mhshow coredumps on this message

1999-06-06 Thread Jerry Peek
ived signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault. 0x805574d in _start () (gdb) backtrace #0 0x805574d in _start () #1 0x807a678 in ?? () #2 0x804accf in _start () #3 0x804c385 in _start () #4 0x804ac04 in _start () #5 0x804a846 in _start () (gdb) -- Jerry Peek, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.jpeek.com/~

Re: Enhancements I'd like to see ...

1999-06-12 Thread Jerry Peek
s the next message. Can it be made to show the next > message in a sequence by providing the sequence name? Yes. Just type "show seqname:next". You can use this with any MH/nmh command, like "scan seqname:next", "mhpath seqname:next", etc. Jerry --

Re: Enhancements I'd like to see ...

1999-06-18 Thread Jerry Peek
On 18 June 1999 at 9:28, Ricky Connell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Jerry Peek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > =On 10 June 1999 at 12:30, Ricky Connell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > =>next shows the next message. Can it be made to show the next > =>

Re: mhshow temp file is gone by the time netscape -remote can respond

1999-06-19 Thread Jerry Peek
tmltemp/DELETE folder for them instead of using, say, the top-level +DELETE folder: $ folder htmltemp/DELETE+ has 2 messages (1960-2014). $ ls `mhpath` 01960 02014 $ scan scan: unable to open message 1960: No such file or directory, continuing... scan: unable to open message 2014: No such file or d

Online MH book updated on 9 October 1999

1999-10-24 Thread Jerry Peek
book/updates.htm . I just rebuilt the online archive files last week. If you've had a copy on your website and you're wondering whether Unisys will ask you to pay license fees on the GIFs in your old copy, I'd encourage you to update. Jerry -- Jerry Peek, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.jpeek.com/

Re: repl -group and alternate-mailboxes (fwd)

1999-11-02 Thread Jerry Peek
think your problem is related to the mailbox. It needs to be an exact match of the *whole* address; otherwise, use glob-style wildcards. (See the mh-profile(5) manual page.) For instance, here's mine: Alternate-Mailboxes: jerry@*ora.com, jpeek@*, *@jpeek* Maybe that'll help? Jerry -- Jerry Peek, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.jpeek.com/

Re: repl -group and alternate-mailboxes (fwd)

1999-11-02 Thread Jerry Peek
hecked the code to see what was really going on. Sorry if I misled anyone with that Alternate-Mailboxes entry from my .mh_profile. Jerry -- Jerry Peek, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.jpeek.com/

Re: Patch for repl -group

1999-11-03 Thread Jerry Peek
"s. I think there might have been some other effects of [ISI], too. But, at least, it looks like this explains the #ifdef. Jerry -- Jerry Peek, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.jpeek.com/

Re: Forwarding a file with attachments

2000-03-24 Thread Jerry Peek
hen you send the message.) For an overview of how to send MIME messages in MH, see the online MH book at http://www.ics.uci.edu/~mh/book/mh/usimim.htm#SeMIMa Jerry -- Jerry Peek, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.jpeek.com/

Re: nmh new mail notification

2000-04-21 Thread Jerry Peek
on in your xterm, you'll need to do some checking of permisions and other things -- as Neil and Dan said. This is tricky stuff sometimes. Jerry -- Jerry Peek, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.jpeek.com/

Re: Submitted nmh site to Yahoo!

2000-06-21 Thread Jerry Peek
I submitted it twice -- both last year, I think. They had exmh, so I assumed they'd want nmh too. I guess not. :-( -- Jerry Peek, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.jpeek.com/

Re: Questions about IMAP and sequences

2000-08-29 Thread Jerry Peek
the full pathname of the folder if the folder was a subfolder of the user's MH (nmh) directory. Otherwise, the format of these files has been the same as long as I can remember (which is more than 15 years...). nmh utilities (for example, mhpath, forw, show, refile, scan, etc.) use these

Re: Questions about IMAP and sequences

2000-08-30 Thread Jerry Peek
h works without a sequence) to a sequence, like: rmm dumpus:last:10 But I haven't known how to do that without a little scripting. Anyone? Jerry -- Jerry Peek, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.jpeek.com/

Re: Questions about IMAP and sequences

2000-08-30 Thread Jerry Peek
On 30 August 2000 at 10:15, John Reinhagen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > just wondered if there's an architectural assumption in nmh that the order > of a sequence is important. > > I notice it's not possible to advance along a sequence with commands like > next or prev, so this suggests that orde

Re: [Fwd: Re: Questions about IMAP and sequences]

2000-09-05 Thread Jerry Peek
t his message to me, I'm not sure of the answer... I wish I kept up to date on nmh sources, and the plans for nmh development, but I don't. A lot of people have asked about IMAP and MH/nmh over the past few years, though... and I've heard of people trying to do what John is... do

Re: [Fwd: Re: Questions about IMAP and sequences]

2000-09-08 Thread Jerry Peek
ore its sequences in the context file (by default, ~/Mail/context)? This is what commands like "mark -nopublic" do. All nmh commands can access these sequences. Jerry -- Jerry Peek, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.jpeek.com/

Re: [Fwd: Re: Questions about IMAP and sequences]

2000-09-10 Thread Jerry Peek
On 8 September 2000 at 18:02, John Reinhagen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, also sprach Iain > MacDonnell: > > >Jerry Peek writes: > >: I haven't thought a lot about internals here... but couldn't an IMAP > >: imple

Re: [Fwd: Re: Questions about IMAP and sequences]

2000-09-11 Thread Jerry Peek
mber of people (maybe especially those who've come to nmh through exmh) don't know all that nmh can do. I'm trying to help. Jerry -- Jerry Peek, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.jpeek.com/

Re: [Fwd: Re: Questions about IMAP and sequences]

2000-09-11 Thread Jerry Peek
e messages into a single file -- this sort of integration is a lot harder. This is why I'm writing my tomes ;-) about not losing nmh flexibility with IMAP, wherever it's reasonable to keep it. Jerry -- Jerry Peek, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.jpeek.com/

Getting around mhost.com spam-blocking

2000-09-23 Thread Jerry Peek
non-spamming host and send it like: sendmail -fyour-address [EMAIL PROTECTED] < message-file so your message header should be preserved. No, I won't censor messages, but I'll glance through and try to be sure it's not spam ("search engine secrets", etc.). If anyone has better ideas, please say so. Thanks. Jerry -- Jerry Peek, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.jpeek.com/

Re: Feature request: msh idea, and more

2001-09-07 Thread Jerry Peek
[Catching up on old email...] On 8 August 2001 at 21:57, Jerrad Pierce <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote to [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > A) > Support for gzipped (or maybe bzip2'd) files would be very useful. > I see this as being ideal for someone who keeps > lots of old mail but may not always need as ready a

Re: Anyone home?

2001-12-06 Thread Jerry Peek
tware isn't in the best shape now, I hear. I've been trying to find a big chunk of time to move the online MH book to SourceForge, but now I'm wondering if I might move it there and the server would go away. Comments, anyone? Jerry -- Jerry Peek, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.jpeek.com/

Re: my attachment code

2001-12-07 Thread Jerry Peek
ha: first annotation From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Hmmm This is a test $ scan -format '%{x-haha}' cur second annotation If it doesn't add too much complexity, it might be worth keeping the old prepending code as an option. Jerry -- Jerry Peek, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.jpeek.com/

Re: FCC vrs. BCC/DCC

2001-12-07 Thread Jerry Peek
nent fcc -nodate", BTW) to list the bcc'ed recipients. The script is too much of a hack to send to anyone :-(, but the idea is pretty simple and it's worked fine for me. There's some info about sendprocs and a sample script in the online MH book at http://www.ics.uci.edu

Do you use (n)MH book? Should I maintain it?

2002-05-23 Thread Jerry Peek
ly and tell me: - do you use the online book? (one word -- yes or no -- is enough). - if you do use it, how often? (one word, like daily/weekly/occasionally) If you want to add comments, that would be fine too. Thanks... Jerry -- Jerry Peek, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.jpeek.com/

Re: Do you use (n)MH book? Should I maintain it?

2002-05-24 Thread Jerry Peek
on't happen soon... but knowing that people still use the book lets me know it'd be worth the effort. Jerry -- Jerry Peek, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.jpeek.com/

Re: folder-specific defaults?

2002-06-28 Thread Jerry Peek
e current argument takes a folder-name argument, do a "next" and either toss that arg or process it, as required. Jerry -- Jerry Peek, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.jpeek.com/

Re: folder-specific defaults? [long]

2002-07-03 Thread Jerry Peek
main draft-folder. > Some solutions? > - Use a different flag (-compfolder? yuk) I guess I don't see what's wrong with -compfolder. It lets you specify exactly what you mean... and (I think) it could be abbreviated to -compf, so it's not that much to type. Jerry -- Jerry Peek, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.jpeek.com/

Re: folder-specific defaults? [long]

2002-07-03 Thread Jerry Peek
Earl Hood wrote: ... > Just to throw out an alternative to the idea (and a dicussion > that probably goes way out there): ... > I guess something like this would not possible happen until nmh 5.0 :-) This is a good point. I wonder if Tobias' feature belongs in a future release of nmh, where we'

Using web browser mail agent as nmh message viewer

2002-07-27 Thread Jerry Peek
Hi, all. All this discussion about hacking nmh has gotten me motivated to change my slacker's ;-) habits. Before I became a slacker, I used to always use MH/nmh to read and process mail from the command line (from a shell prompt). I love that flexibility, and the shell is the way I like to get

Re: Using web browser mail agent as nmh message viewer

2002-07-30 Thread Jerry Peek
to take effect. That said, I've learned some interesting stuff from other peoples' ideas of handling this problem. Thanks, all... Jerry -- Jerry Peek, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.jpeek.com/

ImageMagick for "displaying" application/octet-stream

2002-08-14 Thread Jerry Peek
t, like gzipped TIFF files. Comments, anyone? Jerry -- Jerry Peek, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.jpeek.com/

Re: Markup problems on the MH man pages.

2002-09-03 Thread Jerry Peek
maybe it would make sense to integrate the manpages with the book pages -- cross-linking the two and eliminating duplicate info. Ah, what a wonderful-sounding project that is! If you're interested, "let's talk." ;-) Jerry -- Jerry Peek, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.jpeek.com/

Re: embedding whitespace in program name

2002-09-10 Thread Jerry Peek
answer I found was to make a little front-end script and use it. For instance, make a script file named mymheditor with these two lines in it: #!/bin/sh exec "gvim -f" "$@" then set Editor to mymheditor. Jerry -- Jerry Peek, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.jpeek.com/

Re: sorting messages by thread

2002-09-11 Thread Jerry Peek
s obvious to most people on this list, but I thought I should point it out in case it helps. Jerry -- Jerry Peek, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.jpeek.com/

Re: sorting messages by thread

2002-09-11 Thread Jerry Peek
Jerry Peek wrote: > MH/nmh messages are stored in files, one > message per file... so it's reasonably simple to write programs that > rearrange the messages in whatever order you want. Two more maybe-obvious tips: If you want to sort a folder that already exists -- without usi

Re: sorting messages by thread

2002-09-12 Thread Jerry Peek
gt; $mhp MH=$mhp; export MH ...run nmh commands... rm $mhp PROBLEM #2: The script includes the "cur" sequence in the list of sequences it copies. You can fix that by telling sed not to print that sequence: for sequence in `mark | sed -n '/^cur:/!s/:.*//p'` or pipe mark's output through 'grep -v cur:', or something. Jerry -- Jerry Peek, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.jpeek.com/

Re: refile changes cur

2002-09-24 Thread Jerry Peek
his is true of most nmh programs -- for instance, "show 1 3 18" sets cur to 18. I think I remember some debate, years ago, about this behavior. The only conclusion I can remember, though, is "if not the last message, then *which* message?". Comments, anyone else? Je

Re: Appropriateness of new program/feature

2002-11-16 Thread Jerry Peek
ms like a more sane way to handle the problem. Comments, anyone? Would this change break any front-end programs (mh-e, etc.) that somehow depend on the prompts that install-mh now prints by default? Jerry -- Jerry Peek, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.jpeek.com/

Re: The continuing install-mh saga

2002-11-19 Thread Jerry Peek
ew MH" and that they'll see "mh" around sone places. Jerry -- Jerry Peek, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.jpeek.com/

Re: The continuing install-mh saga

2002-11-20 Thread Jerry Peek
2 text/plain 366 7769 U11/10 new_articles@info Stuart McClure Shares Web Security Tips for Syst 7770 text/plain6825 7770+U11/10 To:jpeek NYTimes.com Article: Bill Gates to Tour India Am Jerry -- Jerry Peek, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.jpeek.com/

Re: Improving attachment viewing

2002-11-20 Thread Jerry Peek
Jon Steinhart wrote: If I get a message with 20 photos attached, I hate having to hit Ctrl-C 20 times just to get to the next message. I'm not disagreeing with you ;-), Jon... the interface *is* klunky. But, FWIW, Ctrl-\ will abort showing the current message. Jerry -- Jerry Peek, [

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

2002-11-23 Thread Jerry Peek
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 folder); if the answer isn't " has no messages" then prompt before actually running rmf. Sorry about that. Jerry -- Jerry Peek, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.jpeek.com/

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

2002-11-24 Thread Jerry Peek
Earl Hood wrote: 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,

Re: Scan of folders with 10k+ messages?

2003-02-21 Thread Jerry Peek
your own, make a copy of the system file and hack yours. There's info in the online MH book; one place to start is http://www.ics.uci.edu/~mh/book/mh/morsca.htm#index2 . Jerry -- Jerry Peek, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.jpeek.com/

Re: Solaris 'vim' configure bug

2003-06-06 Thread Jerry Peek
t. I'm just trying another angle, trying to stir things up.] Jerry -- Jerry Peek, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.jpeek.com/

Re: Solaris 'vim' configure bug

2003-06-03 Thread Jerry Peek
ile\nq' | od -c 000 r / n o n e x i s t - f i l e 020 \n q \n 023 And the first one has the advantage that it should work on *all* Bourne shells and all systems, whether the particular version of echo will translate \n to a newline or not. Jerry -- Jerry Peek, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.jpeek.com/

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

2003-06-27 Thread Jerry Peek
he escapes are evaluated, this file outputs blank header components for "prompter" to fill in. (I think the original files just omit those components.) Earl, does yours work differently? Can we merge ours somehow? Jerry ------

Re: Request for comment: update to mh-format.5

2003-06-27 Thread Jerry Peek
Glenn -- thanks for helping to move out the next release! On 27 June 2003 at 13:33, Glenn Burkhardt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Bart Massey submitted an update to the mh-format man page as part of > bug report 2031. I'm not an expert on the content, but it looks like > he's done a good job at i

Re: Request for comment: update to mh-format.5

2003-06-30 Thread Jerry Peek
Glenn Burkhardt wrote: I've incorporated suggestions from Jerry Peek, and the new edition is attached. It looks *great* to me, Glenn. (I skimmed it; I didn't have time to read word-by-word.) There are just a couple of stray characters here: If a -fcc folder switch was giv

Why not document dcc:?

2003-07-01 Thread Jerry Peek
If a "Dcc:" field is encountered, its addresses will be used for delivery, and the "Dcc:" field will be removed from the message. The blind recipients will receive the same message sent to the sighted recipients. - snip -- Comments? Votes? Jerry -- Jerry Peek, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.jpeek.com/

Re: pick question

2003-07-01 Thread Jerry Peek
ot in sequence a, something like: pick b -and -not a but that doens't work. I'm not on a system with MH right now, so I can't play around to check it... but I think you want to use sequence-negation. See the online MH book at http://www.ics.uci.edu/~mh/book/mh/morseq.htm#PreSeq .

Re: Why not document dcc:?

2003-07-01 Thread Jerry Peek
wouldn't want to actually *explain* anything in a manpage, would we? ;-) Seriously, that extra info looks good to me. We might be able to do without the last sentence, though; I think people will figure it out pretty quickly. Jerry -- Jerry Peek, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.jpeek.com/

Re: default components file

2003-07-01 Thread Jerry Peek
saying that it's better than any of Bill's suggestions; it's just another idea. BTW, I tested it now (my Linux box is back up) and it seems to work: On Mon, 30 Jun 2003 10:19:58 -0700, Jerry Peek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Glenn Burkhardt wrote: > > Ok. replcomps a