Re: Strange problem replying to message

2024-01-15 Thread aalinovi
It is quite possible. Perhaps I am losing it but when I first looked at the header fields for the message that was giving me problems I could have sworn it said "Content-Transfer-Encoding: Base64". Now when I look at it instead of base64 it says 8bit. Am I confused or is that what mhfixmsg

Re: Strange problem replying to message

2024-01-14 Thread aalinovi
Thank you, that worked. And I actually manaaged to impress myself by being able to use mhfixmsg(1) to correct it. In message <9036-1705244612.226...@catk.gddq.exge>, David Levine writes: >Arthur wrote: > >> Yesterday everything worked. Today, trying to reply to a message I get: >> >> >>

Strange problem replying to message

2024-01-14 Thread aalinovi
Yesterday everything worked. Today, trying to reply to a message I get: From: aalin...@riseup.net To: Users of Remind cc: Fcc: +outbox Subject: Re: [Remind-Fans] -@[n][,m][,b] options In-reply-to: References: <20240113100142.5a535...@gato.skoll.ca> message dated "Sat, 13 Jan 2024 13:38:42

Re: Forwarding email

2023-07-11 Thread aalinovi
I have added the line forw: -format to my ~/.mh_profile. Now I find if I do: forw -mime 33 I get that empty #forw line and nothing else. However if I simply do: forw 33 I see the draft, the forwarded mail go out correctly and i can read it in my Proton account. Thank you for working with me

Re: Forwarding email

2023-07-11 Thread aalinovi
If I forward to my iCloud account, it works. If I forward to my Proton account wHat I get is an empty message with an attachment; the attachment consisting of a string of numb...@eddie.fios-router data 8 KB I have stumbled upon the fact that if I use MH-E within emacs I can forward in-line

Re: unseen/deleted messages

2023-07-09 Thread aalinovi
M-x emacs version returns: GNU emacs 28.2 (build 1,x86_4-unknown-openbsd GTK version 3.24.38 cairo version 1.17.8) of 2023-07-07. I said previously that I had undone all of the customizations and gone back to the default settings and that had solved my problem of always seeing deleted messages.

Forwarding email

2023-07-08 Thread aalinovi
Unfortunately, I am back again with the same issue. I have been advised, and have tried using: forw -mime 5 where 5 is the number of the email I am trying to forward. This gets me: From: aalin...@riseup.net To: cqc: Fcc: +outbox Subject: Welcome to your The New York Times Replica Edition

Re: Forwarding html email

2023-04-10 Thread aalinovi
The Proton mail I receive has one attachment (52KB) and a line that says "empty message". Opening the attachment simply brings up another screen with one line: 82297.168114492...@eddie.fios-router.home Opening that attachent brings up another screen with that same line and "data 52 KB" Thanks

Re: Forwding html email

2023-04-10 Thread aalinovi
In message <20230410080858.8fa0921...@orac.inputplus.co.uk>, Ralph Corderoy writes: > >You're not trying to forward HTML email. You're trying to forward an >email, any email, as an email rather than a textual representation of >it. Attaching the email to a new MIME email as a message/rfc822

Forwding html email

2023-04-09 Thread aalinovi
I believe i asked this once before when I was having difficulty forwarding html email. The answer I received was to type "mime" at the "what now" prompt and then send. That seemed to work up until about 2 weeks ago. Now any html email I forward is received as just html code. Doing mhlist tells me

Re: Problem with mhl.format

2022-02-19 Thread aalinovi
I don't know what it means but I notice that if I run show all header fields show up despite being ignored in both mhl.format and mhl.headers. However, if I use Paul Fox's ml script and run ml on the message those header fields are gone. In message , aalin...@riseup.net writes: >In message

Re: Problem with mhl.format

2022-02-19 Thread aalinovi
In message <20220219233546.22fa318c...@pb-smtp20.pobox.com>, Ken Hornstein writes: > >Is it possible the "certain mail" that ignores mhl.headers are not >MIME messages? Specifically, do those messages meet the following >criteria: > >- Either lack a top-level Content-Type header, or contain a

Problem with mhl.format

2022-02-19 Thread aalinovi
When I originally posted to the list several days ago I indicated ~/Mail/mhl.format. I should have indicated ~/Mail/mhl.headers. My question, simply put, is why certain mail seems to ignore the ignores line in ~/Mail/mhl.headers. In +inbox, running show 1: Return-path: Original-recipient:

Re: Problem with mhl.format

2022-02-17 Thread aalinovi
In message <20220215152817.3744f22...@orac.inputplus.co.uk>, Ralph Corderoy writes: > >Picking on the simplest problem first, I'm not aware of this behaviour >being per folder so I can't explain that unless the +inbox message >doesn't have a x-spam-report field whereas the +nmh one does. > >With

Re: Problem with mhl.format

2022-02-15 Thread aalinovi
bin/passwd -nomoreproc mhl: vfgets() botch -- you lose big /bin$ I am sure this is something obvious but I am at a loss to understand it. Arthur In message <20220215105458.9dfd11f...@orac.inputplus.co.uk>, Ralph Corderoy writes: >Hi aalinovi, > >> I am not sure where I messe

Problem with mhl.format

2022-02-14 Thread aalinovi
I am not sure where I messed up, but suddenly nmh seems to be ignoring the mhl.format file, specifically the "ignores" line. This is a basic mhl.format file with no editing or alterations on my part. If anyone could offer suggestions I would appreciate it. Thanks

Bad message list?

2022-02-13 Thread aalinovi
In Mr Paul Fox's ml script, could anyone tell me what the warning "Mark: bad message list unseen" means and how I would get rid of it? Thank you

Re: Question re mh -e

2020-08-25 Thread aalinovi
I seem to have inadvertantly stumbled on what I was doing wrong. Your 20 year old script still works. Thank you aalin...@riseup.net writes: >I'm not a programmer, so I don't know or understand any of this. I did >amaze myself by including the script in my ~/.emacs file without emacs >giving me

Re: Question re mh -e

2020-08-25 Thread aalinovi
I'm not a programmer, so I don't know or understand any of this. I did amaze myself by including the script in my ~/.emacs file without emacs giving me an error but it doesn't actually seem to do anything. Perhaps I will try ken's suggestion. I do appreciate your taking the time to try to help.

Question re mh -e

2020-08-25 Thread aalinovi
I'm not sure if this is the proper place to ask a question about mh -e. If not, please point me in the right direction. slaurel:~$ flists bulwark has 5 in sequence unseen; out of 7 dorf has 2 in sequence unseen; out of 3 jstorhas 1 in sequence unseen; out of 1 wapo has 3 in

Re: Reading messages in a sequnce

2020-07-11 Thread aalinovi
Just a quick thank you to all who took time to respond to my original question. I've looked at mairix but feel it's a bit too involved for my needs. Mr Fox's solution works so that is what I'll go with. Arthur aalin...@riseup.net writes: >If I have non consecutive messages in a given sequence,

Reading messages in a sequnce

2020-07-10 Thread aalinovi
If I have non consecutive messages in a given sequence, is there any way to read them consecutively? For example, sequence picked with messages 94 95 114 126 155. show 94 shows message 94, next shows message 95. But then next shows message 96, not message 114 (which makes sense since 96 is the

Re: Sort and delete duplcate messages

2020-05-04 Thread aalinovi
First, thanks to everyone who came in on this with suggestions. What I was attempting to do was match emails that have the same subject line. In each case the message-id would be different so I couldn't use that. After playing around with each suggestion I managed to edit the msgdups script that

Sort and delete duplcate messages

2020-05-03 Thread aalinovi
I know that 'sortm -textfield Subject' will sort messages accoring to the subject field. Having run that command, is there a way to then delete the first duplicate of each message in the list such that if 1 and 2 are duplicates and 6 and 7 are duplicates you would delete messages 2 and 7 leaving 1

nmh and fdm question

2020-02-24 Thread aalinovi
This is the raw email From line: From: "The New Yorker" And this is the line in my ~/.fdm.conf file: match "^From:.*@eml.condenast.com" in headers action pipe "/usr/local/libexec/nmh/rcvstore +trash" My question is, why doesn't this work? Every other address I've sent to +trash works. This

Message forwarded in error

2020-01-10 Thread aalinovi
Sorry about that forwarded message. I messed up trying out various combinations of - mime and -forw. Again my apologies

Police Surveillance Tools from Special Services Group (fwd)

2020-01-10 Thread aalinovi
--- Begin Message --- Police Surveillance Tools from Special Services Group Special Services Group, a company that sells surveillance tools to the FBI, DEA, ICE, and other US government agencies, has had its secret sales brochure published. Motherboard received the brochure as part of a

Re: Forwarding html email

2020-01-10 Thread aalinovi
Original message: aalinovi:~$ mhlist -verbose msg part type/subtype size description 4 text/html 2813 charset="us-ascii" aalinovi:~$ Forwarded message: alinovi:~$ mhlist msg part type/subtype size description 112

Forwarding html email

2020-01-10 Thread aalinovi
I receive an html email which when I read it looks fine. However, when I try to forward it, it is forwarded as plain text with all of the html coding visible: https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2020/01/poli ce_surveill.html">Police

Re: Scan all folders for unseen messages

2019-12-28 Thread aalinovi
> >I guess I was thinking that it was clear that this part of the man page >was talking about the command-line switch "-to" and NOT the format of >the draft file. > >But ... now that I think about it, most modern man pages start out >explaining what each switch does, and we don't do that. So if

Re: Scan all folders for unseen messages

2019-12-28 Thread aalinovi
>>I just find the relevantsection of the comp man page: >> >>to be confusing. I'd appreciate an example as I have a serious aversion >>to making a fool of myself. > >I wrote that section of the man page and I just re-read it now and I >don't find it confusing, but obviously I am biased because I

Re: Scan all folders for unseen messages

2019-12-28 Thread aalinovi
>Your email had two To fields. That's against RFC 2822 that states it >may have none or one. Just pointing it out in case you had software >create that problem instead of a human. :-) > >Some mailing-list subscribers bounced that email due to this problem. > >-- >Cheers, Ralph. No, that was

Re: Scan all folders for unseen messages

2019-12-27 Thread aalinovi
> On Dec 26, I asked: >Is there any way to scan all folders at once to determine which have new >unseen messages or am I reduced to going into each folder individually >in which case I may scrap procmail and just have everything go into >inbox? I would just like to thank Conrad and Robert for

Scan all folders for unseen messages

2019-12-26 Thread aalinovi
It has taken the better part of 2 days for a non-technical person such as I to get getmail, procmail and nmh all working together. Is there any way to scan all folders at once to determine which have new unseen messages or am I reduced to going into each folder individually in which case I may

Error forwarding mime message

2019-12-19 Thread aalinovi
Using the latest nmh on OpenBSD 6.6, I am trying to forward a message of type text/html. When I get to the whatnow? prompt and type mime, I get: mhbuild: invalid parameter in message /home/aalinovi/Mail/Drafts/1's Content-Type: field parameter -webkit-text-decoration:none;text

Re: [nmh-workers] Forwarding html email

2019-08-07 Thread aalinovi
crapping on you; I genuinely want to know how we could make our >documentation better. > Yes, I did look at the forw(1) man page, tho obviously not as carefully as I should have. And yes, I do recall seeing that section. The error I was making was in not using the -mime switch. As a result, in the

Re: [nmh-workers] Forwarding html email

2019-08-07 Thread aalinovi
>> #forw [forwarded message] +/home/aalinovi/Mail/inbox 1 > >When you get back to the What now? prompt, just type > > mime > >.. that'll include the message. Good grief, it's that simple? And here I am messing with aliases, command versions and symbolic links. I feel

[nmh-workers] Forwarding html email

2019-08-07 Thread aalinovi
even tho permissions seem to be correct. Also, I don't understand how forw -mime works as all I get in the forwarded message is the line: #forw [forwarded message] +/home/aalinovi/Mail/inbox 1 but no message. I know I'm probably making some simple beginner errors but I'm stumped as to what I'm

Re: [nmh-workers] Flagging messages

2019-05-25 Thread aalinovi
> Hi aalinovi, > > > Scenario: you receive an email from Geico informing you your car > > insurance payment is due in 4 weeks. In mutt or Apple Mail you can > > flag that message so you're reminded

[nmh-workers] Flagging messages

2019-05-25 Thread aalinovi
Scenario: you receive an email from Geico informing you your car insurance payment is due in 4 weeks. In mutt or Apple Mail you can flag that message so you're reminded of it each time you log in. Is there a way to do something similar in nmh? If not how do nmh users handle such a situation?