Re: [Nmh-workers] Help: dist is not working for me

2016-11-14 Thread Ken Hornstein
>But I would like to humbly suggest a new man page, something like nmh-advice. >It would contain a lot of advice which, right now is scattered over >hundreds of Emails. It would, over the years, grow gradually. It >would it be preferable to burdening already burdened existing >man pages. I hear

Re: [Nmh-workers] Help: dist is not working for me

2016-11-14 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi Norm, > Why did I ignore your advice? I don't remember. But I would conjecture > that it was some combination of not understanding the advice, not > understanding its context, or not believing that its context was > relevant to me. If it's like me with most of the "do this for the new

Re: [Nmh-workers] Help: dist is not working for me

2016-11-14 Thread norm
Ken Hornstein writes: >>I don't have a distcomps in my nmh directory (~/Mail). So I'm getting the >>default. Should I have a ~/Mail/distcomps ? If so what should it be. > >I've tried in the past to gently suggest to everyone that setting Yes, you have; going back to at least

Re: [Nmh-workers] Help: dist is not working for me

2016-11-11 Thread Ken Hornstein
>I don't have a distcomps in my nmh directory (~/Mail). So I'm getting the >default. Should I have a ~/Mail/distcomps ? If so what should it be. I've tried in the past to gently suggest to everyone that setting Local-Mailbox in your .mh_profile is vastly preferrable to modifying individual

Re: [Nmh-workers] Help: dist is not working for me

2016-11-11 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi Norm, > I don't have a distcomps in my nmh directory (~/Mail). So I'm getting > the default. Should I have a ~/Mail/distcomps ? If so what should it > be. As Ken implied in replying to me, Local-Mailbox in mh_profile(5) is another option. -- Cheers, Ralph.

Re: [Nmh-workers] Help: dist is not working for me

2016-11-11 Thread norm
Ralph Corderoy writes: >Hi Norm, > >Ken wrote: >> But I am wondering if perhaps the problem is this: >> >> >=> MAIL FROM: > >I suspect it is. dist(1) gets this "wrong" for me here, too. > >$ fmttest -raw -forma '%(localmbox)' '' >Ralph Corderoy

Re: [Nmh-workers] Help: dist is not working for me

2016-11-11 Thread Ken Hornstein
>I suspect it is. dist(1) gets this "wrong" for me here, too. > >$ fmttest -raw -forma '%(localmbox)' '' >Ralph Corderoy Well, isn't that kind of your fault? :-) Single line setting in your .mh_profile. --Ken ___

Re: [Nmh-workers] Help: dist is not working for me

2016-11-11 Thread norm
Ken Hornstein writes: >>When I do a dist, the message goes to a /dev/null somewhere. I don't >>know if the problem is with my MH setup or somewhere else. Here is one >>attempt to use dist: >>[...] >>Ken Hornstein never Emailed me. So he likely never got the Email. Nor >>did

Re: [Nmh-workers] Help: dist is not working for me

2016-11-11 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi Norm, Ken wrote: > But I am wondering if perhaps the problem is this: > > >=> MAIL FROM: I suspect it is. dist(1) gets this "wrong" for me here, too. $ fmttest -raw -forma '%(localmbox)' '' Ralph Corderoy $ -- Cheers, Ralph.

Re: [Nmh-workers] Help: dist is not working for me

2016-11-11 Thread Ken Hornstein
>When I do a dist, the message goes to a /dev/null somewhere. I don't >know if the problem is with my MH setup or somewhere else. Here is one >attempt to use dist: >[...] >Ken Hornstein never Emailed me. So he likely never got the Email. Nor >did several others to whom I have tried to dist.

Re: [Nmh-workers] Help: dist is not working for me

2016-11-11 Thread David Levine
Norm wrote: > When I do a dist, the message goes to a /dev/null somewhere. I don't know > if the problem is with my MH setup or somewhere else. I don't see why the message wouldn't have been delivered. The -snoop output shows that your STMP server accepted it. > Ken Hornstein never Emailed me.

[Nmh-workers] Help: dist is not working for me

2016-11-11 Thread norm
When I do a dist, the message goes to a /dev/null somewhere. I don't know if the problem is with my MH setup or somewhere else. Here is one attempt to use dist: = /t/B export MH=/t/B/profile.delete /t/B dist -version dist -- nmh-1.6+dev_20150118 [compiled on lad.dad.org at Tue Jan 20