2000-01-05-14:54:48 Charles Curley:
> Is this anything I need to worry about?
Nope. Delete the message and ignore it. If you can see it, it's probably
already not doing any good.
The tale behind this message is kind of ugly.
First, the designer of the imap protocol decided to define the protoco
Thanks for adding the detailed explanation. I don't have anything to
offer by way of assistence, but I'd like to second your request; I
notice the same behavior in another context.
I run in a screen(1) session on a raw console all the time, by
strong preference. If mutt didn't do this, I could us
2000-01-13-07:18:21 Matthew Hawkins:
> There seems to be a lot of detractors to the requested
> functionality, however there's at least one valid case that mutt
> can be in where the functionality is quite useful. This is when
> the spoolfile is an IMAP INBOX folder. That folder could get mail
>
2000-01-13-12:50:49 Edmund GRIMLEY EVANS:
> Nice, but some people want to leave mail on the server so that
> they can access it from other places as well.
Sure. Are those same people the same ones who are also asking for
filtering into different folders, and who cannot run procmail on
their serve
2000-01-13-14:27:28 Scott V. McGuire:
> Any ideas on not using a full blown MTA for outgoing mail? It
> seems like overkill to run sendmail (or even qmail) on a single
> user system when all I need is a program to look like sendmail but
> immediately send mail to my isp's smtp server.
That's eas
2000-01-13-05:27:26 Byrial Jensen:
> I see the problem. The attached patch should avoid the changes of
> the visibility of the cursor after timeouts. (I hope it does, but
> I cannot see the difference on my screen, so please test).
>
> The patch is usable on both the stable (1.0) and unstable (1.
2000-01-13-18:37:20 Matthew Hawkins:
> On 2000-01-13 12:54:07 -0500, Bennett Todd wrote:
> > But this isn't a limitation of the implementation, it's a limit of
> > the goal specified. Better not to go there.
>
> A limitation of the goal... that's a new one
2000-01-14-11:07:57 Mikko Hänninen:
> Bennett Todd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on Fri, 14 Jan 2000:
> > (2) You only access the email via POP or IMAP; and
> > (3) You don't want to download the email and keep it on the
> > client with e.g. fetchma
2000-01-13-15:21:22 Bill Bradford:
> Mutt is supposed to automatically detect Maildir-format mailboxes.. however,
> when I fire it up (v.1.0), it just gives me an error of
> "/var/spool/mail/mrbill: No such file or directory (errno = 2)".
>
> I've added the following line to my .muttrc:
>
> set
2000-01-26-16:43:44 Jean-Sebastien Morisset:
> I'm stumped. When I encrypt a message to a friend, mutt will ask
> me to select his public key.
I don't know how to make mutt solve this automagically for all your
correspondents, but if you're willing to add a line to your .muttrc,
by hand, for ever
2000-02-09-13:19:34 Holger Eitzenberger:
> Muttzilla? I just searched www.google.com and www.altavista.com for
> it but did not find anything. Where do i find it?
Add www.freshmeat.net to your search strategies; these days it's
my first stop for finding software.
It gives http://www3.telus.net
2000-02-26-07:34:10 Thomas Roessler:
> I seem to recall that someone on this list wrote about some clever
> scripts to automate the use of glimpse and mutt to search huge
> e-mail archives. Any pointers?
I did that a while back. I can describe 'em in some detail. However,
I don't have them any m
2000-03-01-13:46:36 Phil Staub:
> While I have some legacy MH folders that I would rather not
> re-format, I don't have enough knowledge of maildir to have known
> that one-file-per-message is possible with it. Looks like some
> further study is indicated.
Lemme try and give you a running start.
2000-02-16-16:51:43 Adam Sherman:
> I have --armor in the gpg sign command... Why is this happening?
Beats the heck out of me. I'm using mutt-1.0, which has custom
support or gpg, which works fine; for signing to work all I needed
was (in muttrc):
set pgp_default_version=gpg
set
Searching email bodies for URLs, letting you pick the one you're
interested in, and firing up a browser is done by mutt's companion
program urlview, which should be linked off mutt's home page
www.mutt.org (although I'm getting lookup failures on that domain
name just now).
Your urlview config ca
2000-01-29-19:41:36 Christopher Uy:
> In the mean while, adding that 'h' flag to your rule should get
> you by until then.
Since the "h" makes it more efficient, it seems like a good idea to
include anyway.
Here's what I'm using these days, purely swiped from the
PGP-Notes.txt that comes with mu
2000-03-01-20:08:10 Conrad Sabatier:
> I'm going to have to look into this "maildir" format, I think. :-)
>
> By the way, is there a simple way to convert my existing folders
> to this format?
Within mutt, if you go
:set mbox_type="Maildir"
(or put that in your .muttrc), mutt will creat
2000-03-01-22:09:44 Doug Wellington:
> Bennett provided a lot of good code to move files around, but I wonder
> if it wouldn't just be easier to use nmh's "packf" command to batch
> convert each of your MH style directories into single mbox style files
> and then deal with them that way...
If pac
2000-03-06-22:21:42 Mikko Hänninen:
> So, any solutions to this -- how could I have a default body text when
> sending email to this particular address?
How about using edit_hdrs, and having $EDITOR be a script that
checks the buffer it's pointed at, and if it contains the magic addr
in the heade
2000-03-02-12:53:32 Phil Staub:
> 2000-03-01-20:34:48 Bennett Todd:
> > f=`date +%s`.$$.`hostname`
> > cd $maildir
> > cat >tmp/$f
> > mv tmp/$f new/
>
> Assuming you were going to use this written as is (i.e., in
> Bourne shell) how wou
2000-03-02-23:26:11 Mikko Hänninen:
> I'd say maildir is worth it (no locking is a *big* win), [...]
Hear, hear!
> [...] and you can always use a program such as maildir2mbox if you
> ever have the need to convert to folder contents to a format that
> is read by pretty much every mail tool there
2000-03-03-22:23:36 Greg Matheson:
> My problem is that Web connections are slow here and I want to put
> urlview in the background and go back to the mutt I have running
> (rather than opening another and having to keep track of all my
> instances of mutt).
>
> But I don't think this is possible,
Note to the procmail-list folks, the mutt list grew this thread that
spawned the question, how to deliver to Maildirs safely from an old,
musty, non-maildir-supporting procmail. Various suggestions were
bashed back and forth, and after I read the thread it looked to me
like we were closing in on s
2000-03-03-18:32:55 Bennett Todd:
> For completeness, here's maildir2mbox, using the formail(1) utility
> that comes with procmail (to make sure every message has a good
> "From " header prepended):
>
> find maildir-name -type f|xargs -l formail >mbox-nam
2000-03-16-11:08:54 Laurent Marsan:
> maybe it's a stupid question asked hundred times already, but
> it would really help if you can tell me how hiding the names of
> all the people I send a mail, to avoid someone of them answering
> everybody.
The feature you're talking about is called blind ca
2000-03-16-12:20:58 Edmund GRIMLEY EVANS:
> I have been told that this is in fact a common abuse of Bcc.
> Apparently it is guarranteed that recipients in the To and Cc
> fields will not receive the Bcc field, but it is not guarranteed
> that recipients in the Bcc field will not receive the Bcc fi
A-Ha! Found it! There are clues scattered about the netnews posting
I attach to this email.
There's a pile o' problems here. They can all be summed up by "mbx".
This is a special non-standard mailbox folder format, invented by
someone who thinks Maildir is a bad idea. That much can be said
objct
2000-03-27-06:06:50 Magnus Stenman:
> What is the status on the S/MIME implementation
> that was mentioned on the list a while ago?
I've not been interested in it much myself, but as best I can recall
from what I saw on the list, S/MIME would be trivial to do, might
not even require any mods to m
2000-04-04-12:37:56 Jim Toth:
> Assuming you have gnu find:
> mailboxes `find ~/Mail ! -name sent -type f -printf '%p ' | sed
> 's?/home/jtoth/?=?g'`
If you use Maildirs you don't want to be recursing; that's easy to
do with GNU find. And if you're using GNU find, you can lose the sed
altogethe
2000-04-04-14:37:48 Jim Toth:
> > find Mail -maxdepth 1 -printf '=%P\n'
>
> Right, but if you don't have Maildir, and want, say
> =oldmail/something, then that would turn into =something, which would
> be wrong. (although of course it wouldn't get there to begin wth b/c
> of the maxdepth).
2000-04-05-04:14:56 Sebastian Helms:
> > I'd like mutt to not verify signatures that are not in my
> > keyring, in particular I don't want gpg to trying to connect
> > to the keyserver when I'm not on-line. How is gpg being called
> > for key verification, and is there a way to make it not contact
2000-04-12-15:47:17 Hartmut Gehrke-Tschudi:
> I can't get my mutt to decrypt incoming pgp-Mails.
> I RTFM and all Faq.
> I run Mutt 1.0pre3i under Suse Linux 6.3 and
> Pretty Good Privacy(tm) 2.6.3i
>
> As I understand it there should be a command to decrypt within mutt.
> But I canot find it in
2000-04-26-10:47:21 Joe Rice:
> Could someone tell me why mutt strips an URL from the body of
> my out-going email? It only happens when the line starts with
> the URL.
That really doesn't sound like mutt to me. Are you certain mutt is
really to blame? Try something like (suitable for cut-n-p
2000-05-03-10:50:35 cFischer:
> On Wed 03.0500-08:18, Ralf Hildebrandt wrote:
> > You didn't try postfix.
>
> no. did you? is it big 'n nasty?
Nope. Postfix is not big or nasty. It is, by design: simple to
install, configure, and maintain; fast; secure; and as compatible
with sendmail as neede
2000-05-03-15:33:31 cFischer:
> i'm puzzled: why's qmail with 232k only about 1/3rd the size of
> postfix?
I'm too lazy to download qmail to confirm this guess, but I'm
strongly inclined to bet that the answer is: documentation. Postfix
is very very richly internally documented.
> ah well and an
2000-05-06-07:48:49 Roberto Suarez Soto:
> Anyway, and though I know this is one of the recursive questions
> of the list, what are the advantages that you find in maildir over
> mailbox?
It's a recurring question, no doubt, but revisiting it periodically
is healthy. Here's what comes to my mind
2000-05-06-15:02:35 Corey G.:
> I must be living in the dark because I never heard of w3m until I saw
> this thread. What is the opinion on how it works verse lynx? Are
> there any major benefits in using one over the other?
w3m is another text-mode browser. AFAIK it's main claim to fame,
-vs-
2000-05-06-15:08:18 Bennett Todd:
> Another browser, which I have had no trouble building, and which
> again does a pretty nice job of tables compared to lynx, is links
> http://artax.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~mikulas/links/>.
I did links a great disservice by neglecting to ment
2000-05-07-05:28:39 Ookhoi:
> > I've been using Maildir for a couple of years now, started when
> > I tried out qmail several years back, when I switched to Postfix
> > I used procmail with maildir patches to stick with the Maildir
> > format. I subscribe to dozens of lists, with varying amounts
prefix=$RPM_BUILD_ROOT/usr docdir=$RPM_BUILD_ROOT/usr/doc/mutt install
find $RPM_BUILD_ROOT -type f|xargs file|awk -F: '/not stripped/{print $1}'|xargs strip
%changelog
* Wed May 10 2000 Bennett Todd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
- Initial wrap
%files
%defattr(-,root,root)
/usr/bin/*
%doc /usr/m
LD_ROOT/usr/{bin,etc,man/man1,doc/mutt-%{version}}
make DESTDIR=$RPM_BUILD_ROOT install
find $RPM_BUILD_ROOT -type f | \
xargs file | \
awk -F: '/not stripped/{print $1}' | \
xargs strip
%changelog
* Thu May 11 2000 Bennett Todd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
- Rel
2000-05-16-03:00:58 Shao Zhang:
> My second question is when I delete a mail accessing via IMAP, it
> creates an annoying message, something like:
>
> DON'T DELETE THIS MESSAGE -- FOLDER
>[...]
> How can I avoid this?
Switch to a different IMAP daemon.
You're currently using the UW Imapd. The d
Ok, I've gotten so hooked on mutt that I'm wanting to use it for
netnews.
I know this has been discussed a lot, but as best I've been able to
tell the focus has been on NNTP support for some reason --- even
though mutt does email fine without talking SMTP.
By doing a little perl to batch-downloa
2000-05-17-05:16:58 clemensF:
> > Bennett Todd (Tue 16.0500-17:23):
> > Ok, I've gotten so hooked on mutt that I'm wanting to use it for
> > netnews.
>
> did you have a look at leafnode? it's a small nntp-handler without
> newsreader.
If I understand
Here's my urlview setup. In .urlview I have:
REGEXP (http|https|ftp|mailto):(//)?[^ >"]*|www.[-a-z0-9.]+)[^ .,;>">]
COMMAND screen browse '%s'
"screen" takes its args and runs them as a command-line in a new
screen session, so each browser I fire off with urlview runs in a
separa
2000-06-09-06:49:18 Randall Hopper:
> pdf2txt is just my simple shell script wrapper for it which
> supports getting the text file on standard output.
At least in the version of pdftotext shipped with Red Hat 6.2
(0.90), pdftotext(1) claims that if the output file is "-", the
output will go to st
First, a quick correction: SMIME would be interpreted by most folks
as S/MIME, and that's the spec described in RFCs 2311 (message
format) and 2312 (certs). There may be some MUAs that implement it;
I don't know which. I've never seen it in use, as far as I know.
When I last heard it discussed, so
2000-06-13-17:42:36 Nils Vogels:
> 1) Attach the signature
By this I'm guessing you are referring to Mutt's default PGP/MIME
handling, RFC 2015.
> 2) Put the signature in the body of the mail and seperate
>signature and body using - stuff
and I'm guessing here you mean the classic "clea
2000-06-21-01:17:34 Ronny Haryanto:
> I'm still wondering why it's slower though (in general), maybe
> because it fopen() more times than mbox? The mailbox is on ext2fs
> if that makes any difference.
Ext2 is a nice quick FS, with many great features. One of my
favourites.
For any size mailbox,
2000-06-22-08:31:12 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
> Someone at work has a requirement for a command line MUA to use
> with S/MIME. He has to automate sending E-Mail to customers with
> X.509 certificates in their mail programs. He says "I think the
> RSA BSAFE toolkit is what I need."
I've no idea whether
2000-07-01-13:20:27 Charles Curley:
> I find that I am encrypting outgoing mail only to the recipent(s). That
> makes the copy in my outbox rather useless. Is there a simple way to also
> encrypt to myself, or do I need to hack the command line in gpg.rc? If the
> latter, how?
If you're using gpg
2000-07-09-01:10:51 Ronny Haryanto:
> [...] And for archives I don't think there's any advantage of
> using maildir over mbox, which loads faster. [...]
In the context of a discussion of the compressed folders patch, I
don't disagree with your statement, but taken in isolation I'd have
to disagre
2000-07-17-09:26:17 Mostly Harmless:
> Is there an easy way to specify my editor as gvim if I'm in x, and vim
> if I'm connected from a remote machine via ssh?
Ayup. Use a wrapper script. Set the EDITOR environment variable, or
mutt's editor config variable, to the name of a wrapper script, and
l
2000-07-20-01:49:15 Dennis Robertson:
> When I open that attachment I see:
> BEGIN PGP MESSAGE
> (pgp text) garbage garbage garbage etc
> END PGP MESSAGE
What's happening is that the message you're receiving doesn't have
the MIME headers that mutt needs to be able to notice that i
(I realize this is a pretty old message, but I'm still catching up
from a several-month-deep backlog, and didn't see a reply to this
query).
2000-12-09-12:04:38 Nollaig MacKenzie:
> I found a nice script, mbox2maildir, which converts a mbox file to
> a maildir format. I know that the inverse scr
2001-01-08-14:12:15 Ralf Hildebrandt:
> Are there any S/MIME command line tools that could be used with mutt?
The only one I've heard of is the OpenSSL command-line utility,
openssl(1). But would integrating invocations of openssl's cmdline
into mutt, call out the Debian license gestapo again? We
1999-01-15-21:59:12 Rob Kaper:
> Something I'd like to do, but haven't found in the manuals etc:
>
> send all postponed messages at once, without editing them etc.
>
> Is this possible with mutt? If yes: how? If no: why not ;) and where can I
> send the suggestion for such a feature?
Easy to do
1999-03-01-01:21:03 Juergen Leising:
> just for interest - can somebody please explain to me, what a "hair trigger"
> is?
In common usage, it describes something that's easy to set off, a delicate
sensor, etc. In this instance, someone was using the phrase to claim that the
mailing list is too se
I'm sure there are other ways to handle this, but I use Par[1], somewhat
integrated with my editor of choice Jove, to deal with it. I've got Par
installed. The Par package provides a utility named "par", which can be run
like "fmt" to filter a chunk of text and re-wrap it. It has a couple of big
a
1999-03-03-19:15:13 David Shaw:
> 1999-03-03-05:25:50 Martin Julian DeMello:
> > Is there any way to mark all posts in a mailbox read, without entering the
> > box?
>
> Without entering the box? Here's how to do it without even running mutt :)
I thought about posting essentially that, only for M
I've noticed this too --- though so rarely that I've not tried to track it
down. Probably hasn't happened 5 times altogether since I first noticed it,
some time ago (months, I think). My $EDITOR is jove.
-Bennett
Mutt 0.95.1i (1999-01-04)
Copyright (C) 1996-8 Michael R. Elkins and others.
Mutt c
1999-05-09-19:09:11 Attila Csosz:
> I'd like to change from Maildir to mbox. What should I do?
If you want to make that change, well, OK. I'm very glad to have changed in
the other direction.
> 1. Which type of mbox_type should I set?
Just comment out the mbox_type line; the default is mbox. Th
1999-05-10-19:09:27 David DeSimone:
> Bennett Todd:
> > And a helpful tip for converting Maildir folders for mbox: use the
> > formail utility that accompanies procmail.
>
> Since this is the Mutt list, I am surprised that you didn't suggest
> using Mutt! Simply
1999-05-12-03:06:58 Stefan `Sec` Zehl:
> 1999-05-11-23:03:53 Patrick Seal:
> > How do I configure Mutt to use my smtp server instead of the default local
> > sendmail.
> mutt doesn't speak smtp. It simly calls an external program to do it.
> Per default it uses sendmail (which is quite sensible, s
1999-05-20-19:31:49 David DeSimone:
> 2. Maildir
> A directory containing three subdirectories, new, cur, and tmp.
> If it does not contain those directories (and only those), then
> it is not a maildir.
I just re-read the maildir format spec at [1]; unless something else s
Is there any reasonable way to tell mutt not to use colors, short of going
"TERM=ansi mutt" so it doesn't know it's possible? Or, if there's no
reasonable way to disable all color use, at least is there some simple way to
prevent it from flinging the screen into reverse video?
-Bennett
1999-05-24-16:02:40 Brent Hueth:
> BTW, can someone point me to a good FAQ that talks about the pros and cons of
> each mailbox system (mbox, maildir, and mh).
There have been many such; I'm pretty sure the topic is discussed somewhat in
the procmail FAQ. I'll have another bash at it here, just f
1999-07-19-10:31:32 Chris Green:
> I have mutt set up and working on my RedHat Linux system using qmail
> and maildir format mailboxes. How can I save an E-Mail message in
> 'not a maildir' format when, for example, I want to import it into
> another program? I know I can find the text in the ma
1999-07-19-21:48:54 Chris Gushue:
> Is the maildir format the one where each message is a seperate file? Or is
> that the MH format...
MH and Maildir are both formats that store each message in a separate file.
MH is used by the MH suite of tools; it seems to me like the nmh suite has
kinda repl
(note: this is entirely a procmail question, and you may well have gotten more
helpful responses on the procmail list).
Sounds like you have a good procmail+maildir package.
If it's still delivering into /var/spool/mail/$USER, then I suspect it is
refusing to read your .procmailrc. Here's what
1999-08-17-08:47:53 Przemek Bak:
> Does mutt has an address book ?
Mutt has aliases, which you can accumulate in your .muttrc, and which can be
used as a shorthand for helping to remember the email addresses you often use.
You can save an alias by hitting "a" while you are looking at a message; w
1999-10-15-16:06:11 Larry Fletcher:
> I wonder if there's an easy way to calculate the current date minus a number
> of days and then delete all the files in a directory that are older or equal
> to that date.
find a_directory -mtime +number_of_days -print0|perl -0 -lne unlink
There are
1999-10-27-12:30:41 David DeSimone:
> > It does. Control g
>
> It doesn't abort reading a huge folder. In fact, nothing does. Once you
> start to read that 20 MB folder, you're going to be there until it's done.
I am in the habit of killing those with "^Zkill %1". Mutt doesn't have TSTP
turn
1999-10-27-14:09:27 Mikko Hänninen:
> Ctrl-C doesn't work, Mutt ignores it at that point, and the others
> aren't graceful...
^Z works; puts it to sleep, and a simple term (e.g. "kill %1") will finish the
job.
Is this graceful enough? I dunno. If I hadn't found it, I'd sure be a lot more
annoyed
1999-10-27-15:02:01 Mikko Hänninen:
> This works if you're starting Mutt from a shell, but is not really an
> alternative when you're launching Mutt with "xterm -e mutt" like me.
> Or is there some way to get that work there too?
How about ctrl-leftmousebutton and select "Send TERM Signal" from t
1999-11-12-09:12:52 Rich Lafferty:
> I've realized lately that I see an awful lot of "WARNING: Can't find
> the right public key-- can't check signature integrity" on
> mutt-users. :-) Is there a mutt public keyring out there anywhere?
By one of those totally whizzo coincidences, the same questio
1999-11-16-23:57:45 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
> I am facing problems with gpg. In the compose menu, when I type ESC k for
> encrypting, mutt asks for Enter keyID for [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
>
> even when I enter the keyID, i get the question. Finally I had to do ctrl-G
> to come out. Is there a w
1999-11-22-05:36:20 Martin Schröder:
> On 1999-11-22 17:18:26 +1100, Shao Zhang wrote:
> > In mutt, I can encrypt a message using the receipt's public key. But
> > if I also want to encrypt the mail using my private key, how do I do
> > this?
>
> RTFM mutt: pgp_encryptself
> RTFM pgp
1999-11-22-05:47:43 Sebastian Helms:
> Hm, do you want to encrypt it to yourself ? Then you would do it with
> your public key.
I at least like to make sure everything I encrypt is encrypted to myself, as
well as to the recipient, so I can still read or use my file copy of the
message. Remember,
1999-11-22-14:28:52 Sean Rima:
> Anyone know of a way to have a hook so that Mutt locads the necessary
> gpg.rc/pgp.rc depending on who the message is from.
I use one .gnupg/options regardless of who the message is run, and always use
gpg. I'm pretty sure I don't understand what you're asking for
1999-11-22-15:54:23 Sean Rima:
> The problem is the fact that there are a few people on the Mutt list who use
> PGP2 and PGP5. These keys are not able to be used in GPG AFAIK.
I'm pretty sure that's not the case.
If anybody is using patented algorithms that aren't supported in the core
gpg relea
1999-11-22-17:04:50 David DeSimone:
> From what I have read, GPG can be configured or built with external
> module support, so that it can read and use these RSA and IDEA based
> message formats.
>
> However, I haven't really found any good instructions for building such
> a version of GPG. Ther
1999-11-23-06:04:27 J Horacio MG:
> In addition, I also modify gnupg/cipher/Makefile.in to add those
> algorithms to it. I'm not sure if this makes a difference at all,
> though.
I'm happy to say that that doesn't appear to be necessary. Very happy, since
my RPMming of the addons is fairly indep
1999-11-27-02:57:18 Nathan Cullen:
> Okay, I'm sold. :) But first, is there a simple way to convert my
> current mbox folders(files) into maildir format? Is this handled by
> mutt or another utility?
It can be done in mutt; once you've set mbox_type="Maildir" you can visit an
mbox, tag everyth
1999-11-29-08:14:41 Subba Rao:
> Where do you ? In .muttrc?
As with all such commands, you can put it in your .muttrc and restart mutt;
you can put it in your .muttrc and type
:source .muttrc
or you can just preceed it with a colon, and directly type
:set mbox_type="Maildir"
>
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