Re: Some fairly simple-minded questions about using mutt with IMAP
On Mon, Dec 08, 2014 at 10:04:26PM +, Chris Green wrote: Hello, Chris, What I do is that at work, I mount my home mail folder using sshfs. That way, I can use my local copies of mutt, xpdf, etc. With large messages, it can get slow, sometimes, but it does save some time. Yes, I guess that's one way of doing it, not too difficult to automate using a script. I could simply mount my ~/.mutt and my ~/Mail directories and run mutt on the laptop (which is what I'm always using when away from home). Slow with mbox I fear though, I might have to change to Maildir to make it usable. Doesn't anyone use IMAP? I must admit when I tried it (a few times over the years, but not very recently) it never felt quite as easy and transparent as using mutt on a local mail spool. My setup consists on downloading all my email via getmail onto my local machine, with regular updates via cron, and posting via msmtpqueue. It harkens back to a time when internet access wasn't always a given for me, and I like how it works now, so... -- Eduardo Alvarez Stercus, Stercus, Stercus, moriturus sum -- Rincewind The Wizzard pgpGn7F97azY3.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Some fairly simple-minded questions about using mutt with IMAP
On Mon, Dec 08, 2014 at 03:19:55PM +, Chris Green wrote: I have been using mutt for many, many years with a local (Unix style) mail spool. Mail is delivered to my system by SMTP (postfix locally). At the moment to access my mail remotely I ssh into the server and run mutt. This works well in general but there are some disadvantages, in particular the 'v' command to access and view HTML, PDF and other graphical attachments doesn't work because, of course, there's no GUI access to the machine where I'm reading the mail. It's also a bit annoying simply saving attachments and then realising they're on the remote machine. So, I'm wondering if using IMAP would make my life easier. I would run Dovecot I expect. If I do this do things become more transparent to a remote mutt? E.g. if I want to view an HTML E-Mail in Firefox (default browser) instead of within mutt (using lynx) can I just do 'v' followed by selecting the HTML attachment as I would when running mutt locally on the machine where mail is hosted? Hello, Chris, What I do is that at work, I mount my home mail folder using sshfs. That way, I can use my local copies of mutt, xpdf, etc. With large messages, it can get slow, sometimes, but it does save some time. -- Eduardo Alvarez Stercus, Stercus, Stercus, moriturus sum -- Rincewind The Wizzard pgpPSqBJ5VP_w.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: missing feature in mutt: mark new messages in a thread as unwanted
On Mon, Mar 24, 2014 at 11:11:20AM +1100, Cameron Simpson wrote: On 23Mar2014 18:42, Eduardo Alvarez astrochelon...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Mar 23, 2014 at 07:57:07PM +0100, Matthias Apitz wrote: Is there such feature in mutt somehow? Creative use of scoring can achieve this. Really? That's interesting. Can you provide a recipe or suggestion? Incomplete is fine. I don't presently use scoring, and this sounds like a relevant excuse to learn. Well, on second thought, it's probably not what Matthias really wants...at least, not what I'm guessing he wants, which is to not display threads he has marked unwanted on the index. What you can do, is, set the score based on the subject of the thread, then sort by scoring. It won't hide the threads, but at least put them at the bottom of the index so they're not interweaved with wanted messages. So to set the score for a thread, one could do this: score '~s this_thread_deemed_unworthy' 0 set score='sort' Alternatively, you could use color to visually mark the offending threads as such. For example color index red black ~n 0 Or you could even mark them for deletion immediately: set score_threshold_delete=0 Another solution, not strictly for mutt, is to write a procmail recipe that deleted all messages matching the subject of the offending thread. -- Eduardo Alvarez Stercus, Stercus, Stercus, moriturus sum -- Rincewind The Wizzard -- Eduardo Alvarez Stercus, Stercus, Stercus, moriturus sum -- Rincewind The Wizzard pgpn2gOtvADgl.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: missing feature in mutt: mark new messages in a thread as unwanted
On Sun, Mar 23, 2014 at 07:57:07PM +0100, Matthias Apitz wrote: Hello, Is there such feature in mutt somehow? Thx Hello, Creative use of scoring can achieve this. -- Eduardo Alvarez Stercus, Stercus, Stercus, moriturus sum -- Rincewind The Wizzard pgpLp0VtYQ48W.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Multiple accounts on one IMAP server problems
On Fri, Feb 21, 2014 at 07:51:27PM +0800, Esther Carillo wrote: Hello mutt.user, You have probably heard this question so many times you're bored of it, tonight my Google Fu is letting me down. See http://paste.debian.net/82890/ for my muttrc and two files I use to store the IMAP/SMTP details for each of the two yahoo accounts. The problem is I can't swap between accounts using 'c', I believe this is because both accounts are using the same IMAP URL so mutt is unable to distinguish between the two!? All the tutorials and documentation I see only conveniently use two different domains, @personal.com and @work.com. So I'm new to Linux and Mutt and am getting nowhere with this hope someone can help. Hello, If your hypothesis is correct and you can't switch because both accounts share the same server name, you could try to explictly logout when you press 'c'. to do this, you could do: bind pager c noop #unbinds the normal operation of the key 'c' macro pager c imap-logout-allchange-folder your choice of help comment. I'm not too well versed on binding and macros, so if the rest of the list catches an error, I'm sure I'll get corrected. Regards, -- Eduardo Alvarez Stercus, Stercus, Stercus, moriturus sum -- Rincewind The Wizzard pgpnx0xqfA7Jl.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: defining a shortcut to save to a mailbox
On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 03:31:40PM +, John wrote: On Sat, Feb 08, 2014 at 08:04:03PM +0100, MD wrote: I use a similar macro for index view: macro index gc copy-message^U/home/markus/.mail/spam-missedenter I think in Your case should following work: macro pager 0 copy-message^U/home/john/.mail/spam-missedenter Thank you very much Markus, that worked. Have you a method of marking it as deleted at the same time? Essentially, let's say a spam was in this list. I open the spam, see it's spam so hit 0 and get the prompt to save to the spam mailbox. Is it possible to mark it as deleted at the same time within the mailbox it's been moved from? At the moment this does not happen and I have to mark it as deleted manually. Replace copy-message with save-message. That should mark it as deleted. -- Eduardo Alvarez Stercus, Stercus, Stercus, moriturus sum -- Rincewind The Wizzard pgpkv6WZI91aB.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Don't leave mutt after m^C (or similar)
On Wed, Sep 11, 2013 at 01:53:10PM +0200, Matthias Beyer wrote: Hi, sometimes I accidentially type 'm' or so, for new mail. The I hit CTRL-C for abort, and Enter for confirm. But I don't want to leave mutt! How to change the default to no, I don't want to leave mutt for all quit mutt? messages? Hi, You can abort new mail composition with CTRL-g. -- Eduardo Alvarez Stercus, Stercus, Stercus, moriturus sum -- Rincewind The Wizzard pgpfKsNdAWNdf.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Bold font in Sent listing
On Wed, Aug 07, 2013 at 11:18:47AM +0100, James Griffin wrote: Wed 7.Aug'13 at 3:05:54 +0100, David Woodfall I find some mail entries are bold in 'Sent' and some not, but I can't find any reason why they should be. set index_format=%3C %Z %[!%d/%m/%y] %-20.20t %s Anything it that that would cause bold fonts? I'd rather not have them if possible. D. You can find the printf(3) format specifiers in man 3 printf; also in the muttrc manual, man muttrc. Look for $index_format. Did you specifically choose those format specifiers yourself? or did you use them from a configuration posted on the internet? The index_format string looks fine to me. I checked $index_format in the menu and there are no options to toggle bold with it. The other options I found were in the pager (which accepts the nroff sequences for bold and underline), and configuring what that bold would look like using the color command. Given that only some of them are bold, my guess is that there's a sequence of characters in the entry that your terminal is interpreting as an escape sequence for bold characters. But it's just a guess, and I'm not sure why it would happen only looking in the Sent folder. -- Eduardo Alvarez Stercus, Stercus, Stercus, moriturus sum -- Rincewind The Wizzard pgp4Uxfj6X8cG.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: OT: Request for old cruft. [Was: The etiquette of RTFM (Re: I have forgotten ...)]
On Sun, Jun 23, 2013 at 09:47:23PM +1000, Erik Christiansen wrote: On 21.06.13 10:52, Eduardo Alvarez wrote: That sounds like a fantastic compilation, not just for practical knowledge, but I'm betting a little of history as well. Would you care to share it? :) At first I thought that's not a problem, if it is of any interest. But it includes pastes of setting up ssh, and sprinklings of bits and pieces which would need to be sanitised prior to publication - something that I'll have to try to find time for, one of these days. In any event, it is just a large grab-bag of memory joggers and small concise manpage extract distillations for rapid reference, plus debugging fixes for problems I've encountered. Slabs of it would be of little use to many, and none of it is in any way a complete reference on anything. It exists only so that I don't have to solve the same problem repeatedly, muttering futilely I know I've done this before. (It was a hint to the OP, that there are ways around forgetfulness, other than putting the burden on others.) Erik, Not a problem. I don't want to make you do any unnecesary editing/auditing of your work. It just seemed a nice bit of documentation. -- Eduardo Alvarez Stercus, Stercus, Stercus, moriturus sum -- Rincewind The Wizzard pgpXnNLttuh5s.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: The etiquette of RTFM (Re: I have forgotten ...)
On Fri, Jun 21, 2013 at 09:03:32PM +1000, Erik Christiansen wrote: The real and substantial impairments, both physical and mental, which accrue with advancing age, are easily overlooked in the ignorance of youth, or even middle age. Though two decades behind our petitioner for a quick hint, I have for a decade and a half found it necessary to accumulate a private multifarious manpage, or brain-fade-insurance, now amounting to 350 pages of stuff which has worked for me, but spans a quarter of a century of using dozens of unix utilities, scripting languages, cross-copilers, linker scripting, system administration, and embedded systems development, etc. Without that, I'd be asking a few more questions on the less hostile lists too. Ya can't remember it all, and in declining years, the time remaining looms in all its stark brevity. The increasing rate of wetware memory drop-outs in our autumn years becomes increasingly unnerving, and even figuring out where to look isn't as easy as it once was. That sounds like a fantastic compilation, not just for practical knowledge, but I'm betting a little of history as well. Would you care to share it? :) -- Eduardo Alvarez Stercus, Stercus, Stercus, moriturus sum -- Rincewind The Wizzard pgptQoKH7nJqC.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: tab pressing doesn't bring up anything
On Fri, Dec 21, 2012 at 08:45:49AM +1100, Cameron Simpson wrote: If someone knows how to write vim : commands to make vim do TAB completion, I can probably write a short script to read a mutt alias file (or any filter with mutt alias commands in it) and emit vim commands to match, to go in a vimrc file somewhere. That might get to alias expansion inside vim. There is a mutt script that provides omnicompletion of mutt aliases: http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=2533 Hope it helps. -- Eduardo Alvarez Stercus, Stercus, Stercus, moriturus sum -- Rincewind The Wizzard pgpoFanmfdAoC.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Thank you for Mutt
On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 05:01:50AM -0500, Jim Graham wrote: I have that archived somehwere here, if anyone wants me to post a copy, put it online, etc. Just remember, put your coffee down before you read it or C|NK will be the result (that's another one from ASR---coffee, piped through the nose, onto the keyboard). Yes, please. At least, I'd like it if you'd send it to me. -- Eduardo Alvarez Stercus, Stercus, Stercus, moriturus sum -- Rincewind The Wizzard pgpcbHdNJ94cg.pgp Description: PGP signature
