e's an url which explains the reasons this is considered good
practice:
http://www.lemis.com/email/email-format.html
cheers --
Ed
(the first line in the message
which I'm editing right now is the From: line which my message will
contain -- you could detect that or the equiv).
But that seems like more indirection than is useful...
cheers --
Ed
holding down the 't' key, that is ... ;-) I'm
hoping there's a tag operation which operates on a range of message
numbers; but I haven't found such a thing in the docs yet.
thanks --
Ed
then be sent in a normal way from mutt.
A colleague suggested using mutt -H, but from the pipe command I think
mutt looses the users stdin/stdout, if that makes any sense.
Any ideas?
Best regards
Ed
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On Tue, Aug 04, 2009 at 10:58:32PM -0500, Kyle Wheeler wrote:
On Tuesday, August 4 at 07:14 PM, quoth ed:
Today I was wondering if it would be possible to send an entire
message through a filter before taking the result of that filter as
the input to form a new message.
'| /home
On Wed, Aug 05, 2009 at 07:40:27AM -0500, Kyle Wheeler wrote:
On Wednesday, August 5 at 08:06 AM, quoth ed:
Mainly this is so that I can inspect the headers of the original
before generating the headers of the reply. I know it's a lot of
senselses work but I want to set the From: header
On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 09:23:59AM -0400, Marc Vaillant wrote:
Hi all,
I've been a happy mutt user for over a decade. Of course there are a
few minor features here and there that I wish mutt had. The one that's
really getting to me lately is that as far as I know, there is no
automatic
Hi All,
Is there a way to change the display of the From header in a message in
the pager view?
I'd like to for example show 'Mr Ed' rather than 'ed'. I'm not on about:
set realname='ed'
set from=e...@s5h.net
set use_from=yes
set use_envelope_from=yes
What I'm after is changing how other
Don't know if this has been reported before in the online manual:
http://www.mutt.org/doc/manual/manual-2.html:
$ diff manual-2.html*
488c488
^F forget-passphrase whipe PGP passphrase from memory
---
^F forget-passphrase wipe PGP passphrase from memory
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On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 11:11:40AM -0700, Robert Holtzman wrote:
On Thu, 29 Oct 2009, ed wrote:
Don't know if this has been reported before in the online manual:
http://www.mutt.org/doc/manual/manual-2.html:
$ diff manual-2.html*
488c488
^F forget-passphrase whipe PGP
pager d save-message=.Trash\n
That should work, but you'll want to change .Trash to something else,
I'm using Maildir style (which I found more efficient with header
caching).
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Ed http://www.s5h.net/
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Hi All,
In keeping with Christmas screen savers I thought I'd customise mutt in
colours that go with the season.
TERM=xterm-256color is required
http://www.s5h.net/code/mutt/themes/ir_christmas.theme
Hope you find it goes with cheerful jumpers and socks.
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Best regards,
Ed http
.
You can find my themes here:
http://www.s5h.net/wiki/Mutt
Let me know what you think or if there are any particular colours you'd
like and I'll see what I can do.
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such a question.
Tap it out in your mail editor and set the content type to text/html
(ctrl-t) perhaps? Might work, never wanted to do that myself and I don't
have a mailer capable of reading HTML handy to find out.
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Best regards,
Ed http://www.s5h.net/
On Sun, Nov 11, 2012 at 10:08:17PM +, ed wrote:
Tap it out in your mail editor and set the content type to text/html
(ctrl-t) perhaps? Might work, never wanted to do that myself and I don't
have a mailer capable of reading HTML handy to find out.
Oh yeah, although it /may/ work, please
in this particular environment.
Thanks
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Best regards,
Ed http://www.s5h.net/
How do I strip the headers when I save a message ?
Ed
messages without headers, for
example diff files or code files and scripts that you want to save,
obviously you wouldn't need the headers with those types of mail.
Thank you, just what I was looking for. Works well.
Ed
I keep getting this error::
sh: 1: lpr: not found
but I don't know where it is coming from. In my muttprintrc I have the
printer set to hp-psc-1310 which is the system printer and is using
CUPS. Its a USB printer, so where is the lpr coming from ?
Ed
On 02/05/2013 10:08 PM, Brandon Sandrowicz wrote:
On Tue, Feb 05, 2013 at 09:34:54PM -0500, Ed wrote:
I keep getting this error::
sh: 1: lpr: not found
but I don't know where it is coming from. In my muttprintrc I have
the printer set to hp-psc-1310 which is the system printer and is
using
On Feb 05, Ed wrote:
I keep getting this error::
sh: 1: lpr: not found
but I don't know where it is coming from. In my muttprintrc I have
the printer set to hp-psc-1310 which is the system printer and is
using CUPS. Its a USB printer, so where is the lpr coming from ?
Ed
Thanks
Is there any way while viewing a mail that contains html, attachment or is a
pgp signed, that this information be shown at the bottom of the mail ?
I did not see anything in the manual that was of any value, unless I just
overlooked it.
Thanks
Ed
line that says the following is signed. At the end of
the message it tells me its the end of the signed message.
So, how do I get mutt to do what it says in the manual ?
This is my pager format in my muttrc.
%4C %Z %[!%b %e at %I:%M %p] %.20n %s%* -- (%P)
Thnaks
Ed
?
From a terminal::
sudo apt-get install mutt-patched
Its in your repository. You probably also want to install mutt-print if you
plan on printing out any mail.
Ed
On Feb 10, s. keeling wrote:
Might I suggest just commenting out your pager_format statement? I've
.muttrc's that go back to 2003. In each one of them pager_format is
not set. I appear to see what the manual section you quote says.
Same result. I find nothing in the manual about pager
Mutt is telling me that alternates is an unknown variable. I used::
set alternates=myem...@example.com
Of course I put the actual address in tha above. Where did I go wrong ?
Ed
On Feb 11, Ed wrote:
Mutt is telling me that alternates is an unknown variable. I used::
set alternates=myem...@example.com
Of course I put the actual address in tha above. Where did I go wrong ?
Ed
Thanks for the replies, I now see the error of my ways. Google sent me down the
wrong
much luck.
Ed
On Feb 12, Ed wrote:
I have this in my mailcap to view images
image/*; /usr/bin/gpicview '%s'; test=test -n $DISPLAY
but when I open a message with an image attached mutt tells me there is no
entry in mailcap, but if I go on to using v then the image is displayed.
I tried to see what I
In order to turn on color in xterm enter the
following line in ~/.Xdefaults
*customization: -color
This will turn on color in all apps that use color in an xterm window.
Ed
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Ed Robitaille wrote
In order to turn on color in xterm enter the
following line in ~/.Xdefaults
*customization: -color
This will turn on color in all apps that use color in an xterm window.
Oops ! You'll have to re-start 'X' or or enter the command
that re-init's 'X' to see this go
I would like to integrate mutt and pgp but
there doesn't seem to be much documentation
conserning this. Where can I obtain a tutorial ??
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of a GNU
use ~f joe | ~b
'meeting tonight' to return messages that meet ANY critera (logical
OR), and ! for negation.
man muttrc and search for logical operators for examples.
Ed
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,
leave it out if not).
!screen -X creates a shell, and sends the following command to the
currently running screen session.
screen mutt opens a new screen window and runs mutt instead of a
shell.
-f =mailbox opens mutt with a given mailbox instead of the inbox.
Ed
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On Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 11:48:04PM -0800, George Davidovich wrote:
On Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 03:27:56PM -0500, Ed Blackman wrote:
So all I need to do is to get Mutt to pass the message subject and date
to enscript, but can't find any way to do this.
Is there a way to do that short of patching
or attachment to an external
pager like more or less.
There might be a more elegant way, but that will let you see the
content.
Ed
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the send-menu works just fine.
Can someone tell me how to attach files with spaces using the Attach:
pseudoheader? If there is a way to do it, I can just adjust the macro
to do use it.
I'm using Mutt 1.5.17+20080114 (2008-01-14) from Ubuntu 8.04. Full
mutt -v output attached.
Ed
Mutt 1.5.17
Whoops, forgot to go back and add the error messages!
On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 11:05:14PM -0500, Ed Blackman wrote:
I've been really enjoying the Vim macro that was posted a little while
ago that prompts you to attach files if it detects words like attached
in the mail, and appends mutt's
: http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2183.txt
Ed
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argument. muttGmail will take
the argument and spit out the complete folder-hook. Mutt will then
interpret the output as configuration commands, and you're all set up.
Ed
#/bin/sh
email=$1
cat EOF
folder-hook imaps://${ema...@imap.gmail.com '\
set from=${ema...@gmail.com ; \
set folder=imaps
On Sat, Feb 14, 2009 at 12:17:43AM +0800, bill lam wrote:
On Thu, 12 Feb 2009, Ed Blackman wrote:
`muttGmail cfoobar`
`muttGmail ifoobar`
Mutt will run muttGmail with the given argument. muttGmail will take
the argument and spit out the complete folder-hook. Mutt will then
interpret
it in .muttrc with
source 'muttGmail foo|'
Note that the quote chars are single quotes, not backticks, and the
command has to end with a pipe char.
Ed
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while being in the 'compose menu' (i.e. the page pre-filled with my
chosen headers that appears on the console when - within mutt - I press
'm').
It works for me. Relevant sections of my .muttrc:
alias Identity_default Ed Blackman e...@edgewood.to
alias Identity_school Ed Blackman a...@school.edu
want that in your editor.
The compose menu is what you get *after* you've saved your message and
exited the editor.
Ed
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muttprint macro to save and restore the value of
weed. Add enter-commandset my_weed=$weedenterenter-commandunset
weedenter to the beginning of the macro and enter-commandset
weed=$my_weedenter at the end. I'm guessing at the content of the
macro, but that should work.
Ed
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, and it should be reset by the
second display-toggle-weed.
My suggestion, though will save and restore the setting, whatever it
happens to be, whereas yours depends on it being set when you enter the
macro.
Ed
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-to: u...@example.com, I just don't get how to access this
information.
I tried ~L ~t ~C and whatnot.
~h '^Envelope-to: u...@example.com'
Adjustments may be necessary if your mailer adds something other than a
bare email address to the Envelope-to line.
Ed
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. (or preferably imaps.) that's about it.
Well, that and the ceremony with the goat. Wait! That's secre... I
mean, there's no ceremony!
grin
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the above find command.
There are only a few mailboxes that I am not interested at, basically
they are cron mails and quasi spams, etc
I'd replace the `find ...` with a script that did the find, but then
piped it through grep -v to exclude the ones you don't care about.
Ed
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-entry next-entry (bound to K/J) instead of
previous-undeleted next-undeleted (arrow keys)
3. use undelte-pattern (U)
4. exit mutt instead of quit
5. use toggle-write (bound to % by default) to make the mailbox
unwritable, then change to another mailbox and back.
Ed
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(by default bound to s) to save it to
a file.
Ed
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to his home directory, I don't think that's what you
want.
I think you mean alias_file=~/Desktop/mutt-1.5.19/etc/Muttrc. Note
the very significant slash after the tilde.
Ed
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are
configurable to one extent or another.
Mutt configuration is simple:
set query_command=lbdbq '%s'
I don't personally use abook or ldap, so I'm not sure my ~/.lbdbrc would
be helpful, but I'd be willing to share if you'd like.
Ed
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anything different than the non-^ version above.
Ed
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On Tue, Jul 07, 2009 at 12:43:59PM -0500, Kyle Wheeler wrote:
On Tuesday, July 7 at 11:43 AM, quoth Ed Blackman:
send-hook ~t joe@ set pgp_autoencrypt=yes # ...
I think you probably want $crypt_autoencrypt instead of pgp_*.
I think it must have changed in a recent version that you have
.
Sorry for the static.
Ed
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.
I've attached my muttPrint script, which uses formail to grab the
subject to pass to enscript.
Ed
#!/bin/sh
#
# muttPrint
#
# macro index,pager p \
# 'enter-commandsource ~/.mutt/rc/print.rcenterpipe-messagemuttPrint
[enscript args]enter\
# enter-commandsource ~/.mutt/rc/unprint.rcenter
want to
consider converting your archival folders to mbox before gzipping, and
continuing to use mairix.
Ed
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...@example.com
should accomplish the same goal, but with less chance of errors.
Ed
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don't need to prefix
each file with -a. Use -- to separate the list of attachments from
the list of recipients:
mutt -s 'subject' -i msg_body -a file1 file2 file3 -- recipient1 recipient2
Ed
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iconv out of the configure options (it auto-finds
the headers, so that doesn't work)
* setting the --without-iconv flag in the configure
options
All of this, and it still errors in the same place.
What am I missing?
--
Ed Vázquez
Wasn't there something about a PASCAL programmer knowing
converting large mail archives and scripts to the new format?
How much trouble does the new format and accessibility cause with
procmail and friends?
Thanks...
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converting large mail archives and scripts to the new format?
How much trouble does the new format and accessibility cause with
procmail and friends?
Thanks...
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' -prune -o -printf '%h
' \)
Ed
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it doesn't mess you up on the next pass.
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://bugs.mutt.org/.
patch-1.5.13.cd.ifdef.2
patch-1.5.13.cd.purge_message.3.4
patch-1.5.13.nt+ab.xtitles.4
patch-1.5.4.vk.pgp_verbose_mime
patch-1.5.6.dw.maildir-mtime.1
patch-1.5.8.hr.sensible_browser_position.3
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, to my work Outlook and to my Gmail
account. Both Outlook and Gmail decoded the subjects as intended, which
is probably why Intrade and Twitter can get away with sending out
non-conformant messages.
Any chance of a rfc2047 lenient decode, perhaps as an option?
Ed
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On Thu, Sep 02, 2010 at 05:10:37PM -0700, Michael Elkins wrote:
On Thu, Sep 02, 2010 at 07:20:18PM -0400, Ed Blackman wrote:
I forwarded the message I copied the headers from, along with a one
that had spaces in the encoded-text, to my work Outlook and to my
Gmail account. Both Outlook
that to question
marks.
I also don't see why leading runs of spaces, and runs of spaces in the
middle of printable characters, also get the ?.
Mutt 1.5.20 (2009-06-14) on Ubuntu lucid, with Michael Elkin's lenient
RFC2047 patch applied. Other configuration details available on
request.
Ed
On Tue, Oct 05, 2010 at 03:30:18PM -0500, Derek Martin wrote:
On Tue, Oct 05, 2010 at 04:16:29PM -0400, Ed Blackman wrote:
In the display, I'll see ? ? ? ? * Track your shipment. If I pipe
the part being displayed to od -a, I see runs of spaces where the
display shows alternating question
for all the messages I saw the question marks on before,
and a few more that I've seen since then.
Thanks!
Ed
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* more
rare than file names that have been RFC 2047 encoded in violation of the
spec, but that users just want to have saved with the name that the
sender gave it.
Mutt should always send with the proper filename encoding (RFC 2231), of
course.
Ed
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index_format =%30t %Z %{%d/%m/%y} %-25.25n %s'
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find this documented in the man pages of my installed version of
mutt, and don't have any traditional PGP meesages, so it's only a guess.
But it does fit the facts and would be a reasonable thing to do.
Ed
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. If it
disappears, then there might be something awry with your config, or a
bug in Mutt.
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dependent on a specific editor.
Ed
#!/bin/bash
##
## Script: muttCheckAttach
##
## Original source: http://wiki.mutt.org/?ConfigTricks/CheckAttach
## Refinements by Ed Blackman e...@edgewood.to
##
## Edit muttrc to have this line:
## set sendmail = /path/to/muttCheckAttach /usr/lib/sendmail -oem -oi
.
Good catch! Thanks!
Ed
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, etc, not day boundaries, but
that's what I want. I think day boundaries would be possible with some
work on the msg_age calculation, maybe $(( ($now/86400) - ($msg_date/86400) ))?
Ed
#!/bin/bash
# format_date
#
# In .muttrc:
# set index_format=/path/to/format_date '%[%s]' '%%s' |
#
#
http
mail user agents ignore that section
and send file names encoded that way instead of using the correct way
specified in RFC 2231.
You can tell Mutt to use RFC2047 decoding on MIME file names with
set rfc2047_parameters=yes
I've argued before that Mutt should make that the default.
--
Ed
On Wed, Feb 09, 2011 at 08:26:03PM +, Chris G wrote:
On Wed, Feb 09, 2011 at 01:49:33PM -0500, Ed Blackman wrote:
You can tell Mutt to use RFC2047 decoding on MIME file names with
set rfc2047_parameters=yes
Would that be in addition to the 'normal' decoding which works with most
of application-specific
passwords works, though. If I create a password for mutt, can I use the
same password if I telent to gmail on the imap port and enter raw IMAP
commands? If not, how does it tell the difference?
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Alternately, he might just want a script that will allow him to more
easily identify the leftover tempfiles. No changes to muttrc needed for
this:
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
#
# Name: listMuttTemp
# By: Ed Blackman e...@edgewood.to
# Invocation: listMuttTemp /path/to/mutt-tempfiles/mutt-*
#
use POSIX
will suggest a better
solution.
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backup delete/add.
With MH, on the other hand, message 13524 is always message 13524,
regardless of whether I've seen it or not, or what the message flags
are. The flags are in .mh_sequences which is tiny if I care about
saving those flags, and easy to exclude from backup if I don't.
--
Ed
On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 02:08:33PM -0700, Omen Wild wrote:
Quoting Ed Blackman e...@edgewood.to on Fri, Apr 29 17:03:
In my case, mairixquery is a Perl script that prompts me for the mairix
search string, gives me yes or no prompts for whether to search threads
or augment previous results
know what's at fault, but thought the additional information might help
some one.
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of lines wouldn't
be very noticible in clients that didn't support RFC 3676), and created
a vim mail syntax plugin that puts a white underscore at the end of
lines that end with a space, so I can see at a glance which lines will
flow and which won't.
--
Ed Blackman
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Some brief testing indicates that Mutt does the right thing for output
that contains # and , but I don't use IMAP so I'm not completely
certain.
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into the
middle of flowed text paragraphs
setlocal noautoindent nosmartindent
As you can see, you can take as much space as you want to make things
easy for your future self to understand why you're selecting certain
settings.
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make any edits, and will thus defeat mutt's detection of unmodified
messages. You can just live with that, or add:
2.5) save the ctime of your temp message
3.5) go to 5 if the saved ctime doesn't change
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On Sat, Apr 16, 2011 at 06:31:39AM -0600, Paul E Condon wrote:
On 20110415_163420, Ed Blackman wrote:
I have actually been migrating from Maildir to MH for backup
efficiency. I have procmail sort email into folders, and put a
(sometimes modified) copy in my inbox where I can read and delete
an attachment, it
exits without sending the message, leaving an error message on the
screen instead.
I've attached my mutt check-for-attachments script (refined from the
version on http://wiki.mutt.org/?ConfigTricks/CheckAttach) and my vim
function script.
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Ed Blackman
#!/bin/bash
On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 11:19:35AM -0400, Ed Blackman wrote:
I use two approaches which deal with 99% of the intended to attach a
file but didn't problem for me.
I forgot to mention that I've enhanced the two of them to work together.
The original vim function prompted for an attachment
poster, but hopefully this will point someone in the right
direction.
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On Wed, Nov 09, 2011 at 11:01:27AM +0800, stardiviner wrote:
= On [2011-11-08 12:03:50 -0500]:
Ed Blackman Said:
On Tue, Nov 08, 2011 at 02:13:05PM +0100, Gregor Zattler wrote:
It's not possible to change the index format for individual
emails in the index but you can colour different email
# local current time in epoch seconds
with this:
now=$(date +%s)
But I haven't tested this. Maybe Ed will see this and have a better
answer.
I use the attached script and the following index_format:
set index_format=/path/to/format_date '%[%s]' '%%s' |
That uses the %%s expando
to mailbox (implicitly moving to
next entry); move to previous entry, and they work just great with
save resolve value; set resolve=no; save; restore saved resolve value.
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On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 06:39:00PM -0600, Christian Dysthe wrote:
On 01/13/12 at 11:36am, Ed Blackman wrote:
macro index,pager D enter-commandset my_resolve=\$resolve resolve=noenter\
clear-flagNsave-message+Gmail/trashenter\
enter-commandset resolve=\$my_resolve my_resolveenter move message
On Sat, Jan 14, 2012 at 07:50:12AM -0600, Christian Dysthe wrote:
On 01/13/12 at 09:30pm, Ed Blackman wrote:
OK. You just need to move the save until after resolve is
restored. That way the save will delete and move to the next
message.
macro index,pager D enter-commandset my_resolve
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