Debian, Mutt, Eterm, Ncurses

2001-03-08 Thread Jason Helfman
Today I applied updates for my Debian box, running Sid, or unstable. So Ncurses was updated, and when running mutt in an Eterm, before I could get a transparent Eterm with mutt. But now mutt runs a standard looking black/white term. I guess this is because of the upgrade, so I recompiled mutt.

Changing subject line in received mail

2001-03-08 Thread Chris Green
Is there a simple way to change the subject line of an incoming message before saving it? It would be particularly useful to do this when saving the messages one gets when subscribing to mailing lists. I keep these in a single mailbox and because of the inconsistency of the subject lines used

Re: Changing subject line in received mail

2001-03-08 Thread Eugene Lee
On Thu, Mar 08, 2001 at 09:37:25AM +, Chris Green wrote: : : Is there a simple way to change the subject line of an incoming : message before saving it? : : It would be particularly useful to do this when saving the messages : one gets when subscribing to mailing lists. I keep these in a

Re: Mutt as POP3 Cliient

2001-03-08 Thread David Rock
On Wed, Mar 07, 2001 at 01:17:56PM -0600, Bill Andersen wrote: Sorry for such a basic question, but I don't want to get too involved in figuring out Mutt, if the answer to this quesstion is NO... If it is YES, I'll get some FAQs/Docs and do some reading before I ask any more questions...

Chaning the Return Address

2001-03-08 Thread John Averitt
I am using Debian Sid, with sendmail. I would like setup mutt so that the return address on my out going mail is my work email address and not the address on the machine. I tried looking around for how to do this and failed miserably. So any help would be invaluable... Thanks a Bunch -Geg-

Re: pipe command

2001-03-08 Thread David
Horace G. Friend III wrote: Hi, I already have the macros and when I execute them in X-Windows it automatically opens my Netscape viewer. Fine. Neat. But when I'm in Term and out of X-Windows, nothing happens. What should I do so that it opens Lynx, for instance. Thanks. Horace

Re: Chaning the Return Address

2001-03-08 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
John Averitt proclaimed on mutt-users that: I am using Debian Sid, with sendmail. I would like setup mutt so that the return address on my out going mail is my work email address and not the address on the machine. I tried looking around for how to do this and failed miserably. So any

Re: Changing subject line in received mail

2001-03-08 Thread Chris Green
On Thu, Mar 08, 2001 at 01:51:20AM -0800, Eugene Lee wrote: On Thu, Mar 08, 2001 at 09:37:25AM +, Chris Green wrote: : : Is there a simple way to change the subject line of an incoming : message before saving it? : : It would be particularly useful to do this when saving the messages

Re: Debian, Mutt, Eterm, Ncurses

2001-03-08 Thread Thomas E. Dickey
On Thu, 8 Mar 2001, Jason Helfman wrote: Today I applied updates for my Debian box, running Sid, or unstable. So Ncurses was updated, and when running mutt in an Eterm, before I could get a transparent Eterm with mutt. But now mutt runs a standard looking black/white term. I guess this is

Re: Changing subject line in received mail

2001-03-08 Thread Chris Green
On Thu, Mar 08, 2001 at 09:50:17PM +1100, David wrote: Chris Green wrote: The problem is that the subject lines from the various different mailing list servers aren't consistent and many don't even have the name of the mailing list in them. Thus it isn't always easy looking at the index

Re: Changing subject line in received mail

2001-03-08 Thread David
Chris Green wrote: The problem is that the subject lines from the various different mailing list servers aren't consistent and many don't even have the name of the mailing list in them. Thus it isn't always easy looking at the index of my 'subscriptions' mailbox to see which message is the

Re: Changing subject line in received mail

2001-03-08 Thread Jesper Holmberg
Maybe I'm a moron, but isn't what you want just to hit "e" when in the index, and then edit your message in the editor? Jesper -- "But how can one be warm alone?" Jesper Holmberg [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Changing subject line in received mail

2001-03-08 Thread Eugene Lee
On Thu, Mar 08, 2001 at 11:15:10AM +, Chris Green wrote: : On Thu, Mar 08, 2001 at 09:50:17PM +1100, David wrote: : Chris Green wrote: : The problem is that the subject lines from the various different : mailing list servers aren't consistent and many don't even have the : name of the

Re: Changing subject line in received mail

2001-03-08 Thread Chris Green
On Thu, Mar 08, 2001 at 01:02:09PM +0100, Jesper Holmberg wrote: Maybe I'm a moron, but isn't what you want just to hit "e" when in the index, and then edit your message in the editor? No, you're not a moron, that's pretty much what I need - thanks! -- Chris Green ([EMAIL PROTECTED])

Re: Changing subject line in received mail

2001-03-08 Thread Chris Green
On Thu, Mar 08, 2001 at 04:04:19AM -0800, Eugene Lee wrote: : I definitely don't want the name of the mailing list in the subject : of normal messages from the mailing list as I already know which list : they're from because they have been routed to a specific mailbox by : procmail.

Re: Help, cant send with mutt

2001-03-08 Thread Dave Murray
On Mon, 05 Mar 2001, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote: Dave Murray proclaimed on mutt-users that: I was able to set up the pop3 for my ISP's mail server and receive mail with mutt just fine. Now how do I set up sendmail for smtp to my ISP mail server? http://www.hserus.net/dlhowto.html

nntp questions

2001-03-08 Thread Andre Berger
I do my News with the nntp-patched mutt and the NNTP perl script by Waldemar Brodkorb, and have two questions. First, I want to use scoring. Is it possible to define an index-format command that applies on Newsgroups only? (Should be a regexp.) I dislike to see scores in my mail index...

Re: Help, cant send with mutt

2001-03-08 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Barry Mitchelson proclaimed on mutt-users that: I recently discovered a little script called install-sendmail, which helped me set up sendmail for use with mutt in a few minutes. That's Donncha O'Caoimh's script which can be found at http://cork.linux.ie you can download it from :

Re: Changing subject line in received mail

2001-03-08 Thread W M Brelsford
On Thu, Mar 08, 2001 at 12:11:04PM +, Chris Green wrote: On Thu, Mar 08, 2001 at 01:02:09PM +0100, Jesper Holmberg wrote: Maybe I'm a moron, but isn't what you want just to hit "e" when in the index, and then edit your message in the editor? No, you're not a moron, that's pretty much

Re: Changing subject line in received mail

2001-03-08 Thread Chris Green
On Thu, Mar 08, 2001 at 08:09:16AM -0700, W M Brelsford wrote: On Thu, Mar 08, 2001 at 12:11:04PM +, Chris Green wrote: On Thu, Mar 08, 2001 at 01:02:09PM +0100, Jesper Holmberg wrote: Maybe I'm a moron, but isn't what you want just to hit "e" when in the index, and then edit your

Re: Debian, Mutt, Eterm, Ncurses

2001-03-08 Thread Jason Helfman
Well the term is xterm. I have tried to export vt100 and linux, but I am getting the same issue. When I compose a message, though, the window is transparent. I am confused. On Thu, Mar 08, 2001 at 05:56:24AM -0500, Thomas E. Dickey muttered: | On Thu, 8 Mar 2001, Jason Helfman wrote: | |

sending attachments

2001-03-08 Thread Mullen A.J.
Hi- I'm having problems sending attachments to non mutt users. It appears to be stemming from their not being able to recognize the boundaries between attachments (I've noticed that other mailers use a "boundary" variable, and my mutt is adding an asterisk to this.) I'd really appreciate any

Re: Debian, Mutt, Eterm, Ncurses

2001-03-08 Thread Thomas E. Dickey
On Thu, 8 Mar 2001, Jason Helfman wrote: Well the term is xterm. Eterm has its own terminfo, which differs from "xterm". (The 'bce' and 'op' strings in particular are what the screen library looks at in the terminfo to decide if it can use "default" colors). I have tried to export vt100

send-hooks and save_name

2001-03-08 Thread Rich Lafferty
Hi, I'm having trouble figuring out how to change the behavior of mutt's save_name feature. What I'm trying to do is to get mutt to do the save_name thing, except instead of having it save in =username, I want it to save in =work/username if any recipient's address contains "concordia.ca", and

Re: send-hooks and save_name

2001-03-08 Thread Gary Johnson
On Thu, Mar 08, 2001 at 11:02:03AM -0500, Rich Lafferty wrote: I tried playing with changing the value of "folder" with a send-hook, but since it doesn't reset immediately after, it mungs up normal operations (since I still want "folder" to just be "~/mail/"). Is there a straightforward

Re: sending attachments

2001-03-08 Thread Bruno Postle
On Thu 08-Mar-2001 at 04:23:35PM +0100, Mullen A.J. wrote: I'm having problems sending attachments to non mutt users. It appears to be stemming from their not being able to recognize the boundaries between attachments (I've noticed that other mailers use a "boundary" variable, and my mutt

Re: send-hooks and save_name

2001-03-08 Thread Rich Lafferty
On Thu, Mar 08, 2001 at 08:14:49AM -0800, Gary Johnson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Thu, Mar 08, 2001 at 11:02:03AM -0500, Rich Lafferty wrote: I tried playing with changing the value of "folder" with a send-hook, but since it doesn't reset immediately after, it mungs up normal

Re: send-hooks and save_name

2001-03-08 Thread Peter Kovacs
On Thu, Mar 08, 2001 at 11:29:23AM -0500, Rich Lafferty wrote: folder-hook . 'set folder=~/mail' send-hook concordia.ca 'set folder=~/mail/conu' send-hook !concordia.ca 'set folder=~/mail/personal' how about: send-hook . 'set folder=~/mail/personal' send-hook

Re: send-hooks and save_name

2001-03-08 Thread Rich Lafferty
On Thu, Mar 08, 2001 at 11:47:00AM -0500, Peter Kovacs ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Thu, Mar 08, 2001 at 11:29:23AM -0500, Rich Lafferty wrote: folder-hook . 'set folder=~/mail' send-hook concordia.ca 'set folder=~/mail/conu' send-hook !concordia.ca 'set folder=~/mail/personal'

Re: send-hooks and save_name

2001-03-08 Thread Ben Rosenberg
How about using Procmail rules to put your mail where you like? * Rich Lafferty ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [010308 08:56]: =On Thu, Mar 08, 2001 at 11:47:00AM -0500, Peter Kovacs ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: = On Thu, Mar 08, 2001 at 11:29:23AM -0500, Rich Lafferty wrote: =folder-hook . 'set

Re: send-hooks and save_name

2001-03-08 Thread Gary Johnson
On Thu, Mar 08, 2001 at 11:29:23AM -0500, Rich Lafferty wrote: Well, with that I end up with send-hook . 'set folder=~/Mail' send-hook concordia.ca 'set folder=~/Mail/conu' send-hook !concordia.ca 'set folder=~/Mail/personal' and, as you can see, that first condition never

Re: Debian, Mutt, Eterm, Ncurses

2001-03-08 Thread Jason Helfman
So where would I go from this point? I have no issues with investigating, but if you could point me in the right direction, that could be cool. On Thu, Mar 08, 2001 at 10:51:56AM -0500, Thomas E. Dickey muttered: | On Thu, 8 Mar 2001, Jason Helfman wrote: | | Well the term is xterm. | | Eterm

Re: sending attachments

2001-03-08 Thread Bruno Postle
On Thu 08-Mar-2001 at 05:42:11PM +0100, Mullen A.J. wrote: Here's an example of the full header and boundaries I'm sending which is not being properly decoded by other mailers (although it is by other mutt users). From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thu Mar 8 15:20:13 2001 Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2001

sending attachments

2001-03-08 Thread Mullen A.J.
To elaborate on my earlier question about including attachments, the following is what I'm sending out. This is the raw text of the mail. When Mutt receives this, it's able to parse it without a problem and treat the attachments and text appropriately. When other mailers (so far tried with

Re: sending attachments

2001-03-08 Thread Lars Hecking
Mullen A.J. writes: To elaborate on my earlier question about including attachments, the following is what I'm sending out. This is the raw text of the mail. When Mutt receives this, it's able to parse it without a problem and treat the attachments and text appropriately. When other

Re: Line length using EDITOR=emacs

2001-03-08 Thread Richard B Mahoney
On 03/08/01, 09:42:49AM +1100, Robert Martinovic wrote: Hello, I know that there are mutt users using emacs as their editor. I would like to know how to set line length at 72 chars in my .emacs It infuriates many to have messages longer that 72 chars to a line One can use post.el

mutt 1.3.16i build problem

2001-03-08 Thread Marcelo Martinelli
i have been trying to build mutt 1.3.16 on my machine (RH 7.0) and when i run ./configure i get the following error message: sed: can't read ./doc/instdoc.sh.in: no such file or directory can anyone help. marcelo martinelli.

Re: mutt 1.3.16i build problem

2001-03-08 Thread Lars Hecking
Marcelo Martinelli writes: i have been trying to build mutt 1.3.16 on my machine (RH 7.0) and when i run ./configure i get the following error message: sed: can't read ./doc/instdoc.sh.in: no such file or directory can anyone help. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mutt-dev/message/10239

Re: mutt 1.3.16i build problem

2001-03-08 Thread Marcelo Martinelli
On Thu, Mar 08, 2001 at 08:14:39PM +, Lars Hecking wrote: Marcelo Martinelli writes: i have been trying to build mutt 1.3.16 on my machine (RH 7.0) and when i run ./configure i get the following error message: sed: can't read ./doc/instdoc.sh.in: no such file or directory can

Re: Debian, Mutt, Eterm, Ncurses

2001-03-08 Thread Jeremy Blosser
Jason Helfman [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote: Well the term is xterm. Try xterm-color. When I compose a message, though, the window is transparent. I am confused. Mutt tends to be fairly picky about what capabilities it believes the terminal has, your editor is apparently not so picky. --

Re: Pager binding to advance to next-new in thread

2001-03-08 Thread Michael Tatge
Christian R Molls muttered: is it possible to make the tab key advance to the next-new message in the current thread, if any, and return to the index if the last new message in the current thread has been reached? AFAICS no. Mutt isn't capabale of conditioned executions ie. there's not "if"

Re: Pager binding to advance to next-new in thread

2001-03-08 Thread Jay Rossiter / Signe
On 03/08, Michael Tatge rearranged the electrons to read: Christian R Molls muttered: is it possible to make the tab key advance to the next-new message in the current thread, if any, and return to the index if the last new message in the current thread has been reached? AFAICS no. Mutt

mutt_dotlock problems

2001-03-08 Thread Murray Maxwell Dancey
Hi All, Can anyone explain how mutt_dotlock works and where its settings are kept. Mutt tries to write to my outbox and tries to dotlock a file named "outbox." in the same directory. It cant (for some reason I cant quite see). But can I change the place it tries to write the lock file to

Re: Help, cant send with mutt

2001-03-08 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Dave Murray proclaimed on mutt-users that: Thanks for the help. After lot's of stuff. Fixed DNS, ran install-sendmail script, ... I've got it to where when I send this, it won't actualy go. Repeat, gets same result, then repeat again gives [ OK ][ OK ] Then the mail gets sent! I'm