MS attachments

[David Resnick]

I recieve mail from MS-Outlook clients with attachments that I cannot
access. Mutt displays these attachments in the body of the email, like
this:


begin 600 ATT23047.ATT
M#0H-"CQI=&%L:6,^/&-O;&]R/CQP87)A;3XP,#`P+#`P,#`L9F9F9CPO<&%R
M86EL+G)A9"YC;RYI;`T*#0H)1F%X.B`@("`Y-S(M,RTV-#0P.3,P#0H-"@EH
3='1P.B\O=W=W+G)A9"YC;RYI;`==
`
end  


How can I have these interpreted properly as attachments?

TIA,
David

Re: MS attachments

[Anonymous]

On Sun, May 02, 1999 at 18:31:53 +0300, David Resnick wrote:
> I recieve mail from MS-Outlook clients with attachments that I cannot
> access. Mutt displays these attachments in the body of the email, like
> this:
[snip]

Tell them to send MIME attachments instead of non-standard uuencoded
files.

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Re: MS attachments

[Anonymous]

On Sun, 02 May 1999, David Resnick wrote:

> I recieve mail from MS-Outlook clients with attachments that I
> cannot access. Mutt displays these attachments in the body of the
> email, like this:

Content-Description: ATT23047.ATT
> [-- octet-filter file type: "ASCII text" --]
> 
> 
> 
> ,, 
>   Fax:972-3-6440930
> 
>   http://www.rad.co.il

As you can see above, the "attachment" is displayed here without
problems in the mutt body.

> How can I have these interpreted properly as attachments?

To realize this, I added the following to my ~/.procmailrc:

 schnipp -
#
# Try to convert UUENCODE to MIME
#
:0
* Content-Type: text
{
:0 fBw
* ^begin [0-7][0-7[0-7]
* ^end
| formail -i Mime-Version | emil -G mime8_user
}

:0
* !Content-Type:
{
:0 fBw
* ^begin [0-7][0-7][0-7]
* ^end
| emil -G mime8_user
}
 schnipp -

This uses the program emil (http://www.spinnaker.de/debian/#emil) to
convert uuencode to MIME.

Ciao

Roland

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Re: Mutt setup

[Anonymous]

paul dixit:
~> I'm migrating from Netscape Mail to mutt (Yes, that means I'm a newbie )
~> I installed the the international veersion of mutt so I can use PGP.
~> I have a couple of questions about setting it up.
~> 1. When I started mutt it indicated that /var/spool/mail/paul did not
~> exist, so I created it with mkdir. When I restarted mutt, it indicated
~> that what I created was not a mailbox. So how does one create a mailbox?

I think that's got to do with permissions, make sure it belongs to group
mail:

# chgrp mail paul

ops!  paul shouldn't be a directory, but a file in /var/spool/mail/

~> 2. After reading the FAQ, I went searching for my .muttrc file in my
~> home directory, but was unable to locate it, yes I did a ls -a,
~> shouldn't there be a default .muttrc that I can modify to my needs?

There should be one it /etc/, copy it to your home dir.

Horacio
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Key binding / Query problem (lbdbq)

[Anonymous]

Hi,

I have had troubles before in getting this lbdb working, that was a
problem because i did interpret the manual wrong. I'm pretty sure it is
again something pretty stupid, but i just cannot see what it is. 

The thing i want did work in the past, but since my computer crashed i
lost all of my config files [1]. When starting to compose a message
(using the 'm' key) i want to be able to fill in part of a name of a
person at prompt for To:. When hitting the Tab, lbdb should complete the
address or provide me with the usual menu from where i can choose.
Therefor i tried the folowing key bindings:

bind alias query
bind index query

When i'm index and simply hit the Tab everything works fine. When i'm at
the To field (after 'm') and hit the Tab it doesn't work. I thought this
was because i hadn't created a binding for the tab in the 'compose' map,
but if i try it tells me there's no function query in that map.

Any idea's? If you need more info, please mail me. English is not my
first language, so it's hard for me to explain my problem properly.

Thanx in advance, -Rejo.

[1] And i lost all of the other things as well, like address. That's why
you didn't receive a reply Horacio...

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Re: Mutt setup

[Stan Ryckman]

At 10:50 PM 5/2/99 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>paul dixit:
>~> 2. After reading the FAQ, I went searching for my .muttrc file in my
>~> home directory, but was unable to locate it, yes I did a ls -a,
>~> shouldn't there be a default .muttrc that I can modify to my needs?
>
>There should be one it /etc/, copy it to your home dir.

I think it may have the name "Muttrc".

Cheers,
Stan

Re: Mutt setup

[dizzy73]

Quoting...  Stan Ryckman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> At 10:50 PM 5/2/99 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >paul dixit:
> >~> 2. After reading the FAQ, I went searching for my .muttrc file in my
> >~> home directory, but was unable to locate it, yes I did a ls -a,
> >~> shouldn't there be a default .muttrc that I can modify to my needs?
> >
> >There should be one it /etc/, copy it to your home dir.
> 
> I think it may have the name "Muttrc".
> 
> Cheers,
> Stan

You may want to get a nice customised .muttrc from one of the sites where mutt is 
found.
Me being relitively lazy (and enexperienced with mutt) I found and transferred  a 
muttrc from probably one of the contributing developers (Sven)]
Have a look around the mutt site(s) no doubt you'll find it.
have fun
rob
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Re: Mutt setup

[dizzy73]

Quoting...  Stan Ryckman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> At 10:50 PM 5/2/99 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >paul dixit:
> >~> 2. After reading the FAQ, I went searching for my .muttrc file in my
> >~> home directory, but was unable to locate it, yes I did a ls -a,
> >~> shouldn't there be a default .muttrc that I can modify to my needs?

Sorry for the dual post
Also you may want to (as root) do a find / -name .muttrc
then copy it over to your users /home/dir and chown user ./muttrc
Personally I think Svens file is much better than a stock muttrc
albeit with its own idiosyncraties, that were graciously addressed here
rob
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Re: Adding to date header

[Anonymous]

++ 21/04/99 17:37 -0500 - David Shaw:
>happy among other things).  Strictly speaking, the above format is
>illegal, so who knows how another mail program will parse it.

It is legal (under certain coonditions). See section 3.4.3 of RFC822,
somewhere around line 845...

-Rejo. 

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Mutt setup

[Anonymous]

I'm migrating from Netscape Mail to mutt (Yes, that means I'm a newbie )
I installed the the international veersion of mutt so I can use PGP.
I have a couple of questions about setting it up.
1. When I started mutt it indicated that /var/spool/mail/paul did not
exist, so I created it with mkdir. When I restarted mutt, it indicated
that what I created was not a mailbox. So how does one create a mailbox?

2. After reading the FAQ, I went searching for my .muttrc file in my
home directory, but was unable to locate it, yes I did a ls -a,
shouldn't there be a default .muttrc that I can modify to my needs?
thanks for any help.
Paul