Re: Preferred way to get imap emails

On 28.07.19 12:21, Cameron Simpson wrote: > On 27Jul2019 22:40, Pankaj Jangid wrote: > > On Sat, Jul 27, 2019 at 11:41:52AM -0400, Patrick Shanahan wrote: > > > I still use fetchmail and with imap accounts including google. and > > > have no problem. > > > > > Probably I'll try it again. This

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

On 28.06.19 21:22, Ian Zimmerman wrote: > I happen to know that procmail tries to lock the file in _all_ the ways > available on the system, for instance on Linux with a dotlock temporary > file, with flock, and with fcntl. This is a bit overkill but it means > procmail is safe to use as long as

Making attachments [Was: Re: order of sending mail and saving to fcc

On 16.06.19 09:48, Cameron Simpson wrote: > I compose with edit_headers=yes, so recipients and subject are part of the > temporary file. > > Also, I attach using the Attach: pseudo header, so the attachment filename > is also part of the temp file. Provided I haven't exited the compose mode >

Re: order of sending mail and saving to fcc

On 11.06.19 12:36, Derek Martin wrote: > I hesitate to go far as to say that if you think saving the message > first is the right behavior, you are simply wrong... but I'm > definitely thinking it. =8^) I like your style, Derek. And respect that your use case works for you. What surprises me is

Re: order of sending mail and saving to fcc

On 11.06.19 13:45, Kevin J. McCarthy wrote: > On Tue, Jun 11, 2019 at 06:43:25AM -0700, Kevin J. McCarthy wrote: > > Something like $fcc_order or $fcc_before_send is possible, > > I've pushed a branch up to gitlab, kevin/fcc-before-send. It adds > $fcc_before_send, default unset. Many grateful

Re: order of sending mail and saving to fcc

On 10.06.19 11:20, Nicolas Rachinsky wrote: > * "Kevin J. McCarthy" [2019-06-04 09:44 -0700]: > > On Tue, Jun 04, 2019 at 12:30:59PM +0200, Nicolas Rachinsky wrote: > > > Does anybody know the reason of this change? > > > > The most recent discussion on mutt-dev was > >

Re: Compiling a newer version than the latest .deb package

On 06.06.19 18:59, Cameron Simpson wrote: > But nullmailer really sounds very promising - it has a queue and delivers to > a smarthost, which is all most people really need on their personal > machines. That's about the size of it. But if a traditional mail set-up is valued, it's only one config

Re: Compiling a newer version than the latest .deb package

On 06.06.19 20:47, Frank Watt wrote: > I thought fetchmail had nothing to do with sendmail, but that evidently > isn't the case. I installed nullmailer and fetchmail ceased to work. » DESCRIPTION fetchmail is a mail-retrieval and forwarding utility; it fetches mail from remote

Re: Compiling a newer version than the latest .deb package

On 05.06.19 21:30, Frank Watt wrote: > I wasn't clear. I'm quite content with an old mutt, but I've come to > the end of the line with sendmail (which I can't get to work, though > it used to work). I'm impressed. When I finally switched to postfix around 15 years ago, I thought I might be one

Re: Saving sent e-mails in INBOX for better threading?

On 30.03.19 09:37, Cameron Simpson wrote: > Aside: I sort new-to-top, the reverse of the default, because I like to see > the whole thread before replying. I found sorting conventionally got me > involved before I'd seen followon posts saying the same stuff I was saying. Hmmm ... that bears

Re: Saving sent e-mails in INBOX for better threading?

On 29.03.19 13:37, Max Görner wrote: > Dear list users, > > thank you everyone for the valuable replies. I am a bit relieved to learn that > others follow similar approaches. I will try to Bcc all e-mails to myself. > That sounds a bit less hacky than saving sent e-mails in the Inbox. Errr ...

Re: Saving sent e-mails in INBOX for better threading?

On 28.03.19 13:24, Max Görner wrote: > Hello, > > I am a very pleased Mutt user for several years now. However, I would love to > have a threading similar to GMail, showing send and received messages in the > same thread. > > I wonder whether one could just configure mutt such as to save all

Re: Alias completion question

On 11.03.19 20:32, Jason wrote: > To prevent this, I usually press Tab one extra time to see how many > matches pop up; just wondering if that's what everyone else does too or > if there's something that would negate the need for the extra Tab press. That's how mailbox name completion works

Re: Hide a message?

On 15.12.18 19:35, Cameron Simpson wrote: > On 15Dec2018 17:01, Erik Christiansen wrote: > > Is it in reality even remotely "likely" that any LDA contains code to > > search out those headers and delete them in transit? (Please feel free > >

Re: Hide a message?

On 13.12.18 13:05, Kurt Hackenberg wrote: > > You may want to preserve message attributes -- things like, this message has > been read, this message has been replied to, this message has been flagged, > this message has been assigned the keyword "blorgh". Mail delivery agents, > including

Re: Hide a message?

On 13.12.18 22:05, Patrick Shanahan wrote: > mbox still serves my needs and has never failed me. why would I want to > invest time and effort to change to something (anything) else? maildir > does not "work better" as I can see. +1 I've used mbox exclusively since the days of SunOS4.1.3 or a

Re: [Mutt] Re: Group reply To-vs-Cc recipients

On 11.12.18 17:52, Derek Martin wrote: > On Tue, Dec 11, 2018 at 10:37:02PM +, Nuno Silva wrote: > > > Yes, I did not think I needed to say this explicity, but it also > > > explains why: Because that usage is the one that corresponds to the > > > stated purpose of those fields. As such it

Re: [Mutt] Re: Group reply To-vs-Cc recipients

On 10.12.18 17:29, Derek Martin wrote: > On Wed, Dec 05, 2018 at 05:31:28PM +1100, Erik Christiansen wrote: > > Thread comment: It's OK to be unaware of the usefulness of RFC features, > > but it does seem odd to pretend that they're not useful just because > > it's only

Re: [Mutt] Re: Group reply To-vs-Cc recipients

On 05.12.18 00:44, Mihai Lazarescu wrote: > On Thu, Nov 29, 2018 at 04:12:08PM -0800, Kevin J. McCarthy wrote: > > > On Thu, Nov 29, 2018 at 03:41:12PM -0800, Ian Zimmerman wrote: > > > > > I am curious to know in what context "someone" felt it would > > > make a difference. > > > > The ticket

Re: Group reply To-vs-Cc recipients

On 30.11.18 01:34, Francesco Ariis wrote: > On Thu, Nov 29, 2018 at 03:41:12PM -0800, Ian Zimmerman wrote: > > I am curious to know in what context "someone" felt it would make a > > difference. > > I suspect work related setting. Cc: is indeed "being kept in the loop" > while To: is "addressed

Re: smart saving

On 01.11.18 19:06, Ben Fitzgerald wrote: > When I hit "s" it would be lovely to have the last folder I saved a message > with the same "meta" (simple case - same "from:"). That is the mutt default, in my experience. Since that is never useful here, I set save-hooks to meet local needs. While most

Re: Composing blocks checking for new

On 29.10.18 12:56, Bastian wrote: > As I rely on mutt to check for new mails and then send a bell to its > terminal, it happens that I miss new incoming (urgent) mails. The reason > simply is, that mutt waits/sleeps until the compose editor returns. Or > perhaps checking for new mails is only

Re: Stop myself from sending an email with a particular string

On 15.09.18 05:30, Francesco Ariis wrote: > Hello Xu, > > On Fri, Sep 14, 2018 at 11:18:09PM -0400, Xu Wang wrote: > > Long story short: > > How can I have mutt refuse to send an email if the contents contain a > > certain string, such as the example "Erica"? > > There is a script that

Re: Long subject lines

On 19.08.18 03:17, David Woodfall wrote: > I sent a message with a rather long subject line earlier and it was > split into two lines. OK, I'm a laggard, still on mutt 1.8.0, but when I compose a three-line subject in vim¹, separated by newlines, it is visually _joined_ into a single line on

Re: no "on behalf of" me in my reply to mailing list

On 24.07.18 15:32, Hang Yuan wrote: > So sounds it's my email client's problem which can't show email header > correctly? I can see you email address but can't see my address > displayed in my reply. Instead, mutt-users-boun...@mutt.org is showed. Your post shows here as: >From

Re: Disable reply quote

On 11.07.18 10:29, Stefan Hagen wrote: > When mails come to my support level, they often contain 30+ outlook > style replies ->multiple pages of mail history. When I reply to these > emails, Mutt quotes the full history. > > I always manually delete the quote marks down to the end of the email,

Re: Problem with strict_threads

On 05.07.18 13:39, David Woodfall wrote: > I've noticed now that my replies in that thread don't have a > In-Reply-To for some reason. When I tag one and attach it with & as > you said it joins fine and adds that. > > Why wouldn't mutt add that? It works fine eg in lists. It's ticked over 23:00

Re: Problem with strict_threads

On 05.07.18 12:53, David Woodfall wrote: > I've just set up things so that record=^ which works fine, and I > copied a bunch of old sent messages to a folder to see the whole > thread. However I see the thread order is broken. OK, we have "set sort=threads", as the above implies some threads

Re: Bottom posting v top posting

On 13.05.18 15:31, Brian Salter-Duke wrote: > On Sun, May 13, 2018 at 03:03:55PM +1000, Erik Christiansen wrote: > > On 13.05.18 09:52, Brian Salter-Duke wrote: > > > It is time we gave up bottom posting! ... > Eric, I tried to email you direct, but you do not allow

Re: Bottom posting v top posting

On 13.05.18 09:52, Brian Salter-Duke wrote: > My partner reads gmail on her phone or tablet. She reads my messages but does > not realise that if she scrolls down she can see her message that I replying > to. If I had bottom posting, she would never have read my message, thinking > that some how

Re: mailing-list to bugs

On 08.05.18 20:46, Derek Martin wrote: > I dare say no one should want to work in Perl anymore... It's such a > horrible mishmash of a lanugage. +1 > But C is probably not the best tool for this job either. Python has > modules for handling e-mail and for talking to bugzilla, and for my >

Re: Mail-Followup-To (was Re: breaking long header lines into 2 (or more) lines)

On 27.04.18 08:57, Kevin J. McCarthy wrote: > I always thought $followup_to was a pretty nice feature. While I > sympathize with Matthias, the mischief was the result of > misconfiguration, and Mutt requires nothing if not attention to the > documentation and configuration. > > However, if there

Re: View HTML without autoview

On 14.03.18 23:23, David Woodfall wrote: > On (14/03/18 16:01), Ian Zimmerman put forth the > proposition: > > On 2018-03-14 13:13, David Woodfall wrote: > > > > > > Previously, I used elinks and it works fine with autoview, however > > > > when I try to pipe to it it

Re: Reply with another email as attachment?

On 14.03.18 10:48, Tim Chase wrote: > On 2018-03-15 00:37, Erik Christiansen wrote: > > Yup, forward: > > View the email to attach. > > Hit 'f', and mutt will prompt: Forward as attachment? ([yes]/no): > > Hit Enter, compose the accompanying email, with forward address,

Re: Reply with another email as attachment?

On 14.03.18 12:48, David Woodfall wrote: > I have recently been in a discussion with a tech support person about > some emails that I have been receiving and I was asked to attach one > of them to a test email that she sent me. > > I couldn't find how to do that, apart from actually finding the

Re: line editor keybindings

On 13.03.18 11:13, Marco Dickert wrote: > On 2018-03-13 20:50:20, Erik Christiansen wrote: > > On 13.03.18 10:09, andreas.muel...@biologie.uni-osnabrueck.de wrote: > > > can I switch the editor key bindings to the vi style ? > > There is better than that - you can us

Re: line editor keybindings

On 13.03.18 10:09, andreas.muel...@biologie.uni-osnabrueck.de wrote: > > can I switch the editor key bindings to the vi style ? There is better than that - you can use vim as the mutt editor, with this line in ~/.muttrc: set editor=vim On a *nix platform, it would be very poor to be unable

Re: Mailing list status

On 13.03.18 08:31, Cameron Simpson wrote: > On 12Mar2018 12:31, Kevin J. McCarthy wrote: > > The new mailing list server uses GNU mailman. There are likely a few > > things that need to be tweeked. Please let me know about any issues. > > I notice that the Sender: header now says

Re: Remove Subject prefixing (when answering/forwarding) possible?

On 28.02.18 12:10, Patrick Shanahan wrote: > some time ago, in an earlier age, Sven Guckes posted a sed or perl filter > to hide "Subject:" additions, but I seem to have lost it, and he seems to > be missing too :^( > The following has served for so many years in my .procmailrc that I can't

Re: mutt manual: i have bad startings into learning mutt

On 07.02.18 22:37, kalle wrote: > In the manual v.1.9.2, chapter "2.1 Index" it says > > "The index is the screen that you usually see first when you start Mutt. It > gives an overview over your emails in the currently opened mailbox." > > The problem is: there are no mails to see, because there

Re: Searching sent folder

On 07.02.18 03:54, David Woodfall wrote: > > When I use search or limit in my sent folder on an address it shows no > > matches. They seem to only work on subjects. Is there a way to get > > them to work on addresses? > > > > -dave > > > > I found limit ~C In the index, "/ ~h elephant" will

Re: save attachment content as if they are in pager

On 02.02.18 11:55, Yubin Ruan wrote: > On Thu, Feb 01, 2018 at 07:32:29PM -0800, Barton Janes wrote: > > The trailing = is usually caused by the text encoding of "quoted Printable" > > > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quoted-printable > > Are there any ways to save the decoded message rather

Re: Quote multiple messages in new message

On 17.01.18 11:43, steve wrote: > Hi, > > I would like to create a new message containing quotations of others > messages (in order to avoid copy-pasting). I tried to tag some messages > with T then type ;m but this create an empty new message. I've searched > the web with many different key

Re: Possible to not leave pager if up on first or down on last message?

On 20.12.17 23:30, Scott Kostyshak wrote: > > Ben Boeckel wrote: > > bindpager previous-line > > bindpager next-line ... > > Thank you for the replies, Todd and Ben. > > It seems there's not a configuration variable for what I would like to > achieve. On the contrary, Ben's

Re: split or merged mbox/record

On 29.11.17 15:09, Daan van Rossum wrote: > Dear mutt users, I use two separate mailboxes for received and sent > emails, called "mbox" and "sent" respectively. When reading old > threads I sometimes wish I had sent and received mail in one and the > same mbox. I know it is easy to merge sent

Re: collapsed threads that have unread/new mails inside

On 17.09.17 04:19, Yubin Ruan wrote: > Hi, > How to identify collapsed threads that have unread/new mails inside? > I want to assign some color to those that so that it can be distinguished, but > currently I know no expression to express a "collapsed thread that has > unread/new mails inside".

Re: Attachment saving and piping: what of the headers?

On 10.07.17 14:29, Ian Zimmerman wrote: > I tried both a straight save, and a pipe to a cat command. In either > case, no headers are present, and neither is the separator line; the > file just contains the body and that's that. Curious. Here, a "| cat > /tmp/fred" produced a copy of your post,

Re: Mutt - Neomutt and Debian Stretch

On 30.06.17 16:25, Kevin J. McCarthy wrote: > Starting with a vanilla mutt tarball and adding a set of patches, broken > out by bug fix or feature, is fairly standard practice. It's easy to > see what is changed, and I think is still fair to call mutt. > > If you take a vanilla mutt tarball and

Re: Change default From header when click on mailto

On 13.06.17 13:18, Marcelo Laia wrote: > I have four accounts configured in mutt. I use mutt+msmtp+offlineimap > > My personal account is marcelol...@gmail.com > > How ever, when I click on a mailto link (webpages), mutt was loaded with a > different From header. It's loaded with my business

Re: Mutt freezes when network is off [was: sendmail in background?]

On 12.06.17 02:05, Yubin Ruan wrote: > Thanks my friend. Postfix works pretty well :-) > > There is only problem I found when testing Postfix + mutt: I uses > Postfix for smtp and mutt deals with imap for me. That is the problem, then. Many of us use fetchmail (or similar) to handle the imap or

Re: View email in external editor

On 22.05.17 03:49, Yubin Ruan wrote: > How to view email in external editor such as VIM? Hello time-traveller, Yes, via "set pager= ...". The manual has an example which sets it only for one mail folder: message-hook ~A 'set pager=builtin' message-hook '~f freshmeat-news' 'set pager="less \"+/^

Re: Scroll-off option for mutt

On 07.05.17 03:36, Yubin Ruan wrote: > Hi, > Is there a scroll-off option for mutt? In vim, you can use > set scrolloff = 7 > to make the editor scroll rather than changing pages when you get to the end > of > the current page, so that you can see things continuously. But for mutt's > pager,

Re: How to tell GUI MUAs to show message in a fixed font?

On 28.04.17 13:22, Greg Hurrell wrote: > Fun fact, pretty much every message in this thread looks terrible in Google > Inbox on iOS (and presumably Gmail on iOS) because the lines are all > hard-wrapped but too long to fit on the screen, leading to alternating long > (soft-wrapped) and short

Rich text & Mutt [Was: How to tell GUI MUAs to show message in a fixed font?]

On 28.04.17 10:44, Darac Marjal wrote: > On Fri, Apr 28, 2017 at 07:16:19PM +1000, Erik Christiansen wrote: > >On 27.04.17 09:21, Darac Marjal wrote: >> On Wed, Apr 26, 2017 at > 08:54:45PM +, Grant Edwards wrote: >> > OK, so how does one do that > with

Re: How to tell GUI MUAs to show message in a fixed font?

On 27.04.17 09:21, Darac Marjal wrote: > On Wed, Apr 26, 2017 at 08:54:45PM +, Grant Edwards wrote: > > OK, so how does one do that within mutt? > > I would suggest that the most prudent approach is to use a lightweight > markup language (LML). LMLs tend to be designed such that, while they >

Re: How to be warned about non-existent aliases?

On 25.04.17 11:16, Chris Green wrote: > Essentially anything without an @ should be an alias, I never actually > send mail to local (same system) destinations. While I do send mail to myself several times per week, as paperless Post-It notes, that would involve even less typing with a "me" alias.

Re: My typical .muttrc frustrations

On 22.04.17 14:33, Charles E Campbell wrote: > Hello, Erik: > > I tried both mail and mailx. Both fail silently when I attempt to send an > email off my machine (didn't try mailx, but mail will send email to accounts > on the same machine), although I suppose its possible they're still >

Re: My typical .muttrc frustrations

On 17.04.17 22:34, Charles E Campbell wrote: > Here's the result: ... > Could not send the message. Well, it's never occurred to me to pause to figure out how to use mutt to send email on the command line, because the MUA I used before mutt was traditional unix "mail"¹, and it is infinitely

Re: Playing nice with Outlook - setting flags

On 28.02.17 12:27, Bill Starrs wrote: > What I am looking to do is edit the headers of existing messages in my work > Inbox to add the Follow-up Flag, and sync those changes back to the Exchange > server with IMAP so that my flags are present in Outlook on my work machine. OK, for post-processing

Re: It works if you give it a chance. [Was: Changing the reply address.]

On 27.02.17 07:07, Kevin J. McCarthy wrote: > Just to add another caution: if for some reason later on you decided to > "set include=yes" in your .muttrc, the prompt would no longer occur and > that leading "y" in the macro might end up sending the email! I've taken the precaution of omitting the

It works if you give it a chance. [Was: Changing the reply address.]

On 22.02.17 18:50, Erik Christiansen wrote: > On 21.02.17 13:28, Kevin J. McCarthy wrote: > > > > You'll want to use the "push" command: > > reply-hook '~f x...@yyy.asn.au' \ > > 'push z...@bigpond.com' > > > > *However*, t

Re: Install hiccup [Was: mutt 1.8.0 released]

On 27.02.17 16:49, Tim Ye wrote: > Hi Erik, > > I just tried './configure' on my Debian, no error showed up. > > Have you tried: > > $ sudo apt-get build-dep mutt Bullseye! That's easier than fiddling with install paths. The "make Install" put it in /usr/local/bin/, so I can "try before I

Re: Install hiccup [Was: mutt 1.8.0 released]

On 27.02.17 19:28, Erik Christiansen wrote: > configure: error: no curses library found > ### All right, some or all of the libraries mentioned in the OP are dynamic libraries, so definitley not enough caffeine. So I'd have to apt-get source, or snar

Install hiccup [Was: mutt 1.8.0 released]

On 24.02.17 13:28, on mutt-announce, Kevin J. McCarthy wrote: > I am pleased to announce version 1.8.0 has just been released. It is > available at ftp.mutt.org/pub/mutt/mutt-1.8.0.tar.gz via ftp and http. Many thanks to all for the much valued development effort. Unfortunately, installation of

Re: Playing nice with Outlook - setting flags

On 24.02.17 19:22, Bill Starrs wrote: > One thing that I have been unable to do despite a lot of googling is > add an Outlook "Follow-up" flag to mail items. I can flag them as a > priority in Mutt but this does not go back to Outlook. Is there any > way possible to mark a message with the

Re: Changing the reply address.

On 21.02.17 13:28, Kevin J. McCarthy wrote: > On Tue, Feb 21, 2017 at 05:27:55PM +1100, Erik Christiansen wrote: > > reply-hook '~f x...@yyy.asn.au' \ > >'z...@bigpond.com' > > You'll want to use the "push" command: > reply-hook '~f x...@yy

Changing the reply address.

My brother sometimes sends emails from work, but often runs days behind reading replies. (Everyone just has to wait.) If I reply instead to his home address, it's straight through. So I thought I'd try to tweak the following: Way back on 27.04.09 16:57, Kyle Wheeler wrote: > send2-hook '~C

Re: mutt+vim line-breaking strategies

On 18.02.17 21:54, Xu Wang wrote: > Do you line-break your emails? Do you use flowed text? I am curious > what the most common and recommended workflow is. As it is the long established email standard that lines be 72 characters to allow a couple of levels of "> " quoting in replies, without the

Re: Muttrc example needed POP3/SMTP

On 04.02.17 17:04, sunrise wrote: > > Are there any suggestions for which MTA would be most suitable for > this purpose (sending queued messages on a system that is not online > when composing messages)? They would all handle that, straight out of the box. Mail spooling is a basic MTA function.

Re: Muttrc example needed POP3/SMTP

On 03.02.17 09:47, Chris Green wrote: > ... and if you're on a distribution where Postfix is the standard > that's also pretty easy to set up. I personally prefer Postfix from > the ease of configuration point of view. +1 (It also has a Sendmail compatibility interface, so that we old folks

Re: display_filter and ex

On 01.02.17 00:56, Andreas Doll wrote: > TL;DR > Has anyone managed to use ex in conjunction with display_filter? > > > I write emails using vim, which provides the handy function gggqG. This > function reformats text such that it doesn't exceed (say) 72 characters. The ex exercise is

Re: best practices answering multiple mails (at once?)

" for me, because I didn't notice > that you answered my mail as well, as mutt didn't show this > message as reply to my mail. Ah, that's a disappointment. I had hoped for: On 08.11.16 23:57, Erik Christiansen wrote: > Here it was displayed as a reply to my post. If Cameron and Sim

Re: best practices answering multiple mails (at once?)

On 08.11.16 10:28, nfb wrote: > On Tue, Nov 08, 2016 at 02:08:55AM +0100, Simon Ruderich wrote: > > However in the thread view the resulting mail will only appear as > > reply to one of those mails (not sure if this is a limitation of > > mutt or the in-reply-to header). > > I dont know whether

Re: best practices answering multiple mails (at once?)

On 08.11.16 10:00, Cameron Simpson wrote: > On 07Nov2016 22:47, nfb wrote: > >here i want to submit to you some doubts I have when replying to some > >mails. I may be a little OT, but i'd like to hear from you wether > >answering to multiple emails at once, quoting

Re: Send mail to an 'address group'

On 13.09.16 12:08, mimosinnet wrote: > When the members of the group CoordsM change, I have to change the > alias. > > Is there a way I can use the definition of the "Address Groups" > (http://www.mutt.org/doc/manual/#addrgroup) to be able to define an > alias

Re: add the content of another email to new message

On 23.08.16 19:47, Jethro Tull wrote: > So I could save and close the current composition, It is elementary to postpone the composition if desired. (See the manual) A collection of postponed messages presents as a message index, just as for any other mail folder. You can work on many of them in a

Re: broken date with LANG=xx_XX.UTF-8

On 19.08.16 07:39, Matthias Apitz wrote: > If I unset it in ~/.muttrc and run > > $ LANG=es_ES.UTF-8 LC_ALL=es_ES.UTF-8 LC_TIME=es_ES.UTF-8 mutt > > it gives the month name as 'Aug', which is not correct. Try: $ export LANG=... Erik

Re: mutt, vim, and autowrapping replies

On 19.08.16 12:39, li...@rickv.com wrote: > I found the answer here: > http://www.mdlerch.com/emailing-mutt-and-vim-advanced-config.html > > I'm using it now; it works well. Except, > > On Fri, Aug 19, 2016 at 02:14:15PM +1000, c...@zip.com.au wrote: > >One caveat is that in format=flowed a line

Re: mutt 1.7.0 released

Kevin, Many thanks for your effort to keep us flea-free. This time I do plan to upgrade. Erik

Re: add the content of another email to new message

On 16.08.16 19:58, Jethro Tull wrote: > I'm using vim as editor in mutt. I would like to find a way to dump > the content of another email or part to a new message while being > composed. Of course without running a new instance of mutt. The most convenient technique for including parts of

Re: need some help about organize message in mutt

On 06.08.16 06:56, Patrick Shanahan wrote: > > You will forgive "senior" memory :) Am bailing out the same canoe daily, here. The stuff which has moved from memory to "forgettery" is horrifying. The only saving grace is that most of it comes back with a peek at old notes, and a bit of keyboard

Re: need some help about organize message in mutt

On 04.08.16 09:27, Patrick Shanahan wrote: > * Gabriel Philippe <gabri.phili...@gmail.com> [08-04-16 09:25]: > > On Tue, Aug 2, 2016 at 1:00 PM, Erik Christiansen > > <dva...@internode.on.net> wrote: > > > Subscribing to the procmail mailing list would help wh

Re: need some help about organize message in mutt

On 02.08.16 08:05, Yubin Ruan wrote: ? Attribution lost upthread: > > Normal practice for mutt users is to file messages with a separate > > program as they are collected. This works best with local storage: > > we collect our email from the server with POP or IMAP and store in > > local folders

Re: need some help about organize message in mutt

On 01.08.16 10:42, Thomas Schneider wrote: > Yubin: > > > How can I have that Thunderbird message filtering in mutt? > > I have been using procmail to filter mail into different mail boxes. > Then I look at those boxes with mutt under a script that opens each > one. This allows me to categorize

Re: Three newbie questions

On 08.07.16 00:46, Alasdair McAndrew wrote: > 1. When I send an email, no matter from what account, a copy always > ends up in the Inbox of my default account. How can I ensure such a > mail ends up in the Sent folder of its account? I'd look for a "set record" statement in .muttrc, and replace

Re: How to color diffs in a patch-mail?

On 20.06.16 14:01, Matthias Beyer wrote: > can someone tell me how to color diffs in a PATCH mail when viewing > the mail contents with mutt? > > Is it even possible? Dunno. Once a patch has been delivered, I figure we've left the email world. But you could: set editor=vim hit 'e' on the

Re: Lines beginning with From are not escaped in $record

On 03.06.16 17:22, Xu Wang wrote: > Interesting. To reproduce what i see, you can do following steps: > > 1. move the file (temporarily but be sure to back up) ~/sent > 2. in mutt, do > set record="~/sent" > 3. send an email with "From " in the body > 4. Open in vim or in mutt+vim ~/sent file. >

Re: Lines beginning with From are not escaped in $record

On 29.05.16 17:07, Xu Wang wrote: > Interesting! So the term is "From munge". "man mbox" is more formal, referring to "quoting schemes", but either term serves, I figure. > So I guess the format of mbox that mutt uses does not from munge. it > must be then than that the format mboxcl2 is being

Re: Convert ascii UTF8 code (in mutt "to:" header) to real UTF8

On 03.06.16 10:32, Matthias Apitz wrote: > I'm on FreeBSD and do compile all from sources (the so called ports > collection). mmencode comes from: > > $ which mmencode > /usr/local/bin/mmencode > $ pkg which /usr/local/bin/mmencode > /usr/local/bin/mmencode was installed by package

Re: Convert ascii UTF8 code (in mutt "to:" header) to real UTF8

On 03.06.16 10:52, Christian Brabandt wrote: > > An alternative might be qprint (package qprint) Indeedy! :-) Thank you Christian. I've made a note of that. (Stuff from many years ago now sticks better than new stuff. :( Regards, Erik

Re: Convert ascii UTF8 code (in mutt "to:" header) to real UTF8

On 03.06.16 08:45, Matthias Apitz wrote: > $ echo 'Ker=C4=B1ko' | mmencode -u -q > Kerıko > $ echo 'Ker=C4=B1ko' | mmencode -u -q | od -tx1 > 0004b 65 72 c4 b1 6b 6f 0a > 010 Matthias, mmencode looks very useful, but I'm not able to find it on my

Re: Feature request

On 04.05.16 15:51, Walter Alejandro Iglesias wrote: > +1 requesting this feature: > > http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/47773/rebinding-clear-prompt-in-mutt Yes, that would be wonderful. The ^G aberration is a mindbender. > All command line Unix-like system applications should support vi

Re: How to move to a specific message or to the end in a long list?

On 01.05.16 12:54, Chris Green wrote: > I (rarely) have a long message list of some hundreds of messages. > This occurs when I'm looking at old mailboxes, archives and similar. > > How does one simply move to the last page/message or to a specific > message number? To go to e.g. message 2144,

Re: group mailings with blind cc - RTM

On 16.04.16 14:59, Jon LaBadie wrote: > > Next step was to set up a send-hook on the tfccc email addr. > > This would setup "my_hdr Bcc:" to be the list of recipients, > > or later perhaps a mutt group alias for the list. I've done > > similar settings before, but not for the Bcc: header. > > >

Re: How do you survive without notmuch?

On 12.04.16 13:05, Derek Martin wrote: > On Tue, Apr 12, 2016 at 05:28:08PM +1000, Erik Christiansen wrote: > > The really big benefit of the Unix approach is that the same utility > > know-how can be applied to every problem, as it is only the mix of > > utilities used,

Re: How do you survive without notmuch?

On 11.04.16 11:11, Derek Martin wrote: > On Mon, Apr 11, 2016 at 10:13:06PM +1000, Erik Christiansen wrote: > > In the latter half of several decades of software development, I took to > > heart "Unix _is_ the IDE". Similarly, there's no need for mutt to do &g

Re: How do you survive without notmuch?

On 05.04.16 12:47, Xu Wang wrote: > I am so used to using notmuch integrated into mutt (via mutt-kz), that > I would like to be able to understand how someone does *not* use > notmuch. How do you search for a certain message? Is it simply a > matter of the following? Deleting around 90% of list

Re: omit empty mailboxes from list

On 27.03.16 21:05, Erik Christiansen wrote: > That's not what happens here, I hit 'c' and mutt immediately offers the > mailbox with new mail which appears highest in the (one or more) > "mailboxes" lines in my .muttrc. Jon, if mutt isn't detecting new mail in the delivery mai

Re: omit empty mailboxes from list

On 26.03.16 15:10, Jon LaBadie wrote: > I can see what you both are referring to. There are big differences > between 'c' and 'y' for my work style. First, 'y' shows the files > defined by the "mailboxes" parameter, the ones I'm looking for. In > contrast, 'c' shows the files defined by the

Re: omit empty mailboxes from list

On 26.03.16 10:02, Christian Ebert wrote: > * Erik Christiansen on Saturday, March 26, 2016 at 19:54:16 +1100 > > To return to a mailbox which was read earlier in the mutt session, > > in the index, press 'c' to initiate a mailbox change, then either: > > > &g

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