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?
(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
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
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
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
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
2000-06-21-01:17:34 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,
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,
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
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
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
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
ke 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]
- Release 2
- switched to use DESTDIR, thanks to Thomas Roessler [EMAIL PROTECTED]
- f
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/man/man*/*
%doc /usr/doc/mutt
/usr/share/*
%confi
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
of
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 at
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
URL:http://artax.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~mikulas/links/.
I did links a great disservice by neglecting to mention its core
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 needed to
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 the
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
2000-04-04-12:37:56 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
altogether,
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).
2000-03-27-06:06:50 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
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
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
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
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
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
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-name
BRAAK. Should test my comma
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 would this be incorporated into a procmail
recipe? Would
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.
2000-03-01-20:08:10 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 create
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 packf
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
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
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
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
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
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 to me!
If you specify your goals
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. fetchmail feeding procmail (perhaps via
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
2000-01-13-07:18:21 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
2000-01-13-05:27:26 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 (1.1.2)
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
1999-11-29-08:14:41 Subba Rao:
Where do you set mbox_type="Maildir"? 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
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
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
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
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. There are
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 question
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 the
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
1999-08-17-08:47:53 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;
(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
1999-07-19-10:31:32 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
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
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
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
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.
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