Re: mutt scripting

1999-12-09 Thread Edmund GRIMLEY EVANS
You mean like with: mutt -s "Subject here" 'A. Recipient [EMAIL PROTECTED]' msg_file If you try this, I think you'll find the To field gets rewritten as: To: "A . Recipient" [EMAIL PROTECTED] I discovered this slightly annoying behaviour last night while investigating why a piece of

Re: mutt scripting

1999-12-09 Thread Thomas Roessler
On 1999-12-09 09:28:40 +, Edmund GRIMLEY EVANS wrote: mutt -s "Subject here" 'A. Recipient [EMAIL PROTECTED]' msg_file If you try this, I think you'll find the To field gets rewritten as: To: "A . Recipient" [EMAIL PROTECTED] So just use this: mutt -s "subject" '"A.

Re: Multiple POP accounts and personalities...

1999-12-09 Thread Thomas Roessler
On 1999-12-09 00:54:26 -0700, Kim DeVaughn wrote: You are free to write such a program, and you are also free to design a generic interface between mutt and external mailbox backends. Note, however, that just downloading messages into some local folder and using the usual mbox/maildir code

Re: Multiple POP accounts and personalities...

1999-12-09 Thread Chris Green
On Thu, Dec 09, 1999 at 10:53:17AM +0100, Thomas Roessler wrote: On 1999-12-09 00:54:26 -0700, Kim DeVaughn wrote: You are free to write such a program, and you are also free to design a generic interface between mutt and external mailbox backends. Note, however, that just downloading

Re: Multiple POP accounts and personalities...

1999-12-09 Thread Thomas Roessler
On 1999-12-09 10:45:23 +, Chris Green wrote: That isn't "All you can reasonably do with POP3", it's perfectly reasonable to treat a POP3 server as a single mailbox much the same as a local mailbox file. You can see a list of the E-Mail messages in a POP3 mailbox, you can selectively

Re: Multiple POP accounts and personalities...

1999-12-09 Thread Chris Green
On Thu, Dec 09, 1999 at 12:50:42PM +0100, Thomas Roessler wrote: Show us working code, or stop complaining, please. See tkrat, mahogany and several other Unix MUAs. -- Chris Green ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Work: [EMAIL PROTECTED] WWW: http://www.isbd.co.uk/

Re: Multiple POP accounts and personalities...

1999-12-09 Thread Thomas Roessler
On 1999-12-09 12:17:23 +, Chris Green wrote: Show us working code, or stop complaining, please. See tkrat, mahogany and several other Unix MUAs. Do these have working IMAP support in _external_ programs? -- http://www.guug.de/~roessler/

Re: Multiple POP accounts and personalities...

1999-12-09 Thread Edmund GRIMLEY EVANS
That isn't "All you can reasonably do with POP3", it's perfectly reasonable to treat a POP3 server as a single mailbox much the same as a local mailbox file. You can see a list of the E-Mail messages in a POP3 mailbox, you can selectively view messages in a POP3 mailbox and you can

Re: Multiple POP accounts and personalities...

1999-12-09 Thread Chris Green
On Thu, Dec 09, 1999 at 01:34:06PM +0100, Thomas Roessler wrote: On 1999-12-09 12:17:23 +, Chris Green wrote: Show us working code, or stop complaining, please. See tkrat, mahogany and several other Unix MUAs. Do these have working IMAP support in _external_ programs? No they

Re: Multiple POP accounts and personalities...

1999-12-09 Thread Chris Green
On Thu, Dec 09, 1999 at 01:40:17PM +, Edmund GRIMLEY EVANS wrote: Have you ever stored a message in a POP3 folder without going through the mail transport agent, i.e., without resending the message? There is no standard way to do this. I'm not even aware of a non-standard way of

Re: Happy with mutt, but...

1999-12-09 Thread Zsombor Gergely
This is a call for help! The problem is still unresolved I have just downloaded and compiled the newest version of mutt and gpg. They work fine together, but I was not able to configure everything well. I am Hungarian, so I would like to use accented letters (8 bit). These are like , now

Re: execute shell commands

1999-12-09 Thread Scott Scriven
* Mikko Hänninen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Scott Scriven [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on Wed, 08 Dec 1999: Is there some way to create a macro which simply runs a shell command? I'd like to replace the "G" fetchmail key with a more powerful script.. bind index G "!yourscript\n" "Your macros's

Re: Multiple POP accounts and personalities...

1999-12-09 Thread David DeSimone
Edmund GRIMLEY EVANS [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I haven't yet encountered an ISP POP3 server that doesn't do TOP. I've only found one that didn't do UIDL. So would you have mutt use, or not use, the TOP command, and the UIDL command? Note that fetchmail quite happily uses "TOP n 99"

Re: Multiple POP accounts and personalities...

1999-12-09 Thread Eugene Lee
On Thu, Dec 09, 1999 at 01:40:18PM -0600, David DeSimone wrote: : :See, now we get to the case of why users are pointed to fetchmail: :Because fetchmail has been bloated, er, I mean, specifically written to :understand these buggy servers and try its best to deal with them. :Trying to add this

Re: Multiple POP accounts and personalities...

1999-12-09 Thread Charles Curley
I've been lurking on this list for a while and monitoring this thread on and off. Now it is time to uncloak. A key point in the Unix philosophy is to keep it simple, stupid (KISS). The Unix way is lots of very stupid little programs, which you can then glue together in new ways to produce new

Re: saving mailbox monthly

1999-12-09 Thread David T-G
Christian -- I'd love to hear a better answer, but I found that the easiest way for me to accomplish a complete-thread-older-than-X save was to order by date, tag everything older than X, re-order by thread, and tag the rest of the thread (I actually had a working mailbox and I would save

Re: more sane editting?

1999-12-09 Thread David T-G
Tim -- ...and then Timothy Ball said... % I'm using mutt 1.0i and vim to to edit my mail... I've set the % edit_headers thing and I have a sig on the bottom om my mail. Is there % a way to start vim at the first blank line of my mail and be ready to % start editing, instead of having to hit "i"

Re: Multiple POP accounts and personalities...

1999-12-09 Thread Brendan Cully
On Thursday, 09 December 1999 at 10:45, Chris Green wrote: IMAP4 - typically corporate or university 'intranet' with fast, reliable links to your IMAP mailboxes. Thus it makes sense to use IMAP4 maiboxes for everything. POP3 - typically used by individual

Re: Multiple POP accounts and personalities...

1999-12-09 Thread Edmund GRIMLEY EVANS
I haven't yet encountered an ISP POP3 server that doesn't do TOP. I've only found one that didn't do UIDL. So would you have mutt use, or not use, the TOP command, and the UIDL command? I'd have it try both. If TOP fails, I'd have it give up in disgust, because you might as well

Re: Setting envelope-sender according to alternates

1999-12-09 Thread Mikko Hänninen
Mike Bell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on Thu, 09 Dec 1999: Would it be possible to arrange for the contents of the from: header in sent mail to be exported to the sendmail command, maybe as an environment variable? I'd like to have my envelope-sender mirror the address I use in my from: line,

problem with save-hook

1999-12-09 Thread Andrew O'Callaghan
Hi. I have tried to create a save-hook for a mailing list that I am on, but it doesn't seem to work. I may be confusing the way save-hook works though, so please correct me if I am way off. I created a hook in my .muttrc file: save-hook linuxsa +linux I assumed this was going to save any

Re: Setting envelope-sender according to alternates

1999-12-09 Thread Aaron Schrab
At 03:44 +0200 10 Dec 1999, Mikko Hänninen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mike Bell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on Thu, 09 Dec 1999: Would it be possible to arrange for the contents of the from: header in sent mail to be exported to the sendmail command, maybe as an environment variable? I'd like to

Saving question

1999-12-09 Thread David Shaw
Hi all, I'm thinking of going to a monthly-rotated file, as my current scheme of a different folder per correspondent is getting out of hand. Still, for some people I still want the individual files. So I have: set mbox=+archive set record=+archive set save_name All that works perfectly,