Re: Yet another FAQ

2000-06-18 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Martin Julian DeMello proclaimed on mutt-users that: >Going through the mailing list and the documentation on mutt.org, it strikes >me that what we lack is a 'How do I' FAQ (of the sort perl has). Of course, Martin - I've been working on something like this (and it's a bit rough now). I'll pol

Yet another FAQ

2000-06-18 Thread Martin Julian DeMello
Going through the mailing list and the documentation on mutt.org, it strikes me that what we lack is a 'How do I' FAQ (of the sort perl has). Of course, it'd be semiredundant informationwise since it's all there in the manual, but it'd be a useful resource for the newbie daunted by the sheer mass

Re: procmail question

2000-06-18 Thread Virginie \[ ML \]
On Sun, Jun 18, 2000 at 12:53:08PM -0700, Dale Morris wrote: > I've setup procmail as follows, MAILDIR=$HOME/Mail which is there in > my > home directory and includes all the mailboxes I'm saving my mail to. > When > I open mutt it reads the mail in /var/spool/mail/dlm. the result is > mail > isn'

Re: procmail question

2000-06-18 Thread Brian D. Winters
On Sun, Jun 18, 2000 at 12:53:08PM -0700, Dale Morris wrote: > I'm trying to get procmail working on my rh 6.2 system, after reading the > manual and banging my head on the keyboard for several hours, I'm > thoroughly confused--a comfortable state, for me and linux.. my question ... > What I want

procmail question

2000-06-18 Thread Dale Morris
I'm trying to get procmail working on my rh 6.2 system, after reading the manual and banging my head on the keyboard for several hours, I'm thoroughly confused--a comfortable state, for me and linux.. my question is: I've setup procmail as follows, MAILDIR=$HOME/Mail which is there in my home dire

Re: Procmail Question

2000-06-18 Thread fred smith
On Sun, Jun 18, 2000 at 01:21:21AM -0700, Dale Morris wrote: > I'm trying to set up mutt so mail from mutt-users goes into a mailbox > named mutt. This is the filter I made for my .procmailrc. I'm posting this > to see if it works and if it doesn't maybe someone would comment on the > proper way t

problems with quotes in "send-hook lines" within .muttrc

2000-06-18 Thread gauthier . vandemoortele
Hello, In my .muttrc, I've put a line in the way to set my editor: set editor="vi -c 'set wrap' -c 'set textwidth=0' -c 'set linebreak'" It works fine. But in some mailing-lists, one asked me to limit the length of my messages at 72 characters, because his mail reader didn't wrap correctly too

test=RunningX

2000-06-18 Thread gauthier . vandemoortele
Hello, In the documentation about mime-types, it's said that one can test whether a mailcap entry should be used with the command test=. The given example is : text/html; netscape -remote 'openURL(%s)' ; test=RunningX text/html; lynx %s ...so it can be tested if an X-server is running. What is

Re: procmail

2000-06-18 Thread Dale Morris
YES!! It works. The elation is incredible!!##@$ At 18 June, 2000 Dale Morris wrote: > I may have got my procmail working!! Just opened my mbox folder and found > new mail in mutt!!! I believe what may have done the > trick was going into .muttrc and specifying mbox names.. > Anyhow, this is kind

re: procmail

2000-06-18 Thread Dale Morris
I may have got my procmail working!! Just opened my mbox folder and found new mail in mutt!!! I believe what may have done the trick was going into .muttrc and specifying mbox names.. Anyhow, this is kind of a test to see if this will be transferred to my mutt mbox. Sorry if this doesn't show up

Re: mailboxes

2000-06-18 Thread David Champion
On 2000.06.18, in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Dennis Robertson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello List, > This is embarrassing. I have made letterboxes in $HOME/Mail using > touch. These new files don't open automatically but bring up the "open > with" dialogue when clicked. Procmail evident

Re: alias classes

2000-06-18 Thread Rob Reid
At 3:06 PM EDT on June 18 Suresh Ramasubramanian sent off: > David T-G proclaimed on mutt-users that: > > > fcc-save-hook \ > >'[EMAIL PROTECTED]|[EMAIL PROTECTED]|[EMAIL PROTECTED]' \ > >=PALS/%O > > > >for my special pals Al, Bill and Chuck so that their mail goes into their > >folde

Re: alias classes

2000-06-18 Thread Mikko Hänninen
David T-G <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on Sun, 18 Jun 2000: > alias pals al,bill,chuck > fcc-save-hook '[[:pals:]]' -PALS/%O Something I'd like to see was an operator for matching an address or addresses in an alias, I think that would help you out here. The syntax would be different ("~ alias"

Re: alias classes

2000-06-18 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
David T-G proclaimed on mutt-users that: > fcc-save-hook \ >'[EMAIL PROTECTED]|[EMAIL PROTECTED]|[EMAIL PROTECTED]' \ >=PALS/%O > >for my special pals Al, Bill and Chuck so that their mail goes into their >folders under $HOME/Mail/PALS instead of under $HOME/Mail. I'd really >like to b

Re: mailboxes

2000-06-18 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
David T-G proclaimed on mutt-users that: >...and then Dennis Robertson said... >% Hello List, >% This is embarrassing. I have made letterboxes in $HOME/Mail using >% touch. These new files don't open automatically but bring up the "open >% with" dialogue when clicked. Procmail evidently can'

alias classes

2000-06-18 Thread David T-G
Hi, folks -- Those of you who have ever seen sudo or powerbroker, the [free and expensive, respectively] tools to let ordinary users perform privileged functions under *NIX, will probably understand exactly what I'm about to try to describe. For the rest of you, I hope I can be clear :-) I woul

Re: Procmail Question

2000-06-18 Thread Dale Morris
> Also, I recommend specifying the full path to your mutt folder, rather > than just "mutt". In my .procmailrc I set FOLDERS to the appropriate > path and use $FOLDERS as the base for all of my delivery recipes, but > do whatever makes you happy there. > > Brian Will this work for the path? # Yo

Re: mailboxes

2000-06-18 Thread David T-G
Dennis -- ...and then Dennis Robertson said... % Hello List, % This is embarrassing. I have made letterboxes in $HOME/Mail using % touch. These new files don't open automatically but bring up the "open % with" dialogue when clicked. Procmail evidently can't see or open them "when clicked", hm

mailboxes

2000-06-18 Thread Dennis Robertson
Hello List, This is embarrassing. I have made letterboxes in $HOME/Mail using touch. These new files don't open automatically but bring up the "open with" dialogue when clicked. Procmail evidently can't see or open them to deliver mail and it all goes to inbox. How do I make files that open wh

Re: Procmail Question

2000-06-18 Thread Brian D. Winters
On Sun, Jun 18, 2000 at 01:21:21AM -0700, Dale Morris wrote: ... > :0: > * ^From:.*mutt\..* > mutt You will probably have better luck with something like this: :0 * ^Sender: owner-mutt $FOLDERS/mutt/ If your folders are mbox instead of maildir, change the :0 to :0: to enable locking and remove

Re: Procmail Question

2000-06-18 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Dale Morris proclaimed on mutt-users that: >:0: >* ^From:.*mutt\..* >mutt This will catch stuff from [EMAIL PROTECTED] (or whatever) as well :) Try this - #mutt :0: * (^Reply-To:.*|^TO_)mutt-users $MAILDIR/mutt -- Suresh Ramasubramanian + [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Amnesia used to be my favorit

Procmail Question

2000-06-18 Thread Dale Morris
I'm trying to set up mutt so mail from mutt-users goes into a mailbox named mutt. This is the filter I made for my .procmailrc. I'm posting this to see if it works and if it doesn't maybe someone would comment on the proper way to configure: :0: * ^From:.*mutt\..* mutt thanks -- dale "As I h

Re: Re:

2000-06-18 Thread David Champion
I warn you now - this is more than you asked for. On 2000.06.17, in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Andrew Eichmann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > the subject line. For example, if the original message's Subject: > line is ``[BOB] What's the frequency, Kenneth?''where ``[BOB]'' is > the mailing li