Re: NNTP reader?

2011-10-03 Thread Chris G
On Mon, Oct 03, 2011 at 02:33:45PM +, Grant Edwards wrote: On 2011-09-30, Aaron Toponce aaron.topo...@gmail.com wrote: On 09/29/2011 06:17 AM, Leonardo M. Ram? wrote: Hi, does anyone knows if it can be possible to read/subscribe to newsgroups (nntp) with mutt?. Mutt is just an MUA,

Re: Improve mutt search: how?

2011-08-14 Thread Chris G
On Sun, Aug 14, 2011 at 12:24:49PM -0300, Marcelo Luiz de Laia wrote: Mutt have a search function, / , the is very simple. But, it do search only in the to: and subject: fields. Are ther a way to do search in all field (to:, subject:, body, etc) of messages? Yes, there's a set of ~

Re: Moving IMAP directories about with mutt - is it easy? How to do it?

2011-07-06 Thread Chris G
On Wed, Jul 06, 2011 at 10:56:13AM +0200, Michael Tatge wrote: * On Tue, Jul 05, 2011 05:58PM +0100 Chris G (c...@isbd.net) muttered: As a result I need to move some IMAP mail from some local backups (copies made just before the move) to the new IMAP server. How do I do this so

Re: Moving IMAP directories about with mutt - is it easy? How to do it?

2011-07-06 Thread Chris G
On Wed, Jul 06, 2011 at 02:04:56AM -0700, William Yardley wrote: On Wed, Jul 06, 2011 at 10:56:13AM +0200, Michael Tatge wrote: * On Tue, Jul 05, 2011 05:58PM +0100 Chris G (c...@isbd.net) muttered: As a result I need to move some IMAP mail from some local backups (copies made just

Moving IMAP directories about with mutt - is it easy? How to do it?

2011-07-05 Thread Chris G
I have recently moved my mail hosting, not from one ISP to another but from one platform to another. As a result I need to move some IMAP mail from some local backups (copies made just before the move) to the new IMAP server. How do I do this so that the directory structure is preserved? To be

Re: rsync removes the N from mailboxes with new mail

2011-03-13 Thread Chris G
On Sat, Mar 12, 2011 at 07:00:46PM -0500, Nathan Stratton Treadway wrote: On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 14:17:49 -0600, Derek Martin wrote: $ stat rsyncfrom/* File: `rsyncfrom/bar' Size: 0 Blocks: 0 IO Block: 4096 regular empty file Device: 805h/2053d Inode: 41984

Re: rsync removes the N from mailboxes with new mail

2011-03-12 Thread Chris G
On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 02:17:49PM -0600, Derek Martin wrote: On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 05:50:34PM +, Chris G wrote: On Tue, Mar 08, 2011 at 02:40:06PM -0800, John Magolske wrote: I'd like the original (source) mailboxes to retain their N's, I'm not concerned about copying over

Re: rsync removes the N from mailboxes with new mail

2011-03-11 Thread Chris G
On Tue, Mar 08, 2011 at 03:26:41PM -0600, Derek Martin wrote: On Tue, Mar 08, 2011 at 09:11:59PM +, Chris G wrote: On Tue, Mar 08, 2011 at 02:50:26PM -0600, Derek Martin wrote: On Tue, Mar 08, 2011 at 06:29:47PM +, Chris G wrote: On Tue, Mar 08, 2011 at 10:54:23AM -0600, Derek

Re: rsync removes the N from mailboxes with new mail

2011-03-11 Thread Chris G
On Tue, Mar 08, 2011 at 02:40:06PM -0800, John Magolske wrote: * Chris G c...@isbd.net [110308 14:30]: On Tue, Mar 08, 2011 at 02:50:26PM -0600, Derek Martin wrote: On Tue, Mar 08, 2011 at 06:29:47PM +, Chris G wrote: On Tue, Mar 08, 2011 at 10:54:23AM -0600, Derek Martin wrote

Re: rsync removes the N from mailboxes with new mail

2011-03-08 Thread Chris G
On Tue, Mar 08, 2011 at 10:54:23AM -0600, Derek Martin wrote: On Mon, Mar 07, 2011 at 03:37:45PM -0800, John Magolske wrote: After doing an rsync backup, the N preceding mailboxes with new mail is removed from all mailboxes. I suppose this is a result of the mbox files being touched somehow

Re: rsync removes the N from mailboxes with new mail

2011-03-08 Thread Chris G
On Tue, Mar 08, 2011 at 02:50:26PM -0600, Derek Martin wrote: On Tue, Mar 08, 2011 at 06:29:47PM +, Chris G wrote: On Tue, Mar 08, 2011 at 10:54:23AM -0600, Derek Martin wrote: On Mon, Mar 07, 2011 at 03:37:45PM -0800, John Magolske wrote: After doing an rsync backup, the N preceding

Re: strange content-types of attachments

2011-02-10 Thread Chris G
On Wed, Feb 09, 2011 at 03:54:29PM -0500, Ed Blackman wrote: On Wed, Feb 09, 2011 at 08:26:03PM +, Chris G wrote: On Wed, Feb 09, 2011 at 01:49:33PM -0500, Ed Blackman wrote: You can tell Mutt to use RFC2047 decoding on MIME file names with set rfc2047_parameters=yes Would

Re: strange content-types of attachments

2011-02-09 Thread Chris G
On Wed, Feb 09, 2011 at 09:04:34AM +0100, Jan-Herbert Damm wrote: hello all, please skip this mail and excuse the noise if you hate slightly OT posts. I recently got attachments which were really pdfs but couldn't be detected as such because they had strange content-type names:

Re: strange content-types of attachments

2011-02-09 Thread Chris G
On Wed, Feb 09, 2011 at 01:49:33PM -0500, Ed Blackman wrote: On Wed, Feb 09, 2011 at 11:06:52AM +, Chris G wrote: I had something *vaguely* similar yesterday, a supplier sent me a note about an order I had placed and it was:- [-- application/octet-stream is unsupported (use 'v

Re: Can I force mutt to scan for new messages (as opposed to written mbox files)?

2010-12-28 Thread Chris G
On Sun, Dec 26, 2010 at 11:58:27AM +, Chris G wrote: Is there any way I can force mutt to scan all files in 'mailboxes' for new mail? In general during the day everything works fine, new mail is detected in the normal way by seeing if the access time is before the modified time

Re: Can I force mutt to scan for new messages (as opposed to written mbox files)?

2010-12-28 Thread Chris G
On Tue, Dec 28, 2010 at 10:45:40AM -0600, Derek Martin wrote: On Tue, Dec 28, 2010 at 04:29:24PM +, Chris G wrote: However when I come to read mail in the morning the incoming E-Mail has been accessed by my backup system and the above mechanism doesn't work. I know one way to solve

Can I force mutt to scan for new messages (as opposed to written mbox files)?

2010-12-26 Thread Chris G
Is there any way I can force mutt to scan all files in 'mailboxes' for new mail? In general during the day everything works fine, new mail is detected in the normal way by seeing if the access time is before the modified time. However when I come to read mail in the morning the incoming E-Mail

Re: unicode

2010-11-29 Thread Chris G
On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 10:58:12AM +, Jamie Paul Griffin wrote: On Sun, Nov 28, 2010 at 02:52:22PM -0800, Chip Camden wrote: Someone must have solved this problem before, but all the Googling in the world isn't helping me so far. on my FreeBSD system, which i believe you are using, i

Re: unicode

2010-11-29 Thread Chris G
On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 11:38:43AM +, Jamie Paul Griffin wrote: Setting a ISO-8859 locale will mostly work but it's not so all encompassing as using UTF-8 so if you can use UTF-8 it's better. ISO-8859 character sets are basically only the 'Roman' character sets of western[ish] Europe.

Re: Is there any way to prevent the *ll-oo-nn-gg* wait while mutt checks a PGP signature?

2010-11-27 Thread Chris G
solution, thanks. best regards, charlie On Fri, Nov 26, 2010 at 08:50:15PM +, Chris G wrote: On Fri, Nov 26, 2010 at 03:35:20PM -0500, Nathan Stratton Treadway wrote: On Fri, Nov 26, 2010 at 19:56:13 +, Chris G wrote: Sitting for tens of seconds while mutt retrieves a key from

Is there any way to prevent the *ll-oo-nn-gg* wait while mutt checks a PGP signature?

2010-11-26 Thread Chris G
Now that I have implemented PGP (for one correspondent who wants it) I'm realising why I didn't do so before. It takes *ages* for mutt to show any message from a new correspondent who has a PGP signature. Seriously this is a big issue for me, I *really* don't care who wrote most of the messages

Re: Is there any way to prevent the *ll-oo-nn-gg* wait while mutt checks a PGP signature?

2010-11-26 Thread Chris G
On Fri, Nov 26, 2010 at 03:35:20PM -0500, Nathan Stratton Treadway wrote: On Fri, Nov 26, 2010 at 19:56:13 +, Chris G wrote: Sitting for tens of seconds while mutt retrieves a key from a web site is just silly. Is there a way to turn this off while still allowing me to send (using

Some (beginner) PGP questions

2010-11-24 Thread Chris G
I have configured PGP with mutt (1.5.20 running on Xubuntu 10.04) according to the instructions at:- http://wiki.mutt.org/?MuttGuide/UseGPG It seems to be basically working but I have some questions about actually using it. I'm not doing any automatic signing or encryption, I only want to

Re: Some (beginner) PGP questions

2010-11-24 Thread Chris G
On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 12:12:54PM -0900, Roger wrote: On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 05:53:22PM +, Chris G wrote: (e)ncrypt - presumably encrypts the message and, when it asks Enter keyID for x...@yyy.zzz: one enters the keyID for the *recipient*. This had me fooled initially, I

Re: Can one fix the directory for saving attachments?

2010-11-22 Thread Chris G
On Sun, Nov 21, 2010 at 09:59:50AM -0600, David Champion wrote: * On 20 Nov 2010, Chris G wrote: By default mutt saves attachments in the current directory (i.e. in the directory in which it was started). In my case this is often somewhere completely random and most definitely isn't where

Can one fix the directory for saving attachments?

2010-11-20 Thread Chris G
By default mutt saves attachments in the current directory (i.e. in the directory in which it was started). In my case this is often somewhere completely random and most definitely isn't where I want to save attachments. Apart from being careful about the dreictory from which I start mutt is

Can I use a sendmail across my LAN?

2010-10-28 Thread Chris G
I have a small home LAN and have one machine set up as a server machine. That machine has postfix on it fully configured to both send and receive mail. Is it possible to use the sendmail (well, postfix's sendmail) on that machine from other machines on the LAN to send mail? Otherwise I have to

Re: Can I use a sendmail across my LAN?

2010-10-28 Thread Chris G
On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 01:00:43PM +0200, Matthias Apitz wrote: El día Thursday, October 28, 2010 a las 11:50:23AM +0100, Chris G escribió: I have a small home LAN and have one machine set up as a server machine. That machine has postfix on it fully configured to both send and receive

Re: Can I use a sendmail across my LAN?

2010-10-28 Thread Chris G
On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 08:39:42AM -0400, Brian Cuttler wrote: On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 12:21:41PM +0100, Chris G wrote: On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 01:00:43PM +0200, Matthias Apitz wrote: El d�a Thursday, October 28, 2010 a las 11:50:23AM +0100, Chris G escribi�: I have a small home

Re: Can I use a sendmail across my LAN?

2010-10-28 Thread Chris G
On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 10:07:20AM -0400, Patrick Shanahan wrote: * Chris G c...@isbd.net [10-28-10 09:57]: What I was hoping/imagining might be possible was to tell mutt that the sendmail it should use is on another machine. Given that that is a trusted/closed network behind a firewall

Re: Can I use a sendmail across my LAN?

2010-10-28 Thread Chris G
On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 03:26:27PM +0100, Jamie Paul Griffin wrote: There are no web clients of any sort involved. I just have four or five machines on a LAN with one always on server machine. Most of the time I send mail from my desktop machine using mutt but occasionally I send mail

Re: Can I use a sendmail across my LAN?

2010-10-28 Thread Chris G
On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 12:21:41PM +0100, Chris G wrote: On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 01:00:43PM +0200, Matthias Apitz wrote: El día Thursday, October 28, 2010 a las 11:50:23AM +0100, Chris G escribió: I have a small home LAN and have one machine set up as a server machine. That machine has

Re: How to cope with a mailing list that has two addresses?

2010-10-23 Thread Chris G
On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 10:54:01AM -0700, Chip Camden wrote: Quoth Chris G on Friday, 22 October 2010: I subscribe to one mailing list which has two addresses both of which are used fairly frequently. So my mutt 'subscribe' entries have two entries relating to one list. Thus when I

Re: How to cope with a mailing list that has two addresses?

2010-10-23 Thread Chris G
On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 03:36:04PM -0500, Derek Martin wrote: On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 06:36:17PM +0100, Chris G wrote: Thus when I do a L[ist reply] I get an E-Mail sent to *both* list addresses which is a bit annoying. This happens because both list addresses tend to appear somewhere

Do many here still use abook or are there better alternatives now?

2010-10-23 Thread Chris G
Do many people here still use abook? It hasn't been updated for several years now (although that doesn't mean it's no good necessarily). Or are there alternative ways of maintaining the mutt alias list (and maybe an addressbook as well) nowadays? -- Chris Green

How to cope with a mailing list that has two addresses?

2010-10-22 Thread Chris G
I subscribe to one mailing list which has two addresses both of which are used fairly frequently. So my mutt 'subscribe' entries have two entries relating to one list. Thus when I do a L[ist reply] I get an E-Mail sent to *both* list addresses which is a bit annoying. This happens because both

Re: auto_view with firefox doesn't leave the file for firefox to view

2010-08-20 Thread Chris G
On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 08:02:11AM +0800, bill lam wrote: I heard that firefox is client-server in that it will open link in a remote running instance of firefox. If firefox is not already running, it will start one and close the current instance and then start again to connect to the new

auto_view with firefox doesn't leave the file for firefox to view

2010-08-19 Thread Chris G
I'm sure this used to work for me but I have changed a few things in this area recently so I may have broken it by leaving something vital out. I have mutt set up so that by default HTML messages are displayed in the pager using links. However if I want to view the E-Mail in firefox I hit 'v'

Further question(s) about locking, viewing inbox, etc.

2010-08-10 Thread Chris G
Thanks for all the help so far. :-) I've been thinking (now that's something!) about how mutt interacts with mail delivery programs and I'm realising that I don't *really* understand how it all works regarding locking etc. Take a trivially simple case, mail for user chris is delivered to

Re: Further question(s) about locking, viewing inbox, etc.

2010-08-10 Thread Chris G
On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 09:28:14AM +0100, Chris G wrote: Thanks for all the help so far. :-) I've been thinking (now that's something!) about how mutt interacts with mail delivery programs and I'm realising that I don't *really* understand how it all works regarding locking etc. Take

Re: Locking issues (or maybe not locking issues)

2010-08-09 Thread Chris G
On Mon, Aug 09, 2010 at 09:20:05PM +0100, Chris G wrote: [snip my mutt/mbox/NFS issues] Can someone clarify something for me please, ignore NFS and assume I'm running mutt and the mail delivery agent on the same system on a local hard disk. If I open my inbox with mutt and leave it displaying

Mbox locking, how to do it in a way that will work with mutt?

2010-08-09 Thread Chris G
Can anyone point me at some code that shows how I should do mbox locking in a way that will work with mutt? This is on an Ubuntu 9.10 (probably soon 10.04) system. I need to know what locking calls I must make (fcntl, or lockf, or what), do I need to do dot-locking as well, what is the necessary

Re: Mbox locking, how to do it in a way that will work with mutt?

2010-08-09 Thread Chris G
On Mon, Aug 09, 2010 at 06:18:41PM -0400, Patrick Shanahan wrote: * Chris G c...@isbd.net [08-09-10 18:11]: Can anyone point me at some code that shows how I should do mbox locking in a way that will work with mutt? This is on an Ubuntu 9.10 (probably soon 10.04) system. I need

Re: what does this sender invalid error mean?

2010-08-03 Thread Chris G
On Mon, Aug 02, 2010 at 02:10:36PM -0700, Michael Elkins wrote: On Mon, Aug 02, 2010 at 09:38:01PM +0100, Chris G wrote: I'm trying to b[ounce] a message and I'm getting the following error on the mutt status line:- SMTP session failed: 550 Sender chris@ invalid So what is it saying

what does this sender invalid error mean?

2010-08-02 Thread Chris G
I'm trying to b[ounce] a message and I'm getting the following error on the mutt status line:- SMTP session failed: 550 Sender chris@ invalid So what is it saying? Obviously Chris@ id invalid but how is mutt creating it and what is missing such that mutt can't create a valid address? --

Re: Occasional Stale NFS file handle messages from mutt

2010-07-27 Thread Chris G
On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 05:09:59PM -0500, Derek Martin wrote: On Sat, Jul 24, 2010 at 12:28:01PM +0100, Chris G wrote: I'm seeing the Stale NFS file handle messages on the mutt status line, I'm not *absolutely* sure when they are occurring but it looks as if it's when a mail is delivered

Re: Occasional Stale NFS file handle messages from mutt

2010-07-27 Thread Chris G
On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 02:19:48PM -0700, Omen Wild wrote: Quoting Chris G c...@isbd.net on Tue, Jul 27 22:10: I use my home brew python delivery program because it (for me) is much better than procmail or similar. In particular I can add a mailing list entry to a *single* configuration

Occasional Stale NFS file handle messages from mutt

2010-07-24 Thread Chris G
I'm running mutt on Linux (Ubuntu 9.10) with my incoming mail arriving on an NFS mounted directory. I.e. /home/chris/Mail is a symbolic link to /snake1/home/chris/Mail which is a directory on another system (snake1) which is where the mail is actually delivered. Mail is delivered to multiple

Using a remote firefox from .mailcap - how?

2010-07-15 Thread Chris G
I used to run mutt on my desktop machine at home with the following in my .mailcap file:- text/html; /usr/bin/firefox %s text/html; links -dump %s -html-numbered-links 1; copiousoutput; nametemplate=%s.html With auto_view text/html in my muttrc this means that by default I got to see

Re: A wish for the mailboxes command

2010-06-26 Thread Chris G
On Fri, Jun 25, 2010 at 05:01:23PM +0200, Alex Huth wrote: On Fri, Jun 25, 2010 at 03:33:07PM +0100, Chris G wrote: On Fri, Jun 25, 2010 at 03:23:55PM +0200, Alex Huth wrote: Only if it knows which ones have new mail in them! That's where we came in. That´s what i am talking about. I

Re: A wish for the mailboxes command

2010-06-25 Thread Chris G
On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 09:07:01AM -0700, Chip Camden wrote: On Jun 24 16:09, Chris G wrote: After all the recent discussion of detecting new mail etc. it occurs to me that it would be very useful to be able to tell mutt that it should scan all files in a particular directory for new mail

Re: Message save causes erroneous New mail detection.

2010-06-25 Thread Chris G
On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 09:00:13AM -0800, rog...@sdf.org wrote: On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 03:05:14PM +0200, Christian Ebert wrote: I can't reproduce this, neither with $check_mbox_size set or unser. Unless, of course, I copy a message that is flagged as New. I've seen this sporadically when

Re: Message save causes erroneous New mail detection.

2010-06-25 Thread Chris G
On Fri, Jun 25, 2010 at 08:05:31PM +1000, Erik Christiansen wrote: [1] If mutt knows not to flag the transferred email as new, then it also knows enough not chuck up the erroneous New mail message. The logic used for the message flags is different from that used for confusing the user with

Re: A wish for the mailboxes command

2010-06-25 Thread Chris G
On Fri, Jun 25, 2010 at 03:23:55PM +0200, Alex Huth wrote: On Fri, Jun 25, 2010 at 10:47:29AM +0100, Chris G wrote: On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 09:07:01AM -0700, Chip Camden wrote: I don't really want to know when new mail arrives, what I want is the ability to quickly go to all

Re: Message save causes erroneous New mail detection.

2010-06-24 Thread Chris G
On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 09:32:38PM +1000, Erik Christiansen wrote: On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 12:28:24PM +0200, Michael Ludwig wrote: Erik Christiansen schrieb am 24.06.2010 um 19:18 (+1000): Since upgrading to ubuntu 10.04, and therefore Mutt 1.5.20, saving a read mail to another mailbox

Re: Message save causes erroneous New mail detection.

2010-06-24 Thread Chris G
On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 10:29:25PM +1000, Erik Christiansen wrote: On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 01:08:07PM +0100, Chris G wrote: I'm getting the feeling that, maybe, very few people are now using mutt with mbox so that an 'out of the box' installation of mutt on Linux works fine with maildir

Re: Detecting new mail and read mail in 1.4 and 1.5

2010-06-24 Thread Chris G
On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 03:02:40PM +0200, Michael Ludwig wrote: Michael Ludwig schrieb am 23.06.2010 um 14:23 (+0200): Christian Ebert schrieb am 22.06.2010 um 23:16 (+0200): * Michael Ludwig on Tuesday, June 22, 2010 at 22:27:06 +0200 How can new mail detection be repaired for 1.5?

Re: Message save causes erroneous New mail detection.

2010-06-24 Thread Chris G
On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 03:05:14PM +0200, Christian Ebert wrote: * Chris G on Thursday, June 24, 2010 at 13:45:26 +0100 On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 10:29:25PM +1000, Erik Christiansen wrote: On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 01:08:07PM +0100, Chris G wrote: I'm getting the feeling that, maybe, very few

Re: Message save causes erroneous New mail detection.

2010-06-24 Thread Chris G
On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 02:48:15PM +0100, Chris G wrote: Getting back to your problem I have just realised something, when you copy a mail message to another mailbox it *is* a new message in that mailbox. I have just tried it and I get exactly the same symptoms that you report. I

A wish for the mailboxes command

2010-06-24 Thread Chris G
After all the recent discussion of detecting new mail etc. it occurs to me that it would be very useful to be able to tell mutt that it should scan all files in a particular directory for new mail. If one does have more than one (and non-standard) incoming mail destinations then it's almost

Re: Detecting new mail and read mail in 1.4 and 1.5

2010-06-23 Thread Chris G
On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 11:16:32PM +0200, Christian Ebert wrote: * Michael Ludwig on Tuesday, June 22, 2010 at 22:27:06 +0200 Yesterday I built Mutt 1.5 on Cygwin, which worked fine; and today I discovered the Cygwin maintainers have done so as well. So Cygwin 1.7 now has Mutt 1.5. One

Re: Detecting new mail and read mail in 1.4 and 1.5

2010-06-23 Thread Chris G
On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 09:28:48AM +0100, Chris G wrote: set check_mbox_size=yes looks like a good candidate. Look in man(5) muttrc whether it is available for your version. When I moved from mutt 1.4 to 1.5 (quite a while ago) I found that new mail detection in mbox stopped

Re: Detecting new mail and read mail in 1.4 and 1.5

2010-06-23 Thread Chris G
On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 11:22:53AM +0200, Christian Ebert wrote: * Chris G on Wednesday, June 23, 2010 at 09:31:26 +0100 On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 09:28:48AM +0100, Chris G wrote: set check_mbox_size=yes looks like a good candidate. Look in man(5) muttrc whether it is available

Re: Detecting new mail and read mail in 1.4 and 1.5

2010-06-23 Thread Chris G
On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 02:23:10PM +0200, Michael Ludwig wrote: Christian Ebert schrieb am 22.06.2010 um 23:16 (+0200): * Michael Ludwig on Tuesday, June 22, 2010 at 22:27:06 +0200 How can new mail detection be repaired for 1.5? I'm using Maildir, but set check_mbox_size=yes I

Trying mutt out again with mbox and atime set

2010-06-23 Thread Chris G
I have now got my new server running and I'm testing out mutt with mbox mail storage and with atime set. This message is really just a test message to myself, sorry for the noise. I will however report if it all works or not. -- Chris Green

Re: Trying mutt out again with mbox and atime set

2010-06-23 Thread Chris G
On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 09:21:39PM +0100, Chris G wrote: I have now got my new server running and I'm testing out mutt with mbox mail storage and with atime set. This message is really just a test message to myself, sorry for the noise. I will however report if it all works

Re: Trying mutt out again with mbox and atime set

2010-06-23 Thread Chris G
On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 09:40:42PM +0100, Chris G wrote: I'm confused, what is going on, surely mutt should recognise a *new* file as one that has new mail in it. ... but maybe it doesn't. In fact how would it recognise a newly created file as one having new mail in it, it typically looks

Can I set Return-Path: somehow in a message?

2010-03-05 Thread Chris G
I subscribe to mailing lists as c...@isbd.net rather than my real local E-Mail, mail for that address is auto-forwarded from the server where it arrives to my local mailbox. This allows me to easily transfer all my mailing list mail to another delivery address if I need to. However I have a

Re: Can I set Return-Path: somehow in a message?

2010-03-05 Thread Chris G
On Fri, Mar 05, 2010 at 02:17:04PM +0100, Christoph Ludwig wrote: Hi, On Fri, Mar 05, 2010 at 11:37:15AM +, Chris G wrote: I subscribe to mailing lists as c...@isbd.net rather than my real local E-Mail, mail for that address is auto-forwarded from the server where it arrives to my

Re: Bounce message from a different from address.

2010-02-23 Thread Chris G
On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 09:34:51AM +0900, Horacio Sanson wrote: I send a long email to a mailing list but after sending it I realized I send the email using the wrong from: address. Of course the message got bounced back because that address is not registered in the mailing list. Now

Is there a command line way to open a specific mail message?

2010-02-04 Thread Chris G
One can go straight to a specific mailbox with something like:- mutt -f =boating/buyOurBoat/fredMolina but is there a way to open a specific mail message in that mailbox (from the command line)? -- Chris Green

Re: How to save 'what you see' as a file?

2010-02-02 Thread Chris G
On Tue, Feb 02, 2010 at 09:34:17AM +0100, Christian Brabandt wrote: Hi Chris! On So, 31 Jan 2010, Chris G wrote: Is there any fairly straightforward way to save what you see in the mutt pager as a file? I want to record some E-Mail as files for another application and what I need

Re: How to save 'what you see' as a file?

2010-02-02 Thread Chris G
On Tue, Feb 02, 2010 at 10:37:35AM +, Toby Cubitt wrote: On Tue, Feb 02, 2010 at 09:34:17AM +0100, Christian Brabandt wrote: On So, 31 Jan 2010, Chris G wrote: Is there any fairly straightforward way to save what you see in the mutt pager as a file? I want to record some E-Mail

How to save 'what you see' as a file?

2010-01-31 Thread Chris G
Is there any fairly straightforward way to save what you see in the mutt pager as a file? I want to record some E-Mail as files for another application and what I need to do basically is save what I can see on the screen as a file which I can name. -- Chris Green

Re: How to save 'what you see' as a file?

2010-01-31 Thread Chris G
On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 06:26:01PM +0100, René Clerc wrote: * Chris G c...@isbd.net [31-01-2010 17:12]: Is there any fairly straightforward way to save what you see in the mutt pager as a file? I want to record some E-Mail as files for another application and what I need to do basically

Re: How to save 'what you see' as a file?

2010-01-31 Thread Chris G
On Mon, Feb 01, 2010 at 04:45:16AM +0800, Jostein Berntsen wrote: On 31.01.10,17:12, Chris G wrote: Is there any fairly straightforward way to save what you see in the mutt pager as a file? I want to record some E-Mail as files for another application and what I need to do basically

Re: Mutt doesn't write change to local maildir automatically?

2010-01-29 Thread Chris G
On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 11:54:21AM +, chombee wrote: On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 05:23:42PM +0100, Michael Tatge wrote: * On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 02:20PM + chombee (chom...@lavabit.com) muttered: I've noticed that mutt doesn't seem to write changes to my local maildirs until I hit $ or

Re: subscribe

2010-01-20 Thread Chris G
On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 01:05:27AM -0500, Tim Gray wrote: On Tue 19, Jan'10 at 9:41 PM -0800, Freeman wrote: Then mutt users is a subscribed lists *and* a known list. Should not I therefore be able to type a distinct part of the mailing list in a To field? I think it affects the status

Re: Simple Mutt with Eee PC 701.

2010-01-20 Thread Chris G
On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 11:18:54AM +0900, Horacio Sanson wrote: On Sun, Jan 17, 2010 at 12:57:29PM +0100, Brian Durant wrote: Dale A. Raby wrote: I'm no expert, but I'm pretty sure you need the following in your .muttrc file in order to access a gmail account via IMAP: set folder =

Re: subscribe

2010-01-20 Thread Chris G
On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 08:29:11AM -0500, Tim Gray wrote: On Wed 20, Jan'10 at 10:09 AM +, Chris G wrote: You need to set up an alias for the list in order to be able to use a shorted name for it when composing new mail. Yeah, I just never bothered with that step since I usually only

Re: subscribe

2010-01-20 Thread Chris G
On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 09:44:25AM -0500, Tim Gray wrote: On Wed 20, Jan'10 at 2:11 PM +, Chris G wrote: I can upload/attach the scripts if anyone is interested, getAliases.py and getLists.py are trivial but there's a bit more to the mail filtering one. I wouldn't turn down the chance

Re: subscribe

2010-01-20 Thread Chris G
On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 03:05:29PM +, Chris G wrote: Will the mutt list allow attachments - I'll try, they're not very big so I'm sure they won't hit any size restrictions. It does allow attachments! :-) Just a bit more information, the format of the filter file, here's the top

Re: mutt inside emacs (was color configuration setup)

2010-01-18 Thread Chris G
On Sun, Jan 17, 2010 at 07:01:03PM -0400, Monte Stevens wrote: On Sun, Jan 17, 2010 at 10:42:48PM +0100, Jeffrey Ratcliffe wrote: What is the advantage of running mutt within emacs? Short answer: You don't have to navigate to Emacs (server) when editing a message. Longer answer: I

Wanted, tool for copying/deleting old messages through a hierarchy

2009-09-25 Thread Chris G
Are there any obvious ways either within mutt or using some sort of external tool which would allow archiving and/or deletion of messages older than a certain date? My ideal would be a tool that I could run either manually (or maybe from cron, but that might be a bit daring) which would select

Re: Wanted, tool for copying/deleting old messages through a

2009-09-25 Thread Chris G
On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 04:17:58PM +0100, Arthur Dent wrote: On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 04:01:28PM +0100, Chris G wrote: Are there any obvious ways either within mutt or using some sort of external tool which would allow archiving and/or deletion of messages older than a certain date? My

Re: Wanted, tool for copying/deleting old messages through a

2009-09-25 Thread Chris G
On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 04:35:46PM +0100, Arthur Dent wrote: On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 04:25:55PM +0100, Chris G wrote: On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 04:17:58PM +0100, Arthur Dent wrote: On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 04:01:28PM +0100, Chris G wrote: Are there any obvious ways either within mutt

Re: Wanted, tool for copying/deleting old messages through a

2009-09-25 Thread Chris G
On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 06:12:53PM +0200, Jan-Herbert Damm wrote: Hello Chris, Chris G wrote on 25.09.09: Are there any obvious ways either within mutt or using some sort of external tool which would allow archiving and/or deletion of messages older than a certain date? since you

Re: How to remove empty maildir?

2009-09-23 Thread Chris G
On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 08:21:35AM -0500, Kyle Wheeler wrote: On Wednesday, September 23 at 08:16 PM, quoth Wu, Yue: Hi, list, question is how to use some commands(i.g. shell commands) to remove the empty maildirs, i.e. no any file in maildirs' new/ cur/ and tmp/? If you know it won't be

Re: How to remove empty maildir?

2009-09-23 Thread Chris G
On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 11:08:52AM -0300, Monte Stevens wrote: On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 09:45:47PM +0800, Wu, Yue wrote: The logic I need is: if maildir A has no mails(new/ tmp/ cur/ are empty) rm -r A endif From

Re: How to remove empty maildir?

2009-09-23 Thread Chris G
On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 04:50:56PM +0200, Ionel Mugurel Ciobica wrote: On 23-09-2009, at 15h 21'53, Chris G wrote about Re: How to remove empty maildir? There's no atomic way of checking if all three sub-directories are empty so, in the general case, some other process may come along

Re: Storing mbox inside of maildirs

2009-09-21 Thread Chris G
On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 02:46:47AM -0400, James Michael Fultz wrote: What are opinions on using a maildir for both $spoolfile and $folder with extended maildir subfolders *and* storing mbox folders inside? Does this seem to be a Really Bad Idea or, does anyone else see an appeal in having a

Re: The MBOX file paradigm

2009-09-04 Thread Chris G
On Fri, Sep 04, 2009 at 12:22:47PM -0400, Dan Ritter wrote: On Thu, Sep 03, 2009 at 10:27:20PM -0400, Thomas Baker wrote: If I am reading an important thread in mutt and need to put that thread into my to-do list, I save it as a file, e.g.: 2009-09-03.mutt-rxvt-configuration.mbox

Re: The MBOX file paradigm

2009-09-04 Thread Chris G
On Fri, Sep 04, 2009 at 12:08:45PM -0500, Kyle Wheeler wrote: On Friday, September 4 at 05:32 PM, quoth Chris G: The advantages are: - reading/writing/moving/deleting messages is faster than opening an mbox, looking for the right message, editing it, then rewriting the whole mbox

Re: keyboard paste address in compose, To: line

2009-09-04 Thread Chris G
On Fri, Sep 04, 2009 at 01:15:16PM -0500, Derek Martin wrote: On Fri, Sep 04, 2009 at 12:14:41PM -0400, Dan Ritter wrote: I'm probably older than most people on this list, You're not the only old-timer; though I don't like to think of myself as old, I've been programming computers since

Re: The MBOX file paradigm

2009-09-04 Thread Chris G
On Fri, Sep 04, 2009 at 01:15:58PM -0500, Kyle Wheeler wrote: On Friday, September 4 at 06:27 PM, quoth Chris G: - reading/writing/moving/deleting messages is faster than opening an mbox, looking for the right message, editing it, then rewriting the whole mbox. Possibly faster

Re: The MBOX file paradigm

2009-09-04 Thread Chris G
On Fri, Sep 04, 2009 at 04:09:56PM -0400, Dave Dodge wrote: On Fri, Sep 04, 2009 at 06:27:09PM +0100, Chris G wrote: anyway when does one want to edit messages, it's not something I've ever wanted to do. I used to have the same opinion before I had a mailer that made it so easy

Re: keyboard paste address in compose, To: line

2009-09-03 Thread Chris G
On Thu, Sep 03, 2009 at 05:56:42PM -0400, Dave Dodge wrote: On Thu, Sep 03, 2009 at 03:10:17PM -0500, Derek Martin wrote: under X if you highlight it, it is automatically and immediately copied to the clipboard. It's more complicated than that:

Re: How to cope with a mailing list that uses two addresses?

2009-08-07 Thread Chris G
On Thu, Aug 06, 2009 at 01:44:46PM +0100, Chris G wrote: The 'harvesting script' is my own, written in python so is easy enough to change. I'll think about this idea too, thanks. That was the right way to go, a fairly simple change to the script that produces my 'lists' and 'subscribe

Re: How to cope with a mailing list that uses two addresses?

2009-08-06 Thread Chris G
On Wed, Aug 05, 2009 at 07:30:47PM -0400, Patrick Shanahan wrote: * Patrick Shanahan ptilopt...@gmail.com [08-05-09 19:26]: * Chris G c...@isbd.net [08-05-09 17:11]: So what do I get send-hook to do? I can see how it can match on one of the send addresses but what does it do when

Re: How to cope with a mailing list that uses two addresses?

2009-08-06 Thread Chris G
On Thu, Aug 06, 2009 at 12:28:45PM +0200, Christian Ebert wrote: * Chris G on Wednesday, August 05, 2009 at 09:09:12 +0100 I am subscribed to a mailing list which accepts messages sent to two different (but very similar) addresses. So, for mutt to recognise all list messages I have to have

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