Re: People that CC mailing lists
* s. keeling : > Incoming from Alexander Dahl: > > On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 12:51:54AM -0700, Bob Proulx wrote: > > > But dumbing things down also causes problems. People should learn > > > some social graces. Email is one of the basic forms of communication > > > in our new electronic world. I think this facade does them no favors. > > > > This would mean to convince them willingly put time in understanding > > mailing lists, choose a sophisticated MUA with reply to list feature > > or check and probably change To/Cc in each and every mail. Good luck > > with this. I stay with accepting there are dumb people (no offense) > > and am happy if they use e-mail at all. > > Roger that. The mortals I know think email's old-school/obsolete. > They consider it hard to use, their inboxes are full of UCE (or If you use http://automx.org setting up a new account is a matter of seconds. And as for UCE: You get what you pay for. Go to freemail providers and, well, judge for yourself. Keeping UCE out of mailboxes is no rocket science. > worse), and it seems my sister receives my multi-paragraph replies to > her questions on her iPhone, which only displays the first one or two > lines of them. Great. If SMSes were 2k characters long it would be the same. That's a limitiation introduced by device. I - personally - still believe the only thing these devices are good at is transmitting and receiving voice aka phone calls. p@rick -- state of mind () http://www.state-of-mind.de Franziskanerstraße 15 Telefon +49 89 3090 4664 81669 München Telefax +49 89 3090 4666 Amtsgericht MünchenPartnerschaftsregister PR 563 signature.asc Description: Digital signature
RE Pattern Problem in Macro
Hi For each folder-hook I have bound to a macro that is supposed to archive mail based on its score, which in turn is defined by its ages in terms of date-received. I cannot get the pattern to recurse into collapsed threads. Here is what I have so far but I have tried so many different combinations in the macro and at the index view by trying to tag messages manually. None of my patterns work as intended. I'm now totally stuck: folder-hook +.mutt '\ macro index "'~n0-30 | ~v ~n0-30'+.archive/.mutt" "Archive Old Messages" ;\ ... ' I understand the ~v pattern will get messages that are part of a collapsed thread but it doesn't seem to work at all. I think it's something to do with incorrect logical grouping or quoting or both, but I can't seem to get it right. You should be able to see from the example macro what I'm trying to achieve, would someone mind giving me some hints/tips on what is wrong with it and how I can tag messages recursively through collapsed threads so they can be archived. Many thanks. Jamie PS: I left the macro line in one full line in my editor, not sure how it will display. I didn't want to split it up in case it made it more difficult to read. -- Primary Key: 4096R/1D31DC38 2011-12-03 Key Fingerprint: A4B9 E875 A18C 6E11 F46D B788 BEE6 1251 1D31 DC38
Re: RE Pattern Problem in Macro
- James Griffin [2013-02-17 10:46:21 +] - : ... Sorry, I think I have found a way around it: to get the macro to the view to messages based on the score first; then tag them all; then archive them. The function seems to uncollapse threads so It would then be easier and I could expand it further by having a macro for each score range that way. Still confused about why I couldn't get the pattern to recursively tag messages in collapsed threads though :-/
Re: People that CC mailing lists
Incoming from Patrick Ben Koetter:
> * s. keeling :
> >
> > Roger that. The mortals I know think email's old-school/obsolete.
> > They consider it hard to use, their inboxes are full of UCE (or
>
> If you use http://automx.org setting up a new account is a matter of
That looks cool, but you misunderstood me. *They consider email itself
hard to use!* I've been pointing some of my geeky friends at mutt for
years, and even they don't get it. How hard is it to check your
mailbox once a day? Apparently too hard for them. mutt? Rocket
science! mutt's always been drop dead simple and easy to train for
me. For other people, not so much. No, I don't get it either.
> seconds. And as for UCE: You get what you pay for. Go to freemail
> providers and, well, judge for yourself. Keeping UCE out of
> mailboxes is no rocket science.
I've spent a few months testing a free account at mail.com and it's
worked fine for me. 3-5 UCE per week, and it just works. I believe
they used to be called AOL. :-| Huh.
I used to pop mail from my ISP and filter with procmail. Now, I'm
trying to figure out how to use imapfilter in its place instead.
> introduced by device. I - personally - still believe the only thing
> these devices are good at is transmitting and receiving voice aka
> phone calls.
ACK.
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Re: People that CC mailing lists
* s. keeling : > Incoming from Patrick Ben Koetter: > > * s. keeling : > > > > > > Roger that. The mortals I know think email's old-school/obsolete. > > > They consider it hard to use, their inboxes are full of UCE (or > > > > If you use http://automx.org setting up a new account is a matter of > > That looks cool, but you misunderstood me. *They consider email itself > hard to use!* I've been pointing some of my geeky friends at mutt for > years, and even they don't get it. How hard is it to check your > mailbox once a day? Apparently too hard for them. mutt? Rocket > science! mutt's always been drop dead simple and easy to train for > me. For other people, not so much. No, I don't get it either. mutt, like vi and other command line programs, have an invisible user interface. One needs to internalize the interface in order to use it efficiently. If takes lots of time to learn such an interface and to become productive. Anyone who went that road knows the reward great. There's nothing that distracts you. You can focus and all switches are within reach of a few finger presses. No need to leave the keyboard and use your eyes to find the right button. You think it and you can type it. No need to check with the eyes. But it is hard to get there and I respect anyone unwilling to go that way. p@rick -- state of mind () http://www.state-of-mind.de Franziskanerstraße 15 Telefon +49 89 3090 4664 81669 München Telefax +49 89 3090 4666 Amtsgericht MünchenPartnerschaftsregister PR 563 signature.asc Description: Digital signature
