when replying to

Re: How to intercept recipient before reply, and before sending?

2021-06-30 Thread Jean Louis
* P. Mazart [2021-06-30 10:01]: > Hi Jean, > > we missed each other in IRC, so here’s my reply. Thanks. > I think you could always create a {python,bash,ruby} script or c-program > and let it “mimic” an editor when you reply: > > :macro index r "set > editor=\"edit-id-then-reply.py\"set >

[tip]: Recording people before mailto: link

2021-06-24 Thread Jean Louis
This tip may be useful for people who are using Mutt in connection with any kind of database like CRM Customer Relationship Management systems. I have made a mutt.desktop file in ~/.local/share/applications/mutt.desktop where I am designating a script which is intercepting mailto: links that I