Re: Mac Command Line and mutt

2011-09-13 Thread Michael Graham
On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 17:07, Leo Vegoda wrote: […] In my experience it works the same on whichever OS you choose as long as you build in all the bits and pieces you need. That’s my experience too. I use it on my Mac, and also on a Linux VPS (which I’m using now), and I haven’t had any

Color difference between 'mutt' and 'screen -t mutt'

2011-09-13 Thread mutt
Hello, all, I've set most colors in mutt to red on black (for night vision reasons), when I start mutt directly by $ mutt I get http://tx0.org/2qx but when I open it 'in a new tab' in screen via $ screen -t 'mutt' mutt I get the expected http://tx0.org/2qy What on Earth can be going on?

Re: Mac Command Line and mutt

2011-09-13 Thread Tom Baker
On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 02:56:08PM -0800, Tim Johnson wrote: Not so much a mutt question as a request for a reference. FYI: I have used mutt for years on linux. I am considering getting a mac mini. Some time ago, I queried this list about using mutt on a mac and from the responses, it

next-unread-mailbox and mbox

2011-09-13 Thread Toby Cubitt
I use maildir for all my mailboxes, except the system mailbox in /var/spool/mail/user which receives mail from local processes such as cron, and which is in mbox format. Mutt seems to detect new mail in the system mbox fine (at least, the mailbox is marked as having new mail in the sidebar - I'm

Repeating back addresses

2011-09-13 Thread k9jenius
If I use mutt to send an outgoing email message to an address, for example mutt j...@msn.com when I hit RETURN, mutt responds with: To: j...@msn.com I can then hit RETURN and get prompted for a Subject and continue on to enter the text and send the email. I'd like to not have mutt

Re: Mac Command Line and mutt

2011-09-13 Thread Tim Gray
On Sep 13, 2011 at 10:06 AM -0400, Tom Baker wrote: If I could solve this problem, then presumably I could configure the Mac to open mutt when I click on a file such as important-email-exchange.mbox in the Mac Finder. I have tried everything I could think of, even looked into Emacs's Rmail, but

Re: Mac Command Line and mutt

2011-09-13 Thread Tim Gray
On Sep 12, 2011 at 04:39 PM -0800, Tim Johnson wrote: Ah! Package systems, that is valuable info. I'd definitely recommend homebrew over the others. A lot less messy and easier to install and manage in my mind. As far as installing mutt, even though I have a lot of stuff installed with

Re: Mac Command Line and mutt

2011-09-13 Thread Tom Baker
Wow - this is great. Thanks! Options to work with :-) I installed iTerm, configured it for /sw/bin/mutt -f $$URL$$ and tried clicking on: A HREF=wais://Users/tbaker/mboxmbox - 2 slashes/A A HREF=wais:///Users/tbaker/mboxmbox - 3 slashes/A Firefox prompted me to choose a program, with