Re: Hide [bracketed topic indicators] such as prepended by mailing lists

2012-04-11 Thread Chris Green
On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 04:24:39AM -0500, David Champion wrote: * On 11 Apr 2012, Chris Green wrote: The advantage of this solution is that it affects only how the message is displayed in the pager, so the people who set up the mailing list to expect these [list tags] still get them

Re: how to get mutt new mails' number

2012-04-12 Thread Chris Burdess
Chip Camden wrote: Quoth vinurs on Thursday, 12 April 2012: ... i have a inbox call gmail... If you're using mbox format... Snipped for clarity.

Re: A charset question again

2012-04-18 Thread Chris Burdess
it seems w3m is not correctly detecting the terminal encoding. You could try in your mailcap: text/html; /usr/local/bin/w3m -dump -O UTF-8 -F -T text/html %s; copiousoutput -- Chris Burdess

Re: A charset question again

2012-04-18 Thread Chris Burdess
of the accented characters. What else can I do ? Sorry, my bad. It's the input encoding that's the problem, not the output encoding. This works (tested just now) for me: text/html; w3m -dump -I %{charset} %s; copiousoutput -- Chris Burdess

Re: can't read attached file docx

2012-04-24 Thread Chris Burdess
Gerard ROBIN g.rob...@free.fr wrote: Hello, I use Mutt 1.5.21 (from squeeze-backports) When I receive a message with a attached .docx file, sometime I can read it with libreoffice and sometime I get: No matching mailcap entry found. Viewing as text. For exemple this file is viewed with

Re: can't read attached file docx

2012-04-25 Thread Chris Burdess
Gerard ROBIN wrote: When I receive a message with a attached .docx file, sometime I can read it with libreoffice and sometime I get: No matching mailcap entry found. Viewing as text. For exemple this file is viewed with libreoffice: A Rapport.docx

Re: Problems sending using msmtp and mutts built in smtp

2012-05-11 Thread Chris Burdess
Martin De'Pannone wrote: I have mutt working as far as being able to fetch my emails from an IMAP mail srver that I run. The issue is I can not send emails despite several nights trying to get the thing to work. Below is my .muttrc #muttrc by martin thanks to brisbin

Re: why does control-4 generate SIGQUIT in X?

2012-05-22 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 05:32:10PM +, Camaleón wrote: On Mon, 21 May 2012 18:28:55 -0400, Eric Cooper wrote: I recently noticed that when I hold the control key and press '4', it generates ^\, i.e. SIGQUIT. This happens in both gnome-terminal and xterm, and on two different kinds of

Re: why does control-4 generate SIGQUIT in X?

2012-05-23 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 10:57:34PM +0100, Chris Davies wrote: Chris Bannister cbannis...@slingshot.co.nz wrote: Yes, stty quit works!! That disables SIGQUIT capability from the keyboard entirely, so the more usual ^\ also no longer works. Where are you setting it? Short version

Re: Mutt eating the tab character in headers

2012-05-25 Thread Chris Burdess
Aaron Toponce wrote: I have an easter egg, if you will, in the header of my mail. I have two headers that I am adding: Crypto-Challenge and Crypto-Hint. It's all for fun and games. However, in my muttrc(5), I am wrapping each line (It's rather lengthy otherwise) and preceding the newline

Re: Mutt eating the tab character in headers

2012-05-25 Thread Chris Burdess
Aaron Toponce wrote: On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 03:24:38PM +0100, Chris Burdess wrote: I would think that it doesn't actually matter whether mutt does this or not, since any intervening MTAs are free to do this as they want. As long as the result is valid RFC822, header whitespace may

Re: Caching body of IMAP messages

2012-06-14 Thread Chris Burdess
Morris, Patrick wrote: Sounds pretty normal to me. There's no way to search IMAP messages locally if you haven't downloaded them yet. Headers will be downloaded automatically, but unlike with POP, the rest of the message will stay on the server undownloaded until you need to retrieve a copy,

Re: mutt deletes attachement before libreoffice tries to open it

2012-06-22 Thread Chris Bannister
On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 09:38:10AM -0500, Luis Mochan wrote: # DESCRIPTION # Runs a browser on a copy of a file, and sleeps for a while # before deleting it. It solves the problem that mutt may delete # the file too fast. IMHO, change fast to soon. The *speed* of deletion is

Re: colors like slrn?

2012-06-27 Thread Chris Burdess
codeb...@inbox.lv wrote: I'm using xterm, I guess it would work. But are you saying your color scheme looks like slrn? At one time (a very long time ago) I had the configurations set up so that vim, mutt and slrn all had basically the same colour scheme. I have no idea if slrn still has the

Re: colors like slrn? [screwup here]

2012-06-27 Thread Chris Burdess
codeb...@inbox.lv wrote: I think it was Chris who just sent his color file? I'm sorry, I deleted the message accidentally. I tried it and the colors work really bad on my terminal for some reason. I couldn't see anything which is why I deleted your message accidentally :-/ Anyway thanks

Re: built-in pager and utf-8

2012-07-17 Thread Chris Burdess
Harald Weis wrote: Does everybody think - when reading this message - that my case is hopeless ? I don't see why. I don't have any problems reading UTF-8 in the pager - see attached. This is a pretty bog standard mutt on Debian; mutt -v gives Mutt 1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Copyright (C) 1996-2009

Re: The wiki lies about macros and tags.

2012-07-21 Thread Chris Bannister
On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 01:04:23PM -0500, David Champion wrote: * On 19 Jul 2012, Robin Lee Powell wrote: If you define a macro to work with a single entry, then it can not be applied to tagged entries just by using tag-prefixmacro-key!!! is flat-out false in every version of mutt I have

Re: wiki macro page expansion (was Re: The wiki lies about macros and tags.)

2012-07-24 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Jul 22, 2012 at 08:44:32PM -0700, Robin Lee Powell wrote: If no-one comments further, I'm going to see if I have perms to change the wiki page with this tutorial. SCNR. A good demonstration with the problems of top posting, and no trimming -- If you're

Re: mailing list subject line tags

2012-10-31 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 07:45:27PM -0700, Kevin J. McCarthy wrote: Interestingly if I manually strip the whitespace and canonicalize line endings, the signature passes. So somehow you are correctly generating the signature (with trailing whitespace removed), but are sending the email out with

What are the current fetchmail/getmail and/or procmail/maildrop utilities?

2012-11-07 Thread Chris Green
and filtering mail with mutt? -- Chris Green

Re: What are the current fetchmail/getmail and/or procmail/maildrop utilities?

2012-11-07 Thread Chris Green
On Wed, Nov 07, 2012 at 07:17:46PM +0200, Nikola Petrov wrote: On Wed, Nov 07, 2012 at 02:15:41PM +, Chris Green wrote: I currently have my mail delivered to my desktop system using SMTP as the system is on all the time and has a static IP. However I always get paranoid when I

Re: What are the current fetchmail/getmail and/or procmail/maildrop utilities?

2012-11-07 Thread Chris Green
On Wed, Nov 07, 2012 at 01:04:17PM -0500, Tim Gray wrote: On Nov 07, 2012 at 02:15 PM +, Chris Green wrote: I *don't* like procmail configuration files, they're one of the reasons I wrote my own. What does everyone else here do for collecting mail and filtering mail with mutt? I use

Re: What are the current fetchmail/getmail and/or procmail/maildrop utilities?

2012-11-07 Thread Chris Green
On Wed, Nov 07, 2012 at 08:16:42PM +, Jamie Paul Griffin wrote: / Nikola Petrov wrote on Wed 7.Nov'12 at 19:17:46 +0200 / On Wed, Nov 07, 2012 at 02:15:41PM +, Chris Green wrote: I currently have my mail delivered to my desktop system using SMTP as the system is on all the time

Re: What are the current fetchmail/getmail and/or procmail/maildrop utilities?

2012-11-08 Thread Chris Green
On Thu, Nov 08, 2012 at 03:17:35AM +0200, Nikola Petrov wrote: On Wed, Nov 07, 2012 at 05:35:45PM +, Chris Green wrote: I am using imapfilter with lua configuration file for my imap account. That does the job for me and I like the fact that I declare my filters with actual code

Re: What are the current fetchmail/getmail and/or procmail/maildrop utilities?

2012-11-08 Thread Chris Green
On Wed, Nov 07, 2012 at 04:33:58PM -0600, David Champion wrote: * On 07 Nov 2012, Derek Martin wrote: On Wed, Nov 07, 2012 at 08:48:08PM +, Chris Green wrote: server retrying if my SMTP server isn't running (or connected). That's one of the reasons I'd quite like to move away from

Re: What are the current fetchmail/getmail and/or procmail/maildrop utilities?

2012-11-08 Thread Chris Green
On Thu, Nov 08, 2012 at 11:06:35AM -0600, Derek Martin wrote: On Thu, Nov 08, 2012 at 01:03:07PM +, Jamie Paul Griffin wrote: Hi Chris, personally, i'd stick with what your current set-up. Ditto. I don't currently do this but that's only because port 25 is blocked by my ISP. I've run

Re: What are the current fetchmail/getmail and/or procmail/maildrop utilities?

2012-11-09 Thread Chris Bannister
On Thu, Nov 08, 2012 at 03:17:35AM +0200, Nikola Petrov wrote: No it doesn't deliver them to you. It sort of filters them online on the server. You can then use something like offlineimap to deliver them locally to you. I use imapfilter + offlineimap + notmuch + mutt and I am far from happy

How to change From: according to hostname?

2012-11-09 Thread Chris Green
want to be able to detect the host name and set the From address accordingly. I need a sort of send-hook with pattern matching on an external (host name) parameter. Specifically I want (using existing send-hook syntax):- On host zbmc.eu:- 'my_hdr From: Chris Green ch...@isbd.co.uk

Re: How to change From: according to hostname?

2012-11-09 Thread Chris Green
On Fri, Nov 09, 2012 at 10:57:35AM -0600, David Champion wrote: * On 09 Nov 2012, Chris Green wrote: How can I switch the From address according to the hostname? It won't Solution 1. # muttrc source muttrc.`hostname` # muttrc.zbmc.eu my_hdr From: Chris Green ch...@isbd.co.uk

Re: What are the current fetchmail/getmail and/or procmail/maildrop utilities?

2012-11-09 Thread Chris Bannister
On Fri, Nov 09, 2012 at 02:49:48PM +0200, Nikola Petrov wrote: On Fri, Nov 09, 2012 at 11:17:06PM +1300, Chris Bannister wrote: On Thu, Nov 08, 2012 at 03:17:35AM +0200, Nikola Petrov wrote: No it doesn't deliver them to you. It sort of filters them online on the server. You can then use

Re: procmail vs dovecote (was Re: What are the current fetchmail/getmail and/or procmail/maildrop utilities?)

2012-11-11 Thread Chris Green
itself is in an incredibly simple format, no XML, no indenting, no block structure, no funny characters required. About the only 'special' thing is that you can add comments by having lines starting with a #. -- Chris Green

What use is the mbox variable?

2012-11-11 Thread Chris Green
/In/inbox and as far as I can tell the mbox setting doesn't do anything at all. My mail is delivered by a custom script to ~/Mail/In/inbox and various other places which are specified in the mailboxes setting in muttrc. Does even spoolfile add anything to this? -- Chris Green

Re: What use is the mbox variable?

2012-11-11 Thread Chris Green
On Sun, Nov 11, 2012 at 12:37:08PM -0800, Kevin J. McCarthy wrote: Chris Green wrote: So, what good is it? If one sets spoolfile then there's nothing more to do is there and mbox is redundant. Or am I missing something obvious? Having an mbox in your home directory was more useful

Is there a way to get mutt to do a 'slow' scan for new mail?

2012-11-15 Thread Chris Green
'. Is there any way I can ask mutt to actually scan through all the mailboxes rather than just look at the file times to see if there is new mail in them? -- Chris Green

Re: Is there a way to get mutt to do a 'slow' scan for new mail?

2012-11-16 Thread Chris Green
On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 12:28:50PM -0800, Gary Johnson wrote: On 2012-11-15, Matthias Apitz wrote: El día Thursday, November 15, 2012 a las 07:43:13PM +, Chris Green escribió: My incoming mailboxes (as specified to mutt) get periodically backed up and thus the 'accessed' time

Re: Is there a way to get mutt to do a 'slow' scan for new mail?

2012-11-16 Thread Chris Green
On Fri, Nov 16, 2012 at 12:04:01PM +, Chris Green wrote: On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 12:28:50PM -0800, Gary Johnson wrote: On 2012-11-15, Matthias Apitz wrote: set check_mbox_size which will tell mutt to check mailbox file sizes instead of access times. [snip minor rant] I

Please set your line wrap to a sane value (was ... Re: Is there any gmane.org user in the list?)

2012-11-19 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 02:46:23PM +, Jamie Paul Griffin wrote: Ah, i understand your problem now. I did misunderstand but that's not your fault, your English is very good actually. As far as I know, it's not possible. I believe you must be subscribed to the list. You can have the

Re: Please set your line wrap to a sane value (was ... Re: Is there any gmane.org user in the list?)

2012-11-20 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 10:01:41AM +, Jamie Paul Griffin wrote: I don't like vim. I prefer the old vi, so i'd have to set it in ~/.exrc which mean all files will be line wrapped which is why I haven't done so already. I'll see if theres a muttrc macro or setting I can use to set line wrap

Re: email has changed, you won't change everyone, and you don't have to

2012-11-21 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 11:59:55AM -0600, David Young wrote: On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 04:42:13PM +, John Long wrote: […] Mail and news need to have sane line lengths. 72 or 76 chars are common. It makes people look like AOL groupies when they post 500 character lines. Many of us use

Re: email has changed, you won't change everyone, and you don't have to

2012-11-21 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 03:34:13PM -0500, Peter Davis wrote: On 11/20/12 3:18 PM, Rado Q wrote: Software can't do magic, or make up for human failures. Sometimes the responsibility is with the user, not the code. Nope. Totally wrong. The responsibility is entire with the design

Re: email has changed, you won't change everyone, and you don't have to

2012-11-21 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 08:39:02PM +, Tony's unattended mail wrote: compose with no linefeeds, except when a linebreak is really needed (a peom, for example). The the rendering software can wrap where it makes the most sense to, and honor the existing linefeeds that are important. The

Re: Please set your line wrap to a sane value (was ... Re: Is there any gmane.org user in the list?)

2012-11-21 Thread Chris Green
wrap just for mail. I use vile rather than vim, you *might* find vile more to your taste and it is actively/currently maintained. -- Chris Green

Re: Please set your line wrap to a sane value (was ... Re: Is there any gmane.org user in the list?)

2012-11-21 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 07:54:28PM +, Tony's unattended mail wrote: Proper etiquette is established by those in a region, or in a group.. it's based on where you are. If you enter a village where everyone does something, that *is* the etiquette, by definition. To go against it is to lack

Re: Please set your line wrap to a sane value (was ... Re: Is there any gmane.org user in the list?)

2012-11-21 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 12:52:58PM -0600, David Champion wrote: * On 19 Nov 2012, Chris Bannister wrote: Ouch! Could you please set the line wrap value in your editor to a sane value? 72 characters seems to be the recommended setting. (I though you had mistakenly sent this mail

Re: email has changed, you won't change everyone, and you don't have to

2012-11-23 Thread Chris Bannister
On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 02:37:57PM -0600, David Champion wrote: * On 21 Nov 2012, Chris Bannister wrote: Because there are no CR/LF in a paragraph then it is treated all as one line. If the first line of a paragraph appears at the bottom of the screen as yours did then mutt displays All

Re: email has changed, you won't change everyone, and you don't have to

2012-11-23 Thread Chris Bannister
On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 01:21:18PM -0600, Jim Graham wrote: On Thu, Nov 22, 2012 at 12:09:17AM +1300, Chris Bannister wrote: Because there are no CR/LF in a paragraph then it is treated all as one line. Interesting, considering that Unix doesn't use CR/LF ... it uses a single newline

Re: email has changed, you won't change everyone, and you don't have to

2012-11-23 Thread Chris Bannister
On Thu, Nov 22, 2012 at 07:22:03PM -0500, Peter Davis wrote: Apparently you're unaware of the last 30 or 40 years of human factors and usability research, or the fact that other people are using computers besides a bunch of ivory tower geeks who think users will follow whatever strictures and

Re: Please set your line wrap to a sane value (was ... Re: Is there any gmane.org user in the list?)

2012-11-24 Thread Chris Green
that they're nearly always presented using a fixed width typeface for this very reason. -- Chris Green

Re: Please set your line wrap to a sane value (was ... Re: Is there any gmane.org user in the list?)

2012-11-25 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sat, Nov 24, 2012 at 08:46:59PM +, Tony's unattended mail wrote: On 2012-11-24, Derek Martin inva...@pizzashack.org wrote: Yeah, I said exactly that in another message. Now generate HTML mail with Mutt. Plus you still get a lot of folks -- many of whom use GUI clents -- who

Re: Please set your line wrap to a sane value (was ... Re: Is there any gmane.org user in the list?)

2012-11-26 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Nov 25, 2012 at 07:14:45PM +, Tony's unattended mail wrote: On 2012-11-25, Chris Bannister cbannis...@slingshot.co.nz wrote: With regards to mailing list posts, which is what the original post of mine was addressing, sending HTML posts is very wasteful. They are archived

New user tagline and signature help

2012-11-26 Thread Chris Willard
google? Regards, Chris -- Chris Willard ch...@meliser.co.uk

Re: New user tagline and signature help

2012-11-26 Thread Chris Willard
Hello Rado, Thanks. I am currently testing it. Chris On Mon, 26 Nov 2012, Rado Q wrote: [snip (8 lines)] 'fortune' -- Chris Willard ch...@meliser.co.uk

Documentation on L[ist reply] doesn't tell the whole truth

2012-11-29 Thread Chris Green
works for the same list. -- Chris Green

Re: Documentation on L[ist reply] doesn't tell the whole truth

2012-11-29 Thread Chris Green
On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 12:24:49PM -0500, Patrick Shanahan wrote: * Chris Green c...@isbd.net [11-29-12 11:38]: ... It's not my .muttrc, it's just one list that I subscribe to which has two addresses. Only one address ever appears in List-Post: but the alternative address sometimes

Re: Documentation on L[ist reply] doesn't tell the whole truth

2012-11-29 Thread Chris Green
On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 12:28:00PM -0500, Patrick Shanahan wrote: * Chris Green c...@isbd.net [11-29-12 11:38]: ... It's not my .muttrc, it's just one list that I subscribe to which has two addresses. Only one address ever appears in List-Post: but the alternative address sometimes

Re: Documentation on L[ist reply] doesn't tell the whole truth

2012-11-29 Thread Chris Green
' file so I can easily put one like you suggest there and see if it works. Thanks! -- Chris Green

Re: Another question about L[ist reply]

2012-11-30 Thread Chris Green
On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 02:55:46PM -0600, David Champion wrote: * On 29 Nov 2012, Chris Green wrote: What headers does L[ist reply] search for a match to what it has in the 'lists' entry? This isn't specified anywhere in the documentation (not that I can find anyway). Documentation

Threaded sort not working where using Subject: rather than Mail-Id:

2012-12-01 Thread Chris Green
a list where this isn't so and I'm not getting 'pseudo-threads' linked by the Subject:. I have tried adding set strict_threads=no (should be the default anyway) but this hasn't helped. I have no other thread related settings that I know of. How can I get threading to work using subjects? -- Chris

Re: Threaded sort not working where using Subject: rather than Mail-Id:

2012-12-01 Thread Chris Green
On Sat, Dec 01, 2012 at 01:24:47PM +, Jamie Paul Griffin wrote: [ Chris Green Wrote On Sat 1.Dec'12 at 11:35:23 GMT ] I have the following in my muttrc file relating to thread sorting:- folder-hook . 'set sort=threads;set hostname=' folder-hook sentmail set sort=date-sent

Re: Threaded sort not working where using Subject: rather than Mail-Id:

2012-12-01 Thread Chris Green
On Sat, Dec 01, 2012 at 06:41:47PM +, Chris Green wrote: On Sat, Dec 01, 2012 at 01:24:47PM +, Jamie Paul Griffin wrote: [ Chris Green Wrote On Sat 1.Dec'12 at 11:35:23 GMT ] I have the following in my muttrc file relating to thread sorting:- folder-hook . 'set sort

Re: Threaded sort not working where using Subject: rather than Mail-Id:

2012-12-01 Thread Chris Green
On Sat, Dec 01, 2012 at 07:06:18PM +, Chris Green wrote: The problem is that threading isn't working at all, $sort_aux surely just changes the sort rules within a thread. At the moment mutt isn't seeing/showing threads at all even though there are several messages with the same

Re: email has changed, you won't change everyone, and you don't have to

2012-12-01 Thread Chris Bannister
On Fri, Nov 30, 2012 at 07:08:11PM +, Tony's unattended mail wrote: Now, if we consider lousy tools (tools that either fail to facilitate standards or needlessly impose extra work on humans), then it can only be the contrary of what you're saying. Selfish authors do what is convenient for

Re: Please set your line wrap to a sane value (was ... Re: Is there any gmane.org user in the list?)

2012-12-01 Thread Chris Bannister
On Fri, Nov 30, 2012 at 10:24:59AM -0500, Peter Davis wrote: Actually, it wasn't about GMail at all. It was about the fact that millions of email users don't care about line wrapping, or text/plain, or any of these other 40 year old conventions. The mutt-users group just happens to represent

Re: Please set your line wrap to a sane value (was ... Re: Is there any gmane.org user in the list?)

2012-12-01 Thread Chris Bannister
On Fri, Nov 30, 2012 at 06:20:00PM +, Grant Edwards wrote: The main Python mailing list gets regular posts from Google Groups. Those posts are always malformatted (the formatting seems to change over the years, but it never actually gets better). The ones that aren't just spam are always

Re: Please set your line wrap to a sane value (was ... Re: Is there any gmane.org user in the list?)

2012-12-01 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sat, Dec 01, 2012 at 05:57:03PM -0500, Peter Davis wrote: Apparently even proper conversational quoting is too complex for you to follow. I was responding to a comment on a comment on an earlier post of mine. Since I wrote that earlier post, I think I have a pretty good idea what it was

Re: Threaded sort not working where using Subject: rather than Mail-Id:

2012-12-02 Thread Chris Green
On Sat, Dec 01, 2012 at 11:50:21AM -0800, Will Yardley wrote: On Sat, Dec 01, 2012 at 07:08:24PM +, Chris Green wrote: On Sat, Dec 01, 2012 at 07:06:18PM +, Chris Green wrote: The problem is that threading isn't working at all, $sort_aux surely just changes the sort rules

Re: on-demand rewrap received mail and display in builtin pager

2012-12-05 Thread Chris Green
reply]) and the long lines get into my editor. While I can set the linewrap option (it's a vi clone) that's far from perfect, it would be much nicer if lines were fed into the editor in the format seen in mutt's pager. -- Chris Green

Re: on-demand rewrap received mail and display in builtin pager

2012-12-06 Thread Chris Green
, ignoring white space that is. -- Chris Green

The editor variable, how does it work exactly?

2012-12-06 Thread Chris Green
If I set the editor variable does mutt execute that command with the name of the temporary file after it, or is there some sort of variable name for the temporary file? -- Chris Green

Re: The editor variable, how does it work exactly?

2012-12-06 Thread Chris Green
On Thu, Dec 06, 2012 at 07:43:29AM -0800, Michael Elkins wrote: On Thu, Dec 06, 2012 at 02:12:32PM +, Chris Green wrote: If I set the editor variable does mutt execute that command with the name of the temporary file after it, or is there some sort of variable name for the temporary file

How does matt detect no change when replying to a message?

2012-12-07 Thread Chris Green
How does mutt detect no change to the temporary file when one hits R[eply] but then makes no change to the file? -- Chris Green

Re: How does matt detect no change when replying to a message?

2012-12-07 Thread Chris Green
On Fri, Dec 07, 2012 at 10:28:12AM -0800, Michael Elkins wrote: On Fri, Dec 07, 2012 at 06:22:32PM +, Chris Green wrote: How does mutt detect no change to the temporary file when one hits R[eply] but then makes no change to the file? Yes, if the modification time on the file is unchanged

Re: Please set your line wrap to a sane value (was ... Re: Is there any gmane.org user in the list?)

2012-12-10 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 02:33:56PM +0200, Nikola Petrov wrote: The fact that I don't know how the engine of my car works doesn't make me a newbie. That's what abstractions in our world are for. Umm, in the car world yes you'd be a newbie. Don't consider it a derogatory term. We are all

Re: Please set your line wrap to a sane value (was ... Re: Is there any gmane.org user in the list?)

2012-12-10 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 07:30:14AM -0600, Dale A. Raby wrote: Not all of us are IT professionals. Some of us are blacksmiths, gun salesmen, truck drivers, and even ecdysiasts. Please don't group IT professionals. and standards/ettiquette/netiquette as one. No exceptions? Really? I seem

Re: Please set your line wrap to a sane value (was ... Re: Is there any gmane.org user in the list?)

2012-12-11 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 10:55:32AM +0200, Nikola Petrov wrote: On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 01:53:59PM +1300, Chris Bannister wrote: On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 02:33:56PM +0200, Nikola Petrov wrote: The fact that I don't know how the engine of my car works doesn't make me a newbie. That's

Re: Please set your line wrap to a sane value (was ... Re: Is there any gmane.org user in the list?)

2012-12-11 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 01:53:59PM +1300, Chris Bannister wrote: On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 02:33:56PM +0200, Nikola Petrov wrote: The fact that I don't know how the engine of my car works doesn't make me a newbie. That's what abstractions in our world are for. Umm, in the car world yes

Re: HTML markup in email [was: Please set your line wrap to a sane value]

2012-12-15 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 07:43:12PM -0600, Derek Martin wrote: Same arguemnt as above. Also this is mostly not interesting anymore. When you compare this to the amount of bandwidth consumed by things like streaming video, it's a drop in the bucket. Streaming video is specifically requested. I

Re: HTML markup in email [was: Please set your line wrap to a sane value]

2012-12-16 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Dec 16, 2012 at 12:15:49PM -0600, Derek Martin wrote: On Sat, Dec 15, 2012 at 11:44:17PM +1300, Chris Bannister wrote: On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 07:43:12PM -0600, Derek Martin wrote: Same arguemnt as above. Also this is mostly not interesting anymore. When you compare

Re: Jump to next mailbox with unread mail

2012-12-21 Thread Chris Bannister
On Fri, Dec 21, 2012 at 02:01:47AM +0100, Marco wrote: On 2012–12–20 Patrick Shanahan wrote: You access the mail box and leave, then expect mutt to still show new mail. Yes, I do. If there is a new unread message in the mail box and I enter and leave it is still contains an unread

Re: Jump to next mailbox with unread mail

2012-12-21 Thread Chris Green
On Fri, Dec 21, 2012 at 11:28:09PM +1300, Chris Bannister wrote: On Fri, Dec 21, 2012 at 02:01:47AM +0100, Marco wrote: On 2012–12–20 Patrick Shanahan wrote: You access the mail box and leave, then expect mutt to still show new mail. Yes, I do. If there is a new unread message

Re: Jump to next mailbox with unread mail

2012-12-21 Thread Chris Bannister
On Fri, Dec 21, 2012 at 03:45:06PM +, Chris Green wrote: Yes (not the OP here though), however it has always seemed odd to me that I can't get mutt to take me to all/any mailboxes which have *unread* mail in them. I.e. I want 'c' to take me to the next mailbox with unread mail

Re: Jump to next mailbox with unread mail

2012-12-21 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sat, Dec 22, 2012 at 07:03:23AM +1300, Chris Bannister wrote: Weird, the documentation has (under pattern matching) ~N New messages ~O Old messages ~U Unread messages Just wondering, what is an Unread message if its not New or Old, unless its New AND Old together

Re: Jump to next mailbox with unread mail

2012-12-22 Thread Chris Green
On Sat, Dec 22, 2012 at 07:03:23AM +1300, Chris Bannister wrote: On Fri, Dec 21, 2012 at 03:45:06PM +, Chris Green wrote: Yes (not the OP here though), however it has always seemed odd to me that I can't get mutt to take me to all/any mailboxes which have *unread* mail in them. I.e. I

Re: Jump to next mailbox with unread mail

2012-12-22 Thread Chris Green
On Sat, Dec 22, 2012 at 01:31:02PM +, Chris Green wrote: On Sat, Dec 22, 2012 at 07:03:23AM +1300, Chris Bannister wrote: On Fri, Dec 21, 2012 at 03:45:06PM +, Chris Green wrote: Just a quick grep through the docs reveals: When changing folders, Mutt fills the prompt

Re: Jump to next mailbox with unread mail

2012-12-22 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sat, Dec 22, 2012 at 01:47:24PM +, Chris Green wrote: I have added:- bindindex n next-unread-mailbox ... and now I can find new mail in all my (mbox) mailboxes without any stupid requirements for setting access times or whatever to the files. I always thought it should

Re: Jump to next mailbox with unread mail

2012-12-22 Thread Chris Green
On Sun, Dec 23, 2012 at 03:41:58AM +1300, Chris Bannister wrote: On Sat, Dec 22, 2012 at 01:47:24PM +, Chris Green wrote: I have added:- bindindex n next-unread-mailbox ... and now I can find new mail in all my (mbox) mailboxes without any stupid requirements

Re: Jump to next mailbox with unread mail

2012-12-22 Thread Chris Green
On Sat, Dec 22, 2012 at 10:08:25AM -0500, Patrick Shanahan wrote: * Chris Bannister cbannis...@slingshot.co.nz [12-22-12 09:58]: On Sat, Dec 22, 2012 at 01:47:24PM +, Chris Green wrote: I have added:- bindindex n next-unread-mailbox ... and now I can find new mail

next-unread-mailbox isn't doing what I expect, help please

2012-12-24 Thread Chris Green
to work yesterday (before the backups ran). -- Chris Green

Re: next-unread-mailbox isn't doing what I expect, help please

2012-12-26 Thread Chris Green
On Tue, Dec 25, 2012 at 02:08:44PM +1100, Cameron Simpson wrote: On 24Dec2012 17:37, Chris Green c...@isbd.net wrote: | I have the following settings in my muttrc file:- [...] | set mbox_type=mbox [...] | but the next-unread-mailbox command is *not* taking me to mailboxes

Re: next-unread-mailbox isn't doing what I expect, help please

2012-12-30 Thread Chris Green
directories and others use the . in names described above) so if I try and access the hierarchy with other programs they don't always play nicely. -- Chris Green

Re: next-unread-mailbox isn't doing what I expect, help please

2012-12-30 Thread Chris Green
On Sun, Dec 30, 2012 at 11:59:11AM +, Jamie Paul Griffin wrote: * Chris Green c...@isbd.net [2012-12-30 11:43:01 +]: On Sat, Dec 29, 2012 at 11:11:06PM -0200, Ivan Sichmann Freitas wrote: I want to *avoid* all this complexity, I simply want a command which will scan through all

Re: next-unread-mailbox isn't doing what I expect, help please

2013-01-01 Thread Chris Green
On Wed, Jan 02, 2013 at 10:57:03AM +1100, Cameron Simpson wrote: On 31Dec2012 09:04, Jamie Paul Griffin ja...@kode5.net wrote: | * Cameron Simpson c...@zip.com.au [2012-12-31 10:34:45 +1100]: | On 30Dec2012 12:11, Chris Green c...@isbd.net wrote: | | My mail is initially delivered by SMTP

Re: Question about PGP and mutt

2013-01-11 Thread Chris Bannister
On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 11:09:48AM -0700, Robert Holtzman wrote: On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 07:33:16AM -0600, Dale A. Raby wrote: set pgp_replyencrypt=yes set pgp_timeout=1800 set pgp_good_sign=^gpg: Good signature from I have none of this in my .muttrc and have pgp capability. P shows

Re: changing the query command

2013-01-19 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sat, Jan 19, 2013 at 08:18:47AM -0600, Dale A. Raby wrote: Hello: I've started using Abook recently and run into a minor irritation; when hitting the shift Q key sequence, all is well and I am prompted for my query, but if I forget to hit the shift key, Mutt correctly interprets the

Re: How to import the early mails into mutt ?

2013-01-22 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 12:06:04PM -0700, s. keeling wrote: Incoming from horseriver: I subscribed a mail list at date X , Now I want to import these mails which are post before X , How can I do ? Just brainstorming here. i) please give a better description of your problem.

Re: How to import the early mails into mutt ?

2013-01-22 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 11:02:24AM -0700, s. keeling wrote: [Apologies if this reaks with hostility; it isn't meant. I've seen your posts before. Understanding error reports and missives from users is an art. Exactly! So asking a mere user whether the messages are stored in mbox or

Re: mailing lists and different directories

2013-01-23 Thread Chris Bannister
On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 03:54:05AM +0200, lambda calculus wrote: Hi guys, i recently changed to mutt, and reading the documentation, but i can't find what i want: What program were you using before? Since I'm subscribed to a couple of mailing lists i would like to configure mutt to store

Re: .procmailrc configurations

2013-01-25 Thread Chris Bannister
On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 12:29:47PM -0500, Patrick Shanahan wrote: for mdir = MAILDIR=$HOME/mail ## your mail dir below /home/user :0: * ^TO_mutt/-users/@mutt/.org $MAILDIR/mutt-users

Re: use of .forward file

2013-01-25 Thread Chris Bannister
On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 12:37:06PM +0800, horseriver wrote: I have already read this man page ,and I am reaching on these points all. My system now has one mail delivery agent named exim4. But I do not know is it the default mail delivery agent ? Can you tell me how to

Re: use of .forward file

2013-01-25 Thread Chris Bannister
On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 12:37:06PM +0800, horseriver wrote: I have already read this man page ,and I am reaching on these points all. My system now has one mail delivery agent named exim4. Umm, no. Have a look at: http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Mail-Administrator-HOWTO-3.html

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