Re: Documentation about signature seperator

[Rafael Laboissiere]

* Vincent Lefevre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2001/06/30 21:41]:

> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
>Michael Elkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> > AFAIK there is no such documentation.  It's merely a tradition that was
> > carried over from USENET.  Very few mail clients seem to do this anymore.
> 
> AFAIK, the sig separator is documented in the latest Usenet drafts.
> See .

More precisely in section 4.3.2. "Body Conventions" of the latest
Usefor draft:

   http://www.landfield.com/usefor/drafts/draft-ietf-usefor-article-04.txt

-- 
Rafael Laboissiere

How to setup imap mailboxes

[Marc Tardif]

While trying to understand how to configure imap mailboxes in mutt, I came
across what I was looking for in the mailing list archive:
http://www.mail-archive.com/mutt-users@mutt.org/msg10688.html

The relevant part of the posting showed the following mailboxes:
> IMAP   ../
> IMAP   INBOX
> IMAP   mbox1
> IMAP   mbox2
> IMAP   subfolder1/
> IMAP   #sharedns1/

When I look at my folders, by typing 'c' then '?', I get:
 1 drwxr-xr-x 16 usernameusername1024 Jun 30 21:04 ../

Unfortunately, the message in the archive didn't explain how to get from
my setup to multiple mailboxes. I tried typing 'n' to create a new
mailbox, but mutt returns "Creating mailboxes is not yet supported."
(mutt-1.2.5) Anyone mind explaining how I can configure imap mailboxes so
that I get a listing as above?

Thanks,
Marc

Re: working with folders

[David Rock]

On Sun, Jul 01, 2001 at 12:52:17PM -0400, Sam Carleton wrote:
> I am new to mutt and still trying to figure out how to use the thing.  I
> have subscribed to a mailing list and setup the whole mailing list thing.
> Now I would like to set things up so that the mail from this mailing list
> went directly into a different folder...
> 
> The first question I have is; how do I create this folder?  How do I
> manually move emails into this new folder?  Is it possible to have mutt
> automatically move the mail to the folder or do I NEED to use procmail?

The folder can be created by simply touching a filename in the directory
you want it in. It will also be created automatically when you copy a
message to it. You can do that by highlighting and using an uppercase C,
which is the copy command. You do have to also remember to mark the
message for deletion afterward.

It is possible to set up a mbox-hook between two specific folders. This
is a sample from my .muttrc:

# mailboxes
mailboxes =mutt-spool

#spool hooks for default read messages
mbox-hook mutt-spool=mutt

This tells mutt that you want to automatically move messages in
mutt-spool to mutt after you leave the mutt-spool folder. The trick is
to get the messages to mutt-spool in the first place. I use procmail for
that. I don't think there is any other good way for mutt to do it
itself.

-- 
David Rock
[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Documentation about signature seperator

[Eugene Lee]

On Sun, Jul 01, 2001 at 06:42:12PM +0200, Rafael Laboissiere wrote:
: 
: * Vincent Lefevre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2001/06/30 21:41]:
: 
: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
: >Michael Elkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: > 
: > > AFAIK there is no such documentation.  It's merely a tradition that was
: > > carried over from USENET.  Very few mail clients seem to do this anymore.
: > 
: > AFAIK, the sig separator is documented in the latest Usenet drafts.
: > See .
: 
: More precisely in section 4.3.2. "Body Conventions" of the latest
: Usefor draft:
: 
:http://www.landfield.com/usefor/drafts/draft-ietf-usefor-article-04.txt

Pretty strong language too!

If a poster or posting agent does append such a signature to an
article, it MUST be preceded with a delimiter line containing
(only) two hyphens (ASCII 45) followed by one SP (ASCII 32).


-- 
Eugene Lee
[EMAIL PROTECTED]