Re: add the content of another email to new message

[cs]

On 16Aug2016 19:13, Tom Fowle  wrote:

How about simply hitting "f" while in the original message (forward),
you're then dumpped into a new message containing your original and can edit
away.


 breaks In-Reply-To:.

Cheers,
Cameron Simpson 

[SPAM?] Re: add the content of another email to new message

[Luis Mochan]

To this end I always run several instances of mutt simultaneously
under tmux. One with inbox, others with inbox-read-only,  mbox, and
sent.

On Wed, Aug 17, 2016 at 08:17:43AM +1000, Cameron Simpson wrote:
> On 16Aug2016 19:58, Jethro Tull  wrote:
> > I'm using vim as editor in mutt. I would like to find a way to dump the
> > content of another email or part to a new message while being composed.
> > Of course without running a new instance of mutt.
> 
> Why not by running a new instance of mutt?
> 
> Without that, you need some kind of tool that _vim_ can invoke to access
> message content. How are you intending to designate that message from inside
> vim?
> 
> Note that you can reply to more that one message from mutt itself, before
> you start composing: tag multiple messages, then  (or
>  or whatever). You'll get all their text quoting in the reply
> template.
> 
> Cheers,
> Cameron Simpson 
> 

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Re: add the content of another email to new message

[Tom Fowle]

Jethro
How about simply hitting "f" while in the original message (forward),
you're then dumpped into a new message containing your original and can edit
away.

Does that do what you want?
Tom Fowle

On Tue, Aug 16, 2016 at 07:58:42PM +, Jethro Tull wrote:
> I'm using vim as editor in mutt. I would like to find a way to dump the 
> content of another email or part to a new message while being composed. Of 
> course without running a new instance of mutt.

Re: Attachment saving has lost a '/' and so fails

[Chris Green]

On Tue, Aug 16, 2016 at 02:56:45PM -0400, Patrick Shanahan wrote:
> * Chris Green  [08-16-16 13:40]:
> > On Tue, Aug 16, 2016 at 09:47:24AM -0700, Kevin J. McCarthy wrote:
> > > On Tue, Aug 16, 2016 at 10:49:45AM +0100, Chris Green wrote:
> > > > Just recently (maybe after an upgrade of my system to xubuntu 16.04)
> > > > when I save attachments from mutt it fails because it has lost the '/'
> > > > after the 'tmpdir' directory.
> > > 
> > > Vanilla mutt does not prepend $tmpdir when saving attachments.
> > > 
> > Ah!  See below.
> > 
> > > > So what's gone wrong?
> > > 
> > > Sounds like XUbuntu has an external patch that has a problem.
> > > 
> > No, it's my macro for saving attachments.  Why it used to insert the /
> > and doesn't any more I don't know.
> > 
> > It used to be:-
> > macro   attach  s "/tmp" "Save to /tmp"
> > simply adding the / has fixed my problem:-
> > macro   attach  s "/tmp/" "Save to /tmp"
> > 
> > Thanks for the pointer about $tmpdir!  :-)
> 
> Being your macro doesn't mean *buntu doesn't have an external patch with a
> problem which you see as missing "/".
> 
No, but I've fixed my problem now.  :-)

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Re: add the content of another email to new message

[Cameron Simpson]

On 16Aug2016 19:58, Jethro Tull  wrote:
I'm using vim as editor in mutt. I would like to find a way to dump the 
content of another email or part to a new message while being composed. Of 
course without running a new instance of mutt.


Why not by running a new instance of mutt?

Without that, you need some kind of tool that _vim_ can invoke to access 
message content. How are you intending to designate that message from inside 
vim?


Note that you can reply to more that one message from mutt itself, before you 
start composing: tag multiple messages, then  (or 
 or whatever). You'll get all their text quoting in the reply 
template.


Cheers,
Cameron Simpson 

add the content of another email to new message

[Jethro Tull]

I'm using vim as editor in mutt. I would like to find a way to dump the content 
of another email or part to a new message while being composed. Of course 
without running a new instance of mutt.

Re: Attachment saving has lost a '/' and so fails

[Patrick Shanahan]

* Chris Green  [08-16-16 13:40]:
> On Tue, Aug 16, 2016 at 09:47:24AM -0700, Kevin J. McCarthy wrote:
> > On Tue, Aug 16, 2016 at 10:49:45AM +0100, Chris Green wrote:
> > > Just recently (maybe after an upgrade of my system to xubuntu 16.04)
> > > when I save attachments from mutt it fails because it has lost the '/'
> > > after the 'tmpdir' directory.
> > 
> > Vanilla mutt does not prepend $tmpdir when saving attachments.
> > 
> Ah!  See below.
> 
> > > So what's gone wrong?
> > 
> > Sounds like XUbuntu has an external patch that has a problem.
> > 
> No, it's my macro for saving attachments.  Why it used to insert the /
> and doesn't any more I don't know.
> 
> It used to be:-
> macro   attach  s "/tmp" "Save to /tmp"
> simply adding the / has fixed my problem:-
> macro   attach  s "/tmp/" "Save to /tmp"
> 
> Thanks for the pointer about $tmpdir!  :-)

Being your macro doesn't mean *buntu doesn't have an external patch with a
problem which you see as missing "/".

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Re: Attachment saving has lost a '/' and so fails

[Chris Green]

On Tue, Aug 16, 2016 at 09:47:24AM -0700, Kevin J. McCarthy wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 16, 2016 at 10:49:45AM +0100, Chris Green wrote:
> > Just recently (maybe after an upgrade of my system to xubuntu 16.04)
> > when I save attachments from mutt it fails because it has lost the '/'
> > after the 'tmpdir' directory.
> 
> Vanilla mutt does not prepend $tmpdir when saving attachments.
> 
Ah!  See below.

> > So what's gone wrong?
> 
> Sounds like XUbuntu has an external patch that has a problem.
> 
No, it's my macro for saving attachments.  Why it used to insert the /
and doesn't any more I don't know.

It used to be:-
macro   attach  s "/tmp" "Save to /tmp"
simply adding the / has fixed my problem:-
macro   attach  s "/tmp/" "Save to /tmp"

Thanks for the pointer about $tmpdir!  :-)

-- 
Chris Green

Re: Attachment saving has lost a '/' and so fails

[Kevin J. McCarthy]

On Tue, Aug 16, 2016 at 10:49:45AM +0100, Chris Green wrote:
> Just recently (maybe after an upgrade of my system to xubuntu 16.04)
> when I save attachments from mutt it fails because it has lost the '/'
> after the 'tmpdir' directory.

Vanilla mutt does not prepend $tmpdir when saving attachments.

> So what's gone wrong?

Sounds like XUbuntu has an external patch that has a problem.

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Attachment saving has lost a '/' and so fails

[Chris Green]

Just recently (maybe after an upgrade of my system to xubuntu 16.04)
when I save attachments from mutt it fails because it has lost the '/'
after the 'tmpdir' directory.

I'm running the default version of mutt for xubuntu 16.04 which is
'Mutt 1.6.1 (2016-04-27)'.

My tmpdir is set as follows:-

set tmpdir=/tmp

When I try and save something, e.g. a PDF attachment, I get the
following on the status line:-

Save to file: /tmpThermgard Conservatory.pdf

... and not surprisingly it fails.


I have tried changing the tmpdir setting to:-

set tmpdir=/tmp/

but this hasn't helped (and shouldn't be needed anyway).

So what's gone wrong?


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