Re: Preferred way to get imap emails

2019-07-29 Thread Matthias Apitz
I'm a mutt user for many years. From time to time I do miss a feature in mutt to mark a given thread as "do not present any mail of this thread anymore, just collapse them and mark for deletion on exit". This is such a thread I would mark as this. matthias -- Matthias Apitz, ✉

Re: Unsubscribing from mailing-list threads (was: Preferred way to get imap emails)

2019-07-29 Thread Matthias Apitz
El día martes, julio 30, 2019 a las 06:36:35a. m. +0200, Francesco Ariis escribió: > On Tue, Jul 30, 2019 at 06:31:42AM +0200, Matthias Apitz wrote: > > > > I'm a mutt user for many years. From time to time I do miss a feature in > > mutt to mark a given thread as "do not present any mail of

Unsubscribing from mailing-list threads (was: Preferred way to get imap emails)

2019-07-29 Thread Francesco Ariis
On Tue, Jul 30, 2019 at 06:31:42AM +0200, Matthias Apitz wrote: > > I'm a mutt user for many years. From time to time I do miss a feature in > mutt to mark a given thread as "do not present any mail of this thread > anymore, just collapse them and mark for deletion on exit". > > This is such a

Re: Preferred way to get imap emails

2019-07-29 Thread Pankaj Jangid
On Mon, Jul 29, 2019 at 01:50:54PM -0700, Kevin J. McCarthy wrote: > If you want to participate in development, then please do so by starting > small and showing me I can trust your patches. After you've done that, we > can talk about larger changes. > This is really encouraging. -- Pankaj

Re: imap4s timeouts and closed connections

2019-07-29 Thread tech-lists
On Sun, Jul 28, 2019 at 07:59:58AM -0700, Kevin J. McCarthy wrote: Actually, if you don't mind compiling out of git, perhaps you could try the branch 'kevin/stable-poll-fix'. I have a theory about what might be the problem and would appreciate if you would give that branch a try. Hi Kevin,

Re: Preferred way to get imap emails

2019-07-29 Thread Derek Martin
On Sat, Jul 27, 2019 at 02:57:20PM -0600, Akkana Peck wrote: > The only problem with mbsync is that it doesn't have a "daemon > mode", so I had to write a script that runs it every N seconds. > But that's a trivial complaint. There are any number of solutions to this, but... cron? It's probably

Re: Can I backup MH mail incrementally?

2019-07-29 Thread John Long
On Mon, 29 Jul 2019 15:07:40 -0300 Luciano ES wrote: > You don't understand the problem. Sorry, my bad. > Read my initial query again: No, I don't think so. I'm not on your payroll. /jl

Re: Can I backup MH mail incrementally?

2019-07-29 Thread John Long
On Mon, 29 Jul 2019 13:47:34 -0300 Luciano ES wrote: > I want to archive almost all of my email in MH mail boxes to an > external disk. The idea is to free up space in the running disk. > > I thought I could just move ~/Mail to external and start with a new > empty Mail directory, but then I

Re: Preferred way to get imap emails

2019-07-29 Thread Pankaj Jangid
On Mon, Jul 29, 2019 at 12:32:42PM -0500, Derek Martin wrote: > > The only problem with mbsync is that it doesn't have a "daemon > > mode", so I had to write a script that runs it every N seconds. > > But that's a trivial complaint. > > There are any number of solutions to this, but... cron?

Re: Preferred way to get imap emails

2019-07-29 Thread Derek Martin
On Sat, Jul 27, 2019 at 10:58:22PM +0530, Pankaj Jangid wrote: > > > I have configured cache so it doesn't happen everytime with the same > > > email. My 2nd question is - is there a way to pre-fetch all the > > > emails in inbox. > > > > I don't think so -- not without using something like

Re: Many ways to bind keys

2019-07-29 Thread Pankaj Jangid
On Sun, Jul 28, 2019 at 09:27:43PM +0200, Francesco Ariis wrote: > > I have read at least two ways to customise key-bindings. One is "bind" > > other is "macro". Is there a manual-page available somewhere where I can > > read about when to use which approach? > > AFAIK, bind is to bind a *single*

Re: Can I backup MH mail incrementally?

2019-07-29 Thread Luciano ES
On Mon, 29 Jul 2019 17:39:33 +, John Long wrote: > On Mon, 29 Jul 2019 13:47:34 -0300 > Luciano ES wrote: > > > I want to archive almost all of my email in MH mail boxes to an > > external disk. The idea is to free up space in the running disk. > > > > I thought I could just move ~/Mail

Re: Preferred way to get imap emails

2019-07-29 Thread Pankaj Jangid
On Mon, Jul 29, 2019 at 12:54:04PM -0500, Derek Martin wrote: > Because this again is how IMAP works--you're meant to read the message > off the server, and it's downloaded on demand. If you had to > pre-fetch all the messages, this could take a very long time, > especially if you were looking at

Re: Can I backup MH mail incrementally?

2019-07-29 Thread hymie
Luciano ES writes: >I thought I could just move ~/Mail to external and start with a new empty Mail > directory, but then I realized I want to do incremental backups in the future > and I have no idea how to do that. The MH format relies on message file names > which are numbers in a sequence. If I

Can I backup MH mail incrementally?

2019-07-29 Thread Luciano ES
I want to archive almost all of my email in MH mail boxes to an external disk. The idea is to free up space in the running disk. I thought I could just move ~/Mail to external and start with a new empty Mail directory, but then I realized I want to do incremental backups in the future and I

Re: Preferred way to get imap emails

2019-07-29 Thread Pankaj Jangid
On Mon, Jul 29, 2019 at 03:13:37PM -0400, Dan Ritter wrote: > Mail used to come from servers to clients via POP. It was > essentially a full-push of a mailbox. Bidirectional sync was > not a good idea. > IMAP is, explicitly, a mail protocol for clients to do the > minimal amount of fetching

Re: Preferred way to get imap emails

2019-07-29 Thread Kevin J. McCarthy
On Tue, Jul 30, 2019 at 01:47:35AM +0530, Pankaj Jangid wrote: I may start it's implementation after a philosophical debate here. Please don't. You've been here all of, what, less than two weeks? You've shown a lack of understanding of basic mutt concepts, and spent far more time talking