Re: How to change dynamically the From hdr?

2009-02-16 Thread Ennio-Sr
* Stefan Wimmer swim...@xs4all.nl [160209, 02:20]: * Ennio-Sr nasr.la...@tin.it [2009-02-16 01:32]: [Using mutt 1.5.18-6 under GNU/Linux Lenny, from console] Hi all, I found many old posts explaining how to choose a different From header from a list of From hdrs while composing a

Re: How to change dynamically the From hdr?

2009-02-16 Thread Nicolas Sebrecht
On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 10:50:16AM +0100, Ennio-Sr wrote: I already use hooks Ok. was just curious about the possibility to choose on the fly the From hdr the way one can do it with

Re: newbie install

2009-02-16 Thread James Freer
Brandon Are you wanting to do filtering beyond what you are doing with Gmail's filtering? Or are you trying to subvert the web interface altogether? This matters to answering your question. Sorry i think i might have slightly misled your thinking and should clarify. a] I want to use mutt on

Re: newbie install

2009-02-16 Thread James Freer
Kyle You mean procmail, not postfix, right? Procmail *APPEARS* easier, but has some massive problems with error handling (see No assuming Ubuntu Linux by Von Hagan is correct. examples [if i've learnt anything!] MTA [mail transfer agent] - sendmail, postfix, qmail, exim, mstmp MDA [mail

Re: newbie install

2009-02-16 Thread jkinz
On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 06:21:47PM -0600, Derek Martin wrote: pedantic FWIW, the statement is correct as stated. A statement which is phrased as an absolute which is not always true is false (i.e. not true). /pedantic Derek has accumulated enough clarity points to win his pedant pendant for

binding control-up, control-down

2009-02-16 Thread Sven Hergenhahn
Hi, (sorry if double-posted, but my original post did not show up for 5 hours) I'm trying to bind control-up and control-down. Neither ctrlup nor \cup nor \111 does the trick. Any ideas? Thanks, Sven

Re: How to change dynamically the From hdr?

2009-02-16 Thread Sander Smeenk
Quoting Nicolas Sebrecht (nicolas.s-...@laposte.net): curious about the possibility to choose on the fly the From hdr the way one can do it with a mailer under X (e.g. gmail.com). Not sure to understand what you're looking for exactly. Could you explain, please ? What's that mysterious

Re: How to change dynamically the From hdr?

2009-02-16 Thread Ennio-Sr
* Nicolas Sebrecht nicolas.s-...@laposte.net [160209, 12:23]: Not sure to understand what you're looking for exactly. Could you explain, please ? What's that mysterious feature « choose on the fly the From: field ? » On posts going back to 2003 I red it was possible to switch identity

Re: newbie install

2009-02-16 Thread Paul E Condon
On 2009-02-15_13:13:09, Brandon Sandrowicz wrote: On Sun, Feb 15, 2009 at 06:41:46PM +, James Freer wrote: ...snip... Exim is part of the default install because in the olden days all of your email was delivered to the 'mail spool' (usually /var/mail/$USERNAME or

Re: How to change dynamically the From hdr?

2009-02-16 Thread Rocco Rutte
Hi, * Ennio-Sr wrote: On posts going back to 2003 I red it was possible to switch identity while composing a message. What I understood from those posts was that you had to put the following lines in .muttrc: macro compose z edit-from^UIdentity_tab Select from alias Identity_1

binding control-up, control-down

2009-02-16 Thread Sven Hergenhahn
Hi, I'm trying to bind control-up and control-down. Neither ctrlup nor \cup nor \111 does the trick. Any ideas? Thanks, Sven

Re: binding control-up, control-down

2009-02-16 Thread Kyle Wheeler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday, February 16 at 02:31 PM, quoth Sven Hergenhahn: I'm trying to bind control-up and control-down. Good luck - many terminals don't actually understand those as any different than normal up and down. But, the way to find out if mutt can see

Re: newbie install

2009-02-16 Thread Kyle Wheeler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday, February 16 at 12:09 PM, quoth James Freer: Kyle You mean procmail, not postfix, right? Procmail *APPEARS* easier, but has some massive problems with error handling (see No assuming Ubuntu Linux by Von Hagan is correct. You said I need

Re: newbie install

2009-02-16 Thread Noah Sheppard
On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 10:44:45AM -0600, Kyle Wheeler wrote: [..] Of course, now we're getting into pedantry, and kinda off track. :) We are computer geeks; pedantry is never off-track. http://xkcd.com/386/ Cheers, -- Noah Sheppard Assistant Computer Resource Manager Taylor University CSE

Re: newbie install

2009-02-16 Thread James Freer
Of course, now we're getting into pedantry, and kinda off track. :) ~Kyle Yea sure. I've been trying to learn my way through this. Now that exim appears to be a default install and maildrop has dependencies on exim. I'll be installing maildrop shortly and hopefully end up with the mutt

experiences with offlineimap

2009-02-16 Thread Kevin Beranek
I know this is a little off topic, but I have the impression that there are a number of people on this list that use offlineimap and this seemed like the best forum for my question. I've been using offlineimap for a few months now to sync a local maildir with a gmail account and I've had some

using mutt with comcast

2009-02-16 Thread Don Raikes
Hello, Has anyone had any success using mutt to send email using the comcast smtp service? I have comcast as my ISP, and while according to comcast I should be able to use smtp.comcast.net:25 as my smtp host, whenever I try to send email, I get an error saying that it is an invalid smtp

Re: using mutt with comcast

2009-02-16 Thread Kyle Wheeler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday, February 16 at 05:51 PM, quoth Don Raikes: smtp.comcast.net:25 as my smtp host, whenever I try to send email, I get an error saying that it is an invalid smtp host. How do you send email: via mutt's $smtp_url or with $sendmail or...?

Re: using mutt with comcast

2009-02-16 Thread Rem P Roberti
Hello, Has anyone had any success using mutt to send email using the comcast smtp service? I have comcast as my ISP, and while according to comcast I should be able to use smtp.comcast.net:25 as my smtp host, whenever I try to send email, I get an error saying that it is an

Re: using mutt with comcast

2009-02-16 Thread Charlie Kester
* Rem P Roberti remeg...@comcast.net [2009-02-16 10:00:10 -0800]: I have comcast as my ISP, and while according to comcast I should be able to use smtp.comcast.net:25 as my smtp host, whenever I try to send email, I get an error saying that it is an invalid smtp host. Comcast is my

Re: experiences with offlineimap

2009-02-16 Thread Nicolas Sebrecht
On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 11:34:31AM -0600, Kevin Beranek wrote: I know this is a little off topic, but I have the impression that there are a number of people on this list that use offlineimap and this seemed like the best forum for my question. offlineimap has its own mailing list.

Re: experiences with offlineimap

2009-02-16 Thread Kevin Beranek
On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 08:40:42PM +0100, Nicolas Sebrecht wrote: offlineimap has its own mailing list. I'm supposedly subscribed to it but I never get any of the messages so I figured I probably couldn't send any emails to it. I use offlineimap here and had some similar crashes (not that

Re: How to change dynamically the From hdr?

2009-02-16 Thread Ennio-Sr
Hi Rocco! * Rocco Rutte pd...@gmx.net [160209, 16:44]: Hi, * Ennio-Sr wrote: On posts going back to 2003 I red it was possible to switch identity while composing a message. What I understood from those posts was that you had to put the following lines in .muttrc: macro

Re: newbie install

2009-02-16 Thread James Freer
2009/2/16 James Freer jesseja...@googlemail.com: Of course, now we're getting into pedantry, and kinda off track. :) ~Kyle Yea sure. I've been trying to learn my way through this. Now that exim appears to be a default install and maildrop has dependencies on exim. I'll be installing

Re: How to change dynamically the From hdr?

2009-02-16 Thread Ed Blackman
On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 10:00:53PM +0100, Ennio-Sr wrote: * Rocco Rutte pd...@gmx.net [160209, 16:44]: Yes, this works like a charm. What _exactly_ happens in your case? A guess: you put ^ and U in there instead of a Control-U character? I just put an '^' and a 'U' as can be seen printed in

Re: How to change dynamically the From hdr?

2009-02-16 Thread Ennio-Sr
Hi Ed! * Ed Blackman e...@edgewood.to [160209, 17:35]: ent-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable It works for me. Relevant sections of my .muttrc: alias Identity_default Ed Blackman e...@edgewood.to alias Identity_school Ed Blackman a...@school.edu alias Identity_hobby Ed Blackman

Change From hdr

2009-02-16 Thread Daryl
My muttrc has this setting which I find very very convenient macro compose escjb escf\Ca\CkJoe \j...@bloggs.com\\n macro compose escjj escf\Ca\CkJoe Bloggs \joe.bl...@bloggs.com\\n macro compose escjf escf\Ca\CkJonathon \joe.bl...@anotherisp.com\\n What this does is before I send my mail, push

Re: How to change dynamically the From hdr?

2009-02-16 Thread Ed Blackman
On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 01:16:14AM +0100, Ennio-Sr wrote: I commented all my .muttrc lines referring to 'unhook' and 'send-hook' and adapted the lines you suggested to my addresses. Still nothing happens when I press 'z'! Are you sure you're in the compose menu when you press 'z'? You should