How to handle a lot of emails via IMAP
So I have been subscribed to LKML (Linux Kernel Mailing List) for several years on my gmail account. I decided to try to read that email using IMAP with Mutt. I only have about 460,000+ emails ;) and I did turn on header caching. I never can make it through the entire "Fetching message headers..." phase before the connection dies. This takes about an hour or two for it to die. And after it dies I see a 153 megabyte cache file but when I restart the connection to the IMAP server it starts all over again downloading headers and doesn't seem to use the data that it already downloaded. So I never can finish getting the message headers and therefore can never read my email :( The cache file seems to keep growing every run. Any ideas? Is there a way to say only download N number of headers at a time? I am running Mutt 1.5.20 in Fedora 12 x86_64. ( mutt-1.5.20-1.20090827hg605559.fc12.x86_64 ) Thanks, John
Queued outgoing mail
Is there a method for queuing outgoing mail? Eudora used to have a feature where you could queue sent mail for deliver at either a specified time, or after a specified delay (ex. 10 mins from now). Is there anyway to do this with mutt? I'm currently using postfix as my smtp delivery agent if that makes a difference. On a related note, if I send an email while I'm offline, it goes into the postfix queue fine. How/when does postfix flush that email out?
Re: Queued outgoing mail
On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 11:53:50AM -0500, Tim Gray wrote: > On a related note, if I send an email while I'm offline, it goes > into the postfix queue fine. How/when does postfix flush that email > out? AFAIK, postfix simply retries delivering mail periodically. I don't think it does anything more advanced like watching for the network to be up or down and automatically sending mail when the network comes up. You can force postfix to try to deliver queued messages with the command 'postqueue -f'. -- Noah Sheppard Assistant Computer Resource Manager Taylor University CSE Department nshep...@cse.taylor.edu
Save messages on exit.
Hi, What is the best way to accomplish the following. I have may in spool, when I exit mutt I have Yes/No to move messages to the mbox. How can I move messages from mutt.org to some other file, let's say maillists? Best, -- Paul Greenberg PGP key: 0xEF9DE0D8 The information contained in this e-mail, and any attachment, is confidential and is intended solely for the use of the intended recipient. Access, copying or re-use of the e-mail or any attachment, or any information contained therein, by any other person is not authorized. If you are not the intended recipient please return the e-mail to the sender and delete it from your computer. Although we attempt to sweep e-mail and attachments for viruses, we do not guarantee that either are virus-free and accept no liability for any damage sustained as a result of viruses. pgpn7bUFFavfY.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Save messages on exit.
=- Paul Greenberg wrote on Mon 25.Jan'10 at 14:47:38 -0500 -= > I have may in spool, when I exit mutt I have Yes/No to move messages to the > mbox. > How can I move messages from mutt.org to some other file, let's say maillists? Macro to tag-by-pattern and tag-apply "save" for each of your lists, which you bind to your "change-folder" or "quit/exit" button(s). -- © Rado S. -- You must provide YOUR effort for your goal! EVERY effort counts: at least to show your attitude. You're responsible for ALL you do: you get what you give.
Re: Simple Mutt with Eee PC 701.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 >set sent = "+/Sent" >set trash = "+/Trash" >Error in ~/foo/.muttrc, line 9: sent: unknown variable That's because the variable you want is called "record", not "sent". (I know, that's not necessarily obvious...) >The second I encounter an error with when I attempt to quit Mutt: > >Purge 12 deleted messages? ([yes]/no): y >Create .Trash? ([yes]/no): y >Can't open trash folder Hrm. Did you define the $folder variable BEFORE defining those variables, or after? You need to define it FIRST. The + symbol there is actually a reference to the $folder variable. For example, with the following settings: set folder=/tmp set record="+/Sent" set trash="+/Trash" ... your trash will be stored in /tmp/Trash. Buy the same logic, with these settings: set folder=$HOME set record="+/Sent" set trash="+/Trash" ... your trash will be stored in $HOME/Trash. However, with these settings: set record="+/Sent" set trash="+/Trash" set folder=/tmp ... your trash will be stored in /Trash. This is because at the time that mutt read the "set trash" line, the $folder variable didn't contain anything. Make sense? ~Kyle - -- That it is better 100 guilty Persons should escape than that one innocent Person should suffer, is a Maxim that has been long and generally approved. -- Benjamin Franklin -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Comment: Thank you for using encryption! iQIcBAEBCAAGBQJLXgywAAoJECuveozR/AWe0tcQAJXus5/0rnwd3EXR9Bpb0hbD tUG87/gnmbJYakoj4OfKBy5BKb3qj+lF5K2uT5B5mrOaJF9Fdocssba8Lq0PiPyu GcavtZ2Ke/WW3ExV1MqTnl6aXtAsjafQ2YdBTXR0gY3JOSk8w4DKaVqYycfOjwYq LZv5ri7bfq35j4DggDW86qBf07Jv/JTnxC96A4cIPblEiiDprgpEs4zzTduaa1xt vBomyGn5z7Y4cGtbDcXqjiz/dLzIfnTX9xKTAiuY544gYyrggKx0kujGzaNK7b/9 V6jkWubhkGxjMYbOOAiksdaD5d6ELxNRTCZ5InvCHqJ7TGQYBvpS72TRYvq7v2d5 u4AbyNWnRnM6l/U6PrQRccMUJAgzZdzchEMv8FNN7w92CrGc+soNoGYUspPvDnLF kJrsrz6cXc2OZEjNhtZ5uB+I0y0vlVsfPs0F/otm6jWZP8F3+GhC88tazCrKx+gY ypfkr6LY62Jw9uWvuZQZwOGl5zO5z0qwiyiyQvoPL+Z3A1WgKszxDRIKWMNiRkdN AwJkLb8E0+bk1muulv26cjQn/rRY6r+BXjf4Vhg8ssd8eHeZgzbU5HF2KEE1GlQ3 fIcItlop3FTqRrpffMf6det4gVkv8jWIK1vqDSsB7HAQ+whQu47BKO6MDPh+j/QZ UOjVftEtkzGedrbnzRw8 =640B -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: Save messages on exit.
Do you have existing macro to look at? Thank you, -- Paul Greenberg 718-954-4487 PGP key: 0xEF9DE0D8 The information contained in this e-mail, and any attachment, is confidential and is intended solely for the use of the intended recipient. Access, copying or re-use of the e-mail or any attachment, or any information contained therein, by any other person is not authorized. If you are not the intended recipient please return the e-mail to the sender and delete it from your computer. Although we attempt to sweep e-mail and attachments for viruses, we do not guarantee that either are virus-free and accept no liability for any damage sustained as a result of viruses. On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 10:25:46PM +0100, Rado S wrote: > =- Paul Greenberg wrote on Mon 25.Jan'10 at 14:47:38 -0500 -= > > > I have may in spool, when I exit mutt I have Yes/No to move messages to the > > mbox. > > How can I move messages from mutt.org to some other file, let's say > > maillists? > > Macro to tag-by-pattern and tag-apply "save" for each of your lists, > which you bind to your "change-folder" or "quit/exit" button(s). > > -- > © Rado S. -- You must provide YOUR effort for your goal! > EVERY effort counts: at least to show your attitude. > You're responsible for ALL you do: you get what you give. pgpAhZYUkIhRO.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Queued outgoing mail
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On Monday, January 25 at 11:53 AM, quoth Tim Gray: > Is there a method for queuing outgoing mail? Eudora used to have a > feature where you could queue sent mail for deliver at either a > specified time, or after a specified delay (ex. 10 mins from now). Is > there anyway to do this with mutt? I'm currently using postfix as my > smtp delivery agent if that makes a difference. Mutt does not have its own queue of mail; it uses other programs to handle mail sending. For example, on your system, it uses postfix. Thus, whenever you send mail with mutt, mutt hands that message to postfix. Postfix places that message in its queue, and then a different component of postfix pulls the message from the queue and delivers it. If you only want email delivered at some point in the future, you're going to have to investigate postfix's delay features. Mutt does not queue email by itself. > On a related note, if I send an email while I'm offline, it goes into > the postfix queue fine. Actually, it goes into the postfix queue even when you're online; it just doesn't stay there for very long. > How/when does postfix flush that email out? It depends on your setup. It's possible that postfix simply retries along some sort of retry schedule (the default, IIRC, is an exponential backoff schedule). If postfix has been set up in a particularly intelligent fashion, it will hold queued messages indefinitely until some other system (such as hald, on linux, or launchd on OSX) notifies it that it now has a network connection and that the queue may be flushed. ~Kyle - -- Religion, morality, and knowledge, being necessary to good government and the happiness of mankind, school and the means of education shall forever be encouraged. -- The Ohio Ordinance of 1787, Article III -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Comment: Thank you for using encryption! iQIcBAEBCAAGBQJLXg4lAAoJECuveozR/AWeiIMQAKBKoo6+nwBukRUd6Zm1UtJO TtiqGugSk+pKOcQGn8fwRtyw8pwRZWG7lpYEhzNjp4G5Mg1/tN9lf+ELNDWyQxW6 ENnXw16lYjOGHe+U6Rss7nqGem5chz3Mn7LFCws/BkJXzASS4osMNdM1w+O3QTZH cdEtVECPyN531s32Fq84lZlmEKwm+y5iKZYNgyPnSLD2/j4G6KYeOco87Q48LUAU PZ/UDsWvbpvLrVCgpjGDCI8ztMTPJ400+ytLrLzb3IUhwcDBd9oJ4QgI9jHhfvfi gspaptxZP6WLzeB1kWY5QBPCEyIvQ+lAjm7FpTaDeBVWeqwhFrRX5LLL2VFRVrf4 iTw/64ohuSs0Hqwn1uCu6NGfjoFBy9CD3shSQKFHhXXdLnhb2tGiqFGRvqS2KA2d cIv4OwL0A19kpvLiUHdtBWaaY3dgCveAzNDhs+JnGpK/7rR6AvdFXHQt8CjXKS4h lSDlPwQc/pnpmWzXJDtipP4uJqm9R8jUSKqcJHb4a2Yj8cOCgbTUJMdfpOakgfvs 70Qvvzymxv5Jesu/uMnfi0KJ7PfjjcfmivS2KeCJJE71dcvbR7I5fW2eT9GL2D5K j81RyjjIehulWZciepdTzbV9HZ+xv5dAOjv3MCwz/d/4vfh4M9bCWGpi2C2hyzZ7 xgcrPtkUc2UVW9vnk03Z =y0Tt -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: Queued outgoing mail
On Mon 25, Jan'10 at 3:33 PM -0600, Kyle Wheeler wrote: Actually, it goes into the postfix queue even when you're online; it just doesn't stay there for very long. I know. I guess I was asking if mutt could send the message to posfix and say 'don't try to deliver until 10 mins from now'.
Re: Queued outgoing mail
On 25 Jan 2010, at 22:30, Tim Gray wrote: > On Mon 25, Jan'10 at 3:33 PM -0600, Kyle Wheeler wrote: >> Actually, it goes into the postfix queue even when you're online; it just >> doesn't stay there for very long. > > I know. I guess I was asking if mutt could send the message to posfix and > say 'don't try to deliver until 10 mins from now'. Postfix has a 'hold' queue. # postsuper -h 'Queue ID' will hold the message until you invoke # postsuper -H 'Queue ID' at which point it will move the message back to the normal queue. -- Regards, John johnmast...@me.com
Re: Queued outgoing mail
Message de Tim Gray, lundi 25 janvier à 17h53 : > Is there a method for queuing outgoing mail? Eudora used to have a > feature where you could queue sent mail for deliver at either a > specified time, or after a specified delay (ex. 10 mins from now). > Is there anyway to do this with mutt? I'm currently using postfix > as my smtp delivery agent if that makes a difference. I don't think that's possible inside mutt without writing some very complicated macros. We've talked about that a few days ago, one solution is to do it outside of mutt : From: Jostein Berntsen To: mutt-users@mutt.org Message-id: <20100122145803.gb4...@josteinb> On 21.01.10,06:14, E. Prom wrote: > Hi again, > > How would you make mutt send a message at a certain hour? This can be > useful : make your boss believe you were working late whereas you left > your office just after him, make sure someone receives your e-mail > when you know he'll be receptive and not when you write it because he > is very busy at this time, etc. > > I tried this : > > sleep 2m; echo ""|mutt -s subject -i message_file -x per...@domain > > It works fine, seems to apply all the conf, except one thing : it does > not sign the e-mail. Even adding -e "set crypt_autosign" to the > command line does not help. There's indeed the passphrase problem, but > gpg-agent had not timed out when I was trying, and did not ask for it > using mutt interactively later. > > Any idea? > You can use the "at" command for this: at 16:00 echo ""|mutt -s subject -i message_file -x per...@domain Ctrl-d - Jostein
Re: Queued outgoing mail
On Tue 26, Jan'10 at 3:01 AM +0100, E. Prom wrote: I don't think that's possible inside mutt without writing some very complicated macros. We've talked about that a few days ago, one solution is to do it outside of mutt : Man, I totally read that thread too. My memory is failing...
