Randomly change From: and signature using Macros

2001-03-29 Thread Ailbhe Leamy
Is this possible? I can't find anything really useful using a Google search. Ailbhe -- Homepage: http://ailbhe.ossifrage.net/

Re: Randomly change From: and signature using Macros

2001-03-29 Thread Ailbhe Leamy
On (29/03/01 10:06), Wade A. Mosely wrote: send-hook . "set from=\"`~/.mutt/selectfrom`\"" (Note the use of backquotes for command substitution.) set signature='~/.mutt/createsig|' This is lovely and I fully intend to use it, as soon as I write the appropriate scripts.

Re: filtering

2001-04-05 Thread Ailbhe Leamy
On (05/04/01 12:29), Theo Bierman wrote: hi, i'm a first time user, still customizing my mutt, or at least trying to, how can i set up rules for incomming mail, so that it goes to different folders Use procmail. There's info on my website (see "support"), and at http://www.procmail.org/ and

Re: why is mutt not acknowedlging all my folders?

2001-04-05 Thread Ailbhe Leamy
On (05/04/01 11:09), Thomas Duterme wrote: So I use 'c' all the time to go through all of my mailboxes and find out which box has new mail. An admirable practice. I use "c" and then hit space until it cycles through to a list which looks interesting... Q1: How do I control which folders will

Re: Colors aren't quite working

2001-04-05 Thread Ailbhe Leamy
On (05/04/01 15:26), Wade A. Mosely wrote: Ailbhe Leamy wrote: Nothing I've tried has allowed me to colour ^X-(anything except X-Mailer:) seperately from X-Mailer: XMailer: always gets trapped in the X- colouring. Try specifying the X- coloring before the X-Mailer coloring, e.g

Re: Mutt and xEmacs

2001-04-05 Thread Ailbhe Leamy
On (05/04/01 20:57), TeLeNiEkO wrote: Is there anyway to integrate mutt and xEmacs? I'd like to use both integrated, I actually use emacs as my editor, but Launching xEmacs is ugly. set editor="emacs -nw" emacs no window. "It works for me"(tm) Ailbhe -- Homepage:

Re: Colors aren't quite working

2001-04-05 Thread Ailbhe Leamy
On (05/04/01 16:39), Aaron Schrab wrote: color header green black ^X- color header white black ^X-Mailer: Works for me. I'm using the development version, but that shouldn't matter. If for some reason the above doesn't work for you you could use a regexp like:

Re: Colors aren't quite working

2001-04-05 Thread Ailbhe Leamy
On (05/04/01 16:39), Aaron Schrab wrote: color header green black ^X- color header white black ^X-Mailer: OK, so I start mutt in a different xterm and suddenly it works. After I've emailed to say "It still won't play nice!" I have no idea why. Thanks to everyone who helped. If anyone

Re: pop

2001-04-06 Thread Ailbhe Leamy
On (06/04/01 04:32), Johannes Zellner wrote: Is there a way to select a pop server like pop://mail.myisp.com somehow by completion (like I can select regular mailboxes by '=' and tab) I seriously doubt that you want mutt to download the entire DNS database from all over the net...

Re: [OT] well slightly

2001-04-09 Thread Ailbhe Leamy
On (08/04/01 23:05), Luke Ravitch wrote: As an aside, what version of Mutt do you use? On 1.2.4, I don't see From his headers... User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i Ailbhe -- Homepage: http://ailbhe.ossifrage.net/

Folder selection list

2001-04-11 Thread Ailbhe Leamy
OK, I want the moon and the world on a stick, but... When I run mutt -y, or when I change folders using c and ?, os it possible to get it to display only folders containing new mail? Otherwise I have two screensful of folders at least. Ailbhe -- Homepage: http://ailbhe.ossifrage.net/

Re: [OT - Procmail] Filter UU/XXencode and HTML?

2001-04-11 Thread Ailbhe Leamy
On (11/04/01 12:02), Lars Hecking wrote: Also, I wonder how in the world shall I make procmail take a (optionally MIME-encoded) message with HTML and turn it into plain text, so I can read the thing? Pipe it through lynx -d ? I would just bounce it straight, or delete it. Lusers who

Re: Folder selection list

2001-04-13 Thread Ailbhe Leamy
On (12/04/01 22:31), Russell Hoover wrote: On Wed 04/11/01 at 12:21 PM +0100, Ailbhe Leamy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When I run mutt -y, or when I change folders using c and ?, os it possible to get it to display only folders containing new mail? Otherwise I have two screensful

Re: Finding new mail

2001-04-14 Thread Ailbhe Leamy
On (14/04/01 08:07), CB wrote: Currently, I can find new mail when I press "c" and I look at the modify date/time of the list of folders. Another mutt user told me that when I receive new mail, the bottom status line should tell me that I have received new mail. It does not. I suspect

Re: smtp server config?

2001-04-17 Thread Ailbhe Leamy
The only sticking point is djb's licensing. He purposely makes it obtuse and purposely does not license it to the norms djb's licensing not only sticks but sucks !! Throw out qmail and move over to Exim. It is you choice in the final lap...so run. OK, this religious debate is

Re: x-face

2001-05-02 Thread Ailbhe Leamy
On (02/05/01 11:25), Andre Bonhote wrote: Have a look at http://www.spinnaker.de/mutt/view-x-face. this is fine! do you as well know a method to cleanly insert my x-face into my muttrc using my_hdr? which characters have to be quoted? i quoted [;'$`\] and i got a completely shafted face :(

Re: netiquette (was: Re: Simple mutt question ... I think?)

2001-07-11 Thread Ailbhe Leamy
On (11/07/01 10:30), Ken Weingold wrote: This brings up a question of mine, since we are on the topic. This comes up more in USENET than email, though. You have a thread going on for a while, and want to quote it, but it is MANY lines. That is where I wonder what to do, since you could

Elvis and par as editor

2001-07-11 Thread Ailbhe Leamy
Hi people OK, I'm really stupid, I should be able to work this out myself. However. I have been using emacs -nw as my editor for as long as I've used mutt, simply because I can reformat most normal and quoted text with a simple ESC+q. However, I found par, and now I need to know how to make

Re: Elvis and par as editor

2001-07-11 Thread Ailbhe Leamy
On (11/07/01 12:30), David Champion wrote: On 2001.07.11, in [EMAIL PROTECTED], Ailbhe Leamy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: simple ESC+q. However, I found par, and now I need to know how to make elvis use it. Oh, and make it use a ~/.exrc file, so I can have pretty colours while editing

Re: Limiting Folder view

2001-07-11 Thread Ailbhe Leamy
On (11/07/01 09:17), Drew Raines wrote: * Biju Chacko [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I would like to limit the list of mailboxes in the folder browser to those that have new mail. Is this possible? If so, how? Utilize the magical Tab key. My only real problem with this is that I want it to display

Re: Limiting Folder view

2001-07-12 Thread Ailbhe Leamy
On (11/07/01 16:20), Drew Raines wrote: * Ailbhe Leamy [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Utilize the magical Tab key. My only real problem with this is that I want it to display only those mailboxes which actually contain new mail. You're allowed to press it more than once. OK, I press it twice

Re: mutt and vim questions

2001-07-12 Thread Ailbhe Leamy
On (12/07/01 10:30), Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote: Viraj Alankar [mutt-users] 11/07/01 17:08 -0400: 2. I receive mail as different addresses. For example, say I receive mail at [EMAIL PROTECTED] When I reply to this message, I would like my From: to be [EMAIL PROTECTED] Likewise for

Re: moving messages

2001-07-27 Thread Ailbhe Leamy
On (27/07/01 07:51), Kalle Hasselström wrote: How can I make a simple command for moving messages between folders? I don't see how it could be done with a macro that first copies and then deletes, since copy-message needs an argument from the user (the destination folder). s saves messages

Simplifying configs: fetchmail - procmail - mutt

2001-08-01 Thread Ailbhe Leamy
Hi folks I've been messing around with fetchmail / mutt / procmail. I use fetchmail / IMAP to download mail from sundry folders on a hosted server, leaving a copy of everything. I use identical procmail rcfiles on my home machine and the remote machine. I use a script to extract mailfolder

Reformatting text using elvis/par

2001-08-06 Thread Ailbhe Leamy
Hi I've been reformatting text using par, before editing it in vi. Basically, I've changed my editor to a script that pipes the message through par and then opens it in vi. The only trouble with this is that it also reformats my signatures at the bottom of the mail. I'd rather it didn't do

Re: Reformatting text using elvis/par

2001-08-06 Thread Ailbhe Leamy
On (06/08/01 18:16), Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote: Using a large mallet, Ailbhe Leamy whacked out: I've been reformatting text using par, before editing it in vi. Basically, I've changed my editor to a script that pipes the message through par and then opens it in vi. The only trouble

Re: Reformatting text using elvis/par

2001-08-06 Thread Ailbhe Leamy
On (06/08/01 12:05), David Champion wrote: On 2001.08.06, in [EMAIL PROTECTED], Ailbhe Leamy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've been reformatting text using par, before editing it in vi. Basically, I've changed my editor to a script that pipes the message through par and then opens it in vi

GPG / PGP verification problem

2001-08-22 Thread Ailbhe Leamy
-bit ELG-E key, ID 01BD4B5E, created 2001-08-22 Ailbhe Leamy [EMAIL PROTECTED] gpg: Signature made Wed 22 Aug 2001 18:35:52 BST using DSA key ID 5863F769 gpg: Good signature from Person One [EMAIL PROTECTED] gpg: aka Person One [EMAIL PROTECTED] [-- End of PGP output

Re: making personal mailing lists

2001-08-23 Thread Ailbhe Leamy
On (16/08/01 16:55), Eric Cheney wrote: Hello. I'm kind of new to mutt after coming from years of using pine. I like mutt very much but one thing I can't find documentation for (probably my bad) is how to create a personal mailing list. I have mailing lists that reside on a machine other

Re: Indent_string..

2001-08-23 Thread Ailbhe Leamy
On (18/08/01 18:57), David Röhr wrote: When I answer a mail mutt always put as quote on the last mail according to the indent_string in my .muttrc. I want only when no other has replyed, but if there already is a then i want it to become just How do I fix this? I don't know, but

Re: GPG / PGP verification problem

2001-08-23 Thread Ailbhe Leamy
On (23/08/01 23:38), Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote: Ailbhe Leamy mutt [23/08/01 18:24 +0100]: # apt-get install mutt Reading Package Lists... Done cd /usr/ports/mail/mutt-devel make install clean [yes, you have to switch to freebsd, but that's a minor detail g] I'm way too lazy to look

Re: GPG / PGP verification problem

2001-08-24 Thread Ailbhe Leamy
On (23/08/01 14:43), Josh Huber wrote: I suspect that his version of libc wasn't new enough, so apt wants to upgrade it, pulling in a shit ton of other upgrades. should work fine though :) His? that's what you get for running sid (or maybe woody?) What should I run? OK, more specific:

Re: GPG / PGP verification problem

2001-08-24 Thread Ailbhe Leamy
On (22/08/01 19:03), Justin R. Miller wrote: Thus spake Ailbhe Leamy ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): . . . mutt tells me, just below the status bar, that PGP signature could NOT be verified. Although it has, in fact, been verified. Is this a wetware error, or a Real Bug? If you're using

Re: GPG / PGP verification problem

2001-08-24 Thread Ailbhe Leamy
On (24/08/01 10:39), Justin R. Miller wrote: Hmm, I wonder if it's related to this, but still affected 1.3.20? http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mutt-users/message/20007 Setting this worked. set pgp_good_sign=^gpg: Good signature from Many thanks! Ailbhe -- Homepage:

Re: Unwanted, huge messages

2001-08-24 Thread Ailbhe Leamy
On (24/08/01 18:03), Vittorio wrote: When using fetchmail how can I delete messages greater than a certain size (say 100,000 octets) directly on the POP3 server avoiding that slowdown? in .fetchmailrc limit 5 (or whatever) Ailbhe -- Homepage: http://ailbhe.ossifrage.net/

Re: moving to inbox

2001-08-29 Thread Ailbhe Leamy
On (28/08/01 21:53), Will Yardley wrote: i use mutt 1.3.21i and when i move a message from another folder to my inbox (in my case 'Maildir') it marks the message for deletion each time i leave the folder or compose a message in the folder; i need to undelete it individually each time in

muttrc

2001-08-29 Thread Ailbhe Leamy
OK, I may be being stupid, but mutt seems to recognise ~/.muttrc _and_ ~/.mutt/muttrc ... but the man page doesn't mention this. Gah. Why not? I found out accidentally, and it's very useful to me. Of course, if the manpage does know... where? Ailbhe -- Homepage:

Re: muttrc

2001-08-30 Thread Ailbhe Leamy
On (29/08/01 19:43), Christoph Maurer wrote: Am Mit, 29 Aug 2001, schrieb Ailbhe Leamy: OK, I may be being stupid, but mutt seems to recognise ~/.muttrc _and_ ~/.mutt/muttrc Of course, if the manpage does know... where? It is explicitly said in the mutt user manual, section 3

Re: muttrc

2001-08-30 Thread Ailbhe Leamy
On (30/08/01 14:55), Thomas Roessler wrote: On 2001-08-30 10:43:02 +0100, Ailbhe Leamy wrote: Ah. Thank you. I find stuff stored in /usr/doc so much less conveneitn than stuff in manpages that I forgot it was there. I've fixed in the man page. Now *that's* service. Thanks. Ailbhe but all

Re: Mysteriously purged emails

2001-08-31 Thread Ailbhe Leamy
On (31/08/01 12:10), [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: it mysteriously purged the last 15 days worth of email. I intended to quit and restart it, but it said 'writing mailbox...', and then reopened it with 15 days worth of emails gone. :'( This is a serious PS- A coworker using the same version

Re: Folder_Format Question?

2001-09-07 Thread Ailbhe Leamy
On (07/09/01 10:29), Gord Mc.Pherson wrote: I'm new to the world of mutt (and liking it :-) I'm in need of some assistance with my .muttrc file. It's my understanding that '%N' should display an 'N when selecting another folder to read that has new mail in it, but for some reason the

Subscriber address change, was Re: Folder_Format Question?

2001-09-09 Thread Ailbhe Leamy
FYI, mutt-user-people. . . - Forwarded message from Josh Meekhof [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To: Ailbhe Leamy [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Josh Meekhof [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Folder_Format Question? Josh Meekhof is no longer with Techniki Informatica. - End forwarded message

Re: mutt finding mailboxes problem

2001-09-09 Thread Ailbhe Leamy
On (09/09/01 19:19), Cliff Sarginson wrote: Hello, A problem. My users mailboxes are in ~/Mail, as per default. However if i do a c to change mailbox folder mutt does not find it unless I am either in ~/Mail or I type in ~/Mail/folder. However if I use ? to see the list of mail folders, it

Re: mutt finding mailboxes problem

2001-09-10 Thread Ailbhe Leamy
On (10/09/01 00:27), Cliff Sarginson wrote: On Sun, Sep 09, 2001 at 11:06:24PM +0100, Ailbhe Leamy wrote: On (09/09/01 19:19), Cliff Sarginson wrote: set folder=~/Mail Does not make any difference.. typing =folder Hmm. In your mailboxes command, does the file /home/cliff/Mail

Re: pointer to multiple email address setup

2001-09-11 Thread Ailbhe Leamy
On (11/09/01 21:31), Peter Lavender wrote: Hi Everyone, I've been presented with the requirement to pick up email from my works server, using an alternate email address. Problem is that I need to do this fairly quickly. I'm sure this is a fairly common thing, I would appreciate if there

WTC and Pentagon disaster

2001-09-11 Thread Ailbhe Leamy
My thoughts are firmly with anyone bereaved by this disaster. Ailbhe -- Homepage: http://ailbhe.ossifrage.net/

Re: easy question... :)

2001-09-11 Thread Ailbhe Leamy
On (11/09/01 17:31), Matthias LOITSCH wrote: it's just an easy thing i'd like to know : how can i filter my messages so that, for example, all mails from [EMAIL PROTECTED] get into a specific mailbox when they arrive? Procmail. http://support.ossifrage.net/plaintext/procmail.txt - from

Re: Mutt + PGP

2001-09-13 Thread Ailbhe Leamy
On (13/09/01 10:37), Nelson D. Guerrero wrote: PGP signature could NOT be verified. # Recognise good signatures set pgp_good_sign=^gpg: Good signature from This way, only genuinely unrecognised signatures will give you this warning. Query: why do people pgp-sign mail to mailing lists?

Re: lists

2001-09-13 Thread Ailbhe Leamy
On (13/09/01 16:44), Vittorio wrote: How can I reply directly to the list address? L, i.e. shift-l -- Homepage: http://ailbhe.ossifrage.net/

Re: Mutt + PGP

2001-09-13 Thread Ailbhe Leamy
On (13/09/01 21:59), Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote: Cliff Sarginson mutt [13/09/01 18:08 +0200]: Query: why do people pgp-sign mail to mailing lists? Ailbhe This is an excellent question, since I just accidentally bombarded this list with my public key I have been thinking that signing

Re: Mutt + PGP

2001-09-14 Thread Ailbhe Leamy
On (14/09/01 09:41), David T-G wrote: ...and then Ailbhe Leamy said... % % Query: why do people pgp-sign mail to mailing lists? Why not? You put your home page in your signature, for instance; you have a mailing address that you list that is suitable for replies. Having a valid From

Re: Mutt + PGP

2001-09-15 Thread Ailbhe Leamy
On (14/09/01 15:00), David T-G wrote: ...and then Ailbhe Leamy said... % On (14/09/01 09:41), David T-G wrote: [attribs snipped, because it's basically a David-Ailbhe-David discussion so far] % Having a valid From: address is hardly the same as adding a % pgp-signature to things

Re: Mutt + PGP

2001-09-15 Thread Ailbhe Leamy
On (14/09/01 15:26), Justin R. Miller wrote: Ailbhe, you should read up on the web of trust. While it is the weak point in public key crypto, it answers your question. Trouble with the web of trust is that I don't trust it unless it contains a fairly high proportion of people I know and

Re: Hiding read messages in a newsgroup

2001-10-01 Thread Ailbhe Leamy
On (01/10/01 00:12), Mat?j Cepl wrote: seem to make a trick. Thanks a lot. I am now really persuaded that mutt is able to do everything (except for that buttered bread, I know)! And help on this list is really terrific. Thanks again. And for your next trick, you can learn to send messages

Re: Changing my From field

2001-10-04 Thread Ailbhe Leamy
On (03/10/01 23:45), René Clerc wrote: * Zane Crawford [EMAIL PROTECTED] [03-10-2001 20:25]: | send-hook (~t .*caltech.edu) 'my_hdr From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]' | send-hook (~t !.*caltech.edu) 'my_hdr From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]' Change (~t !.*caltech.edu) from the second rule to . (whithout

Re: Changing my From field

2001-10-04 Thread Ailbhe Leamy
On (03/10/01 23:45), René Clerc wrote: * Zane Crawford [EMAIL PROTECTED] [03-10-2001 20:25]: | send-hook (~t .*caltech.edu) 'my_hdr From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]' | send-hook (~t !.*caltech.edu) 'my_hdr From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]' Change (~t !.*caltech.edu) from the second rule to . (whithout

[OT] gpg multiple keyrings

2001-10-18 Thread Ailbhe Leamy
OK, I have seen a bunch of people say that they use multiple keyrings. This strikes me as an excellent idea. I, however, am a newbie to gpg and an idiot to boot, and so I have two points of failure. 1) how to get mutt to file keys in the correct keyring? 2) how to move keys from the wrong

Re: mail preferences menu?

2001-11-17 Thread Ailbhe Leamy
On (10/11/01 18:17), Piotr Stolc wrote: I have one, maybe trivial, problem...I want to choose some configuration options (like 'from' string, signature etc) when I start composing mail. Now I can do this with folder-hook, but this is very uncomfortable. IMHO the best solution would be adding

Re: [Fwd: help]

2001-11-18 Thread Ailbhe Leamy
On (17/11/01 22:44), David T-G wrote: I work in support and part of what floats my boat is helping other people. You sick, sick bunny. Ailbhe -- Homepage: http://ailbhe.ossifrage.net/

Re: Some questions about trivial things

2001-11-18 Thread Ailbhe Leamy
On (18/11/01 12:35), Sean LeBlanc wrote: Wanted to ask some questions about some things that I haven't figured out yet. 1. How to go back to main mailbox, once I've done c to change to another folder? If I hit q for quit, it goes back to main mailbox, if there are still some unread

Re: Maildir is not Updated

2001-12-06 Thread Ailbhe Leamy
On (02/12/01 17:43), Mark Brown wrote: On Sun, Dec 02, 2001 at 09:05:57AM -0800, Curt W. Zirzow wrote: On Sun, Dec 02, 2001 at 02:22:33PM +0100, Benjamin Michotte wrote: 2 minutes 38 to open my in.mutt maildir (± 6000 mails) instead of 18 secondes to the same in mbox format

Maildir and new mail notification

2001-12-06 Thread Ailbhe Leamy
Hi Since changing to Maildir format, I have noticed some odd behaviour - if I am in a folder while it receives new mail, I don't get notified. If I change to another folder, I immediately get notified of any new mail in the first folder. What have I missed? A. -- Homepage: