Re: default components file

2003-07-01 Thread Earl Hood
On July 1, 2003 at 00:17, Bill Wohler wrote: I think a Fcc out of the box is entirely appropriate for new users. The Dcc usage that Earl suggests is a little more advanced, and is typically used with procmail which is even more advanced (although it is absolutely necessary these days). And

Re: Why not document dcc:?

2003-07-01 Thread Earl Hood
On July 1, 2003 at 07:47, Jerry Peek wrote: A lot of us use the dcc: header field. It acts like bcc: does on most other MUAs. Is there any reason not to add a paragraph about it to the send(1) manpage? My Linux box is down right now, so I can't check this out, but here's a new

Re: Should nmh be RFC 2822 compliant (bug report #3356)

2003-06-27 Thread Earl Hood
On June 27, 2003 at 14:36, Glenn Burkhardt wrote: Apparently the powers that be don't want informational messages to be part of the 'In-Reply-To: fields anymore (http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2822.html). The obsolete fields could look like: In-reply-to: Your message of Fri, 27 Jun 2003

Re: Scanning an Empty Folder Doesn't Change Current Folder.

2002-11-23 Thread Earl Hood
On November 23, 2002 at 14:13, Jerry Peek wrote: About rmf warning you before removing a folder that isn't empty: you could write a little front-end script named rmf (put it in your personal bin, etc.). Have it run folder on the named folder (or, if there's no argument, on the current

Re: Working on the install-mh change questions

2002-11-19 Thread Earl Hood
On November 18, 2002 at 20:43, Jon Steinhart wrote: Oh, some details. 1. A second getenv() call would not break the code. The copy was really unnecessary. As pointed out earlier, making the copy may be needed depending on the implementation of getenv() for a given platform. And for all

Re: slocal (v1.0.2) garbles 8bit mail parts

2002-09-07 Thread Earl Hood
On August 29, 2002 at 11:14, Tobias Polzin wrote: I don't like BASE64/Quoted-Printable Encoded Mails, because they are difficult to Quote and Search with exmh/glimple. If I use /usr/lib/python/mimefy.py -b -d | /usr/mh/lib/slocal some 8bit Parts of Mails got garbled by slocal. It seems to

Re: nmh cygwin, works?

2002-08-31 Thread Earl Hood
On August 31, 2002 at 07:25, Anders Eriksson wrote: I tried to get a mail environment (fetchmail, postfix, nmh, exmh) setup under cygwin, but that failed quite hard. Any ideas wether nmh is supposed to work cygwin? I have a hacked build of nmh for cugwin at

Re: Wrapping replies

2002-08-16 Thread Earl Hood
On August 16, 2002 at 10:48, Sean Kamath wrote: Lately, people here at work have really turned on the flowed text rather than wrap it. In a way, this makes some sense -- let the mail reader wrap the text (and exmh does a fine job of it). But this makes for a problem on quoting replies. If

Re: Using web browser mail agent as nmh message viewer

2002-07-30 Thread Earl Hood
On July 30, 2002 at 04:31, Jerry Peek wrote: This is why I chose Mozilla's mail agent: it can take a whole multipart message and show all of it at once. (Mozilla is also more forgiving of some poorly-encoded messages that nmh complains about and quits.) I don't *always* need to see

Re: Using web browser mail agent as nmh message viewer

2002-07-27 Thread Earl Hood
On July 27, 2002 at 11:16, Neil W Rickert wrote: But, these days, I get so much MIME mail with attachments... and nmh's MIME handling is so far from what I need... that I've been using the Mozilla mail agent to make the first cut at reading my mail, weeding out spam, etc... then

Re: locking rcvstore?

2002-07-12 Thread Earl Hood
On July 12, 2002 at 10:18, Neil W Rickert wrote: That should not be possible. I haven't looked at the code. But it should be opening the file with O_CREAT, which should fail if the message already exists. I think you mean O_CREAT|O_EXCL. Unless there are major code deficiencies,

Re: folder-specific defaults? [long]

2002-07-08 Thread Earl Hood
On July 4, 2002 at 09:45, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: = Allow folder specific component files to be located in a centralized = location. For example, if I wanted a custom scan.monthly format = file for my inbox, I would create a file with a pathname of = `mhpath`/scan.monthly.inbox. It does

Re: Questions about nmh 1.1

2002-07-08 Thread Earl Hood
On July 8, 2002 at 18:13, Christophe Prevotaux wrote: That's more of a protocol issue. It's not easy to do that within the context of POP. It _is_ possible just to get the headers within POP and I suppose inc could be changed to just retrieve the headers and make some sort of

Re: Questions about nmh 1.1

2002-07-08 Thread Earl Hood
On July 8, 2002 at 13:31, Ken Hornstein wrote: I believe the Spam filters that use POP3 simply download the whole message then make a decision, so that's not what you want. I believe I saw a project (Mailfilter?) listed on freshmeat that would work just with the headers. There are quite a

Re: Questions about nmh 1.1

2002-07-08 Thread Earl Hood
On July 8, 2002 at 11:21, Ken Hornstein wrote: But seriously ... that's a good question. I haven't had time to come up with a set of release notes. The one new feature I know about (because I worked on it) is SASL support for POP and SMTP, so inc and comp can use SASL to authenticate to

Re: problem w/ make install on MacOS X 10.1.5

2002-06-27 Thread Earl Hood
On June 27, 2002 at 01:03, Dan Harkless wrote: Earl Hood [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Your problem could have been avoid if .PHONY was defined within the makefile. Apparently no one ever used nmh on a case-insensitive OS before, or if they did, they didn't report that make install failed

Re: folder-specific defaults?

2002-06-27 Thread Earl Hood
On June 27, 2002 at 21:54, Tobias Nijweide wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: * I have a folder where I always want to use a different '-form' option for scan. Don't have a solution for this. You could code a variant of the patches I mention below, with (recursive) searching of format

Re: folder-specific defaults?

2002-06-27 Thread Earl Hood
-specific settings) and thought that it could have enough general appeal to be a reasonable addition to nmh. The argument list parsing is straight-forward to do. Since I am more comfortable doing this kind of thing in Perl, here is a stab at it: #!/usr/bin/perl # Author: Earl Hood, [EMAIL

Re: problem w/ make install on MacOS X 10.1.5

2002-06-22 Thread Earl Hood
On June 21, 2002 at 11:58, Jon Stewart wrote: I'm a Unix moron (hence the use of MacOS X), and I can't seem to get nmh-1.0.4 to install on my system. Make claims that the install target is up to date. (Also, config couldn't guess the host, so I specified powerpc-apple-machten5.5, which --

Re: problem w/ make install on MacOS X 10.1.5

2002-06-22 Thread Earl Hood
On June 22, 2002 at 12:22, Jon Stewart wrote: The problem is that Apple's HFS+ file system, which is the default and best-supported fs at the moment, is case preserving yet case insensitive. Thus, the INSTALL doc looks just the same to make as install. Renaming it to README.INSTALL lets

Re: nmh status

2002-05-10 Thread Earl Hood
On May 10, 2002 at 12:47, Ken Hornstein wrote: If we are really going to move the CVS repository this should be helpful: URL:http://hackers.progeny.com/~dsp/nmh-cvs.tar.gz I found that on ftp.mhost.com today when I went poking around. I've already got it (thanks to Doug Morris

Re: nmh status

2002-05-10 Thread Earl Hood
On May 10, 2002 at 16:04, Ken Hornstein wrote: ell, _since_ you asked ... I've already submitted it for a project n savannah.gnu.org. By that, I mean that I've created a developer's account for myself and gone through the registration process to host a new project. The project managers

Re: nmh status

2002-05-09 Thread Earl Hood
On May 10, 2002 at 09:44, John Summerfield wrote: Those who prefer Savanna? +1 for Savannah. --ewh

nmh compiled for Cygwin

2002-04-23 Thread Earl Hood
Well, after some hacking, I got nmh 1.0.4 to compile under cygwin. Here are the problem highlights: sbr/discard.c: fpurge() does not exist under cygwin and the _FSTDIO appears to get set by the compiler. I added a #ifdef __CYGWIN__ check to deal with this. I examined the

Re: COPYRIGHT is bogus...

2000-04-06 Thread Earl Hood
On April 5, 2000 at 21:51, "Dan Harkless" wrote: If not the GPL, what other open source license would be most appropriate? X License? Apache License? BSD License? Artistic License? Others...? If not the GPL, I think the Artistic License,