On Fri, Jun 03, 2022 at 05:48:55AM +, Sam Lee via Mutt-users wrote:
Is there some kind of setting similar to
"set sidebar_use_mailbox_shortcuts=no", but for the mailbox browser?
'unset browser_abbreviate_mailboxes' might work for you.
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Kevin J. McCarthy
GPG Fingerprint: 8975
On 2022-06-03 05:48 +, Sam Lee via Mutt-users wrote:
> In the sidebar, my mailbox is displayed in a format like
> "imaps://john-...@example.com/INBOX". However, in the mailbox browser
> (accessed using keybinding 'y' or :exec browse-mailboxes), it is
> displayed as &q
In the sidebar, my mailbox is displayed in a format like
"imaps://john-...@example.com/INBOX". However, in the mailbox browser
(accessed using keybinding 'y' or :exec browse-mailboxes), it is
displayed as "=INBOX". In the mailbox browser, how do I make Mutt
display
??* 1.42s user 27.85s system 28% cpu 1:42.13 total
...that's running on a VM which nfs mounts $HOME from the host machine,
and is RAID6 backed on spinning rust.
That said, this is academic to me as I never use the in-mutt browser anyway.
mutt's startup time is effectively ze
On 03Oct2020 08:51, Chris Green wrote:
>On Sat, Oct 03, 2020 at 02:47:46PM +1000, Cameron Simpson wrote:
>> >Even *copying* the whole of my 1.5Gb mail hierarchy takes only 8
>> >seconds.
>>
>> Looks like your filesystem is superior to mine. Mine's MacOS apfs, I
>> presume yours is a good Linux fs
On Sat, Oct 03, 2020 at 02:47:46PM +1000, Cameron Simpson wrote:
> On 02Oct2020 16:57, Chris Green wrote:
> >... by the way I just timed a 'du' on my main directory full of
> >(maildir) directories:-
> >
> >chris$ time du -sm *
> [...]
> >real0m0.109s
> >user0m0.032s
> >
On 02Oct2020 16:57, Chris Green wrote:
>... by the way I just timed a 'du' on my main directory full of
>(maildir) directories:-
>
>chris$ time du -sm *
[...]
>real0m0.109s
>user0m0.032s
>sys 0m0.076s
>
>(and, no, I didn't cheat, that was a 'cold start' du, I hadn't
On Fri, Oct 02, 2020 at 10:36:44AM -0500, Derek Martin wrote:
>
> I haven't made this point yet since I regard it as almost irrelevant
> given the above, but I would also argue it's not particularly useful
> information, except in the context of disk space management--which has
> nothing to do
if it's not that, you could do that in your MDA with
> > os.utime(), which should force the issue.
> >
> Now that's a point, thank you, I see a small revision of my Python
> filter coming up! :-)
Great, hope that helps you out. Meanwhile...
> > They may be mai
> The same place in a mbox hierarchy shows me the size of the maibox and
> > > > the date of the last change.
> > >
> > > You're looking at this all wrong. It's purely a side effect of how
> > > the mailbox abstraction is represented: you get that only beca
; > the date of the last change.
> >
> > You're looking at this all wrong. It's purely a side effect of how
> > the mailbox abstraction is represented: you get that only because they
> > just happen to be files--exactly what the file browser was meant to
> > handle
gt; You're looking at this all wrong. It's purely a side effect of how
> the mailbox abstraction is represented: you get that only because they
> just happen to be files--exactly what the file browser was meant to
> handle.
>
"I'm" a user! :-) I want the information I
* Derek Martin on Tuesday, September 29, 2020 at 09:49:52 -0500:
On Tue, Sep 29, 2020 at 08:30:42AM +0100, Chris Green wrote:
I have 'set folder_format="%N %-32.32f %m %n"'. I did have a
date as
well but all that shows is 'Sep 25' the date of creation of the
maildir which is no use at all,
> > > > but it woud be nice to be able to improve it a bit.
> > > >
> > > > I'd recommend using a "maildir browser" which knows how to interpret the
> > > > information you're looking for (and which mutt is very good at).
> > > &g
On Mon, Sep 28, 2020 at 06:55:51PM -0500, Derek Martin wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 26, 2020 at 05:02:08PM +0100, Chris Green wrote:
> > However there is a minor downside in the file browser (well directory
> > browser really isn't it), the information shown against the
> > direc
> >
> > > I'd recommend using a "maildir browser" which knows how to interpret the
> > > information you're looking for (and which mutt is very good at).
> > >
> > ?? I'm a bit lost here, you recommend a "maildir browser" and say "...
>
On Mon, Sep 28, 2020 at 10:10:28PM -0400, Josef 'Jeff' Sipek wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 28, 2020 at 18:55:51 -0500, Derek Martin wrote:
> ...
> > On Unix systems, at least
> > for most file systems, the size of a directory is the space occupied
> > by the blocks needed to hold the internal
On Mon, Sep 28, 2020 at 18:55:51 -0500, Derek Martin wrote:
...
> On Unix systems, at least
> for most file systems, the size of a directory is the space occupied
> by the blocks needed to hold the internal representation of the
> listing of the directory...
Yes, the size on directories is
On Mon, Sep 28, 2020 at 06:09:49PM -0700, Kevin J. McCarthy wrote:
> Yes, Olaf Hering submitted a patch in 1.10, zeroing out the directory size
> for the reason you site below:
>
> > However the size of a directory is very likely not what you think it is,
> > and is not particularly useful to
n the date you created them, so not much is going to change
>> that.
But if it reported this for the new and cur subdirs if could be useful.
Very dependent on the file browser of course.
Setting flags on maildir items renames then, so the directory's mod time
will get a bump. Editing labe
On Mon, Sep 28, 2020 at 06:55:51PM -0500, Derek Martin wrote:
There IS size info, although it's wrong... That appears to be a bug
introduced some time after 1.9.4, which I have lying around, that has
it right. I also have 1.12.2 where it is wrong, so... somewhere in
between.
Yes, Olaf
aildir,
> > > but it woud be nice to be able to improve it a bit.
> >
> > I'd recommend using a "maildir browser" which knows how to interpret the
> > information you're looking for (and which mutt is very good at).
> >
> ?? I'm a bit lost here, you r
On Sat, Sep 26, 2020 at 05:02:08PM +0100, Chris Green wrote:
> However there is a minor downside in the file browser (well directory
> browser really isn't it), the information shown against the
> directories (at the bottom level these are maildir mailboxes) is
> pretty useless, what
On Sun, Sep 27, 2020 at 10:07:41 +0100, Chris Green wrote:
> Are you using maildir?
Have been from the start. I use offlineimap to sync my mail from a
number of accounts and then let mutt work with those.
--Ben
On Sat, Sep 26, 2020 at 06:52:23PM -0400, Ben Boeckel wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 26, 2020 at 21:59:43 +0100, Chris Green wrote:
> > Er, um, that is what I'm using - and have been using for more years
> > than I like to remember!
>
> Hmm. The dates I have in my folder listing seem to be "last modified"
On Sat, Sep 26, 2020 at 21:59:43 +0100, Chris Green wrote:
> Er, um, that is what I'm using - and have been using for more years
> than I like to remember!
Hmm. The dates I have in my folder listing seem to be "last modified"
including messages being added or removed:
0.1K Sep 26 11:55
ow that. GUI browsers might be smarter,
> but that hasn't been consistent IME. Not sure about terminal browsers so
> much.
>
> > As I said 'very expensive' may not be an issue.
>
> Maybe there's an option to do so in whatever you are browsing?
>
> > ?? I'm a bit l
about terminal browsers so
much.
> As I said 'very expensive' may not be an issue.
Maybe there's an option to do so in whatever you are browsing?
> ?? I'm a bit lost here, you recommend a "maildir browser" and say "...
> which mutt is very good at", so is mutt
On Sat, Sep 26, 2020 at 01:13:11PM -0400, Ben Boeckel wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 26, 2020 at 17:02:08 +0100, Chris Green wrote:
> > However there is a minor downside in the file browser (well directory
> > browser really isn't it), the information shown against the
> > directories
On Sat, Sep 26, 2020 at 17:02:08 +0100, Chris Green wrote:
> However there is a minor downside in the file browser (well directory
> browser really isn't it), the information shown against the
> directories (at the bottom level these are maildir mailboxes) is
> pretty useless, what I a
As per my recent questions and (successful) report I have just moved
from using mbox to maildir. I'm generally happy with the result,
apart from anything else it simplifies my custom MDA script and also
some other utilities.
However there is a minor downside in the file browser (well directory
On Fri, Jun 12, 2020 at 12:41:00PM -0700, Kevin J. McCarthy wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 12, 2020 at 11:53:24AM +0100, Chris Green wrote:
> > I have a small script to handle PDF (among other) attachments which is
> > called via mailcap.
> >
> > The mailcap entry is simply:-
> >
> >application/pdf;
On Fri, Jun 12, 2020 at 11:53:24AM +0100, Chris Green wrote:
I have a small script to handle PDF (among other) attachments which is
called via mailcap.
The mailcap entry is simply:-
application/pdf; /home/chris/bin/muttfox %s
The muttfox script gives the PDF file to firefox to be viewed.
On Fri, Jun 12, 2020 at 11:53:24AM +0100, Chris Green wrote:
> I have a small script to handle PDF (among other) attachments which is
> called via mailcap.
>
> The mailcap entry is simply:-
>
> application/pdf; /home/chris/bin/muttfox %s
>
> The muttfox script gives the PDF file to firefox
I have a small script to handle PDF (among other) attachments which is
called via mailcap.
The mailcap entry is simply:-
application/pdf; /home/chris/bin/muttfox %s
The muttfox script gives the PDF file to firefox to be viewed.
This works fine *except* when there are spaces in the
Hi all,
It's bugged me forever that when I set sort_browser=unsorted, so that
my mailboxes are shown to me in the order I list them, Mutt also shows
me file listings in the file browser unsorted. I think this is
insane. Mailboxes list != file list; the two have different
properties and should
On Fri, Jul 15, 2016 at 11:37:18PM +0200, famfop wrote:
Hi,
I solved it the following way. I wanted to have a "startup-mailbox"
folder with unread messages. Using mairix I set up the "maildir" and
"mfolder" var in the rc and now I run mairix F:-s. It's a bit hacky but
it shows all unread
Hello,
I've been giving mutt a spin for the past few days. I like it quite a
bit except for one issue I have been unable to solve: how to get the
mailbox browser to properly display new message status.
Platform: Debian jessie running NeoMutt (latest from git but have tried
mutt from
Hi everybody,
I'm writing to ask how to display old messages (unread) in the browser
menu.
In my .muttrc I've:
set folder_format = "%4C [%d] %2N %2t %2f "
I've no idea if it's possible and about which "code" I've to add.
Thanks a lot
Alan
--
Alan Leoni
signature.asc
Hi all,
I posted a replay to David message yesterday morning,
but looking at mail-archive.com web site, that message
is not shown...
Now, I'm not sure if it's just a problem of that web
site or my message was not received by any recipients
of mutt-users mailing list.
Anyway I can see my mail on
* Joe joe.on.l...@gmail.com [2015-08-25 09:32 -0400]:
2- I'd like to isolate a whole thread from the rest of messages/threads
opening it in a new clean screen containing just that thread.
Same behaviour of tin newsreader:
- topics of a newsgroup are listed one per line
So this would be
to be removed, indeed I tried
the following:
mailboxes `echo $HOME/Mail/*`
This finally works!:)
Now I can view N-flags properly also in browser menu.
I've tested buffy-list and check-new... seems all works as
expected now.
So, mutt needs mailboxes command is in its rc file to consider
files
On Thursday 27.08.15 21:40, Patrick Shanahan wrote:
* Joe joe.on.l...@gmail.com [08-27-15 18:41]:
Hope this will be usefull to solve...
Very difficult solving problems when one does not know all the parameters
and doesn't have access. This information is necessary you *you* to
provide
On 27.08.15 13:40, Joe wrote:
Nothing changes... still no N-flag in browser menu...
That is peculiar. Have we compared a positive buffy-check, i.e. hitting
'.' and being told that there's new mail, then hitting 'y' to look for
'N's?
If that is negative, please change your folder_format to put
On Thursday 27.08.15 23:43, Erik Christiansen wrote:
On 27.08.15 13:40, Joe wrote:
Nothing changes... still no N-flag in browser menu...
That is peculiar. Have we compared a positive buffy-check, i.e. hitting
'.' and being told that there's new mail, then hitting 'y' to look for
'N's
* Joe joe.on.l...@gmail.com [08-27-15 12:10]:
[...]
Then I ran fetchmail...
And finally I've opened Mutt.
Using 'push cTAB' in my muttrc, I'm directly in browser menu at
mutt start up, in front of my mailboxes list contained in ~/Mail.
Here I've pressed . as suggested, but nothing
On 2015-08-28 00:36 +0200, Joe wrote:
set folder = $HOME/Mail
set spoolfile = +inbox
mailboxes `echo +*`
Manual section 3.14:
Note
The folders in the mailboxes command are resolved when the command is
executed, so if these names contain shortcut characters (such as “=” and
“!”),
On Thursday 27.08.15 12:58, Patrick Shanahan wrote:
* Joe joe.on.l...@gmail.com [08-27-15 12:10]:
[...]
Then I ran fetchmail...
And finally I've opened Mutt.
Using 'push cTAB' in my muttrc, I'm directly in browser menu at
mutt start up, in front of my mailboxes list contained
* Joe joe.on.l...@gmail.com [08-27-15 18:41]:
[...]
mailboxes `echo +*`
Ian probably solved your problem here :)
I found also following files in /etc, I don't know if they are really
read by mutt at startup, anyway here they are:
Explained in the very fine manual which really should be read
On Wednesday 26.08.15 17:34, Ian Zimmerman wrote:
Check the code, in buffy.c, buffy_mbox_hasnew(). It's a good deal more
complicated, and there are quite a few more ways it could be messed up.
Including, but maybe not limited to, the config options check_mbox_size
and mail_check_recent.
! :)
Nothing changes... still no N-flag in browser menu...
On Tuesday 25.08.15 09:43, Ian Zimmerman wrote:
On 2015-08-25 17:35 +0200, Joe wrote:
%N should mean: show N flag for mailboxes containing New mail messages
all mailboxes are in mbox format (at now) not in maildir format.
I have many mailboxes, filled using fetchmail/procmail.
With
flag when I'm in browser menu.
In my ~/.muttrc I've set:
---
set folder_format = %4C %t %-40f %30.30d %-10.10N
set sort_browser = reverse-date
---
So I expected an N flag at the end of mail.test line in browser menu.
But I can just view the following line when I open Mutt browser menu:
---
1
new mail.
---
This should mean our mail.test mailbox contains new messages and I would
expect Mutt shows N flag when I'm in browser menu.
In my ~/.muttrc I've set:
---
set folder_format = %4C %t %-40f %30.30d %-10.10N
set sort_browser = reverse-date
---
So I expected an N flag
is greater than the access-time the file has new mail.
---
This should mean our mail.test mailbox contains new messages and I would
expect Mutt shows N flag when I'm in browser menu.
No, it is the opposite (as I had written correctly but you
misinterpreted).
When new mail is delivered
.
---
This should mean our mail.test mailbox contains new messages and I would
expect Mutt shows N flag when I'm in browser menu.
No, it is the opposite (as I had written correctly but you
misinterpreted).
When new mail is delivered, _both_ mtime and atime should under normal
circumstances get bumped
version - Mutt 1.5.23 (2014-03-12) - maybe
Debian (which I am using) packages mutt with slightly different defaults.
Maybe, I'm on Slackware...
1- N flags in my browser menu do not appears even if my mailboxes
contain brand new messages.
This is really, *really* weird. If you
Joe wrote:
On 24.08.15 18:09, Kevin J. McCarthy wrote:
joe.on.l...@gmail.com wrote:
Is there a way to quit mutt immediately when I'm in browser menu?
uppercase Q is bound to quit. This will save changes to the mailbox
and quit mutt.
Perhaps this should work from index menu, when
am using) packages mutt with slightly different defaults.
There are still a couple of things I'd like to obtain, one should be
easy and the other could be not possible at all:
1- N flags in my browser menu do not appears even if my mailboxes
contain brand new messages.
This is really
On 25.08.15 15:29, Joe wrote:
Mmmm, this differs on my machine:
from browser menu I can see mailboxes in ~/Mail directory.
If I type :exec exit, mutt ask me for which mailbox I want to open,
doesn't switch to the last opened automatically.
I have to type enter to open last seen mailbox
On Wednesday 26.08.15 00:12, Erik Christiansen wrote:
On 25.08.15 15:29, Joe wrote:
Mmmm, this differs on my machine:
from browser menu I can see mailboxes in ~/Mail directory.
If I type :exec exit, mutt ask me for which mailbox I want to open,
doesn't switch to the last opened
On 2015-08-25 17:35 +0200, Joe wrote:
%N should mean: show N flag for mailboxes containing New mail messages
all mailboxes are in mbox format (at now) not in maildir format.
I have many mailboxes, filled using fetchmail/procmail.
With mbox, AFAIK mutt detects newness simply by comparing
--- Mailboxes in mbox format not maildir
mailbox4
mailbox5
3- When I'm in Index Menu I can view N flags near new messages as
expected... Seems N flags disappears just in browser menu.
Thanks in advance!
On 24.08.15 18:09, Kevin J. McCarthy wrote:
joe.on.l...@gmail.com wrote:
Is there a way to quit mutt immediately when I'm in browser menu?
uppercase Q is bound to quit. This will save changes to the mailbox
and quit mutt.
Perhaps this should work from index menu, when you are within
On 25.08.15 02:19, Francesco Ariis wrote:
macro browser q exitquit
This doesn't work for me...
When I press q mutt says something like:
change to folder quit ?
And if I press enter it says obviously that quit mailbox doesn't
exists... Anyway this macro doesn't quit mutt at all
On Tue, Aug 25, 2015 at 11:33:32AM +0200, Joe wrote:
On 25.08.15 02:19, Francesco Ariis wrote:
macro browser q exitquit
This doesn't work for me...
When I press q mutt says something like:
change to folder quit ?
And if I press enter it says obviously that quit mailbox
On 25.08.15 13:18, Francesco Ariis wrote:
The browser menu is the one where all mailboxes/folders are listed.
From there:
- I type :exec exit and mutt returns to the last mailbox opened
Mmmm, this differs on my machine:
from browser menu I can see mailboxes in ~/Mail directory.
If I
On Tue, Aug 25, 2015 at 01:23:04AM +0200, joe.on.l...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi all,
Is there a way to quit mutt immediately when I'm in browser menu?
Thanks in advance!
Regards
Ciao Joe,
macro browser q exitquit
will this do?
Hi all,
Is there a way to quit mutt immediately when I'm in browser menu?
Thanks in advance!
Regards
joe.on.l...@gmail.com wrote:
Is there a way to quit mutt immediately when I'm in browser menu?
uppercase Q is bound to quit. This will save changes to the mailbox
and quit mutt.
--
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http://www.8t8.us/configs
At the risk of following up to myself (one foot in internet hell!),
having done another little investigation, here's what I found.
The code responsible for the check-new command is in browser.c, in
functions _mutt_select_file (public) and examine_mailboxes (static).
examine_mailboxes ultimately
I often spend lots of time in the browser view, in fact it is my default
interface to mutt. When I get bored I hit the check-new key combo. I
think I have never once seen new mail detected that way, though. When I
get _really_ bored I hit the y key to return to the index of the last
mailbox I
On 2015-06-07 17:23 -0700, Ian Zimmerman wrote:
Ian When I start the file browser view explicitly, either by hitting
Ian the y key or by passing -y on the shell command line, it comes up
Ian in the mailboxes only submode, i.e. things like my header cache
Ian directory are hidden. (They can
Ian Zimmerman wrote:
On 2015-06-07 17:23 -0700, Ian Zimmerman wrote:
Ian When I start the file browser view explicitly, either by hitting
Ian the y key or by passing -y on the shell command line, it comes up
Ian in the mailboxes only submode, i.e. things like my header cache
Ian directory
Kevin J. McCarthy wrote:
Ian Zimmerman wrote:
On 2015-06-07 17:23 -0700, Ian Zimmerman wrote:
Ian When I start the file browser view explicitly, either by hitting
Ian the y key or by passing -y on the shell command line, it comes up
Ian in the mailboxes only submode, i.e. things like
pushed
it without entertaining any feedback first. :-)
Also, the file browser didn't even work if no mailboxes were defined.
I've changed it to not abort and display an empty list, but this
could still be confusing to newish users, or even users who define no
mailboxes and for whom it just worked
On 2015-06-08 15:55 -0700, Kevin J. McCarthy wrote:
Kevin After looking and thinking this through, it may be somewhat
Kevin controversial to make this change. I've made a couple
Kevin modifications and will mail the patch to mutt-dev, but really
Kevin need more feedback before I consider pushing
When I start the file browser view explicitly, either by hitting the y
key or by passing -y on the shell command line, it comes up in the
mailboxes only submode, i.e. things like my header cache directory are
hidden. (They can be shown by activating the toggle-mailboxes function,
bound to Tab
* On Tue, Apr 28, 2015 12:09PM -0400 Peter P. (peterpar...@fastmail.com)
muttered:
Is there a way to have an html email rendered and displayed in a browser
window?
There used to be a page about that in the mutt wiki (wiki.mutt.org)
though I cannot find it right now.
In short:
~/.muttrc
# i
* Michael Tatge tatg...@gmail.com [2015-04-29 03:32]:
* On Tue, Apr 28, 2015 12:09PM -0400 Peter P. (peterpar...@fastmail.com)
muttered:
Is there a way to have an html email rendered and displayed in a browser
window?
There used to be a page about that in the mutt wiki (wiki.mutt.org
On Tue, Apr 28, 2015 at 12:09:34PM -0400, Peter P. wrote:
Dear fellow mutt users,
Is there a way to have an html email rendered and displayed in a browser
window?
Hello Peter,
once opened the message, press 'v' (view-attachments) and then
select the .html one and press enter, that should
* Francesco Ariis fa...@ariis.it [2015-04-28 12:47]:
On Tue, Apr 28, 2015 at 12:09:34PM -0400, Peter P. wrote:
Dear fellow mutt users,
Is there a way to have an html email rendered and displayed in a browser
window?
Hello Peter,
once opened the message, press 'v' (view-attachments
Dear fellow mutt users,
Is there a way to have an html email rendered and displayed in a browser
window? I tried saving the html message part to disk and opened that
file, but there was no formatting, and some symbols were wrong.
Motivation: Wanting to print a few html emails in their original
On 2015-04-28, Grant Edwards grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com wrote:
On 2015-04-28, Grant Edwards grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com wrote:
Yep. What many of us do is use w3m to view inside mutt, and then
define a 'print' command to view it externally:
text/html; w3m -T text/html -dump; copiousoutput;
On 2015-04-28, Grant Edwards grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com wrote:
Yep. What many of us do is use w3m to view inside mutt, and then
define a 'print' command to view it externally:
text/html; w3m -T text/html -dump; copiousoutput; print = firefoxurl %s;
Uh, in case your crystal ball was broken,
Peter P. peterpar...@fastmail.com writes:
* Francesco Ariis fa...@ariis.it [2015-04-28 12:47]:
On Tue, Apr 28, 2015 at 12:09:34PM -0400, Peter P. wrote:
Dear fellow mutt users,
Is there a way to have an html email rendered and displayed in a browser
window?
Hello Peter,
once opened
;
description=HTML Text; nametemplate=%s.html
as the corresponding mailcap entry.
I wonder if I could pipe the html message part to the browser. The way I
did it, typing | and specifying firefox as the program to pipe it to,
did not really render it nicely.
Mhhh I am a puzzled on why saving
On 2015-04-28, Peter P. peterpar...@fastmail.com wrote:
* Francesco Ariis fa...@ariis.it [2015-04-28 12:47]:
On Tue, Apr 28, 2015 at 12:09:34PM -0400, Peter P. wrote:
Dear fellow mutt users,
Is there a way to have an html email rendered and displayed in a browser
window?
Hello Peter
On 2015-04-28, Peter P. peterpar...@fastmail.com wrote:
Dear fellow mutt users,
Is there a way to have an html email rendered and displayed in a browser
window? I tried saving the html message part to disk and opened that
file, but there was no formatting, and some symbols were wrong.
I use
On Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 11:14:52AM -0500, Jon LaBadie wrote:
On Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 11:56:19AM +, Chris Green wrote:
On Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 01:41:57AM -0600, David Champion wrote:
* On 23 Jan 2015, Gary Johnson wrote:
#!/bin/sh
COPY=$1.firefox.html
ln $1
* On 23 Jan 2015, Jon LaBadie wrote:
You should be able to remove it in the script that copies it and
starts firefox. If more than a process has a file open and the
file is removed, only the directory entry is deleted. The inode
and data blocks not freed until the last close is done. So
On Thu, Jan 22, 2015 at 04:56:35PM -0600, David Champion wrote:
* On 22 Jan 2015, Chris Green wrote:
[snip excellent explanation and solution]
While I'm about it how do the two text/html entries in .mailcap work
so that lynx is used by default but 'v' takes me to firefox?
I would think
On Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 01:41:57AM -0600, David Champion wrote:
* On 23 Jan 2015, Gary Johnson wrote:
#!/bin/sh
COPY=$1.firefox.html
ln $1 $COPY
/usr/bin/firefox $COPY
I'm surprised that linking works because it used to be that mutt
overwrote the temporary file
On Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 11:56:19AM +, Chris Green wrote:
On Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 01:41:57AM -0600, David Champion wrote:
* On 23 Jan 2015, Gary Johnson wrote:
#!/bin/sh
COPY=$1.firefox.html
ln $1 $COPY
/usr/bin/firefox $COPY
I'm surprised
I usually automatically turn HTML mails into text using lynx and view
them in the mutt pager but occasionally I view them in Firefox by
hitting 'v' and then enter against the HTML part of the message.
Thus my .muttrc file has:-
auto_view text/html
... and my mailcap has:-
text/html;
* On 22 Jan 2015, Chris Green wrote:
The trouble is I'm frequently seeing the temporary HTML file saved by
mutt disappearing before firefox gets to see it, why does this happen
sometimes (almost all the time now)? It used to work OK. I have just
moved to a faster computer, would this affect
On 2015-01-22, David Champion wrote:
To solve this you need a wrapper script around Firefox. The wrapper
will take the file content from $1 and save it somehow for Firefox, so
that mutt may delete the original.
There are various techniques for this. I personally like the approach
of
* On 23 Jan 2015, Gary Johnson wrote:
#!/bin/sh
COPY=$1.firefox.html
ln $1 $COPY
/usr/bin/firefox $COPY
I'm surprised that linking works because it used to be that mutt
overwrote the temporary file with 0s before deleting it. I thought
it still did, but I don't know
On 2013-12-14, Chris Down ch...@chrisdown.name wrote:
Occasionally I get complex HTML e-mails that don't quite work in w3m
(which is what I have in my mailcap to view text/html). In these
instances, I would like to be able to somehow view these in my browser.
Right now my procedure
Hi Christian,
Am Sonntag, den 28. Dezember 2014 um 09:25:27 Uhr (+) schrieb
Christian Ebert:
Images should be displayed, and do so for me[tm] - unless one
uses the --safe option where remotely loaded images are not.
I'd need an example HTML message to check.
everything ist ok, it was
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