Re: Expiring Messages - not quite solved

2012-11-27 Thread David Champion
* On 25 Nov 2012, Jamie Paul Griffin wrote: In the end the new version of the message is generated by formail, so it's subject to formail's limitations, if it has any. (I don't know of any.) It would be possible to update the python script to handle the rewrite with python core

Re: Expiring Messages - not quite solved

2012-11-27 Thread Jamie Paul Griffin
[ David Champion Wrote On Tue 27.Nov'12 at 10:18:32 GMT ] * On 25 Nov 2012, Jamie Paul Griffin wrote: In the end the new version of the message is generated by formail, so it's subject to formail's limitations, if it has any. (I don't know of any.) It would be possible to update

Re: Expiring Messages - not quite solved

2012-11-27 Thread David Champion
* On 27 Nov 2012, Jamie Paul Griffin wrote: David thank you very much indeed, it works beautifully. I really appreciate you giving up your time to create it and modify it. I'm sure it will be prove useful to plenty of people. Great, thanks for the update. I'm glad it's helped. Time now to

Re: Expiring Messages - not quite solved

2012-11-25 Thread Jamie Paul Griffin
[ David Champion Wrote On Sun 25.Nov'12 at 2:00:08 GMT ] * On 24 Nov 2012, Jamie Paul Griffin wrote: I have found the source of the problem: the script failed when expiring messages in /var/mail/... but not is mailboxes in my $HOME directory; so, it was a permissions issue which i've now

Re: Expiring Messages - not quite solved

2012-11-25 Thread David Champion
* On 25 Nov 2012, Jamie Paul Griffin wrote: The script works on all messages except those with Content-Type: Multipart/* This doesn't ring a bell to me, and I'm finding that it works with single samples of multipart/alternative and of multipart/related. Could you provide the message you're

Re: Expiring Messages - not quite solved

2012-11-25 Thread Jamie Paul Griffin
[ David Champion Wrote On Sun 25.Nov'12 at 23:26:49 GMT ] * On 25 Nov 2012, Jamie Paul Griffin wrote: The script works on all messages except those with Content-Type: Multipart/* This doesn't ring a bell to me, and I'm finding that it works with single samples of

Re: Expiring Messages - Solved!

2012-11-24 Thread Jamie Paul Griffin
I have found the source of the problem: the script failed when expiring messages in /var/mail/... but not is mailboxes in my $HOME directory; so, it was a permissions issue which i've now resolved. Sorry to have pestered you David, especially there was no real problem, just a simple matter

Re: Expiring Messages - Solved!

2012-11-24 Thread David Champion
* On 24 Nov 2012, Jamie Paul Griffin wrote: I have found the source of the problem: the script failed when expiring messages in /var/mail/... but not is mailboxes in my $HOME directory; so, it was a permissions issue which i've now resolved. Sorry to have pestered you David, especially

Re: Expiring Messages

2012-11-23 Thread Jamie Paul Griffin
[ David Champion Wrote On Sun 18.Nov'12 at 16:32:32 GMT ] This is a quick hack and untested beyond the basics, but feel free to work from it. It is, or should be, a complete reimplementation of Gary's script in Python. #!/usr/bin/env python import os import sys import time try:

Re: Expiring Messages

2012-11-21 Thread Jamie Paul Griffin
/ To mutt-users@mutt.org wrote on Sat 10.Nov'12 at 7:39:33 + / / David Champion wrote on Fri 9.Nov'12 at 15:00:44 -0600 / Python option: $ easy_install parsedatetime $ python from parsedatetime.parsedatetime import Calendar import time rfc822format = '%a, %d %b %Y %H:%M:%S

Re: Expiring Messages

2012-11-18 Thread Jamie Paul Griffin
/ David Champion wrote on Fri 9.Nov'12 at 15:00:44 -0600 / * On 09 Nov 2012, Jeremy Kitchen wrote: On Fri, Nov 09, 2012 at 11:12:34AM +, Jamie Paul Griffin wrote: Hi I would like to use the method of setting messages to expire described on Gary's page[1] but the problem is

Re: Expiring Messages

2012-11-18 Thread David Champion
* On 18 Nov 2012, Jamie Paul Griffin wrote: Hi David, et al I wondered if you would mind showing me how I could use your python code above to implement it into Gary's idea for creating the mail Expiry date macro? I am a total python beginner and so can't quite make sense of what i need to

Re: Expiring Messages

2012-11-18 Thread Jamie Paul Griffin
/ David Champion wrote on Sun 18.Nov'12 at 10:32:32 -0600 / This is a quick hack and untested beyond the basics, but feel free to work from it. It is, or should be, a complete reimplementation of Gary's script in Python. Thanks very much David, I'm grateful for your time and help with

Re: Expiring Messages

2012-11-11 Thread Jamie Paul Griffin
/ David Champion wrote on Fri 9.Nov'12 at 15:00:44 -0600 / * On 09 Nov 2012, Jeremy Kitchen wrote: On Fri, Nov 09, 2012 at 11:12:34AM +, Jamie Paul Griffin wrote: Hi I would like to use the method of setting messages to expire described on Gary's page[1] but the problem is

Expiring Messages

2012-11-09 Thread Jamie Paul Griffin
Hi I would like to use the method of setting messages to expire described on Gary's page[1] but the problem is that this script uses gnu date(1) and I have BSD date(1). I wonder if anyone has got this set up on a BSD system or perhaps has a method that's similar to that described on Gary's

Re: Expiring Messages

2012-11-09 Thread Jeremy Kitchen
On Fri, Nov 09, 2012 at 11:12:34AM +, Jamie Paul Griffin wrote: Hi I would like to use the method of setting messages to expire described on Gary's page[1] but the problem is that this script uses gnu date(1) and I have BSD date(1). there's no compatible option with bsd `date`? You

Re: Expiring Messages

2012-11-09 Thread David Champion
* On 09 Nov 2012, Jeremy Kitchen wrote: On Fri, Nov 09, 2012 at 11:12:34AM +, Jamie Paul Griffin wrote: Hi I would like to use the method of setting messages to expire described on Gary's page[1] but the problem is that this script uses gnu date(1) and I have BSD date(1).

Re: Expiring Messages

2012-11-09 Thread Jamie Paul Griffin
/ Jeremy Kitchen wrote on Fri 9.Nov'12 at 11:06:38 -0800 / On Fri, Nov 09, 2012 at 11:12:34AM +, Jamie Paul Griffin wrote: Hi I would like to use the method of setting messages to expire described on Gary's page[1] but the problem is that this script uses gnu date(1) and I have

Re: Expiring Messages

2012-11-09 Thread Jamie Paul Griffin
/ David Champion wrote on Fri 9.Nov'12 at 15:00:44 -0600 / * On 09 Nov 2012, Jeremy Kitchen wrote: On Fri, Nov 09, 2012 at 11:12:34AM +, Jamie Paul Griffin wrote: Hi I would like to use the method of setting messages to expire described on Gary's page[1] but the problem is

expiring messages

2000-01-21 Thread Eric Smith
Hi What is the muttrc entry to expire incoming mail after say one hour (if that is indeed possible)? -- Eric Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] 00 27 21 4265311 Where do you think you're going today?