Re: mailbox list problem

2009-08-11 Thread Robert Holtzman
On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 10:38:10AM -0500, Kyle Wheeler wrote: On Sunday, August 9 at 09:14 PM, quoth Robert Holtzman: The problem was that I stupidly modified the list of mail lists to duplicate the list of mailboxes. When I went back and realized what I had done I restored both lists from

Re: why is there no auto $ (save changes to mailbox)?

2009-08-11 Thread ed
On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 09:23:59AM -0400, Marc Vaillant wrote: Hi all, I've been a happy mutt user for over a decade. Of course there are a few minor features here and there that I wish mutt had. The one that's really getting to me lately is that as far as I know, there is no automatic

Re: why is there no auto $ (save changes to mailbox)?

2009-08-11 Thread Joost Kremers
ed schrieb: On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 09:23:59AM -0400, Marc Vaillant wrote: particularly a problem for IMAP because losing your internet connection (e.g. sleeping your laptop) usually means losing mailbox changes. Personally, I'd use screen :) which, however, doesn't solve the problem

Re: why is there no auto $ (save changes to mailbox)?

2009-08-11 Thread Marc Vaillant
On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 09:10:49AM +, ed wrote: On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 09:23:59AM -0400, Marc Vaillant wrote: Hi all, I've been a happy mutt user for over a decade. Of course there are a few minor features here and there that I wish mutt had. The one that's really getting to me

Re: why is there no auto $ (save changes to mailbox)?

2009-08-11 Thread Marc Vaillant
On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 07:26:57AM +0200, Rejo Zenger wrote: ++ 10/08/09 16:44 +0200 - Michael Tatge: there is no automatic way to execute $. i.e. save changes to mailbox. This is particularly a problem for IMAP because losing your internet connection (e.g. sleeping your laptop) usually

Re: why is there no auto $ (save changes to mailbox)?

2009-08-11 Thread Rocco Rutte
On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 07:26:57AM +0200, Rejo Zenger wrote: No messages will be auto deleted. The only thing that happens is that messages you earlier have marked as to be deleted will be actually deleted. Or better, any changes you have made to the status of the message is comitted.

Re: why is there no auto $ (save changes to mailbox)?

2009-08-11 Thread Marc Vaillant
On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 06:41:51PM +0200, Rocco Rutte wrote: On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 07:26:57AM +0200, Rejo Zenger wrote: No messages will be auto deleted. The only thing that happens is that messages you earlier have marked as to be deleted will be actually deleted. Or better, any

Malformed From: address in headers

2009-08-11 Thread Patrick Gen Paul
On the python-users mailing lists, there are posts from a user who forges his From: email address to something like: Joe User http://phr...@nospam.invalid The result in mutt with index_format set to: %-30.30n ... is that the following is displayed in the index:

Re: Malformed From: address in headers

2009-08-11 Thread Kyle Wheeler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On Tuesday, August 11 at 07:41 PM, quoth Patrick Gen Paul: Does anyone know why this is happening, and how I can work around it? I think you pretty much hit the nail on the head: his From: header is invalid. Mutt can see that it's invalid, and so

Re: Malformed From: address in headers

2009-08-11 Thread Patrick Gen Paul
On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 8:19 PM, Kyle Wheelerkyle-m...@memoryhole.net wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On Tuesday, August 11 at 07:41 PM, quoth Patrick Gen Paul: Does anyone know why this is happening, and how I can work around it? I think you pretty much hit the nail

Re: Malformed From: address in headers

2009-08-11 Thread Kyle Wheeler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On Tuesday, August 11 at 09:34 PM, quoth Patrick Gen Paul: Is there a well-respected mail etiquette, or RFC even, that I could refer him to? Ah! Why did you say so? I thought you were trying to decide whether or not mutt was misbehaving (I

Re: Malformed From: address in headers

2009-08-11 Thread Patrick Gen Paul
On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 10:12 PM, Kyle Wheelerkyle-m...@memoryhole.net wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On Tuesday, August 11 at 09:34 PM, quoth Patrick Gen Paul: Is there a well-respected mail etiquette, or RFC even, that I could refer him to? Ah! Why did you say so?

Re: Malformed From: address in headers

2009-08-11 Thread Kyle Wheeler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On Tuesday, August 11 at 11:47 PM, quoth Patrick Gen Paul: Funny your mentioning T-Bird, btw, since my correspondent (?) actually appears to use gnus. Huh. Since he's not including a route, the thing within the wockas () MUST conform to the

Re: Malformed From: address in headers

2009-08-11 Thread Cameron Simpson
On 11Aug2009 19:41, Patrick Gen Paul pgenp...@gmail.com wrote: | On the python-users mailing lists, there are posts from a user who | forges his From: email address to something like: | | Joe User http://phr...@nospam.invalid Ah, so I'm not the only person irritated by this guy. Possibly mutt

Re: Malformed From: address in headers

2009-08-11 Thread Kyle Wheeler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On Tuesday, August 11 at 11:23 PM, quoth Kyle Wheeler: wockas..? :) A name for greater-than and less-than symbols, collectively. Hmm... I don't know where I got it from (Google has no idea either, though I may be mispelling it). I thought it

Re: Malformed From: address in headers

2009-08-11 Thread Cameron Simpson
On 12Aug2009 14:56, I wrote: | I'm thinking about getting procmail to rewrite that header | as you describe. Maybe (untested): | | :0whf | * ^from:.*http://phr...@nospam.invalid | | formail -i 'From: Joe User phr...@nospam.invalid' | | ahead of the other rules. I'm now running with this: