Default Mailbox problem

2000-12-28 Thread Peter Dobrev
Hello everybody! I've got very little experience in Mutt and I've got a problem. When Mutt starts it automaticly open /var/spool/mail/peterdob. I've set the mbox variable to "~/mail/Inbox". I want Mutt to open ~/mail/Inbox by default and store the new messages there (to move them from

Re: Default Mailbox problem

2000-12-28 Thread Frank Naumann
Hallo Peter, try procmail. You will have to create a file ~/.procmailrc with the following content: # ~/.procmailrc PATH=/bin:/usr/bin MAILDIR=$HOME/mail DEFAULT=$MAILDIR/Inbox LOGFILE=$MAILDIR/log Greetings, Frank On Thu, Dec 28, 2000 at 11:50:46AM -0200, Peter Dobrev wrote: When Mutt

Re: Default Mailbox problem

2000-12-28 Thread Abhay Ghaisas
Hi, Frank Naumann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote -- try procmail. You will have to create a file ~/.procmailrc with the [snip -- useful .procmailrc info] On Thu, Dec 28, 2000 at 11:50:46AM -0200, Peter Dobrev wrote: When Mutt starts it automaticly open /var/spool/mail/peterdob. I've set the

Re: Extra line added on edit message

2000-12-28 Thread Abhay Ghaisas
Suresh Ramasubramanian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote -- On Thursday 28 December 2000 11:34, Abhay Ghaisas wrote: [snip] piled up at the end of the message. Is this done with some reason or is it just a bug? Looks like a harmless feature to me :) Quite harmless when hand-editing the messages;

Re: Extra line added on edit message

2000-12-28 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Abhay Ghaisas proclaimed on mutt-users that: I think I misled you with the clean-up part. The script does not clean-up the mail-box by removing mails; I invoke it on individual mails to do clean-up like removing the pesky advertisements that some mailing list hosts like e-groups add. Also

Re: Default Mailbox problem

2000-12-28 Thread Dirk Ruediger
Hi, On Thu, Dec 28, 2000, Frank Naumann wrote: Hallo Peter, try procmail. You will have to create a file ~/.procmailrc with the following content: # ~/.procmailrc PATH=/bin:/usr/bin MAILDIR=$HOME/mail DEFAULT=$MAILDIR/Inbox LOGFILE=$MAILDIR/log Greetings, Frank On Thu, Dec

Thank you and another question

2000-12-28 Thread Peter Dobrev
Thank you for the help! Here's another question :) Well is there any way to configure Mutt to use a STMP server? I'll be very glad if you answer me ! Thank you! Peter!

Re: Default Mailbox problem

2000-12-28 Thread Frank Naumann
Hello Dirk, sorry. I forgot to explain, that i use fetchmail to poll from a foreign pop server. If so, you do not need ~/.forward. Greetings, Frank On Thu, Dec 28, 2000 at 01:03:38PM +0100, Dirk Ruediger wrote: You forgot to mention, that you have to create a file ~/.forward with the

Re: Thank you and another question

2000-12-28 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Peter Dobrev proclaimed on mutt-users that: Thank you for the help! Here's another question :) Well is there any way to configure Mutt to use a STMP server? mutt can't use any specific smtp server ... configure whatever MTA you are running on that box (sendmail, postfix, qmail) to smarthost

Re: Thank you and another question

2000-12-28 Thread Ralf Hildebrandt
On Thu, Dec 28, 2000 at 03:08:34PM -0200, Peter Dobrev wrote: Well is there any way to configure Mutt to use a STMP server? No. Mutt always uses a program to send it's mail. That program does talk to servers via SMTP, if needed. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] System Engineer

Re: Thank you and another question

2000-12-28 Thread David Merrill
On Thu, Dec 28, 2000 at 02:21:58PM +0100, Ralf Hildebrandt wrote: On Thu, Dec 28, 2000 at 03:08:34PM -0200, Peter Dobrev wrote: Well is there any way to configure Mutt to use a STMP server? No. Mutt always uses a program to send it's mail. That program does talk to servers via SMTP, if

Re: Thank you and another question

2000-12-28 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
David Merrill proclaimed on mutt-users that: There is a very thin MTA available that is designed to shuffle your request off to some other SMTP server. I don't remember what it's called atm, but such a creature does exist. I think I read about it in the mutt docs somewhere, but I can't seem

Re: Extra line added on edit message

2000-12-28 Thread David Champion
On 2000.12.28, in [EMAIL PROTECTED], "Suresh Ramasubramanian" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am using some scripts for cleaning up some mails by setting editor variable to script name. And, every time I try it, new lines get added at end. Could you share this script? Or you could