Removing date
I have a question,although this is not too related with mutt. I want to know how do I strip the Date: line from the header of messages coming to me using procmail, and after that procmail should generate a new Date: based on the date at my computer. I want to do this, because there are some users whose date on their computer is not correct, so I will find some difficulties in sorting the messages. Thanks in advance for your help.
Re: Debian, Mutt, Eterm, Ncurses
This helps a bit for now... but very unreadable, or a little more squinting then I would like. On Mon, Mar 12, 2001 at 11:31:36AM +1100, Robert Martinovic muttered: | I added the line to my .muttrc which helped with the background issue: | | color normal white default | | Robert | | On Thu, Mar 08, 2001 at 07:13:48AM -0800, Jason Helfman wrote: | > Well the term is xterm. | > | > I have tried to export vt100 and linux, but I am getting the same issue. | > When I compose a message, though, the window is transparent. I am | > confused. | > | > On Thu, Mar 08, 2001 at 05:56:24AM -0500, Thomas E. Dickey muttered: | > | On Thu, 8 Mar 2001, Jason Helfman wrote: | > | | > | > Today I applied updates for my Debian box, running Sid, or unstable. So | > | > Ncurses was updated, and when running mutt in an Eterm, before I could | > | > get a transparent Eterm with mutt. But now mutt runs a standard looking | > | > black/white term. I guess this is because of the upgrade, so I | > | > recompiled mutt. Same issue. Is their a way to resolve this, other then | > | > go back to the previous ncurses version ? | > | | > | what $TERM value are you using? | > | (what does infocmp show, for instance). | > | mutt is using that to decide if/how to display color. | > | | > | -- | > | T.E.Dickey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | > | http://dickey.his.com | > | ftp://dickey.his.com | > | | > | > -- | > /Jason G Helfman | > | > "At any given moment, you may find the ticket to the circus that has always | > been in your possession." | > | > Fingerprint: 6A32 3774 E390 33B5 8C96 2AA1 2BF4 BD71 35A1 C149 | > GnuPG http://www.gnupg.org Get Private! 1024D/35A1C149 -- /Jason G Helfman "At any given moment, you may find the ticket to the circus that has always been in your possession." Fingerprint: 6A32 3774 E390 33B5 8C96 2AA1 2BF4 BD71 35A1 C149 GnuPG http://www.gnupg.org Get Private! 1024D/35A1C149
No Subject
What would be the .muttrc directive to disable the lame "no subject. abort? ([y]/n)" prompt?
Re: Debian, Mutt, Eterm, Ncurses
Jason Helfman proclaimed on mutt-users that: > This helps a bit for now... but very unreadable, or a little more > squinting then I would like. so unset all colors from your .muttrc (or export TERM=vt100, or get a mono color scheme - plenty of them at dotfiles.org). -s -- Suresh Ramasubramanian + Wallopus Malletus Indigenensis mallet @ cluestick.org + Lumber Cartel of India, tinlcI EMail Sturmbannfuhrer, Lower Middle Class Unix Sysadmin
misc: OT: for jason helfman [Re: Debian, Mutt, Eterm, Ncurses]
Hi Please fix your posting address - mail cc'd to [EMAIL PROTECTED] bounces with this error -s - Forwarded message from Unknown User <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - > Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2001 02:49:02 -0800 (PST) > From: Unknown User <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: Debian, Mutt, Eterm, Ncurses > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > You have reached an invalid email address at BizRate.com. > If your message was intended for a BizRate.com BizRater > Rebate member please resend your email to the user's account > at [EMAIL PROTECTED] If your message was intended > for a staff member at BizRate.com, please check the address > and try your email again. > > Thank you, > > Operations > BizRate.com - End forwarded message - -- Suresh Ramasubramanian + Wallopus Malletus Indigenensis mallet @ cluestick.org + Lumber Cartel of India, tinlcI EMail Sturmbannfuhrer, Lower Middle Class Unix Sysadmin I block all posts from WebTV with a filter, they make AOL look like MIT's computing dept. -- Old Salt
Re: your mail
On Mon, Mar 12, 2001 at 02:00:02AM -0500, Mark Spivak wrote: > > What would be the .muttrc directive to disable the lame "no subject. abort? ([y]/n)" >prompt? > from the manual : abort_nosubject Type: quadoption Default: ask-yes If set to yes, when composing messages and no subject is given at the subject prompt, composition will be aborted. If set to no, composing messages with no subject given at the subject prompt will never be aborted. barry -- http://www.theshining.org
about subject lines : Re: your mail
Mark Spivak proclaimed on mutt-users that: > What would be the .muttrc directive to disable the lame "no subject. abort? > ([y]/n)" prompt? set abort_nosubject=no -s (who still thinks it's lame not to use a subject line on posts to a list) -- Suresh Ramasubramanian + Wallopus Malletus Indigenensis mallet @ cluestick.org + Lumber Cartel of India, tinlcI EMail Sturmbannfuhrer, Lower Middle Class Unix Sysadmin I block all posts from WebTV with a filter, they make AOL look like MIT's computing dept. -- Old Salt
Re: your mail
On Mon, Mär 12, 2001 at 02:00:02AM -0500, Mark Spivak wrote: > What would be the .muttrc directive to disable the lame "no subject. abort? ([y]/n)" >prompt? set abort_nosubject=no beware: subjects are a netiquette topic. there's a reason because this is the default.
Re: using non-local smtp server?
On Mon, Mar 12, 2001 at 04:27:47PM +1100 or thereabouts, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > For other users in my position, namely with a machine without a hostname and/or > externally visible IP, my advice is to stay clear of sendmail/qmail and try ssmtp. Funnily enough, I'm doing exactly that:- running sendmail on a box with an internal IP through an IP Masq box and I set it all up using Donncha O'Caoimh's "install-sendmail" script available from http://cork.linux.ie That's the way to go. -- Conor Daly Met Eireann, Glasnevin Hill, Dublin 9, Ireland Ph +353 1 8064217 Fax +353 1 8064275 11:32am up 1:22, 3 users, load average: 0.00, 0.08, 0.44
Re: using non-local smtp server?
Conor Daly proclaimed on mutt-users that: > Funnily enough, I'm doing exactly that:- running sendmail on a box with an > internal IP through an IP Masq box and I set it all up using > Donncha O'Caoimh's "install-sendmail" script available from http://cork.linux.ie > That's the way to go. Doing it manually is even more fun :) http://www.hserus.net/dlhowto.html Sheesh, I keep posting that URL someone's going to chase me for spamming :) -s -- Suresh Ramasubramanian + Wallopus Malletus Indigenensis mallet @ cluestick.org + Lumber Cartel of India, tinlcI EMail Sturmbannfuhrer, Lower Middle Class Unix Sysadmin
Re: using non-local smtp server?
On Mon, Mar 12, 2001 at 11:37:12AM +, Conor Daly wrote: > Funnily enough, I'm doing exactly that:- running sendmail on a box with an > internal IP through an IP Masq box and I set it all up using > Donncha O'Caoimh's "install-sendmail" script available from http://cork.linux.ie > > That's the way to go. That helped me, but it did not address the fact that I had no DNS setting for my ISP configured for sendmail. Dave "If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man." - Mark Twain
Re: using non-local smtp server?
Dave Murray proclaimed on mutt-users that: > That helped me, but it did not address the fact that I had > no DNS setting for my ISP configured for sendmail. Put your ISP's DNS servers in /etc/resolv.conf then :) -s -- Suresh Ramasubramanian + Wallopus Malletus Indigenensis mallet @ cluestick.org + Lumber Cartel of India, tinlcI EMail Sturmbannfuhrer, Lower Middle Class Unix Sysadmin
Re: using non-local smtp server?
On Mon, Mar 12, 2001 at 06:35:16PM +0530, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote: > Dave Murray proclaimed on mutt-users that: > > > That helped me, but it did not address the fact that I had > > no DNS setting for my ISP configured for sendmail. > > Put your ISP's DNS servers in /etc/resolv.conf then :) Thanks, that's exactly what I had to do. Peace, Dave "If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man." - Mark Twain
Re: virus
On Wed, 7 Mar 2001, Jan Johansson wrote: > In Windows (and a few other) email attachments are dangerous for > alot or reasons. > > The icon shown is in some cases extracted from the .exe file, > which can lead to that the program is exectued when you open the > mail. Cool, I didn't know that one... :) > It is all to easy to run stupid stuff, just click on it and then > yes (or not even the yes step), lusers do not read messages boxes. > > Some mailers understand html, java and/or javascript. Embed som > nice features in there and you get the problem when people open > their mail. Old folks like myself (hmmpf 24 years) usually say > that it is safe to open mails as long as one does not touch the > attachment, sadly that is not so anymore. Well, I usually say email is safe and I'm 18, so come on... but, on the other hand, you can say email is safe for me (with mutt/pine/whatever) because I'm smart enough. This email attachment stuff seems like computer darwinism to me :) > Default is to hide the file extension so that we also get the > nice problem of sexygirl.jpg.vbs, is it a nice girl or a virus? Eudora tells you (or used to tell you, didnt use it for a while) that where it saved the file with the full path and name, doesn't it? Anyway, I don't think a luser would refrain opening a file called sexygirl.jpg.vbs if a friend of his sent it and said it was a nice picture, would he? Kai PS: forgive me for not deleting all the useless stuff in this reply (the things I didn't reply to, I mean). I have to use pine right now and have trouble with this stupid pico thing... :) -- Kai Blin, , Webmaster Linux, Windows and DOS, the Good, the Bad and the Ugly
Re: using non-local smtp server?
Hi Dave! On Sun, 11 Mar 2001, Dave Murray wrote: > On Mon, Mar 12, 2001 at 01:25:00PM +1100, Jeff Turner wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Is there any way to configure mutt to send mail through a non-local SMTP > > server? > > > > Yes, I've read the FAQ entry saying "this ain't mutt's job", but.. all mutt > > does is send mail to *some* SMTP server. Why must that be localhost:25, instead > > of anotherhost:25? I'm not asking mutt to do the job of a MTA; I just want it to > > talk to the MTA of my choice. > > > > I'd appreciate it if someone could explain the error in my thinking. > > > > thanks, > > > > --Jeff > > I just went round and round with this one as a recent convert to mutt. I > had been using KMail which has it's own setup, and seems to not use > sendmail. I got the POP3 working in mutt because it's part of the setup. > The SMPT server is not. I pointed mutt at sendmail, it worked locally (bozo > to root, etc) but not on the Internet via my modem. If this sounds like > your story, check the setup of your sendmail, specifically DNS. The number > is supplied by your ISP in the format of 987.654.32.1 Now I'm a happy > camper except for PGP, my next post. > that was my wonder too (firewall cutting qmail enthusiasm) and the solution was a line like : in the file /var/qmail/control/smtproutes. For sendmail I recall it to be sort of the same (smtp:) but don't recall the actual configuration file name. To avoid running a MTA permanently you can start it from inetd. It's better to let it handle the sending, as it should. [lame-and-lazy-request] anyone using maildrop can share a rules file? ciao -- teodor
Re: using non-local smtp server?
Hi Suresh! On Mon, 12 Mar 2001, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote: > > but not on the Internet via my modem. If this sounds like your story, check > > the setup of your sendmail, specifically DNS. The number is supplied by your > > ISP in the format of 987.654.32.1 Now I'm a happy camper except for PGP, my > > next post. > > If that IP exists I'll be very surprised :) > yep, it's an Z class address (IPv6) allocated for Mars people and mutters. :-D -- teodor
Re: using non-local smtp server?
On Mon, Mar 12, 2001 at 04:30:05PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> [lame-and-lazy-request]
> anyone using maildrop can share a rules file?
In it's most basic setup (I only use header matching rules, that it):
if([EMAIL PROTECTED]/:h)
{
to "./Maildir/mutt-users/"
}
if(/^To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]/)
{
to "./Maildir/bugtrack/"
}
if(/vim/:h)
{
to "./Maildir/vim/"
}
to ./Maildir/default/
... plus all other rules for lists etc. which are the same as these.
cheers,
roel
Undigestion
Some mailing lists etc. are distributed in digest form, i.e. they have some header/index stuff etc., after which the body consists of concatenated e-mails maybe with some standard separator. Can mutt un-digest them, i.e. can I view them as if separate mails in a folder? Dirk
Re: virus
Kai Blin proclaimed on mutt-users that: > Anyway, I don't think a luser would refrain opening a file called > sexygirl.jpg.vbs if a friend of his sent it and said it was a nice > picture, would he? Or the other variants of the hybris worm - F*g with dogs.scr.vbs was one (one of my colleagues - a stubborn outlook user, had the embarassment of sending this out to a lot of lists she reads ...) > PS: forgive me for not deleting all the useless stuff in this reply (the > things I didn't reply to, I mean). I have to use pine right now and have > trouble with this stupid pico thing... :) Try this (if you use a comparatively recent pine - 4.x should do) : S (setup) - C (configure) [X] enable-alternate-editor-cmd [X] enable-alternate-editor-implicitly It'll ask you if you want to use vi / emacs / $editor that way. -s -- Suresh Ramasubramanian + Wallopus Malletus Indigenensis mallet @ cluestick.org + Lumber Cartel of India, tinlcI EMail Sturmbannfuhrer, Lower Middle Class Unix Sysadmin
Re: using non-local smtp server?
[EMAIL PROTECTED] proclaimed on mutt-users that: > For sendmail I recall it to be sort of the same (smtp:) but don't > recall the actual configuration file name. Sendmail has only one config file, not several dozen :) It's a simple matter of editing sendmail.cf to put DS your.isps.smtp.server or better still, put define(`SMART_HOST', `your.isps.smtp.server') in sendmail.mc and regenerate sendmail.cf using m4 Here we go again ... http://www.hserus.net/pop_smtp.html has a set of howtos (only sendmail and postfix right now, exim and qmail coming right up). > To avoid running a MTA permanently you can start it from inetd. It's better > to let it handle the sending, as it should. Ouch, don't do that. Just take sendmail out of daemon mode (remove the -bd flag from the startup scripts). -s -- Suresh Ramasubramanian + Wallopus Malletus Indigenensis mallet @ cluestick.org + Lumber Cartel of India, tinlcI EMail Sturmbannfuhrer, Lower Middle Class Unix Sysadmin
Re: using non-local smtp server?
[EMAIL PROTECTED] proclaimed on mutt-users that: > yep, it's an Z class address (IPv6) allocated for Mars people and mutters. > :-D for martians? oh I see ... I thought it was only for residents of the planet Zeta Centauri in the sugsezxystsryian galaxy. -s -- Suresh Ramasubramanian + Wallopus Malletus Indigenensis mallet @ cluestick.org + Lumber Cartel of India, tinlcI EMail Sturmbannfuhrer, Lower Middle Class Unix Sysadmin
Colors in Mutt
Hi everyone, I have the following issue using mutt: it don't display the colors even though + I run it on a xterm_color (I can see colored prompt) + I have colors settings in my .muttrc What do I have to do ? Was there any option to include during the compiling phase? Thanks in advance, Olivier.
Re: Undigestion
Dirk Laurie proclaimed on mutt-users that: > Some mailing lists etc. are distributed in digest form, i.e. > they have some header/index stuff etc., after which the body > consists of concatenated e-mails maybe with some standard > separator. Can mutt un-digest them, i.e. can I view them > as if separate mails in a folder? man formail man procmailex [for standard - non MIME digests] If those are mime digests, someone (Dave Champion I think) posted a solution for this also -- Suresh Ramasubramanian + Wallopus Malletus Indigenensis mallet @ cluestick.org + Lumber Cartel of India, tinlcI EMail Sturmbannfuhrer, Lower Middle Class Unix Sysadmin
Re: gpg
Thank you for answering my mail concerning gpg. I used the gpg.rc file and all was automatically resolved! cheers Joss -- http://www.josswinn.org/PGP_key.html
imap speed
Hi, I got several imap folders with 1000+ emails in each. Everytime I open a folder it takes awfully long until all headers are fetched. How do I have to configure mutt so that it saves headers or even entire emails locally and then only kind of syncs these local folders with the imap folders? Or maybe an option to fetch only the n-newest headers/mails or only the newest. Thank you in advance. Christoph
outlook 2000 attachments
I have a (hopefully) quick question to ask. I am running Mutt v1.3.14i and whenever I receive an email with an attachment from someone using Microsoft Outlook 2000, the attachment always comes up looking like: [-- Attachment #2 --] [-- Type: application/ms-tnef, Encoding: base64, Size: 32K --] [-- application/ms-tnef is unsupported (use 'v' to view this part) --] If I save the attachment to disk, StarOffice can NOT open the attachment. If I get the exact same attachment from someone who doesn't use Outlook 2000, it looks like: [-- Attachment #2: resume.1.doc --] [-- Type: application/msword, Encoding: base64, Size: 31K --] [-- application/msword is unsupported (use 'v' to view this part) --] Mutt seems to know about attachments from non-Outlook 2000 mail programs, but dies whenever I get anything from Outlook 2K. What can I do to fix (or get around) this problem? Thanks, Drew Fisher ps. when I run mutt -v, I get this for the output: System: Linux 2.2.14-5.0 [using ncurses 4.0] Compile options: -DOMAIN +DEBUG -HOMESPOOL +USE_SETGID +USE_DOTLOCK +DL_STANDALONE +USE_FCNTL -USE_FLOCK -USE_POP -USE_IMAP -USE_GSS -USE_SSL -USE_SASL +HAVE_REGCOMP -USE_GNU_REGEX +HAVE_COLOR +HAVE_START_COLOR +HAVE_TYPEAHEAD +HAVE_BKGDSET +HAVE_CURS_SET +HAVE_META +HAVE_RESIZETERM +HAVE_PGP -BUFFY_SIZE -EXACT_ADDRESS -SUN_ATTACHMENT +ENABLE_NLS -LOCALES_HACK +HAVE_WC_FUNCS +HAVE_LANGINFO_CODESET +HAVE_LANGINFO_YESEXPR +HAVE_ICONV -ICONV_NONTRANS +HAVE_GETSID -HAVE_GETADDRINFO ISPELL="/usr/bin/ispell" SENDMAIL="/usr/sbin/sendmail" MAILPATH="/var/spool/mail" SHAREDIR="/usr/local/share/mutt" SYSCONFDIR="/usr/local/etc" EXECSHELL="/bin/sh" -MIXMASTER To contact the developers, please mail to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. To report a bug, please use the flea(1) utility.
Re: outlook 2000 attachments
Unfortunately, the same attachment does not arrive in the same format. TNEF is the format used by Exchange. "Transfer Neutral Encapsulation Format." The product I QA for can read these, but there isn't any publicly available code that I'm aware of to decompose TNEF files. I'd bet that the "non-Outlook 2000" person is actually non-Exchange, instead. All versions of Outlook support TNEF, however it may also be that they have specified MIME or UUE as a transfer format instead of "Auto." On 03/12, Drew Fisher rearranged the electrons to read: > I have a (hopefully) quick question to ask. > > I am running Mutt v1.3.14i and whenever I receive an email with > an attachment from someone using Microsoft Outlook 2000, the > attachment always comes up looking like: > > [-- Attachment #2 --] > [-- Type: application/ms-tnef, Encoding: base64, Size: 32K --] > > [-- application/ms-tnef is unsupported (use 'v' to view this part) --] > > If I save the attachment to disk, StarOffice can NOT open the > attachment. > > If I get the exact same attachment from someone who doesn't use > Outlook 2000, it looks like: > > > [-- Attachment #2: resume.1.doc --] > [-- Type: application/msword, Encoding: base64, Size: 31K --] > > [-- application/msword is unsupported (use 'v' to view this part) --] > > Mutt seems to know about attachments from non-Outlook 2000 mail > programs, but dies whenever I get anything from Outlook 2K. > > What can I do to fix (or get around) this problem? > > Thanks, > > Drew Fisher > > > ps. when I run mutt -v, I get this for the output: > > System: Linux 2.2.14-5.0 [using ncurses 4.0] > Compile options: > -DOMAIN > +DEBUG > -HOMESPOOL +USE_SETGID +USE_DOTLOCK +DL_STANDALONE > +USE_FCNTL -USE_FLOCK > -USE_POP -USE_IMAP -USE_GSS -USE_SSL -USE_SASL > +HAVE_REGCOMP -USE_GNU_REGEX > +HAVE_COLOR +HAVE_START_COLOR +HAVE_TYPEAHEAD +HAVE_BKGDSET > +HAVE_CURS_SET +HAVE_META +HAVE_RESIZETERM > +HAVE_PGP -BUFFY_SIZE -EXACT_ADDRESS -SUN_ATTACHMENT > +ENABLE_NLS -LOCALES_HACK +HAVE_WC_FUNCS +HAVE_LANGINFO_CODESET > +HAVE_LANGINFO_YESEXPR > +HAVE_ICONV -ICONV_NONTRANS +HAVE_GETSID -HAVE_GETADDRINFO > ISPELL="/usr/bin/ispell" > SENDMAIL="/usr/sbin/sendmail" > MAILPATH="/var/spool/mail" > SHAREDIR="/usr/local/share/mutt" > SYSCONFDIR="/usr/local/etc" > EXECSHELL="/bin/sh" > -MIXMASTER > To contact the developers, please mail to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. > To report a bug, please use the flea(1) utility. > >
Re: outlook 2000 attachments
Drew Fisher wrote on mutt-users: > I have a (hopefully) quick question to ask. > > I am running Mutt v1.3.14i and whenever I receive an email with > an attachment from someone using Microsoft Outlook 2000, the > attachment always comes up looking like: > > Mutt seems to know about attachments from non-Outlook 2000 mail > programs, but dies whenever I get anything from Outlook 2K. > > What can I do to fix (or get around) this problem? I must use Outlook/NT at work. This morning I looked at the header details of something that I sent from home (mutt/PGP signed). It said something to the effect that there was MIME information in the email, and my mail reader is not MIME compliant, and I my not be able to see some or all of the data. It was true, I saw none of the PGP stuff (new headers). I looked, and could not find a way to change the settings for MIME compliance. Microsoft apparently sees no need to care about MIME standards. -- Peace, Dave "If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man." - Mark Twain
