Re: Can Mutt detect a missing header?

2014-12-19 Thread John Long
On Thu, Dec 18, 2014 at 10:14:29AM -0800, Will Yardley wrote: On Thu, Dec 18, 2014 at 08:53:03AM +, John Long wrote: In the ongoing battle against spammers the latest trick is them not including a message-id header at all. Is there a recipe for Mutt to detect this and score

Re: How do I kill these posts?

2014-12-18 Thread John Long
Thanks, I'll look at this. On Wed, Dec 17, 2014 at 07:08:54AM +1100, Cameron Simpson wrote: On 16Dec2014 07:56, John Long codeb...@inbox.lv wrote: I have no problem scoring From: on mailing lists except with Yahoo. I have to believe the way they mangle the header has something to do

Can Mutt detect a missing header?

2014-12-18 Thread John Long
In the ongoing battle against spammers the latest trick is them not including a message-id header at all. Is there a recipe for Mutt to detect this and score accordingly? Going over the doc and searching the web I haven't had any luck finding any discussion on this. Thanks. /jl -- ASCII

Re: How do I kill these posts?

2014-12-16 Thread John Long
On Tue, Dec 16, 2014 at 04:37:40AM +0100, Francesco Ariis wrote: On Mon, Dec 15, 2014 at 02:28:29PM -0600, David Champion wrote: Francesco is right, this should work. ~f a@b will match a@b whether it's the actual address or inside the name portion. [..] So ~e em...@example.net won't

Re: How do I kill these posts?

2014-12-16 Thread John Long
On Mon, Dec 15, 2014 at 09:56:07PM +0100, Jostein Berntsen wrote: On 15.12.14,16:08, John Long wrote: Yahoogroups mangles the From: headers badly and Mutt doesn't seem to want to listen to me when I tell him to score using ~f or ~e. Is there a (better) way to score this? Here

How do I kill these posts?

2014-12-15 Thread John Long
Yahoogroups mangles the From: headers badly and Mutt doesn't seem to want to listen to me when I tell him to score using ~f or ~e. Is there a (better) way to score this? Here is a sample From: header From: phoney bologna bolognapho...@hotmail.com [bademails] badema...@yahoogroups.com score

Re: How do I kill these posts?

2014-12-15 Thread John Long
On Mon, Dec 15, 2014 at 05:56:02PM +0100, Jostein Berntsen wrote: On 15.12.14,16:08, John Long wrote: Yahoogroups mangles the From: headers badly and Mutt doesn't seem to want to listen to me when I tell him to score using ~f or ~e. Is there a (better) way to score this? Here

Re: How do I kill these posts?

2014-12-15 Thread John Long
Hi, On Mon, Dec 15, 2014 at 06:29:43PM +0100, Francesco Ariis wrote: ~f does work on my machine (Tested with limit~f t...@example.org /and/ with 'score'). The From header (yahoo group) looks similar to yours: It's not similar enough: From: t...@example.com [abcusers]

Re: How do I kill these posts?

2014-12-15 Thread John Long
Hi, On Mon, Dec 15, 2014 at 03:02:45PM -0500, Mark Filipak wrote: From: \S+\s+\S+\s+[^@]+@hotmail\.com \[[^\]]+\] [^@]+@yahoogroups\.com Kindly forgive me if this is totally off the wall. Thanks for offering help on the regex. The issue with Mutt is you can't match against the exact part of

Re: How do I kill these posts?

2014-12-15 Thread John Long
On Mon, Dec 15, 2014 at 02:28:29PM -0600, David Champion wrote: * On 15 Dec 2014, John Long wrote: Hi, On Mon, Dec 15, 2014 at 06:29:43PM +0100, Francesco Ariis wrote: ~f does work on my machine (Tested with limit~f t...@example.org /and/ with 'score'). The From header (yahoo

Re: Stupid regexp tricks

2014-12-10 Thread John Long
Hi, On Tue, Dec 09, 2014 at 05:08:22PM -0600, David Champion wrote: * On 09 Dec 2014, John Long wrote: The messages seem to all have message-ids in the form bunchofch...@m.something.com You'll need to be much more specific if you want help writing a matching regex. Is something

Re: Stupid regexp tricks

2014-12-10 Thread John Long
On Tue, Dec 09, 2014 at 04:17:00PM -0500, Nathan Stratton Treadway wrote: On Tue, Dec 09, 2014 at 20:39:16 +, John Long wrote: score '~i @m\..*\.com' - matches on Message-ID: 5486ad9f.8186460a.0aee.1...@mx.google.com You want the actual regex to contain

Re: Stupid regexp tricks

2014-12-10 Thread John Long
On Wed, Dec 10, 2014 at 06:50:30AM -0600, David Champion wrote: OK, I see what I'm missing now: it's the m vs mx. You're right, getting the regex right for this one will be enough -- for now. But it turns out that more than one site uses m.*.com hostnames, so you'll be back in this position

Re: Stupid regexp tricks

2014-12-10 Thread John Long
On Tue, Dec 09, 2014 at 04:28:53PM -0500, Nathan Stratton Treadway wrote: On Tue, Dec 09, 2014 at 16:17:00 -0500, Nathan Stratton Treadway wrote: but mutt also processes backslashes when it is parsing the command line defining the expresion -- so you may need to quote the backslashes.

Re: Stupid regexp tricks

2014-12-09 Thread John Long
Thank you I will try this. Waiting for new spam to show up. In your RE expression you have two literal periods (m. and .com) plus one meta-period (.*). One of the literal periods is escaped (\.com) the other is not. Both literal periods should be the same (escaped or not escaped) and the

Re: Some fairly simple-minded questions about using mutt with IMAP

2014-12-09 Thread John Long
On Tue, Dec 09, 2014 at 10:33:05AM +, Chris Green wrote: On Tue, Dec 09, 2014 at 06:21:31PM +1100, Cameron Simpson wrote: On 08Dec2014 22:04, Chris Green c...@isbd.net wrote: Doesn't anyone use IMAP? I must admit when I tried it (a few times over the years, but not very recently) it

Re: Some fairly simple-minded questions about using mutt with IMAP

2014-12-09 Thread John Long
On Tue, Dec 09, 2014 at 10:11:53AM +, Chris Green wrote: On Tue, Dec 09, 2014 at 07:07:10AM +, John Long wrote: I don't see how IMAP helps. What exactly is the difference in terms of how you read mail and where the apps run as opposed to POP? The only thing IMAP does

Re: Some fairly simple-minded questions about using mutt with IMAP

2014-12-09 Thread John Long
On Tue, Dec 09, 2014 at 11:36:48AM +, Chris Green wrote: On Tue, Dec 09, 2014 at 10:56:04AM +, John Long wrote: If I understood you then yes, but the local machine as far as mutt is concerned is the machine where mutt is running [your remote system], not where you are running

Re: Some fairly simple-minded questions about using mutt with IMAP

2014-12-09 Thread John Long
On Tue, Dec 09, 2014 at 11:42:49AM +, Chris Green wrote: If we all misunderstood and you have multiple instances of mutt running and want to be able to access your mail from any of them then use POP and leave the email on the server. Are you forced to use IMAP? I currently read my

Re: Stupid regexp tricks

2014-12-09 Thread John Long
On Tue, Dec 09, 2014 at 02:54:59AM -0500, Jon LaBadie wrote: On Tue, Dec 09, 2014 at 07:15:13AM +, John Long wrote: In your RE expression you have two literal periods (m. and .com) plus one meta-period (.*). One of the literal periods is escaped (\.com) the other is not. Both literal

Re: Stupid regexp tricks

2014-12-09 Thread John Long
Hi, answers within On Tue, Dec 09, 2014 at 02:53:50PM -0600, David Champion wrote: * On 09 Dec 2014, John Long wrote: On Tue, Dec 09, 2014 at 02:54:59AM -0500, Jon LaBadie wrote: On Tue, Dec 09, 2014 at 07:15:13AM +, John Long wrote: In your RE expression you have two literal

Re: Some fairly simple-minded questions about using mutt with IMAP

2014-12-08 Thread John Long
On Mon, Dec 08, 2014 at 03:19:55PM +, Chris Green wrote: I have been using mutt for many, many years with a local (Unix style) mail spool. Mail is delivered to my system by SMTP (postfix locally). At the moment to access my mail remotely I ssh into the server and run mutt. I suspect

Re: Some fairly simple-minded questions about using mutt with IMAP

2014-12-08 Thread John Long
On Mon, Dec 08, 2014 at 09:59:17PM +, Chris Green wrote: On Mon, Dec 08, 2014 at 06:33:40PM +, John Long wrote: On Mon, Dec 08, 2014 at 03:19:55PM +, Chris Green wrote: I have been using mutt for many, many years with a local (Unix style) mail spool. Mail is delivered to my

Stupid regexp tricks

2014-12-08 Thread John Long
The pron spammers are at it again on a bunch of email lists I subscribe to. I noticed most if not all of this reprehensible lot is using mail hosts that use email addresses and also generate a message-id in the form of Obnoxious Spammer id...@m.something.com I have tried a few combinations but

Re: GnuPG error when signing outgoing mail

2014-11-30 Thread John Long
fixed up with Mutt and gpg here on this list. On Sun, Nov 30, 2014 at 12:58 AM, John Long codeb...@inbox.lv wrote: On Sat, Nov 29, 2014 at 09:10:16PM -0500, Gilles-Philippe Morin wrote: I'm using Arch Linux ARM on a Raspberry Pi. Version: 1.5.23-1 GnuPG: 2.1.0-6 When I sign ('p

Re: GnuPG error when signing outgoing mail

2014-11-29 Thread John Long
On Sat, Nov 29, 2014 at 09:10:16PM -0500, Gilles-Philippe Morin wrote: I'm using Arch Linux ARM on a Raspberry Pi. Version: 1.5.23-1 GnuPG: 2.1.0-6 When I sign ('p' then 'a') an email, then send (y) the email, mutt asks for my PGP passphrase. After I enter it, I get this output in the

Re: sending to fastmail with mutt

2014-11-19 Thread John Long
On Tue, Nov 18, 2014 at 09:06:24PM -0800, Tom Fowle wrote: Havn't been able to send mail through fastmail.fm from mutt for a year, Just double checking that at one point you were? This only works for paid accounts according to this page

Re: mutt/vim line wrap configuration

2014-11-19 Thread John Long
On Wed, Nov 19, 2014 at 03:15:15PM -0500, Dale wrote: read in the docs and on google this line in my ~/.slrnrc set editor=vim +':set textwidth=0' +':set wrapmargin=0' +':set wrap' seems to wraps when I type or copy/paste into vim Problem solved! but when I read the message, Mutt has a

Re: mutt/vim line wrap configuration

2014-11-19 Thread John Long
On Wed, Nov 19, 2014 at 04:26:43PM -0500, Dale wrote: On Wed, Nov 19, 2014 at 08:34:15PM +, John Long wrote: On Wed, Nov 19, 2014 at 03:15:15PM -0500, Dale wrote: read in the docs and on google this line in my ~/.slrnrc set editor=vim +':set textwidth=0' +':set wrapmargin=0

Re: line wrap with editors

2014-11-18 Thread John Niendorf
this or use gedit,emacs thanks -- (my whereabouts below) http://www.dalekelly.org -- John

Re: POP? (read some docs first)

2014-11-11 Thread John Long
On Mon, Nov 10, 2014 at 08:41:05PM -0600, Russell Harris wrote: On Mon, November 10, 2014 5:29 pm, DaleKelly wrote: On 11/10/2014 05:58 PM, DaleKelly wrote: Login failed. Command USER is not supported by server. APOP authentication failed. Where is this coming out? Only on debug

Re: Now Pop...

2014-11-11 Thread John Long
Why use an MTA when Mutt can do SMTP? This is way simpler than the alternatives. Just lett mutt do it all! i'm halfway there (i can get things from my ISP, but i haven't figured out exim4 to my ISP connection yet). Totally unnecessary unless you feel like being a mail server admin in

Re: address book?

2014-11-10 Thread John Niendorf
Check out abook in the repository. John On 10 Nov 2014, at 14:34, DaleKelly d...@dalekelly.org wrote: how can I configure/maintain an address book? -- (my whereabouts below) http://www.dalekelly.org/

Re: trying repository mutt again

2014-11-09 Thread John Long
Stepping into the quicksand again for no good reason: On Sat, Nov 08, 2014 at 11:59:47PM -0500, DaleKelly wrote: echo Test | /usr/bin/mutt -s Hello d...@dalekelly.org Error in /etc/Muttrc, line 145: smtp_user: unknown variable source: errors in /etc/Muttrc Weird. Very weird. set from =

Re: trying repository mutt again

2014-11-09 Thread John Niendorf
John Long raises some good points. It seems pretty haphazard the way things are now. I think I would purge Mutt and Postfix and then start over in an orderly fashion. Having said that, it appears after searching the web that many many people have trouble sending mail with a GoDaddy account

Re: trying repository mutt again

2014-11-09 Thread John Long
On Sun, Nov 09, 2014 at 09:40:58AM +0100, John Niendorf wrote: Having said that, it appears after searching the web that many many people have trouble sending mail with a GoDaddy account. Specifically, authentication seems to be problematic. Didn't look at the google reference but the first

Re: trying repository mutt again

2014-11-09 Thread John Niendorf
Interesting. I see on their support web page they say: Outgoing Port Without SSL - one of the following 25, 80, 3535 With SSL - 465 Is there a reason you do not want to use SSL? John On 11/09/2014 08:26 PM, DaleKelly wrote: On 11/09/2014 03:40 AM, John Niendorf wrote: The references I found

Re: SMTP one more time, with all the details

2014-11-08 Thread John Niendorf
Dale, I'm curious, what email provider are you using? -- John

Re: SMTP one more time, with all the details

2014-11-07 Thread John Niendorf
Dale, What happens when you put this in your .muttrc file? set smtp_url=smtps://your_email_addr...@email.server.com/465 set smtp_pass=your_password -- John

Re: pop(s),smtp(s)

2014-11-04 Thread John Long
On Mon, Nov 03, 2014 at 08:40:57PM -0500, DaleKelly wrote: On 11/03/2014 05:18 PM, Grant Edwards wrote: You'll need to re-do the configure, build, install steps: [cd to mutt source directory] $ ./configure --enable-smtp $ make $ sudo make install previous errors are gone, but it now

Re: do I need both SSL and SASL?

2014-11-04 Thread John Long
On Tue, Nov 04, 2014 at 12:45:37AM -0500, DaleKelly wrote: for SMTPs and POPs? Maybe. SASL is a wrapper so that your email client can present your login credentials to your email server using encryption. Loosely (no pun intended) SSL is a wrapper around the emails your client sends so that only

Re: pop(s),smtp(s)

2014-11-03 Thread John Long
On Sun, Nov 02, 2014 at 07:28:06PM -0500, DaleKelly wrote: On 11/02/2014 06:53 PM, John Niendorf wrote: Dale, For what it is worth I have this in my .muttrc file and I am able to send and receive securly to my server. I am using muttrc rather than .muttrc so you should check for both files

Re: pop(s),smtp(s)

2014-11-03 Thread John Niendorf
Just a note: ~/ is shorthand for /home/dale/ John On 03 Nov 2014, at 17:29, Patrick Shanahan ptilopt...@gmail.com wrote: * DaleKelly d...@dalekelly.org [11-03-14 11:23]: On 11/03/2014 04:51 AM, John Long wrote: You need to resolve this issue or you will have no idea what mutt is using

Re: pop(s),smtp(s)

2014-11-03 Thread John Niendorf
configured for SMTP. John On 11/04/2014 04:41 AM, DaleKelly wrote: On 11/03/2014 09:43 PM, DaleKelly wrote: sudo apt-get install libsasl2-2 Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done libsasl2-2 is already the newest version. already there, maybe

Re: pop(s),smtp(s)

2014-11-02 Thread John Niendorf
Dale, For what it is worth I have this in my .muttrc file and I am able to send and receive securly to my server. set smtp_url=smtps://j...@jfniendorf.org@secure_server.com/465 -- John

Template Question

2014-11-01 Thread John Niendorf
is that I'd no longer have to type a subject or paste in the message body. -- John

Never mind - I should have searched first

2014-11-01 Thread John Niendorf
to ``profes...@bigschool.edu'' with a subject of ``data set for run #2''. In the body of the message will be the contents of the file ``~/run2.dat''. -- John

Re: How is mutt with multi-mega-byte mboxes?

2014-09-18 Thread Jens John
On Thu, Sep 18, 2014 at 04:19:12PM -0400, Mark Filipak wrote: How is mutt with multi-mega-byte mboxes? Have you found that having tens of thousands of messages in a single box is dangerous? Thank You. I've had up to 40k messages in a mbox file, collecting debian-devel. The only effect I

Mutt and Exchange

2014-09-09 Thread John Niendorf
anyone ever connected to Exchange with Mutt? -- Thank you, John

Re: message line in black with black background

2014-09-03 Thread John Long
On Wed, Sep 03, 2014 at 05:32:20PM +0100, Moss wrote: Sorry delete my last post. Your colours should be set in ~/.muttrc man muttrc and search for color by doing /color and the first hit you should get is color object foreground background [regexp] which is the format of the color command

Saving attachments (Again)

2014-07-01 Thread John Niendorf
, what is the easiest way to save them all to a specific folder. I know I can tag them all, but what is the next step? Thanks Mutt folks! -- John

Re: Saving attachments (Again) in no way guarantees a positive review, I just can't afford to keep doing this for free. I feel ten bones is not much and hopefully I'll get enough cash to keep the sit

2014-07-01 Thread John Niendorf
Type ';' or whatever you have the tag-prefix command bound to, then 's'. Mutt will prompt you for a file name, give it a directory name. When mutt asks for confirmation, type 'a' to save all attachments in the directory. Thank you for the clear concise answer! -- John

Left margin in Mutt's pager?

2014-05-03 Thread John Magolske
for any suggestions, John -- John Magolske http://B79.net/contact

Re: defining a shortcut to save to a mailbox

2014-02-11 Thread John
On Sat, Feb 08, 2014 at 08:04:03PM +0100, MD wrote: I use a similar macro for index view: macro index gc copy-message^U/home/markus/.mail/spam-missedenter I think in Your case should following work: macro pager 0 copy-message^U/home/john/.mail/spam-missedenter Thank you very much Markus

Re: defining a shortcut to save to a mailbox

2014-02-11 Thread John
On Sun, Feb 09, 2014 at 04:37:25PM +1300, Chris Bannister wrote: FYI, that is not pager view but index view. yeah, sorry still getting to grips with some terminology. thanks, -- John

defining a shortcut to save to a mailbox

2014-02-08 Thread John
a method please? thanks, -- John

Re: Namespace with/without on dovecot server on/off and issues

2013-10-13 Thread John Niendorf
account on a server at my hosting company. It sounds like you set up EVERYTHING from scratch. John On Sun, Oct 13, 2013 at 09:56:14PM +, miro wrote: On Sun, Oct 06, 2013 at 07:34:36AM +0200, miro.ro...@croatiafidelis.hr wrote: I'm trying to reply to this thread, but I still haven't set

Re: Key Bindings issue

2013-09-25 Thread John Niendorf
keys to move to the next or previous message in the index. I mapped ctrl+n to highlight the next mailbox in the sidebar. -- John

Re: Setting message priority levels

2013-09-16 Thread John Niendorf
Thank you Kevin. I appreicate the help. On Sun, Sep 15, 2013 at 04:21:44PM -0700, Kevin J. McCarthy wrote: John Niendorf wrote: How can I add something like Low, Normal, Medium, High priority to a mail right before sending? You could, for example, add the following to your muttrc: # Set

Setting message priority levels

2013-09-15 Thread John Niendorf
believe also in Thunderbird? Thank you, -- John

Re: Setting message priority levels

2013-09-15 Thread John Niendorf
on the receiving MUA. Is that correct? -- Thank you, John

Folders not in the sidebar list of folders

2013-08-05 Thread John Niendorf
. I did notice that the folders that are not visible in the sidebar all have a . after their name, for example Amazon-UK. Anyone have an idea what I am doing wrong? Thank you, -- John

Re: Folders not in the sidebar list of folders

2013-08-05 Thread John Niendorf
explicitly tell mutt to display any particular folders by name. -- John

Re: Folders not in the sidebar list of folders

2013-08-05 Thread John Niendorf
will subscribe me to a folder. Once I did the folder showed up in the sidebar. Problem solved - once again user error ;-) -- John

Download multiple attachments at once

2013-07-26 Thread John Niendorf
Hi Mutt-folks, Today as I was saving about 20 photos I received from my sister, I thought I wonder if there is a way to save all of the images attached to an email in one swoop as opposed to hitting s for each one. How do you guys manage attachments? -- John

Re: Download multiple attachments at once

2013-07-26 Thread John Niendorf
of attachments, tag them all, then tag-save. You'll be prompted for filenames for each one, but you can just hold the enter key to use the defaults for each. Charles -- John

Re: The etiquette of RTFM (Re: I have forgotten ...)

2013-06-25 Thread John Niendorf
don't want to answer something, don't answer it. Replying RTFM does nothing except make you look like a jerk. -- John

Re: Mutt slow to respond?

2013-06-24 Thread John Long
Since nobody said anything yet, it seems like this is related to IMAP and Mutt's design. I use POP when possible since it doesn't query the server until you tell it to. You won't see new messages that way but it also doesn't get affected by the speed of the IMAP server and the connection until

Re: The etiquette of RTFM (Re: I have forgotten ...)

2013-06-23 Thread John Long
On Thu, Jun 20, 2013 at 05:58:16PM -0500, Derek Martin wrote: On Thu, Jun 20, 2013 at 09:51:13AM -0500, Dale A. Raby wrote: On Thu, Jun 20, 2013 at 08:35:25AM -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: I really don't need to be told RTFM. I am 80 yrs old. I forget things. [I think people should

Re: I have forgotten ...

2013-06-20 Thread John Long
On Thu, Jun 20, 2013 at 08:35:25AM -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: I am having a mental block, and cannot remember how to wrap text in Emacs while composing an email. Specifically, I need help remembering what key, or keys, should be pressed after selecting a region of text to get that region

Unable to view images

2013-06-14 Thread John Niendorf
and the number of the image I get the following error: gm display: Unable to load font (-*-helvetica-medium-r-normal--12-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1) [Resource temporarily unavailable]. Does anyone know what this means or how I can fix it? Thank you -- John

Re: Unable to view images

2013-06-14 Thread John Niendorf
:45PM +0200, John Niendorf wrote: Hi Guys, I'm on Ubuntu 12.04 and had to reinstall my system. I backed up my home directory prior to the reinstall and then copied everything back into home when I had finished. Mutt is almost working the way it was prior to reinstallation. Now when I try to view

Re: Search utilities for use with mutt - I use mairix but it's not perfect

2013-05-07 Thread John Niendorf
look up the man page.) Biggest question is: Is egrep a vim only thing or can a nano wimp use it too? ;-) -- John

Searching for an email by sender's address

2013-04-27 Thread John Niendorf
Hi Guys, How do you guys search for all messages from a particular sender? When I do a search, it picks up words from the subject by ignores the sender's (or recipient's) address. -- John

Re: Searching for an email by sender's address

2013-04-27 Thread John Niendorf
On Sat, Apr 27, 2013 at 03:49:48PM -0400, Tim Gray wrote: Try '~f'. So limit, then `~f name`. Thanks Tim, That seems to work pretty well. -- John

Shift key in a macro

2013-04-19 Thread John Niendorf
Hi Guys, I can't seem to find how to bind a macro with the shift key. I see that \Cb will bind the macro to Ctrl+b, but can you bind a macro to Shift+B? -- John

Re: Long urls - update

2013-04-01 Thread John Niendorf
Hi Guys, I guess I'm the slow one on the list. Is there more to the patch than commenting out # $command =~ s/%s/'$url'/g; and replacing it with $command=~s//\\/g Because either way, extract_url.pl isn't working for me. I can see the list of urls, but if I click on one I still get a page

Long urls

2013-03-30 Thread John Niendorf
with the url I end up copying a bunch of other stuff that is not in the url (like part of the list of folders in the Mutt side panel, for example). Does anyone know a way to deal with long urls aside from opening up Thunderbird? Thanks for any advice, I really appreciate it. John

Long urls - update

2013-03-30 Thread John Niendorf
Thank you all for the tips. Actually all I did was install urlview from the repository and then when I clicked ctrl+B I got a list of ur$ I'll see how it works with urls that extend onto multiple lines the next time one comes by. John

Re: Long urls - update

2013-03-30 Thread John Niendorf
This looks really great, but where do I put the script? I made it exicutable and put it in my path and I got the error that it wasn't there. I coped it to ~/ and got the same error. John http://www.memoryhole.net/~kyle/extract_url/ Try this. It's brilliant.

Re: build problems on Solaris 8

2013-02-09 Thread John Long
On Fri, Feb 08, 2013 at 04:46:28PM -0800, Will Yardley wrote: On Fri, Feb 08, 2013 at 05:30:03PM -0700, s. keeling wrote: Incoming from Michael Elkins: FYI, there are nightly snapshots here http://dev.mutt.org/nightlies/ which avoid the need to have the developer toolchain installed.

Retrieve POP mail automatically?

2012-12-16 Thread John Long
Is there any way to retrieve pop mail automatically in mutt itself rather than using fetchmail etc.? Thanks. /jl -- ASCII ribbon campaign ( ) Powered by Lemote Fuloong against HTML e-mail X Loongson MIPS and OpenBSD and proprietary/ \http://www.mutt.org attachments /

Re: Retrieve POP mail automatically?

2012-12-16 Thread John Long
On Sun, Dec 16, 2012 at 11:37:29AM -0600, Dale Raby wrote: On 12/16/2012 10:37 AM, John Long wrote: Is there any way to retrieve pop mail automatically in mutt itself rather than using fetchmail etc.? Thanks. /jl The short answer is yes. The long answer is, maybe, if your

Re: Retrieve POP mail automatically?

2012-12-16 Thread John Long
Dale wrote: http://www.mutt.org/doc/manual/manual-4.html Item 4.10 I think the item you want is the pop_checkinterval variable The default is 60 seconds Thanks I just tried that after I posted my previous response. It doesn't work either (but it sure looked like it should!)

Re: Mutt locking up, how to trace?

2012-11-25 Thread John Long
Understood, thanks again. On Sun, Nov 25, 2012 at 09:37:47AM +1100, Cameron Simpson wrote: On 24Nov2012 19:12, John Long codeb...@inbox.lv wrote: | On Sat, Nov 24, 2012 at 09:15:27AM +1100, Cameron Simpson wrote: | Some things are timing dependent, and strace does affect things; | | I

Re: Mutt locking up, how to trace?

2012-11-24 Thread John Long
On Sat, Nov 24, 2012 at 09:15:27AM +1100, Cameron Simpson wrote: On 23Nov2012 10:42, John Long codeb...@inbox.lv wrote: | On Thu, Nov 22, 2012 at 11:40:33PM +0100, Richard wrote: | On Thu, Nov 22, 2012 at 06:42:27PM +, John Long wrote: | My mutt on Linux has been locking up lately. I

Re: Mutt locking up, how to trace?

2012-11-23 Thread John Long
On Thu, Nov 22, 2012 at 11:40:33PM +0100, Richard wrote: On Thu, Nov 22, 2012 at 06:42:27PM +, John Long wrote: My mutt on Linux has been locking up lately. I didn't compile it with debug support. Is there any way to figure out why this is happening? I sometimes lock up in the middle

Mutt locking up, how to trace?

2012-11-22 Thread John Long
My mutt on Linux has been locking up lately. I didn't compile it with debug support. Is there any way to figure out why this is happening? I sometimes lock up in the middle of composing a long email or when mutt has been open for awhile. This didn't happen until this week and I suspect my email

Re: Please set your line wrap to a sane value (was ... Re: Is there any gmane.org user in the list?)

2012-11-20 Thread John Long
I wasn't going to post in this thread but... On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 04:16:44PM +, Tony's unattended mail wrote: On 2012-11-20, Chris Bannister cbannis...@slingshot.co.nz wrote: Ouch! Could you please set the line wrap value in your editor to a sane value? 72 characters seems to be the

Re: Please set your line wrap to a sane value (was ... Re: Is there any gmane.org user in the list?)

2012-11-20 Thread John Long
On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 06:24:49PM +, Tony's unattended mail wrote: On 2012-11-20, John Long codeb...@inbox.lv wrote: Conventions are good, but only when they cater to those with *good* tools. When a convention caters to compensate for poorly designed tools, and then cause difficultly

score on X-Mailer?

2012-08-27 Thread John Long
Can somebody explain if/how I can score on X-Mailer? There's a new spamming bastard on the block (mybizmailer.com) and it's hitting many tech lists. I'd like to score on X-Mailer: mybizmail but I'm missing something. I tried score '~h X-Mailer: mybizmail' -1000 but I get an error when I source

Stupid reply tricks

2012-08-12 Thread John Long
I am sorry to have to ask this but I don't understand why I get a prompt when replying to messages with set fast_reply=yes is set in muttrc. Isn't this supposed to just open the editor without prompting you? Instead I get a message Reply to so-and-so? Like what's the big deal if it actually

Re: Stupid reply tricks

2012-08-12 Thread John Long
On Sun, Aug 12, 2012 at 10:13:31AM -0400, David Haguenauer wrote: Hi John, Hi David thanks for your mail. I get a message Reply to so-and-so? It looks like you want the `reply_to' quadoption set to `yes' or `no' rather than the default `ask-yes': I will try that but I can't figure out

Re: Stupid reply tricks

2012-08-12 Thread John Long
On Sun, Aug 12, 2012 at 10:39:17AM -0400, Patrick Shanahan wrote: * John Long codeb...@inbox.lv [08-12-12 10:24]: On Sun, Aug 12, 2012 at 10:13:31AM -0400, David Haguenauer wrote: I get a message Reply to so-and-so? It looks like you want the `reply_to' quadoption set to `yes

Re: Killfiling, anyone?

2012-08-10 Thread John Long
Thanks a lot for your post, David. I'll look it over. Some good ideas in there! -- ASCII ribbon campaign ( ) Powered by Lemote Fuloong against HTML e-mail X Loongson MIPS and OpenBSD and proprietary/ \http://www.mutt.org attachmentsCode Blue or Go Home!

Re: Killfiling, anyone?

2012-07-27 Thread John Long
On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 11:23:14PM +0200, Christian Brabandt wrote: Hi John! Hello Christian! Christian, your idea is working pretty good so far but I didn't figure out how to source the script by binding it to a key. Is that possible somehow? I am afraid I don't understand. What doesn't

Re: Killfiling, anyone?

2012-07-27 Thread John Long
I am afraid I don't understand. What doesn't work? Following up to myself... It seems sourcing the score file works even when new emails are received. Sorry I didn't test this properly before asking. I was just sourcing manually. Adding it to the startup seems to work fine. Thanks for the

Re: alias

2012-07-27 Thread John Long
On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 01:57:02PM +0200, SK wrote: Maybe I don't know enough about tmux (nor screen). How do you get to the mail server/mutt program? Through a ssh session? How do you visualize attachments? Do you use the -X option of ssh? Does tmux offer a tools for connecting to the

Re: alias

2012-07-27 Thread John Long
On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 08:22:20AM -0500, Luis Mochan wrote: On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 12:06:00PM +, John Long wrote: On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 01:57:02PM +0200, SK wrote: ... I too have this problem. I use SSH to connect to a remote server and run mutt inside a tmux session, But I

Re: alias

2012-07-27 Thread John Long
On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 02:18:59PM +, John Long wrote: On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 08:22:20AM -0500, Luis Mochan wrote: Maybe this is a dumb question: as we can use IMAP to access remote mailboxes, could we also use it to access other remote files with configuration commands and 'source

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