Re: Composing a draft?

2000-10-16 Thread Thomas Roessler
] Subject: Re: Composing a draft? Reply-To: Suresh Ramasubramanian [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mail-Followup-To: MUTT Users [EMAIL PROTECTED] User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i Organization: The Lumber Cartel, India (tinlcI) Bob Bell proclaimed on mutt-users that: Just open another mutt session. Unlike many

Re: Composing a draft?

2000-10-15 Thread Charles Curley
On Sun, Oct 15, 2000 at 10:20:06AM +0530, Suresh Ramasubramanian muttered: Bob Bell proclaimed on mutt-users that: Just open another mutt session. Unlike many mail editors, you can have multiple instances of mutt running at the same time. However, mailbox flags get modified when you

Re: Composing a draft?

2000-10-15 Thread Conor Daly
On Sun, Oct 15, 2000 at 10:20:06AM +0530 or so it is rumoured hereabouts, Suresh Ramasubramanian thought: Bob Bell proclaimed on mutt-users that: Just open another mutt session. Unlike many mail editors, you can have multiple instances of mutt running at the same time. However,

Re: Composing a draft?

2000-10-15 Thread Dan Boger
On Sun, Oct 15, 2000 at 12:51:12PM +0100, Conor Daly wrote: I don't think this would work. mutt sits waiting for the editor to return before sending the mail. If you use gvim which detaches itself from mutt, mutt decides that you've abandoned the message and aborts the send. To make mutt

Re: Composing a draft?

2000-10-15 Thread Mikko Hänninen
Dan Boger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on Sun, 15 Oct 2000: I don't have a solution for this though - need some way for mutt to just go on, not waiting for the process, and not deleteing the tmpfile... then, somehow, when the editor is done, something needs to send that mail... Well, the answer is

Re: Composing a draft?

2000-10-15 Thread Ulf Erikson
On Sun, Oct 15, 2000 at 10:13:00PM +0530, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote: Charles Curley proclaimed on mutt-users that: Which is rather useless because then mutt just sits there with its tongue hanging out saying "Waiting for Emacs..." until the editor completes. That phrase is probably

Re: Composing a draft?

2000-10-15 Thread Anthony Liu
On Sun, Oct 15, 2000 at 10:20:06AM +0530, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote: Bob Bell proclaimed on mutt-users that: Just open another mutt session. Unlike many mail editors, you can have multiple instances of mutt running at the same time. However, mailbox flags get modified when you do

Re: Composing a draft?

2000-10-15 Thread Conor Daly
On Sun, Oct 15, 2000 at 05:11:47PM +0100 or so it is rumoured hereabouts, Dan Boger thought: On Sun, Oct 15, 2000 at 12:51:12PM +0100, Conor Daly wrote: I don't think this would work. mutt sits waiting for the editor to return before sending the mail. If you use gvim which detaches

Re: Composing a draft?

2000-10-15 Thread Mikko Hänninen
Conor Daly [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on Sun, 15 Oct 2000: mutt -sSubject somehow gathered from mutt recipient also gathered from mutt $1 It might be easier to just use "mutt -H tempfile", and then use /dev/null as the input. Mikko -- // Mikko Hänninen, aka. Wizzu // [EMAIL PROTECTED] //

Re: Composing a draft?

2000-10-15 Thread Peter Jaques
why not just sync the mailbox before starting the draft? then if you start another mutt which modifies the flags, it doesn't matter. peter On 15 Oct 00, 12:16PM, Dan Boger wrote: On Sun, Oct 15, 2000 at 12:51:12PM +0100, Conor Daly wrote: I don't think this would work. mutt sits waiting for

Re: Composing a draft?

2000-10-15 Thread Peter Jaques
clever! On 15 Oct 00, 8:23PM, Ulf Erikson wrote: There is a nice (or at least fun) fix for this at http://www.robots.ox.ac.uk/~neil/mutt/ The idea is to use a small script, which returns immediately, as editor; this script will spawn a new instance of mutt, running in a term of its own,

Re: Composing a draft?

2000-10-14 Thread Bob Bell
On Sat, Oct 14, 2000 at 06:56:40PM +0800, Anthony Liu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a way to tell mutt that I am composing a draft without finishing the editing and do the postpone action? If this is possible, I would like to spawn another terminal (or even an X-based editor) for the

Re: Composing a draft?

2000-10-14 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Bob Bell proclaimed on mutt-users that: Just open another mutt session. Unlike many mail editors, you can have multiple instances of mutt running at the same time. However, mailbox flags get modified when you do this - especially with mbox folders. A better thing to do is to use