Hi raf,
On Fri, May 01, 2020 at 11:20:54AM +1000, raf wrote:
I wrote a tool for replacing non-text attachments in email with text
versions. It's at http://raf.org/textmail.
Thank you so much for writting textmail, which is exactly what I needed
and much more. It is much cooler than I could
Hi again,
On Fri, May 01, 2020 at 11:20:54AM +1000, raf wrote:
I wrote a tool for replacing non-text attachments in email with text
versions. It's at http://raf.org/textmail.
As I said in my previous mail, textmail does a wonderful job reducing my
email list folders by eliminating all HTML
Hello:
I keep a few mailbox folders containing a large amount of multipart mail
with a text/plain part and a text/html part, which I would like to
eliminate in order to reduce the amount of disk space used (for a small
device and mainly the IMAP server I keep synced with).
I've been looking for
On Mon, Feb 08, 2021 at 02:43:48PM -0600, boB Stepp wrote:
killall mbsync &>/dev/null; /usr/bin/mbsync -a -qq
Maybe it's an stupid idea, but perhaps mbsync is starting to run so fast
that the killall kills it? You could try replacing the semicolon wich a
couple of ampersand signs to make
On Mon, Feb 01, 2021 at 04:34:47PM -, Grant Edwards wrote:
I maintained a local queueing MTA for many years, but after multiple
screwups where mail wasn't getting sent (and I didn't find out in a
timely manner) I switched to a non-queueing MTA (e.g. ssmtp) and later
to mutt's SMTP support.
On Thu, Feb 11, 2021 at 06:51:33AM -0500, David J. Weller-Fahy wrote:
* * * * * flock -nx ~/.mbsync-lock-fast mbsync google-fast-cycle
*/5 * * * * flock -nx ~/.mbsync-lock-medium mbsync google-medium-cycle
*/15 * * * * flock -nx ~/.mbsync-lock-slow mbsync google-slow-cycle
I do the same, but
On Tue, Feb 16, 2021 at 12:00:35AM +0300, Oleg A. Mamontov wrote:
The below approach works for me, probably it can be helpful somehow:
.muttrc
---
# the very first folder-hook
folder-hook . "source ~/.mutt/on-folder-change.muttrc"
---
# .mutt/on-folder-change.muttrc
---
set record = ^
set
On Tue, Feb 16, 2021 at 12:26:54AM +0300, Oleg A. Mamontov wrote:
Then what should I do to mbsync the current maildir?
Hitting ESC-o doesn't seem to do it.
Yes, it is.
For debug I suggest to simplify macro as:
---
macro index,pager o "mbsync full:$record"
Nice. It shows that:
Shell
On Mon, Feb 15, 2021 at 10:40:18PM +0100, Genética wrote:
On Tue, Feb 16, 2021 at 12:26:54AM +0300, Oleg A. Mamontov wrote:
Then what should I do to mbsync the current maildir?
Hitting ESC-o doesn't seem to do it.
Yes, it is.
For debug I suggest to simplify macro as:
---
macro index,pager o
On Mon, Feb 15, 2021 at 12:49:53PM -0800, Felix Finch wrote:
On 20210215, Kevin J. McCarthy wrote:
You could write a script, I guess, something like:
cd $header_cache_dir
rm -f *
How well would that play with existing mutt sessions? I run several
mutts inside tmux (local mail, work IMAP
On Tue, Feb 16, 2021 at 01:02:38AM +0300, Oleg A. Mamontov wrote:
I guess your folder names differ from mine. You can debug step by step,
start from keeping only the first assignment:
---
set record = ^
---
Launch mutt and check the result pressing :echo $record
Then, you can adjust the sed
On Mon, Feb 15, 2021 at 07:13:05PM +0100, Genética wrote:
On Mon, Feb 15, 2021 at 09:43:39AM -0800, Kevin J. McCarthy wrote:
On Mon, Feb 15, 2021 at 10:35:25AM +0100, Angel M Alganza wrote:
# Need to upgrade to > 1.8.0 (setenv)
folder-hook . 'set my_folder=$folder;set fol
On Mon, Feb 15, 2021 at 08:04:10PM +, Chris Green wrote:
I have (for example) about 6000 messages in my sentmail folder, it
loads in less than a second. It is a *lot* faster since I installed
an NVME SSD.
Well, in that case it might not be such an improvement to use the header
cache and
On Tue, Feb 16, 2021 at 01:14:31AM +0300, Oleg A. Mamontov wrote:
'full' is the name of my mbsync channel defined in ~/.mbsynrc:
---
# full set of mailboxes
Channel full
...
---
It was just an example that you need to correct according to your mbsync
setup.
I see. I group different channels
On Mon, Feb 15, 2021 at 11:17:42AM -0800, Kevin J. McCarthy wrote:
at a certain point the cache will lose some efficiency by sheer size.
From time to time I simply delete the whole contents of my ~/.mutt/cache
directory to keep it a bit more efficient. A kind of prune function
would be
On Mon, Feb 15, 2021 at 07:40:58PM +, Chris Green wrote:
Where does mutt keep these header caches then?
I have 'set header_cache=~/.mutt/cache/'.
I don't have set header_cache set for the good reason that mutt doesn't
download mail from anywhere, it's all here on my desktop.
The cache
On Mon, Feb 15, 2021 at 04:21:11PM +, Chris Green wrote:
mails in my junk catching directories, is it OK/safe to do it like
this?
20 02 * * * find /home/chris/mail/Ju/*/cur -type f -mtime +7 -exec rm {} \;
30 02 * * * find /home/chris/mail/Ju/*/new -type f -mtime +7 -exec rm {} \;
On Mon, Feb 15, 2021 at 09:43:39AM -0800, Kevin J. McCarthy wrote:
On Mon, Feb 15, 2021 at 10:35:25AM +0100, Angel M Alganza wrote:
# Need to upgrade to > 1.8.0 (setenv)
folder-hook . 'set my_folder=$folder;set folder="XXX";set visual=^'
folder-h
On Mon, Feb 15, 2021 at 05:07:54PM +, Chris Green wrote:
Does no one else ever delete mail messges? :-)
I do, and I try to be ruthless doing it. Since I copy every single piece
of email into my IMAP 'bak' mailfolder, where it sits for 180 days
before it is automatically deleted, I make
On Mon, Feb 15, 2021 at 06:12:39PM +, Chris Green wrote:
> mails in my junk catching directories, is it OK/safe to do it like this?
Other ones are error messages from a remote server which I
usually don't care about but occasionally I want to look at.
Oh, that's interesting. I might
On Sun, Feb 14, 2021 at 04:36:07PM +, Sam Kuper wrote:
https://pypi.org/project/cs.app.mailfiler/
which monitors multiple Maildirs for new messages, and files them
according to per-folder rules.
Nice. I've bookmarked this as a procmail alternative :)
Have a look at imapfilter,
On Sun, Feb 14, 2021 at 01:10:41AM -0600, boB Stepp wrote:
On 21/02/13 08:03PM, Sam Kuper wrote:
A queue script is included with msmtp, so you can have the best of both
worlds :)
https://git.marlam.de/gitweb/?p=msmtp.git;a=blob_plain;f=scripts/msmtpq/README.msmtpq;hb=HEAD
Is there an
On Sun, Feb 14, 2021 at 07:36:34PM -0800, Kevin J. McCarthy wrote:
It looks like you have enabled $text_flowed. That overrides the value
of $indent_string.
Indeed, I do. The weird thing is that while I'm composing my email, I
see the > without the space, but once sent, the space is added.
On Sun, Feb 14, 2021 at 09:39:14PM -0800, Kevin J. McCarthy wrote:
Yes, that's right.
That is wonderful!
I don't know if Devuan is package-compatible with Debian, but I believe
Debian has backported 2.0.2 into buster-backports.
It is. Actually, Devuan is Debian without SystemD. Some of
On Sun, Feb 14, 2021 at 06:39:10PM -0600, boB Stepp wrote:
msmtp-queue -r -- runs (flushes) all the contents of the queue
Try running 'msmtp-queue -r' at your shell. It should trigger sending.
Adding 'msmtp-queue -r' as a cron job should do it automatically.
So it sounds like I wasn't
Hello,
I said in a previous email I was wondering what other great things might
be "out there" waiting for me to be discovered. Well, while looking at
the manual to understand the leading greater than sign mystery, I found
out about background editing, and I think that'd be great for me to be
Hello,
Speaking about ways to improve the email experience, I've realized there
is a little thing that is bugging me for some time already and I haven't
been able to find the solution for.
For a very long time, I had mutt to prepend quoted text from emails I
was replying to with the greater
On Mon, Feb 15, 2021 at 09:43:30AM +0300, Oleg A. Mamontov wrote:
I think what you suggest -- an manual 'msmtp-queue -r' as needed -- is
more than ample for my use case. For that matter, in most instances I
don't even mind waiting until I send another email which will achieve
the same
On Mon, Feb 15, 2021 at 03:06:18AM +, ಚಿರಾಗ್ ನಟರಾಜ್ wrote:
You can edit/reset the indent_string variable, which should fix it :)
Yes, I have already tried that before. In my .muttrc file I have:
# set indent_string="> "
Since it is commented out, I think it's de default. When I try
On Mon, Feb 15, 2021 at 03:40:16PM +1100, Cameron Simpson wrote:
Aye. I use format=flowed all the time; there's stuff in the wiki about
settings to go with it, for example to make composition easy.
I see. :-) Oddly enough, your quotations appear with the leading >
without the space, while
Hello:
I am trying to build a macro to apply a function to the current maildir,
but I can't find the way to capture the current maildir into a variable.
The idea is as follows: I synch my mail with mbsync, which I run from a
crontab entry at different time intervals for different mail
On Mon, Feb 15, 2021 at 07:10:08PM +1100, Cameron Simpson wrote:
Hmm. Beginning to think this is presentation. What are your mutt flow
settings? I've got this:
set reflow_text=yes
set reflow_wrap=-4
set text_flowed=yes
set text_flowed=yes # Added by ama @ 2019/02/03
On Sat, Feb 13, 2021 at 08:03:49PM +, Sam Kuper wrote:
On Fri, Feb 12, 2021 at 01:30:04PM +0100, Angel M Alganza wrote:
I couldn't be happier!
A queue script is included with msmtp, so you can have the best of both
worlds :)
You proved me wrong: I could be happier!
And I am, since
On Sun, Feb 14, 2021 at 02:35:38AM +0100, myself wrote:
And I am, since I'm sending this through the msmtp queue. Yay!
I'm replying to myself to add: send is super-fast now, instant
actually, from Mutt! I love it!
Cheers,
Ángel
Hello,
On Sun, May 29, 2022 at 11:31:51PM -0500, Greg Marks wrote:
Is there a solution for searching across folders for those of us whose
e-mail is stored in mbox rather than maildir format?
Mairix does: https://github.com/rc0/mairix
Cheers,
Ángel
On Mon, Aug 29, 2022 at 07:10:14AM -0400, John Hawkinson wrote:
omitting newlines from internal line breaks in paragraphs has proved
to be a much better compromise than including them. It displays much
better in a wide array of clients, especially modern ones (webmail
clients, mobile clients),
On Wed, Aug 31, 2022 at 05:22:48PM -0400, Kurt Hackenberg wrote:
Very long lines -- one line per paragraph -- changes the meaning of
After top posting that is probably the most annoying thing on email.
And from what I can tell reading this thread, there will always be some
nasty software and
On Sun, Oct 16, 2022 at 08:59:55AM +0100, Chris Green wrote:
I think that's what I was finding (it doesn't really want to be run
interactively), thanks.
It's not very friendly interactively, but it's a very good and powerful tool...
Sorry about all the rather OT noise everyone.
...of
Hi Chris,
On Sat, Oct 15, 2022 at 06:29:37PM +0100, Chris Green wrote:
I'm now considering using mutt to move some IMAP folders from one
server to another, both IMAP servers will be remote. Is this a
sensible idea or should I look for a specialised tool?
I have ocasionally used Mutt with
On Sat, Oct 15, 2022 at 10:27:29PM +0100, Chris Green wrote:
How do I get it into interactive mode? I.e. run imapfilter with the
/home/chris/.imapfilter/config.lua configuration and then allow me to
run some commands to actually do things.
All the examples I can find seem to actually put
On Sat, Oct 15, 2022 at 10:27:29PM +0100, Chris Green wrote:
How do I get it into interactive mode? I.e. run imapfilter with the
/home/chris/.imapfilter/config.lua configuration and then allow me to
run some commands to actually do things.
All the examples I can find seem to actually put
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