Re: Default path for saving attachments?

On Thu, Feb 17, 2022 at 12:35:32PM -0500, José María Mateos wrote: > I'd like to know if there's any config variable to set the destination folder > for saved attachments. I know the workaround is to start mutt in a different > place, but I'd prefer the config option. Check out the

How do I rebind the keys in the attachment prompt?

Hi, I am totally lost about this: When you are on the compose screen and you hit 'a' (attach-file) you get an attachment prompt, that says: Attach file ('?' for list): There you have 3 options (that's how many I found): 1. Hit ? and you get a list of your mailbox folders 2. Hit Tab and you

Re: Binding Space to select-entry gives Key is not bound.

If your expectation wasn't to display the message with this function, then perhaps it's better to not make it equivalent to display-message, but try to display a more appropriate error message instead. This is exactly what I meant. I think it would be best to not make it equivalent to

Re: Binding Space to select-entry gives Key is not bound.

Even though select-entry is a generic operation, it's actually not implemented in the index. You'll want to use display-message instead for the index. Ah! Thank you! That explains why it was working the way it was. When I want to open the message, I do use display-message, yes. I'll make

Re: Binding Space to select-entry gives Key is not bound.

Hello Hi I don't have index bound to any key and space selects the entry the cursor is on so maybe what you want is the default behavior? I think that is what I want, yes. However, when I remove the space binding from my config, hitting space in index opens the message instead of

Binding Space to select-entry gives Key is not bound.

Hi, I am trying to bind the space key to the `select-entry` function, but then when I start mutt and hit the key, I get 'Key is not bound. Press '?' for help. I have this in my muttrc: bind index select-entry When I start mutt and hit '?' in the listing there, I see: ' select-entry

Re: How can I hide non-matching emails in a search

Sorry, I accidentally resend the email, before adding my reply. What about the ”limiting" function using `l` ? It's similar to search but only matching emails will still visible. 1. Hit 'l' 2. The limiting pronpt shows up. 3. Enter 'IO Ninja' 4. Enter 5. mutt only show up matching emails 6.

How can I hide non-matching emails in a search

Hi, I'd like to make mutt hide the emails not matching the entered search term. Let's say I want to search for emails that have 'IO Ninja' in the subject: 1. I hit '/'. 2. The search prompt shows up. 3. I enter 'IO Ninja'. 4. I hit 'Enter'. 5. mutt finds the first matching email (if any)

Re: custom macro for "q" key

yes, the is called "browser" in my case also. But when I bind: bind browser q exit and use "q" in browser, it does not exit, but just cycles between browser and the folder where I came from. Ok, so I just checked the help and apparently the 'exit' function's description is 'exit this

Re: custom macro for "q" key

I understand what "index" and "pager" is. But what is the name when I am in the list of my folders? I think I need to bind q for exit, when I am in the list of my folders: bindq exit thank you, Unless I am wrong and there is more than one list of folders, its bind type is 'browser'.

index-format-hook date pattern for current week

Hi, I am using an index-format-hook inside of index_format, to change the way the date column is displayed based on how old the email is. My current setting is the following: # ID, Attachments, Flags, Subject, Correspondent, Date set index_format = "%4C %?X?&

Re: custom macro for "q" key

On 2021-08-30 09:20, Kevin J. McCarthy wrote: On Mon, Aug 30, 2021 at 05:28:35AM -0700, li...@ifohancroft.com wrote: bind index,pager c noop # Unbinding the key first, because the manual says that macros shouldn't be bound to keys that are already bound Would you mind pointing out where you

Re: custom macro for "q" key

Hi, You basically have to unbind q for index (perhaps also pager, depending on what you want) and create the same macro you already have for 'c', for 'q' as well. Then for 'browser' bind 'q' to to 'quit' again. So basically: bind index,pager c noop # Unbinding the key first, because the

Re: textwidth/linewrap

Hi, Lots of ways to do the same thing! Thanks for the suggestions -- J. signature.asc Description: PGP signature

textwidth/linewrap

Hi, I guess lots of people would use mutt with vim-console. Can anyone tell me please what setting they use for line wrapping? I thought in .vimrc it'd be set textwidth=72 but that doesn't seem to work. Is it a setting in .muttrc or in .vimrc? Or an additional setting? thanks, -- J.

Re: [SOLVED] Re: mutt seems laggy to resume on v.2.x

On Thu, Nov 26, 2020 at 04:03:53PM -0800, Kevin J. McCarthy wrote: I'd normally say to double check $imap_check_subscribed is unset, but that option is quite old. Perhaps something has changed in the code there, but I'm not recalling anything right now. Well, you were right, it was enabled!

[SOLVED] Re: mutt seems laggy to resume on v.2.x

. These email addresses are aliases to the main account. What was happening before (mutt v.1.x) was mutt would log in, scan the imap folders i'd configured for it in .muttrc-lists (and *only* those folders, no others) then return and this was quick on an average dsl line. What is happening now (mutt

Re: mutt seems laggy to resume on v.2.x

Hi, ktrace shows (as best I can interpret it) when mutt is "woken up" it re-uses the connection to the imap server somehow. It's exchanging information, not sure what. But it's a big segment like a half page full in kdump. So maybe the answer is in idle parameters. I'll re-do the muttrc with

Re: mutt seems laggy to resume on v.2.x

On Thu, Nov 26, 2020 at 10:34:30AM +1100, Cameron Simpson wrote: Probably. I don't have a FreeBSD box to hand. Is yours a Raspberry? yup, rpi4 with 8GB Have you got ktrace and kdump? Less interactive, but IIRC the process is to ktrace your mutt command and kdump the resulting log file. I

Re: mutt seems laggy to resume on v.2.x

Hi, On Wed, Nov 25, 2020 at 05:43:21PM -0500, Patrick Shanahan wrote: possibly reinstall strace. for my openSUSE Tumbleweed system I show: strace-5.9-1.1.x86_64 your version is quite old and version number appear to reflect the kernel version. what kernel are you running, 4.5.x ?? I'm

Re: mutt seems laggy to resume on v.2.x

Hi, On Thu, Nov 26, 2020 at 09:01:03AM +1100, Cameron Simpson wrote: A way to check this would be to have another window open running: strace -p pid-of-idle-mutt-process Get that ready. Wait for idleness. Resume. See where it stalls. If that is hard to observe interactively, strace has

Re: mutt seems laggy to resume on v.2.x

Hello, On Wed, Nov 25, 2020 at 09:59:30AM -0600, Hokan wrote: I am running a month-old FreeBSD-CURRENT on an RPI-4 (8GB) and could not replicate the problem. thanks for posting yr config. Your mutt is compiled just slightly differently: hcache backend: Berkeley DB 5.3.28: (September 9,

mutt seems laggy to resume on v.2.x

Hi, I'm finding mutt significantly more laggy to resume on later versions (=>2.x) than say 1.5.21. Let's say there's the list of emails in a folder already selected. If I use up or down arrow for example, it'll sit for 3-4 seconds doing nothing and then move. But once moving, it's as

Re: IMAP && Server certificate has expired

On Sun, May 31, 2020 at 03:20:51PM +0200, Matthias Apitz wrote: > Any ideas? Run mutt with the -d2 switch and it'll store debug information in ~/.muttdebug0. For me, mutt finds a PositiveSSL wildcard cert after STARTTLS on the host and port you specified: [2019-05-31 15:49:53] Looking up

Re: hcache and display options

On Wed, Oct 02, 2019 at 03:07:16PM +0100, tech-lists wrote: [...] thanks for the pointers. Does slang have any advantages over ncurses though? I have both, and use slang in slrn. There is ncurses in the OS and a later version is in ports (FreeBSD) -- J. signature.asc Description: PGP

Re: Search in limited index

On Fri, Sep 27, 2019 at 11:05:10AM +0200, Salve Håkedal wrote: > If I limit (l) the saved mail index to one person by searching for > that persons name, the entries in the index is reduced to only mails > from that person. Within only these mails, how can I search for i.e. > "price" in the mail

hcache and display options

Hi, When compiling mutt, I have several options for the header cache: 1. HCACHE_TOKYOCABINET 2. HCACHE_KYOTOCABINET 3. HCACHE_NONE 4. HCACHE_BDB Which is "best"? I use mutt with imap directly. The machine it's on has an old sse2/sse3 cpu, but 8GB RAM. The drive is SSD (230GB) I also have

Re: Getting color on FreeBSD

On Thu, Aug 22, 2019 at 07:14:28PM -0500, Tim Chase wrote: I'm a bit stuck trying to figure out why colors aren't working for me on FreeBSD (where I understand that termcap is used rather than terminfo). How are you invoking mutt? The only way I can get a mono mutt display is by invoking mutt

Re: mutt 1.05 TLS socket terminated?

1st step: Does it happen with other email clients and the same remote server? E.g. do use msmtp, Thunderbird etc against the same server for a while. Guess: This looks more like the server / the remote end is shutting the TLS connection down. As you know the server and the port, connect with

Re: imap4s timeouts and closed connections

Hi, On Sun, Jul 28, 2019 at 01:17:33PM -0400, José María Mateos wrote: I also have Fastmail and also have these problem -- mailboxes are closed and a malformed TLS package warning is shown. I haven't found a way to solve this with any combination of timeouts, keepalive, etc. In the end, this

Re: Composing ask From: address and arbitrary keys in PGP

On Thu, Aug 01, 2019 at 05:50:59AM +, Ryan Smith wrote: The identity macro does work, but it will not work for setting custom header in composing new emails as hdr is set before about sending emails. I tried gpgme which does not seems to give me any option to select self encrypt key based on

Re: imap4s timeouts and closed connections

On Sun, Jul 28, 2019 at 07:59:58AM -0700, Kevin J. McCarthy wrote: Actually, if you don't mind compiling out of git, perhaps you could try the branch 'kevin/stable-poll-fix'. I have a theory about what might be the problem and would appreciate if you would give that branch a try. Hi Kevin,

Re: Preferred way to get imap emails

On Sun, Jul 28, 2019 at 08:44:09AM +0530, Pankaj Jangid wrote: > I don't know which distribution you are on. Right now I am on macOS and > installed mbsync using Homebrew. mbsync comes under isync package in > Homebrew. And isync provides a daemon by the same name. I just had to > > brew services

imap4s timeouts and closed connections

Hi, context: Mutt 1.12.1 / freebsd12-stable I'm using fastmail for all my mail and I access it with imap4s. Lately I've been seeing timeouts, or a mailbox will just close [1], and yet my connection (fibre) is stable. I've been using imap with mutt ever since direct imap support became

Re: Composing ask From: address and arbitrary keys in PGP

v "^Uidentity_" "Select from" alias identity_a0 tech-lists alias identity_a1 someotheraddress [...etc...] and use v then hit tab to get a selectable list. This selected when about to send the email. I'm unsure what the proper name for that part of mutt is. I use

Re: mutt and clear-signing

On Wed, Jul 03, 2019 at 09:20:53AM +1000, m...@raf.org wrote: be warned though that the SKS network (where you might get keys from) has recently been attacked by the poisoning of some high profile keys that, if fetched and imported, will break your gnupg installation. see the following for

mutt and clear-signing

Hi, I'm using mutt v.1.12.0 on freebsd-current with gpgme. In my config, mutt will verify clearsigned gpg sigs if the public key is on the gpg keyring. But if the key is unknown, mutt will say the key is unknown, and this is normal and expected. What I want to happen is, if the key is unknown

Re: Bottom posting v top posting

On 13/05/2018 18:15, Martin Trautmann wrote: IBTD. Major e-mail tools, such as outlook, failed to support proper threading. Writing on a smartphone here, I'm not even aware of an app with threading. You're using K-9 mail which has apparently supported threading since 4.390-beta, see

Re: Bottom posting v top posting

On 13/05/2018 00:52, Brian Salter-Duke wrote: The use of phones for email alters the game. It is time we gave up bottom posting! No!! ;) and you're missing the point (IMOHO) :( basically, people quote back way too much. This is the issue. Most email apps allow threaded mail, so very

Re: moving messages on imap4 server based on date received

On Sun, Oct 08, 2017 at 04:35:47PM -0500, Larry Rosenman wrote: Whether you can run on YOUR server, I do not know, but I've been running this script for ~1 year. Hi, thanks for the script, I've saved it as it may come in useful one day. Unfortunately I'm not running my own mail server at this

Re: moving messages on imap4 server based on date received

On Thu, Sep 28, 2017 at 03:56:35PM -0400, Dan Ritter wrote: On Thu, Sep 28, 2017 at 02:10:22PM +0100, tech-lists wrote: Hello mutt-users@ I'm running mutt 1.9.1 (2017-09-22) on freebsd-11-stable. What I'd like to have is, when mutt loads, it scans its subscribed folders and moves the mail

Re: moving messages on imap4 server based on date received

On Thu, Sep 28, 2017 at 03:56:35PM -0400, Dan Ritter wrote: If your IMAP server supports SIEVE, that is the easiest way to get this done. Sorting will happen at delivery time. yep it supports seive, but not every option, hopefully it will support mive from folder by arrive date, for multiple

moving messages on imap4 server based on date received

Hello mutt-users@ I'm running mutt 1.9.1 (2017-09-22) on freebsd-11-stable. What I'd like to have is, when mutt loads, it scans its subscribed folders and moves the mail based on date received into preconfigured mail folders. Either that, or maybe run another standalone program in a screen or

Re: Encoding issue with attachment

On Wed, Apr 26, 2017 at 08:45:14AM +0200, steve wrote: > Hello, Hi > As said in the subject, I have some issue with some attachment that I > get when wanting to save them. For instance, I get this: > >

Re: Mailbox closed with gmail account

On Fri, Oct 07, 2016 at 11:13:05AM +0200, tristero tristero wrote: > Hello, > The problem is that after a couple of minutes of inactivity, it > disconnects and it displays the message "Mailbox closed". I've already > looked around for a solution and as you can see at the end of my > configuration

Re: preview images before attaching

On Mon, Sep 05, 2016 at 08:46:44AM -0400, Peter P. wrote: > I am frequently attaching images to emails in mutt and wonder if there > is a way I can preview them when selecting the files, but before > actually attaching them. I imagine selecting/entering the path to the > file to be attached, but

Re: mutt, vim, and autowrapping replies

On 18Aug2016 20:25, Jeremy Volkening wrote: Generally speaking I have the interface between mutt and vim regarding wrapping, flowed text, and quoting working satisfactorily. However, sometimes I receive mail with no line breaks within paragraphs. If I reply to such a

Re: [SPAM?] Re: [SPAM?] How to allow mutt to send from different accounts on the command line?

On Fri, Aug 12, 2016 at 08:22:17AM +0100, spaceman wrote: > Having just been looking at a similar problem it might better to use > > set sendmail = "/usr/bin/msmtp --read-envelope-from" > > Which removes the need to specify an account completely with msmtp so long as > it can find a matching

Re: [SPAM?] How to allow mutt to send from different accounts on the command line?

On Thu, Aug 11, 2016 at 05:48:01PM -0500, Peng Yu wrote: > Hi, I have msmtp set up on my computer. But I don't find how to > specify different accounts to send email from mutt command line. Does > anybody know how to do it? Thanks. I am also using msmtp, but in a way so that different email

Re: associating sig and other properties with "From:" drop-down in mutt

On Tue, Apr 12, 2016 at 10:56:29PM +0200, Wim wrote: Hi, what you could try is to associate various identitys with send-hooks in this way: send-hook . "source identity_a0" # default config send-hook "~f identity_a1" "source a1" # the a1 identity send-hook "~f identity_a2"

associating sig and other properties with "From:" drop-down in mutt

Hello list, In my .muttrc I have a section that begins like this: ### macro compose v "^Uidentity_" "Select from" ### after this I have various addresses: alias identity_a0 my-preferred-email-address alias identity_a1 my-work-email-address

Re: Using a sendmail replacement?

On Sat, Feb 20, 2016 at 08:45:19PM +0100, Gabriel Philippe wrote: > I found nullmailer, but it is designed for a system-wide use: > conffiles in /etc/, stuff in /var, etc. I'm not sure I would manage to > have it work differently. > > Any idea? I am using msmtp[1] for this. You can keep its

gmail-style conversation threading

Is there a way to thread conversations to include the account's own replies. For instance, so all emails in Inbox and Sent that belong to the same thread are displayed? -- Rick Valenzuela Videojournalist Shanghai, China

Forward with attachments

Hello, i would forward a received mail with his attachments, but for my mutt's configuration it do not happens: is it possible and how can i do? Best regards Massimo

buffy-size

Hello, i'm using mutt 1.5.17 on FreeBSD 6.2-STABLE-20070808. Because my maildir is on nfs i use the buffy_size patch. This generally works i see new mails in my folders which is okay. I also see new mails in folders which are very old, but maybe this is normal for the first run. Don't konw

'N' indicator in folder list

Greetings, I'm trying out mutt v. 1.3.27i and am finding it to be quite nice so far. However, one thing I have noticed is that when I am viewing my list of mailboxes ('c' then 'tab'), there are no 'N' indicators next to mailboxes which contain unread mail. Is this a feature that I need to toggle

[Exim] Annoying mailbot misconfig

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