Re: Mutt with Gmail on ubuntu

2021-04-24 Thread Ulrich Lauther
On Thu, Apr 22, 2021 at 09:44:54PM +, ಚಿರಾಗ್ ನಟರಾಜ್ wrote: > 12021/02/31 07:22.37 ನಲ್ಲಿ, "M.R.P. zensky" > ಬರೆದರು: > > > > Hello does anyone know what the best way to configure mutt to work with > > gmail on ubuntu? > > poll imap.gmail.com with proto IMAP >user '$email' there with

Re: Search and limit from command line

2021-03-20 Thread Ulrich Lauther
On Sat, Mar 20, 2021 at 11:11:43AM +0100, Jens John wrote: > On Sat, 20 Mar 2021, at 10:42, Julius Hamilton wrote: > > Hello Mutt users, > > > > I would like to know if there is a way to retrieve a list of emails from > > a particular user at stdout in bash, rather than launching the mutt > >

Re: My experiences with Mutt to date: Suggestions for overcoming some issues

2021-01-25 Thread Ulrich Lauther
On Mon, Jan 25, 2021 at 09:07:29PM +1100, Cameron Simpson wrote: > On 24Jan2021 22:04, boB Stepp wrote: > >5) I am able to view HTML emails via w3c, but I get weekly (and some > >daily) emails from news aggregation services like Pycoders Weekly, > >TLDR, etc., that have embedded links that never

Re: extracting subjects lines

2020-07-19 Thread Ulrich Lauther
On Sun, Jul 19, 2020 at 09:58:56AM +0200, Matthias Apitz wrote: > El día Sonntag, Juli 19, 2020 a las 08:18:01 +0200, Ulrich Lauther escribió: > > > > How can I get the subject lines in clear text? > > $ cat subject.pl > #!/usr/local/bin/perl > # > > use En

extracting subjects lines

2020-07-19 Thread Ulrich Lauther
Hi, I use grep "Subject: " /var/mail/$USER to extract subject-lines from my mail box and get for instance Subject: =?utf-8?Q?Achtung=20=2D=20don=27t=20say=20that?= but in mutt, I see Achtung - don't say that How can I get the subject lines in clear text?

where stores mutt the status of messages, i.e. "r", "N", etc. ?

2019-05-19 Thread Ulrich Lauther
In the mailbox /var/mail/ new messages are appended, but mutt displays the newest messages first. Makes sense. Probably because my mailbox grew to large, this mechanism failed: suddenly I saw very old messages first. To repair this I edited the mailbox (using vi) and deleted old messages. Now

Re: find matched message in all mailboxes and put them into a separate mailbox

2018-01-18 Thread Ulrich Lauther
On Thu, Jan 18, 2018 at 05:29:38PM +0800, Yubin Ruan wrote: > Hi, > > I know one can hit / or l (i.e., limit) and then apply a search pattern to > search for messages in the current mailbox. But can we apply this to multiple > mailboxes? I would like to search for matched messages in all

Re: mutt deletes temporary HTML file before I can view it

2016-06-23 Thread Ulrich Lauther
On Wed, Jun 22, 2016 at 09:49:12PM -0400, Xu Wang wrote: > On Wed, Jun 22, 2016 at 9:07 AM, Gregor Zattler wrote: > > Hi Xu Wang, > > * Xu Wang [22. Jun. 2016]: > >> So I added & to detach. This is good in the sense > >> that mutt now does not wait for the

Re: Convert ascii UTF8 code (in mutt "to:" header) to real UTF8

2016-06-03 Thread Ulrich Lauther
On Fri, Jun 03, 2016 at 05:52:36PM +1000, Erik Christiansen wrote: > On 03.06.16 08:45, Matthias Apitz wrote: > > $ echo 'Ker=C4=B1ko' | mmencode -u -q > > Kerıko > > $ echo 'Ker=C4=B1ko' | mmencode -u -q | od -tx1 > > 0004b 65 72 c4 b1 6b 6f 0a > >

Re: mail box vanished

2014-08-01 Thread Ulrich Lauther
On Fri, Aug 01, 2014 at 10:06:53PM +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: On Fri, Aug 01, 2014 at 10:40:05AM +0200, Ulrich Lauther wrote: On Fri, Aug 01, 2014 at 10:33:27AM +0200, Ulrich Lauther wrote: Is there a way to mark - accidentally - all messages as read? I should have said

mail box vanished

2014-07-31 Thread Ulrich Lauther
Sorry, this message may not directly be mutt-related, but maybe somebody can point me to better place to ask. Within a time span of (probably) some weeks the file /var/spool/mail/my account for the second time suddenly has size 0. Of course, without myself doing anything evil, probably without

Re: Correct syntax of send hook

2014-05-13 Thread Ulrich Lauther
On Mon, May 12, 2014 at 11:06:21AM -0500, Derek Martin wrote: increasing prevalence of this odd usage. It's almost as bad as adding apostrophes for plurals or third-person present tense verbs (e.g. apostrope's instead of apostrophes or He let's his dog out vs. He lets his dog out.).

Re: a few suggestions for the docu

2014-04-14 Thread Ulrich Lauther
On Mon, Apr 14, 2014 at 12:35:02PM -0500, Derek Martin wrote: On Sun, Apr 13, 2014 at 02:42:20PM +0200, Ulrich Lauther wrote: BTW, in my current environment - Ubuntu 12.4 - pressing F1 does NOT bring up the mutt-manual, but the manual of the gnome-termial in which it is run. Well, I

a few suggestions for the docu

2014-04-13 Thread Ulrich Lauther
Motivation: I have been using mutt for nearly 10 years, comming from unix-mail and elm under various operating systems. I have to admit, that I never read the 165 pages of the manual but relied on man mutt and man muttrc, but first of all on the sample muttrc-file that comes with the

[ulrich.laut...@t-online.de: Re: a few suggestions for the docu]

2014-04-13 Thread Ulrich Lauther
On Sun, Apr 13, 2014 at 09:23:07AM -0400, Patrick Shanahan wrote: So index_format is there, alternates not. If a complete list exists somewhere, I was not able to find it. If you would read the see: 11. Alternative addresses http://mutt-ng.berlios.de/manual/ch03s11.html sure.

[ulrich.laut...@t-online.de: Re: a few suggestions for the docu]

2014-04-13 Thread Ulrich Lauther
Again I hit r instead of L, sorry So here again: - Forwarded message from Ulrich Lauther ulrich.laut...@t-online.de - On Sun, Apr 13, 2014 at 12:37:00PM -0700, Gary Johnson wrote: On 2014-04-13, Ulrich Lauther wrote: BTW, in my current environment - Ubuntu 12.4 - pressing F1 does

Re: displaying the outbox

2014-04-09 Thread Ulrich Lauther
On Wed, Apr 09, 2014 at 10:14:22AM -0500, Derek Martin wrote: Let's be fair... The manual changes from version to version (especially major versions), and the link that Ulrich provided above IS a perfectly valid link to the Mutt manual. It's just not the one that's relevant to the version

Re: displaying the outbox

2014-04-08 Thread Ulrich Lauther
On Mon, Apr 07, 2014 at 11:22:59PM -0400, Jon LaBadie wrote: On Mon, Apr 07, 2014 at 11:14:44PM +0200, Ulrich Lauther wrote: On Mon, Apr 07, 2014 at 03:25:06PM -0400, Patrick Shanahan wrote: I use: folder-hook =outbox 'set index_format=%?M?v ? %4C %Z %{%b %d} %-18.18F (%4c) %s

Re: displaying the outbox

2014-04-08 Thread Ulrich Lauther
On Tue, Apr 08, 2014 at 08:48:04AM +0100, Christian Ebert wrote: * Ulrich Lauther on Tuesday, April 08, 2014 at 08:27:53 +0200 The concept of message is from you is not clear to me. How does mutt decide whether a message is from me or not? Does it look at the From: field, and if so, what

Re: displaying the outbox

2014-04-08 Thread Ulrich Lauther
that match all the email addresses I consider mine): alternates ^kandre@ak-online\.be$ ^kandre+.*@ak-online\.be$ ^root@ak-online\.be$ ^kandre@cacert\.org$ ^andre\.klaerner@hsh-online\.com$ Thanks a lot! ulrich -- -lauther

Re: displaying the outbox

2014-04-08 Thread Ulrich Lauther
On Tue, Apr 08, 2014 at 02:33:08PM +0200, Andre Klärner wrote: Actually the manual specifies this pretty nicely: == the fine manual, chapter 3.11: Many users receive e-mail under a number of different addresses. To fully use Mutt's features here, the program must be able to recognize

Re: displaying the outbox

2014-04-08 Thread Ulrich Lauther
On Tue, Apr 08, 2014 at 02:33:08PM +0200, Andre Klärner wrote: Actually the manual specifies this pretty nicely: == the fine manual, chapter 3.11: Many users receive e-mail under a number of different addresses. To fully use Mutt's features here, the program must be able to recognize

displaying the outbox

2014-04-07 Thread Ulrich Lauther
Hi all, I save my outgoing messages in a file outbox, using set record=+outbox in my .muttrc Now when I open this file (mutt -f outbox), I see the subjects of the sent messages, that´s fine. I also see the sender, who is always myself - no surprise. It would be much more helpfull, to see the

Re: displaying the outbox

2014-04-07 Thread Ulrich Lauther
On Mon, Apr 07, 2014 at 03:25:06PM -0400, Patrick Shanahan wrote: I use: folder-hook =outbox 'set index_format=%?M?v ? %4C %Z %{%b %d} %-18.18F (%4c) %s' %-18.18F does not work for me: I still see my own name. However, %-18.18t achieves what I want. Though the manual says: %F author

unwanted header display

2014-02-28 Thread Ulrich Lauther
Hi, when I open a message by typing h, I see the headers for this message, as intended. However, until I restart mutt, afterwards ALL messages a displayed this way. Bug or feature? Or somehow my fault? I use Mutt 1.5.22 (2013-10-16) Kind regards, ulrich

mutt native SMPT support vs Postfix?

2014-01-04 Thread Ulrich Lauther
Recent posts made me aware of the fact, that mutt supports SMPT. So far I have been using postfix for mail transport. Which way is better, and why? Thanks for advice, ulrich

inconsistent display of subject line

2013-10-19 Thread Ulrich Lauther
In the overview of messages I see a subject line like this: 10/19 ebrosia Genussp ( 14K) M-b~X~E GRATIS M-b~X~E WHISKY When I open the message, I see: Subject: ★ GRATIS ★ WHISKY The LANG-variable is: en_US.UTF-8 mutt is: Mutt 1.5.22 (2013-10-16) compiled using: configure; make; make install

pdf-files destroyed, where are archives?

2013-05-03 Thread Ulrich Lauther
Hi, I cannot find archives of the mutt mailing lists. On http://www.mutt.org/mail-lists.html is a link MARC, but it does not seem to work. I am trying to find an answer to this problem: When I send a pdf-file as an attachmend, it gets destroyed. Ubuntu 12.04, mutt Mutt 1.4.2.3i Did not

Re: pdf-files destroyed, where are archives?

2013-05-03 Thread Ulrich Lauther
On Fri, May 03, 2013 at 11:38:38AM +0200, Christian Brabandt wrote: I am not sure whether the old mutt 1.4 stable release still is supported. You can safely use the latest released development version 1.5.21 (which was released in 2010). Actually calling it development version is

Re: mutt tries to auto_view all old messages

2013-05-02 Thread Ulrich Lauther
On Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 08:30:49AM +1000, Cameron Simpson wrote: On 28Apr2013 23:34, Ulrich Lauther ulrich.laut...@t-online.de wrote: | I upgraded to ubuntu 12.04 which implies mutt 1.5.21 | Now, when I do | mutt -f mbox | where mbox contains all my old, already read, messages

mutt tries to auto_view all old messages

2013-04-28 Thread Ulrich Lauther
Hi all, I upgraded to ubuntu 12.04 which implies mutt 1.5.21 Now, when I do mutt -f mbox where mbox contains all my old, already read, messages, mutt tries to open a firefox tab for each message containing html. (I have auto_view text/html in .muttrc and text/html;