On Fri, May 19, 2023 at 08:07:00AM -0400, José María Mateos wrote:
I think this is very close to what I'd like to do, but going to
text/html, displaying the message, then switch back to text/plain
again. I'm going to play around with this to see if I can manage to get
the desired effect
On Fri, May 19, 2023 at 02:54:46AM +0200, Mihai Lazarescu wrote:
I use this macro:
macro pager ~ 'unalternative_order *alternative_order
text/html text/enriched text/plain'
to switch to HTML and this:
macro pager '`' 'unalternative_order *alternative_order
text/plain text/enriched
On Thu, May 18, 2023 at 08:03:26PM -0400, John Hawkinson wrote:
José María Mateos wrote on Thu, 18 May 2023
at 19:53:50 EDT in :
2. If I'm not convinced by that version, press some key and then text/html is
displayed inline (using
w3m, lynx, links, or whatever in the ~/.mailcap file).
Well
Hi everybody,
Lately I've been receiving mail in which the text/plain part and the
text/html part are at odds. This is typically caused by generator
software that ignores text/plain, or uses some old version, etc.
Today I changed my settings to view text/html first via w3m, but I'm not
On Sun, Apr 23, 2023 at 02:56:35PM +, Alan Mackenzie wrote:
Some considerate organisation has been sending me MIME mails with
content in a text/html section and a wholly blank text/plain version.
What I see in mutt is the blank text/plain. Who on Earth thought a
blank text/plain section
On Sat, Mar 11, 2023 at 07:30:13PM +0100, Dennis Preiser wrote:
When I use the following macro inside the folder-hook (I don't have
offlineimap)
macro index,pager G "!/bin/echo $record\n"; \
Ok, found the issue. The problem is that the folder name contains '='
(as in =INBOX) and for folders
On Sat, Mar 11, 2023 at 06:15:14PM +0100, Dennis Preiser wrote:
folder-hook . 'set my_record=$record; \
set record=^; \
macro index,pager G "echo $record"; \
set record=$my_record'
Thanks for your suggestion. I tried this:
folder-hook . 'set
Hi everybody,
I have this macro:
macro index,pager G "!offlineimap -o -l /tmp/offlineimap.log\n" "Retrieve new IMAP
messages"
It works well, but I typically use only for =INBOX, so checking all the
folders (the default behaviour) is a waste. I've been trying to find if
there's any way to
On Mon, Oct 10, 2022 at 12:27:52PM +0200, Jan Eden via Mutt-users wrote:
The problem was related to the target dir (/tmp/mutt_attach). Although
it was accessible by the current user, Firefox was not able to display
files at file:///tmp/mutt_attach/file.html – while Epiphany was.
Whatever the
On Tue, Aug 30, 2022 at 02:58:38PM -0400, Kurt Hackenberg wrote:
Also, does vim have some option to make whitespace at end of line
visible, or some other way to show that text is marked as flowed? That
would be a big help.
I have:
setl list
set listchars=trail:•
This uses a nice fat dot to
On Mon, Aug 29, 2022 at 03:43:37PM +0200, Angel M Alganza wrote:
Perhaps if there was a way to configure Mutt to wrap long lines while
reading mail with them and Vim to do the same (visually but not actually
including the new lines) while editing they would be bearable for us who
preffer wrapped
On Sat, Aug 06, 2022 at 01:27:05AM -0400, D.J.J. Ring, Jr. wrote:
Those worked, but I still have a problem saving my mail.
This works without an error but it still doesn't save my mail>
set record="Sent"
I don't use `record`, but I think you need either a + or a = sign in
front of the
On Thu, Jul 28, 2022 at 04:44:07PM +0300, Oleg A. Mamontov wrote:
I use the following approach for the same problem but with mbsync:
---
folder-hook . "source ~/.mutt/on-folder-change"
---
where ~/.mutt/on-folder-change has the below content:
---
set record = ^
set my_folder = `echo $record |
Hi all,
I have offlineimap running on a cron job every 5 minutes, but from time
to time (for example, I've received a login code) I want to refresh the
current folder faster. For that, I have this macro:
macro index,pager G "!offlineimap\n" "Retrieve new IMAP messages"
It works well, but
On Tue, Jun 14, 2022 at 03:26:47PM -0400, Christopher Conforti wrote:
I imagine there are a number of users who, like me, enjoy tinkering
with and tweaking their setup, adjusting every detail to their liking.
So for those who do:
* Have you done anything unusual with your configuration? Why?
*
On Wed, Jun 08, 2022 at 01:55:06PM -0500, Bryan K. Walton wrote:
To be precise, what I would like is the ability to cancel sending when
my ispell check shows me something that requires manual intervention.
It would be nice to have a confirmation come up after spell
checking, but before sending.
On Tue, May 3, 2022, at 14:35, Derek Martin wrote:
> You're on vacation. You probably didn't bring a laptop, because...
> you're on vacation. You go out and leave your phone somewhere, never
> to be seen again. Now what?
This is getting a bit off topic, but I just want to add: in the situation
On Mon, May 2, 2022, at 23:25, lilydjwg wrote:
> Google doesn't disable app passwords (requires 2FA). Google is going to
> disable account passwords login at the end of this month.[1]
>
> I've switched to OAuth because I don't want to enable 2FA (which means
> if I lost all my devices, I would
On Mon, Apr 11, 2022 at 06:09:01PM +0200, Orm Finnendahl wrote:
How do I set the "" value that it uses my HexKey?
I have my GPG options here:
$ cat .gnupg/gpg.conf
default-key 263080EC
encrypt-to 263080EC
There I declare what's my default key and I also tell it to always
encrypt to me too
On Tue, Feb 22, 2022 at 09:42:46AM -0500, José María Mateos wrote:
On Mon, Feb 21, 2022 at 06:10:51PM -0600, Ion wrote:
I used the same password as IMAP as the Fastmail help page tells me
"Your app-specific password. You cannot use your regular Fastmail
password." So does the "se
On Mon, Feb 21, 2022 at 06:10:51PM -0600, Ion wrote:
I used the same password as IMAP as the Fastmail help page tells me
"Your app-specific password. You cannot use your regular Fastmail
password." So does the "set ssl_force_tls =yes" not cover authentication?
You need to create a password to
On Thu, Feb 17, 2022 at 07:01:52PM +0100, li...@2ion.de wrote:
On Thu, Feb 17, 2022 at 12:35:32PM -0500, José María Mateos wrote:
I'd like to know if there's any config variable to set the destination folder
for saved attachments. I know the workaround is to start mutt in a different
place
On Thu, Feb 17, 2022 at 06:47:44PM +0100, Francesco Ariis wrote:
I have macros like
macro attach D ~/download/
macro attach T /tmp/
to save to different folder. Would that do?
It'd definitely work, but I'd like to know if there's some way to change
the default behaviour through a
Hi all,
When I want to save an attachment, the default path is the path where
mutt was launched (typically my home folder). I'd like to know if
there's any config variable to set the destination folder for saved
attachments. I know the workaround is to start mutt in a different
place, but
On Fri, Nov 12, 2021 at 09:25:47AM +, Chris Green wrote:
I know this has been discussed before but I can't immediately find the
discussion or a solution.
Probably not the solution you're looking for, but what I do (and I guess
more people here do) is to let go of the mouse entirely and
On Sun, Aug 29, 2021 at 06:02:43PM +0200, Rene Kita wrote:
The idea behind this is, that can you view/edit the headers while
replying. That's why the headers are cleared if you delete these lines.
They want end up in the body of that mail.
As already that said in another reply, 'set
On Mon, Feb 15, 2021 at 03:32:54PM +, Chris Green wrote:
I think L[ist reply] depends on there being a List-Id header in the
list's messages to work if the list isn't in lists/subscribe.
Most of the lists I use do have List-Id headers but not (quite) all.
Yes, you're right. The worst
On Mon, Feb 15, 2021 at 05:07:54PM +, Chris Green wrote:
Does no one else ever delete mail messges? :-)
I do, but for Junk / Trash I just set expiration times on those folders
on my e-mail provider (Fastmail) so I don't even have to think about
that.
Cheers,
--
José María (Chema)
On Mon, Feb 15, 2021 at 12:50:55PM +, Chris Green wrote:
Currently I automatically add all mailing lists I am subscribed to
into my muttrc file against both 'lists' and 'subscribe', is this
correct/OK?
I never added any mailing list I'm subscribed to, and everything works
well; I don't
On Wed, Feb 03, 2021 at 10:36:42PM +0530, Chinmaya Nagpal wrote:
On Wed, Feb 03, 2021 at 10:46:06AM -0600, Peng Yu wrote:
This does not work. Have you tried it yourself?
I did just now; my muttrc has the following lines:
ignore *
unignore From Date To Cc Bcc Subject
and the Message-ID
On Mon, Feb 01, 2021 at 09:46:04PM +0300, Oleg A. Mamontov wrote:
I use below macro (Alt-h) for the same:
---
macro index,pager h /html "view first
html attachment"
---
Of course, I also have Chrome as a viewer for text/html in mailcap.
Hope this helps.
I tried it and in my case (using mutt
On Mon, Feb 01, 2021 at 04:34:47PM -, Grant Edwards wrote:
If you set up your local MTA properly, yes. However, that's not
trivial. I maintained a local queueing MTA for many years, but after
multiple screwups where mail wasn't getting sent (and I didn't find
out in a timely manner) I
On Mon, Feb 01, 2021 at 06:32:41AM -0800, Andrew Marks wrote:
Primarily speed, not waiting for mutt to establish an SMTP connection
and authenticate to a remote MTA. The mail is sent to the local MTA
instantly, and the local MTA is working to relay the mail appropriately
while I continue working
On Thu, Dec 03, 2020 at 03:30:47AM +, Globe Trotter via Mutt-users wrote:
Thank you very much! This works.
Thanks very much from me too. This has been bothering me for a while but
never thought there could be a very simple solution :-)
Cheers,
--
José María (Chema) Mateos ||
On Sat, Oct 24, 2020 at 08:54:18PM +, Globe Trotter via Mutt-users wrote:
Lots of people send me mail in HTML format (even though I do not like it). I
have the following set up in my .mailcap:
text/html; w3m -I %{charset} -T text/html; copiousoutput
so it converts things using w3m more or
On Mon, Sep 28, 2020 at 02:11:58PM +, ಚಿರಾಗ್ ನಟರಾಜ್ wrote:
I'd like to automatically set the from address to @chiraag.me if the
email was sent to such an address, keeping the @.com
address as the from address if that is not the case.
Hi,
If I understood correctly, what you want can be
On Tue, Sep 15, 2020 at 08:30:49AM +0200, Francesco Ariis wrote:
Hello mutters,
I have just finished reading this article on The Register: «Relying
on plain-text email is a 'barrier to entry' for kernel development, says
Linux Foundation board member». [1]
Of course this opinion is not
On Fri, Jun 05, 2020 at 04:15:10PM +0200, mutt...@mail.com wrote:
What I'd like is that when I press '?' I get a list of *mailboxes*
rather than directories, because, as a user, I'm really not interested
in directories, I only want to know about mailboxes.
I also use the Maildir format and I
On Wed, May 27, 2020 at 05:22:23PM -0300, Marcelo Laia wrote:
You are very welcome!
I asked to do this in the client side because I use Gmail. How I could
do this on the Gmail side? If it is possible, I will love it!
Hi Marcelo,
I've done a small test but I haven't been able to make it work,
On Wed, May 27, 2020 at 04:59:20PM -0300, Marcelo Laia wrote:
3. If the attachment is larger than 1MB, send a message with the
following text: "Dear colleague, your message has not been delivered. My
system has detected that it contains attachments larger than 1MB. It was
blocked! Please upload
On Sun, Nov 03, 2019 at 07:56:34AM -0500, Mark H. Wood wrote:
I like that Mutt presents emails simply. It ignores all the fancy
to-the-pixel formatting, pointless images, distracting backgrounds,
and flashing multicolored nonsense. I find that reading mail with
Mutt is more restful than with
On Tue, Oct 29, 2019 at 07:39:34PM -0400, José María Mateos wrote:
To me, the gold standard of "selecting URLs while in text mode to be
sent to the browser" is a plugin for irssi ("the mutt of IRC clients",
I'd say) called simply url.pl. It tracks which URLs have been pos
On Tue, Oct 29, 2019 at 01:37:29PM +1300, martin f krafft wrote:
Yes, it does. I think Chris' and José's points were more about
requiring an external tool to provide functionality which has become so
core to everyday email use that mutt could learn to do it.
Urlview also obstructs your view
On Mon, Oct 28, 2019 at 10:40:16PM +, Chris Green wrote:
Isn't that handled by your terminal program? Mine certainly allows
one to right click on any URL to open it.
Not if the URL spans several lines. I think it's a common issue across
several terminal programs and last time I read
On Mon, Oct 28, 2019 at 11:11:31PM +0100, Matthias Apitz wrote:
Well, do you speak for you or for a 'lot of people'? Who they are?
I speak only for my own interests (as I said: I do not need this).
Talking for myself, I really don't need point 1 (composing of HTML
messages), but number 2,
On Sat, 26 Oct 2019 11:16:25 +1300 martin f krafft
wrote:
> In any case, given how email has changed in the last 20 years, and how
> text/plain messages are causing display issues across different device types
> (e.g. they are not “responsive”)
If you want to accomplish this, wouldn't it be
On Sun, 20 Oct 2019 15:05:24 +0100 (Nuno Silva)
wrote:
> Does "grep -R mutt /etc/apparmor.d/" return anything?
>
> I suspect that, in a system with this issue, the problematic rule would
> be in abstractions/private-files, and usr.bin.evince includes
> abstractions/evince[1] which includes
On Sun, 20 Oct 2019 10:15:34 -0300 Marcelo Laia
wrote:
> root@marcelo:~# dpkg -l apparmor
> Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
> |
> Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
> |/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad) ||/
> Nome
On Sun, 20 Oct 2019 09:43:51 +0100 Chris Green wrote:
> Thanks for trying it José, what version of evince are you running?
> Mine is "GNOME Document Viewer 3.32.0".
I'm running 3.18.2 on an Ubuntu Mate 16.04 with Xfce as a desktop
manager.
Cheers,
--
José María (Chema) Mateos ||
On Sat, 19 Oct 2019 19:17:06 +0100 Chris Green wrote:
> Running 'evince ~/.mitt/fred.pdf' displays the PDF file successfully
> but running 'evince ~/.mutt/fred.pdf' produces a Permission Denied
> message in a pop-up window. All directory names I have tried other
> than .mutt allow the PDF file
On Mon, Oct 14, 2019 at 07:51:10PM -0400, Kurt Hackenberg wrote:
> That's probably not arguments. Mutt probably can't run without a
> terminal. I bet the missing terminal emulator was the problem.
(Resending because I forgot to reply to the list)
No, it was something different. I got a terminal
Hi,
I have set up Firefox so that mutt is the designed e-mail client.
However, when I click on "Email link...", the e-mail body doesn't go
into the text editor (vim, in my case).
I guess there might be some wrapper script that takes care of that (by
piping the URL to a temporary file and then
Hi,
Is it possible to tell mutt to automatically overwrite headers
(content-type, etc) from a draft that is being edited? My question comes
after the other day I started a draft using Fastmail's webmail app, then
finished it using mutt and sent it. Later, I saw that the f=f settings
were not
On Sun, Sep 08, 2019 at 11:18:08AM -0300, Marcelo Laia wrote:
However, some messages have html and a single and sort alternate text
plain said "your mailreader don't support html message". in this case,
I need to hint "v" and select alternate html and hint enter to read the
message.
I have
On Wed, Aug 28, 2019 at 01:37:02PM -0700, Kevin J. McCarthy wrote:
Mutt doesn't add the trailing spaces. However, if you are replying to
a flowed message, they won't be removed. Whether to reflow the quoted
content is up to you. There may be some cases where it's not
appropriate to do so.
On Thu, Aug 22, 2019 at 08:24:30PM -0400, José María Mateos wrote:
On Sun, Jul 07, 2019 at 10:02:51AM -0400, José María Mateos wrote:
And, as far as I can tell, this cannot be done correctly with flowed
text. Plus sometimes I send e-mails to lists that need to copy & paste
code and one n
On Sun, Jul 07, 2019 at 10:02:51AM -0400, José María Mateos wrote:
And, as far as I can tell, this cannot be done correctly with flowed
text. Plus sometimes I send e-mails to lists that need to copy & paste
code and one needs to be extra careful with that. In the end, I didn't
find any obv
On Wed, Aug 7, 2019, at 19:17, tech-lists wrote:
> Please can you tell me what OS you were using and whether you were using
> openssl or gnutls for ssl, when you were experiencing the problem?
Hi,
I'm using Ubuntu 16.04, with the last mutt version available (1.5.24). As far
as I know, it uses
On Tue, Jul 30, 2019 at 10:08:02AM -0400, Mark H. Wood wrote:
> You may want to examine some netnews clients for ideas. They tend to
> have exactly this: a database of killed threads, easily augmented with
> a simple keystroke.
This. Having used slrn in the past, I was surprised mutt didn't have
On Sun, Jul 28, 2019 at 11:13:17AM +0100, tech-lists wrote:
> I'm using fastmail for all my mail and I access it with imap4s. Lately
> I've been seeing timeouts, or a mailbox will just close [1], and yet
> my connection (fibre) is stable. I've been using imap with mutt ever
> since direct imap
On Sat, Jul 13, 2019 at 07:56:24PM -0400, sunnycemet...@gmail.com wrote:
> I concur. Hanging indents lie beyond the scope of RFC 3676.
Indeed, that is the problem.
> They also don't align necessarily when proportionately spaced fonts
> are used, but José probably already knows this. As an
On Sat, Jul 13, 2019 at 07:39:22PM -0400, sunnycemet...@gmail.com wrote:
> Whoops. The second one should have been:
>
> >“This is ”
> >“one line.”
> >
> >Becomes:
> >
> >“This is one line.”
Ah, I understand now, thanks :-)
--
José María (Chema) Mateos || https://rinzewind.org/
On Sun, Jul 07, 2019 at 06:14:15PM -0700, Kevin J. McCarthy wrote:
> There actually may be an issue with Mutt here. I think the
> space-stuffing is not working, but I haven't had enough time yet to
> look into the problem and possible solutions more deeply. I'll try to
> address this before the
On Sun, Jul 07, 2019 at 03:27:09AM -0400, sunnycemet...@gmail.com wrote:
> Could you provide an example of such an indented block?
See my response to Cameron above.
> >What's the effect of delsp?
>
> It basically removes a single trailing space from each f=f line. Example:
>
> “This is ”
>
On Sun, Jul 07, 2019 at 09:59:15AM +1000, Cameron Simpson wrote:
> I'm curious about your experiments with composing flowed text. I'm
> using vim invoked thus:
>
> vim \
> -c 'silent 1,/^$/s/ *$//' \
> -c 'set filetype=mail' \
> -c 'set formatoptions=waqj'
>
> which produces a
On Sat, Jul 06, 2019 at 12:41:21AM -0400, sunnycemet...@gmail.com wrote:
> Thank you for the helpful response. I was originally hesitant to
> clobber
> whatever value for Content-Type that mutt created on its own. However, the
> following seems to sidestep such concerns:
>
> set content_type =
On Sat, Jan 05, 2019 at 05:02:14PM -0500, Ed Blackman wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 19, 2018 at 11:10:02AM -0800, Will Yardley wrote:
>
> > I honestly think that without better editor integration, and /
> > or some way of validating that the content is actually formatted
> > properly (or post-editing
On Mon, Jun 11, 2018 at 08:26:42PM -0700, Tom Fowle wrote:
> As more isps and email providers require two factor authentication, I
> hope mutt will support this security system!
Doesn't mutt already "support" this? I use Fastmail with 2FA enabled.
What I do then is to generate an app-specific
Just to add to this thread: by chance, a similar conversation recently
happened on the main Python mailing list. It's also very interesting
reading and starts right here:
https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2018-May/733194.html
Cheers,
--
José María Mateos
https://rinzewind.org
But the
purposes of sending an e-mail there and sending an e-mail here are
different.
Cheers,
[1] https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/17192/pg17192.txt
--
José María Mateos
https://rinzewind.org/blog-es || https://rinzewind.org/blog-en
On Wed, Mar 7, 2018, at 14:02, Grant Edwards wrote:
> text/plain (which usually assumes an 80-colum display) often renders
> especially bad on narrow phone displays.
This can be solved using format=flowed e-mail. I used it for a while (it came
with a different set of problems) and it was
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