Re: Is mutt really handicapped?

2002-03-01 Thread John Buttery
On Thu, Feb 28, 2002 at 11:05:16AM -0900, Tim Johnson wrote: Hello All: Now that I have your attention - I and friends publish a webzine: http://wwwfrozen-north-linuxonlinecom/ And we publish monthly We also have a local linux user's group and a mailing list A comment was made

Re: Is mutt really handicapped?

2002-03-01 Thread Simon White
On 28-Feb-02 at 20:39, Ryan Singer's inspired musing was thus : On Thu, Feb 28, 2002 at 11:05:16AM -0900, Tim Johnson wrote: Is there anyone on this list that would like to contribute some comments about the advantages of switching from something like netscape mail to mutt?

Re: Is mutt really handicapped?

2002-03-01 Thread Will Yardley
Simon White wrote: - 1) Because I learned that PINE, which has always been pre-installed on my system, is not open source well to be fair, it's not open source according to some peoples' definition of open source the source code is freely available and you're allowed to make patches and

blind elitism (was Re: Is mutt really handicapped?)

2002-03-01 Thread Louis-David Mitterrand
On Fri, Mar 01, 2002 at 02:23:35AM -0600, John Buttery wrote: This may sound a little more harsh than I mean it. This isn't a flame, just a statement of opinion; please take it as such... One of the worst things that is happening to Linux (and when I say Linux I'm including the BSD

Selecting MIME viewer depending on file extension

2002-03-01 Thread Alexander Skwar
Hi. Rather often I get mails with attachments where the attachment is of type application/octet-stream instead of the correct type (let's say image/png). However, the attached file still has the correct extension (eg. .png or .PNG). Can I somehow tell mutt to treat all the files with an

Re: Selecting MIME viewer depending on file extension

2002-03-01 Thread Will Yardley
Alexander Skwar wrote: Rather often I get mails with attachments where the attachment is of type application/octet-stream instead of the correct type (let's say image/png) However, the attached file still has the correct extension (eg png or PNG) i think you need either the appoct patch

Re: Selecting MIME viewer depending on file extension

2002-03-01 Thread Christoph Maurer
On 2002-03-01 Will Yardley wrote: Alexander Skwar wrote: Rather often I get mails with attachments where the attachment is of type application/octet-stream instead of the correct type (let's say image/png). However, the attached file still has the correct extension (eg. .png or

unable to send mails....

2002-03-01 Thread Kanagesh
Hi, I'm using Mutt to send and receive emails I am on a network, which is connected to the internet I am able to receive emails from both within and outside the network, but i am unable to send emails outside the network (like ids at yahoo, hotmail, etc) what could be the problem? Does Mutt

Re: Selecting MIME viewer depending on file extension

2002-03-01 Thread Will Yardley
Christoph Maurer wrote: What does this patch do and where can I get it? i'm not sure where it's from; i put up a copy at: http://veggiechinesenet/021_patch-1324appoct2 Any advantages in comparison to: http://wwwdaveporg/mutt/muttoctetfilter i don't use either, so i can't give a

Re: Selecting MIME viewer depending on file extension

2002-03-01 Thread Christoph Maurer
On 2002-03-01 Will Yardley wrote: Christoph Maurer wrote: What does this patch do and where can I get it? i'm not sure where it's from; i put up a copy at: http://veggiechinese.net/021_patch-1.3.24.appoct.2 Many thanks, I'll give it a try... Regards, Christoph -- Christoph Maurer

Re: blind elitism (was Re: Is mutt really handicapped?)

2002-03-01 Thread John Buttery
On Fri, Mar 01, 2002 at 10:38:22AM +0100, Louis-David Mitterrand wrote: On Fri, Mar 01, 2002 at 02:23:35AM -0600, John Buttery wrote: This may sound a little more harsh than I mean it. This isn't a flame, just a statement of opinion; please take it as such... One of the worst things

quote_regexp occasionally ignored

2002-03-01 Thread Andrew Pimlott
I'm using mutt 1.3.27i from Debian testing. I've noticed that occasionally, quoted text isn't highlighted in the pager. I have quote_regexp set in my .muttrc: set quote_regexp=^[[:blank:]]*([[:alnum:]]{0,10}|[]|:}#);+]|- ) This should match (among other things) any line with a leading .

Re: mutt paints over background image

2002-03-01 Thread Dominik Vogt
On Thu, Feb 28, 2002 at 02:41:24PM -0500, Thomas Dickey wrote: On Thu, Feb 28, 2002 at 01:44:43PM +0100, Dominik Vogt wrote: On Thu, Feb 28, 2002 at 07:25:51AM -0500, Thomas E. Dickey wrote: On Thu, 28 Feb 2002, Dominik Vogt wrote: # Reconstructed via infocmp from file:

Re: unable to send mails....

2002-03-01 Thread Joel Hammer
Does this happen just with mutt? What do you see in your logs? (/var/log/mail) Joel On Fri, Mar 01, 2002 at 03:39:45PM +0530, Kanagesh wrote: Hi, I'm using Mutt to send and receive emails I am on a network, which is connected to the internet I am able to receive emails from both within

Re: Is mutt really handicapped? - ha!

2002-03-01 Thread Ken Wahl
Why mutt? Speed and flexibility. If you subscribe to a number of mailing lists which are generally high-volume then mutt makes speedy navigation a breeze. Mutt is so highly configurable that I imagine no 2 person' mutts are alike. I switched from Netscape to Pine for flexibility and options

Re: Selecting MIME viewer depending on file extension

2002-03-01 Thread Gary Johnson
On Fri, Mar 01, 2002 at 10:57:17AM +0100, Christoph Maurer wrote: On 2002-03-01 Will Yardley wrote: Alexander Skwar wrote: Rather often I get mails with attachments where the attachment is of type application/octet-stream instead of the correct type (let's say image/png).

Re: Selecting MIME viewer depending on file extension

2002-03-01 Thread Christoph Maurer
On 2002-03-01 Gary Johnson wrote: On Fri, Mar 01, 2002 at 10:57:17AM +0100, Christoph Maurer wrote: On 2002-03-01 Will Yardley wrote: Alexander Skwar wrote: Rather often I get mails with attachments where the attachment is of type application/octet-stream instead of the correct

Hi

2002-03-01 Thread Mishra, Dipankar
Hi, I need some urgent guidance , i am sending files to persons thru mutt and some of the attachments are opened by some people and some are not This could be the case as the attachment size in bth case was different Now on further investigation i found that the content transfer encoding was

Re: Hi

2002-03-01 Thread Gary Johnson
On Fri, Mar 01, 2002 at 06:32:18PM +0100, Mishra, Dipankar wrote: I need some urgent guidance , i am sending files to persons thru mutt and some of the attachments are opened by some people and some are not. This could be the case as the attachment size in bth case was different. Now on

Re: unable to send mails....

2002-03-01 Thread Sven Guckes
* Kanagesh [EMAIL PROTECTED] [020301 09:59]: I'm using Mutt to send and receive emails. I am on a network, which is connected to the internet. I am able to receive emails from both within and outside the network, but i am unable to send emails outside the network (like ids at yahoo,

Re: quote_regexp occasionally ignored - quote_indet=__!

2002-03-01 Thread Sven Guckes
* Andrew Pimlott [EMAIL PROTECTED] [020301 11:10]: I'm using mutt 1.3.27i from Debian testing. I've noticed that occasionally, quoted text isn't highlighted in the pager. I have quote_regexp set in my .muttrc: [...] This should match (among other things) any line with a leading . The

Re: quote_regexp occasionally ignored

2002-03-01 Thread Aaron Schrab
At 22:02 -0500 28 Feb 2002, Andrew Pimlott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have quote_regexp set in my .muttrc: set quote_regexp=^[[:blank:]]*([[:alnum:]]{0,10}|[]|:}#);+]|- ) This should match (among other things) any line with a leading . The attached message has several such lines, but

mail archiv program

2002-03-01 Thread Manuel Hendel
I'm looking for a mail archiv program It would be nice, if it generates hmtl pages Does anyone know a good one? Thanks, Manuel -- As they say there are other piranhas in the fish tank

Re: Is mutt really handicapped? - ha!

2002-03-01 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On 01/03/02 Ken Wahl did speaketh: Mutt + vim + fetchmail + procmail + lbdb + gnupg + mixmaster = nirvana I know all of these except lbdb and mixmaster. What are they? Mike -- Michael P. Soulier [EMAIL PROTECTED], GnuPG pub key: 5BC8BE08 ...the word HACK is used as a verb to

How to display texts encoded in UTF-8?

2002-03-01 Thread Charles Jie
Hi, My linux box has locale zh_TWBig5 (Traditional Chinese) I have the following settings in muttrc and it works well in most of the cases set charset=big5 charset-hook big5# for the mail missing 'charset' But from time to time, I may get mail from MUA that encodes in UTF-8

Re: Is mutt really handicapped? - ha!

2002-03-01 Thread Ken Wahl
On Fri, Mar 01, 2002 at 07:11:31PM -0500, Michael P. Soulier wrote: On 01/03/02 Ken Wahl did speaketh: Mutt + vim + fetchmail + procmail + lbdb + gnupg + mixmaster = nirvana I know all of these except lbdb and mixmaster. What are they? lbdb = Little Brother's Database

Re: Is mutt really handicapped? - ha!

2002-03-01 Thread Knute
On Fri, 01 Mar 2002, Michael P. Soulier wrote: On 01/03/02 Ken Wahl did speaketh: Mutt + vim + fetchmail + procmail + lbdb + gnupg + mixmaster = nirvana I know all of these except lbdb and mixmaster. What are they? lbdb is the little brothers data base. What that does is to record

Re: Hi

2002-03-01 Thread David DeSimone
Gary Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't know how mutt chooses the encoding type for an attachment Mutt chooses the encoding that causes the least increase in size for a file. Files that are mostly ASCII will increase only slightly when encoded with quoted-printable, whereas base64