there's a nice utility named ifile, which uses word-frequencies to sort
messages into folders. ifile itself is very generic: it has no file-
locking interface and therefore can't be used directly.
it would be nice to use it with mutt. one can pipe a message into it and
tell it where it
Jason Helfman:
I have this as my .qmail file:
/home/deklown/Maildir/new/
the maildir is an object of it's own, and it's structure is taken care of
by the software. leave out that fg new/!
clemens
Jason Helfman:
I just installed Qmail last night and broke my Procmail, but I thought I
had fixed it with setting up where Promail writes to...
had the exact same probs, also procmail complaining about every
write(2). but i needed email badly and dropped procmail until i regain
the special
Gottipati Aravind:
and that works just fine. My question now is whats the purpose of that
hostname variable if it does not work? am I doing it wrong or do I need
to set some other variable too.. to get it to work?
whether you can forge your "from:" line or not depends on the mta.
sendmail
Sam Xie:
read a mail, push the End key, an error message says,
"keys not bound. Press '?' for help."
this happened to me when switching over from command- line to x11 on a new
computer. try ^V End in the shell command- line, it tells you what key-
sequence gets emmitted. control-V is
Mike Markowski:
Notice that I now must put *two* slashes after "~mm". With only a
single slash, I get this:
how in the world did you find out? i would never have had the idea to try
to put two slashes in there! now tell us: what made you do this? not the
marsians again
clemens
Dennis Robertson proclaimed on mutt-users that:
Before I give up and retire hurt to netscape can anyone tell me in words
of one syllable how to create mailboxes that work. I get the message
from mutt that every one of the "mailboxes" I have designated is not a
mailbox, even though I can see
Gerhard den Hollander wrote:
* clemensF [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mon, Jun 19, 2000 at 07:49:56PM +0200)
Ronny Haryanto:
I've converted my mailboxes to maildir once, it turned out to be
slower than mbox, so I converted back to mbox now. Dunno about MH, but
I'm guessing it's about the same
Nils Vogels wrote:
I'm using gpg 1.0.0 with mutt to handle my PGP ... but for some reason I keep on
getting "key not found" messages .. I dont think noone has their keys on keyservers
nowadays, so I
must be doing something wrong ..
you probably need the rsa/idea extensions. search the
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send-hook '~t linux-bruxelles' set editor="vi +set textwidth=72"
what about set editor="vi \"+set textwidth=72\""?
clemens
Brett Coon:
1. Folder changes are really slow. My MH folders (directories)
have thousands of messages, which undoubtedly is at least
part of the problem. Would it be faster if I stored messages
in mbox format? Is there anything else I can do to speed
it up other than
Gary Johnson:
...so it can be tested if an X-server is running. What is this program
RunningX ? Is it an utility that comes with X (it is not on my
you might consider just using standard "/usr/bin/test -n $DISPLAY". no
need for special programs, if you test the existence of the x-
Ronny Haryanto:
I've converted my mailboxes to maildir once, it turned out to be
slower than mbox, so I converted back to mbox now. Dunno about MH, but
I'm guessing it's about the same speed as maildir since it resembles
maildir.
are your files on a network?
clemens
Virginie [ ML ]:
defaults mda "formail -ds procmail"
one can save one exec and much complexity using:
mda "/usr/local/bin/procmail -t -f-"
clemens
Mrinal Kalakrishnan:
No it's different. If you're in a console while X is running, the
RunningX test will fail, because it actually tries to open the
display. Whereas the $DISPLAY variable still exists, so "test -n
$DISPLAY" test passes. So if you're in a console, while X is running,
then
Mrinal Kalakrishnan:
No it's different. If you're in a console while X is running, the
RunningX test will fail, because it actually tries to open the
display. Whereas the $DISPLAY variable still exists, so "test -n
isn't there some other way (a unix way) for trying to open the x- display?
John Poltorak:
Where do users normally install the html version of mutt's manual?
usually /usr/local/share/doc/mutt/
clemens
Dirk Ruediger:
This tags your mail and you can store it somewhere. The latter task can be
better done with fetchmail/procmail!
btw: for a leafnode this combination is not the worst one can have, right?
i don't have a static-ip, and this is really just the basic leaf of the
tree, and to me
Suresh Ramasubramanian:
polling [EMAIL PROTECTED] is slow, to say the least.
Brightmail pops mails from gmx (not the fastest available pop server),
then filters it, then you pop mail from brightmail ...
that's correct, but primary concern is to keep spam away from my machine,
so there's no
anyone ever tried to exploit the coarse resemblance between imap and the
classic structure in spool/news?
clemens
Suresh Ramasubramanian:
Can y'all help me? Rather silly of me, I know - but I sort of prefer the
second format :)
which is deprecated.
clemens
Gottipati Aravind:
I use fetchmail to get the mail and Procmail to deliver it. so I dont
same here. all mailing happens on local, i.e. non-nfs filesystems.
actually works. i.e it gives me the name of the next folder like "=fslc"
or something like that, that has new mail, but in most cases
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Does anyone use mutt with local sendmail, where the local sendmail is
configured to forward all mail to a central hub?
yes.
If so could I have a look at your sendmail.cf or relevant m4 file?
i'd rather not. before i switched to qmail, some (hopefully relevant) part
of
Timothy Grant:
However, when I start mutt I get an error telling me that
/var/spool/mail/tjg is not a mailbox.
set logfile /var/log/fetchmail
set daemon 77177
defaults
fetchall
mda "/usr/local/bin/procmail -t -f-"
... will make "from " headers needed by mbox-format.
Gottipati Aravind:
set folder=~/mail
mailboxes ! `echo $folder/*`
did you really check out typing in some names manually?
source ~/.addressesmutt
clemens
Nils Vogels:
Does anyone know the default settings for FreeBSD 5.0 ?
didn't even know of a 5.0 current. but my brother's name's also ni[e]ls.
he opts for e, though.
clemens
Yip Weng:
Some newbie rattle: I just migrated from Win2000 to Linux, and am using
Mutt as substitute for my erstwhile mailer Forte Agent 1.8, to which
threading is also a feature. I have found mutt to be outrageously
flexible and powerful, and the text based screen is so much better for
my
CaT:
Local filesystem for all mailboxes. and erm.. disjunct?
sorry, i could not find the word and threw in what came up. i mean, can
you guarante that no links, chrooted environments or whatever make
different mailboxes undifferent, i.e. the same file?
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Mikko Hänninen:
Actually, you could embed `mkdir -p dirname` in any command -- it gets
expanded but the result is an empty string. However the command does
run. :-)
whowherewhat? where are commands like this allowed like this?
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are you using several mutt windows in a gui or mbox formatted mailboxes
without locked access?
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Thomas Roessler:
than maildir for large mailboxes. Just imagine a rather
traditional Unix file system design having to deal with
7k5 files in _one_ directory...
this might trouble the traditional linux (linear search) fs.
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CaT:
I'm using several mutts but they're all on a different mailbox.
mailboxes accessed by some nfs? really every mailbox disjunct?
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[EMAIL PROTECTED]:
As i have "unset allow_8bit" in /etc/Muttrc, the mails i send are always
encoded as "quoted-printable"! Can i change it to "base64"?
if you change the mime-type to one transfer-encoded using base64, but you'd
loose the convenient "email-feeling".
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Hardy Merrill:
Mail that I'm sending doesn't seem to get out - I think it's
sitting in my "outbox". What more do I need to do?
put ":your-isp's-smtp-(mail)-server-name" into control/smtproutes, if you
use the standard setup, that should get rid of your mail.
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[EMAIL PROTECTED]:
First, you have to set your "smart host" in /etc/sendmail.cf
So, put a line of this kind (in /etc/sendmail.cf) :
# "Smart" relay host (may be null)
DSsmtp.worldonline.fr
yes, this is vital. i had this configured for ages until i found out that
the protocol designator
Chris Woodfield:
It seems mutt's default behavior when replying to a message is to only put
the sender in the To: header. Is there a way to add Cc: recipients as
well?
the group-reply, documented in the manual and in the quickref screen
launched by '?', is commonly bound to 'g'. just check
Andreas Wessel:
What´s it with these "X"-headers anyway?
Does there have to be an X before any self entered header?
RFC?
the common use for it these days is to includer user-info in the headers
(e.g. my pgp-key#). they coexist peacefully with the rfc822 headers until
religion claims it's
G.Embery:
I haven't been able to get function keys to work at all with
s-lang lib but they are quite okay with [n]curses lib.
Here is what i get for the 2 cases:
s-lang:
color ok; function-keys not-ok; "grey" keys got-working;
ncurses:
color none;
David Champion:
Maybe the original poster (I forgot who...) would be OK with
"unbind * *" and "unmacro * *".
and, finalizing this thread, should this not be the default content of the
default fallback etc/Muttrc?
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Timothy Ball:
I haven't gotten any mail from the mailing list in weeks now... I am I
unsubscribed or what?
i've been unsubbed for bounces. had to resubscribe. happens often these
days.
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David DeSimone:
Mikko Hänninen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
That's good as an option, but then the problem would be that you can't
have an independent stand-alone binary that works even with no
resource files...
Is this really one of the design goals of Mutt? I don't see a problem
as
Tom Gilbert:
Not entirely what you're after here, but may be of use to you... I find
the default folder navigation painful too, so I wrote some cursor-key
navigation macros to make life better. Try these out?
bind pager up previous-line
bind pager down next-line
up, down,
Michael Tatge:
So, to get the threading in the way to want it just set the Date:
header of that message to a reasonable value and you'll be fine.
that's cool! whenever you suspect something's fishy, you just wade thru
your email to check the sequence of dates? or did you already write the
Manuel Arriaga:
allows me to reach any message (del/undel). But in my computer j and k
jump messages marked for deletion.
he specifically told you to use capital letters, which work.
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Mikko Hänninen:
PATH=C:\WINDOWS;C:\WINDOWS\RUN;C:\WINDOWS\CRASH
you got your path all wrong. with windows it =must= look like this:
PATH=C:\WINDOWS;C:\WINDOWS\CRASH;C:\WINDOWS\RUN
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Mikko Hänninen:
Jacob Davies [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on Tue, 23 May 2000:
I think I could accomplish this with a wrapper that monitors all my
mailboxes for new mail and display that on a menu, pushing me into
mutt on that mailbox when I select one, but I don't want to reinvent
the
Corey G.:
I would be more than happy to write a better explanation if someone
really wants me to for the documentation. I only want to make Mutt
better like everyone else.
sounds great! i vote ``yes'' both for the effort and the offer.
thanks Corey!
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Charles Curley:
Now, if you run X, look at fetchmailconf. Get your configuration into
.fetchmailrc, which will save you a lot of typing and is less error prone.
even without python, the language fetchmailconf is written in, the text was
enlightening as to making a .fetchmailrc.
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Suresh Ramasubramanian:
:) ... but is there any hassle about X-Mailer: remaining in your mail? I
haven't yet seen an RFC raising any objection to X-Foo: headers yet :)
it's no rfc matter, it's personal taste.
If you don't like to see it you can always set ignore X-Mailer :)
but i want
Emily Slocombe:
I got a bizarre error from trying to do a reply to all to you and the
mutt user group. The message follows:
From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun May 21 15:18:32 2000
From: Mail Delivery Subsystem [EMAIL PROTECTED]
me too. same error message.
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Manuel Arriaga:
Anyway, I would like to know whether it is possible to have mutt display
any new messages that fetchmail retrieved automatically since mutt was
yes. read the manual. you can specify the intervals for mutt to look for
new mail. also, whenever you say '$' to resynchronize,
my messages carry a "x-mailer: mutt" header that i'd like to get rid of.
how do i do that?
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Zhendong:
folders. After I've changed the mutt folders to gz format, procmail
still delivers mails as uncompressed format, they can not work well
together.
then run the mails through gzip. the line "| gzip folder" will append
compressed data to the folder. this has nothing to do with
Mikko Hänninen:
I guess what I'm basically looking for is a reply-hook. Something that I
can use to change things based on the message I'm replying to. Does
anything like that exist?
Nope, sorry. There's been talk of ways to solve this, and I think even
the best way has been
Roland Rosenfeld:
| gzip folder
BUT DON'T DO THIS, if you do not want to loose mail!
IIRC, there is no mechanism to merge changes in the compressed folder
into the temporary uncompressed folder, so if you have a compressed
folder open for reading, while a new mail arrives and is
Reinhard Foerster:
On Sat, May 20, 2000 at 10:39:21AM +0200, clemensF wrote:
my messages carry a "x-mailer: mutt" header that i'd like to get rid of.
how do i do that?
unset user_agent (mutt 1.2 only)
oh no, nono, please, there =has= to be a way! please, save me! do i h
Suresh Ramasubramanian:
unset user_agent (mutt 1.2 only)
+That+ will get rid of the User-Agent: Mutt 1.2i. I doubt if it will get
rid of the X-Mailer tag (which is not generated by newer mutts anyway).
i think you repeat exactly what he said, and i'm not really sure if i am
grateful for
David T-G:
I'd try something like
my_hdr X-Mailer: ""
no go. recompiled the whole s**t. bet'ya can't see no heada!
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Suresh Ramasubramanian:
heresy Sounds a lot like emacs thinking to me :) g,dr
you, youDANGEROUS PERSON!
Mikko Hänninen:
Well, I guess you could do a script that reads the message-to-be-replied
to, writes a template reply email out to a file, and then this could be
used with the resend-message (or edit-postponed) in Mutt as a basis of
the new email... It would work, but you'd be taking all
David Champion (Thu 18.0500-00:47):
So, on a related note: are there any other NNTP patches for mutt,
besides Brandon Long's 0.95 version? I'd imagine that they'll never
i never heard of this nntp patch. would you please give a pointer?
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Larry P. Schrof:
When I hit 'k' or 'j' in the index, it gives me a "Key is not bound."
error. Yet, when I go to the binding listing screen (by hitting '?'),
'j' and 'k' show up in the generic bindings section as bound to the
functions I assigned.
think about it over a nice cup of hot
Bennett Todd (Tue 16.0500-17:23):
Ok, I've gotten so hooked on mutt that I'm wanting to use it for
netnews.
did you have a look at leafnode? it's a small nntp-handler without
newsreader. i'm thinking about adapting mutt towards using leafnode to
swatt that fly...
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Jan Houtsma (Wed 17.0500-22:12):
'rlogin -l caroline localhost' which works fine.
what happens if you put "exec " in front of "rlogin"?
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Ben Beuchler (Wed 17.0500-21:29):
Hmmm... I'm using Eterm with a setting of 'xterm-color'. Pretty standard
stuff. What made me consider mutt as a possible culprit as opposed to my
terminal emulation is that it only happened when I was browsing my 'read
mail' box which contained 9000+
Graham Lillico (Tue 16.0500-08:46):
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email sent from mutt using gpg to sign it then I get the above message and
then shortly followed by "PGP signature successfully verified." why don't I
get this from messages sent and signed using pine? Does this mean it can't
verify the GPG
Mikko Hänninen (Mon 15.0500-05:31):
What're you trying to do? More specifically, what do you want to happen
when Q is pressed in the pager?
isnt query bound in the sense of external-query?
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Dave Ewart (Mon 15.0500-14:36):
If you've pasted those lines straight from your .muttrc, then I can see the
problem: you need to use "-", not "_" in "reverse-date-received".
you see, a mechanic could get fired for _- 0.5 !
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Chris Green (Mon 15.0500-15:39):
Is there any way to delete IMAP folders (as opposed to mailboxes)
using mutt?
if you enjoy the neccessary priviledges on the place hosting your
imap-folders, it should work, n'est-ce-pas?
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Mikko Hänninen (Mon 15.0500-00:58):
be integrated with Mutt with the external-query command in any address
excuse me: whats the name of "the external-query command"?
query gives errors (in 1.0.1).
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Chris Green (Mon 15.0500-18:29):
Well I should do, the IMAP server is running as a user process, all
the files are in my user area and all the files are owned and
writeable by me.
what does the imap protocol say? does mutt send a valid delete-request?
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Mikko Hänninen (Mon 15.0500-22:05):
bind editor ^T complete-query
Ahh.
Ahh.
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gpg recv-key 0x9
echo `gpg list-key 0x9 | cat
Mikko Hänninen (Mon 15.0500-00:40):
clemensF [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on Sun, 14 May 2000:
can this be done: everyone may optionally supply a "backup" email-address
which unsubscribe notification are forwarded to, so one at least knows
what's happening?
Hmmm, Majordomo doesn
why, o why does "bind pager Q query" in .muttrc always give errors like "no
such function"?
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Gero Treuner (Sun 14.0500-18:48):
If there is a problem (bounce) with your e-mail account, you are
automatically removed from the list. Re-subscribe in this case.
this has already happened to me, and i am still waiting for my otherwise
trustworthy isp to answer my complaint. i didn't even
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