On Mon, Sep 20, 1999 at 10:57:30PM -0500, Jeremy Blosser wrote:
>
> 1) setting your textwidth is out of consideration for those that receive
> your mail, whereas having vim and using it to reformat mail is your concern
> when you read your mail
Maximum line width is specified in RFC1855:
http:
Clint Olsen [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote:
> On Sep 20, Jeremy Blosser wrote:
> > 80 is still considered the maximum safe width to assume for a window. But
> > since emails get indendted by reply characters like lots of >'s, you should
> > use something like 72-75 to keep it under 80 through several
On Sep 20, Jeremy Blosser wrote:
>
> 80 is still considered the maximum safe width to assume for a window. But
> since emails get indendted by reply characters like lots of >'s, you should
> use something like 72-75 to keep it under 80 through several levels of
> replies.
>
> You can do it a fe
Quoting Mikko Hänninen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) from Tue, Sep 21, 1999 at 03:32:01AM
+0300:
> Nathan Cullen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on Mon, 20 Sep 1999:
> > What is the generally accepted message length for plain text messages? I've
> > heard several numbers (72 chars, 80, 79, etc..).
>
> 72 is th
On Tue, Sep 21, 1999 at 03:03:38AM +0200, Stefan `Sec` Zehl wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 20, 1999 at 04:56:05PM -0700, rex wrote:
> > I'd much prefer the default behavior of Mutt to be to leave headers as
> > they are written, particularly as long as they are RFC822 compliant.
> >
> I think "./configure
At 03:32 AM 9/21/99 +0300, Mikko Hänninen wrote:
>Nathan Cullen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on Mon, 20 Sep 1999:
>> What is the generally accepted message length for plain text messages?
I've
>> heard several numbers (72 chars, 80, 79, etc..).
>
>72 is the one I've seen most. In general, "less than
Ken <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on Mon, 20 Sep 1999:
> >:set textwidth=72
>
> Something you may want to consider is specifying this in your .muttrc
> rather than .vimrc. I like vi to have long line lengths and not wrap
> unless necessary when I'm mucking about with code files like html and php.
I
On Mon, Sep 20, 1999 at 04:56:05PM -0700, rex wrote:
> However, that's not the only problem. For
> encrypting mail, premail expects a
>
> To: him@there ((encrypted-pgp))
>
> line, and Mutt has a "feature" that automatically mungs such lines into
>
> To: "(encry
Nathan Cullen [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote:
> What is the generally accepted message length for plain text messages? I've
> heard several numbers (72 chars, 80, 79, etc..). Also, what would be the
> entry in my .vimrc to enforce this text width?
80 is still considered the maximum safe width to ass
Nathan Cullen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on Mon, 20 Sep 1999:
> What is the generally accepted message length for plain text messages? I've
> heard several numbers (72 chars, 80, 79, etc..).
72 is the one I've seen most. In general, "less than 80". The
reasoning for 72, which is quite a bit les
What is the generally accepted message length for plain text messages? I've
heard several numbers (72 chars, 80, 79, etc..). Also, what would be the
entry in my .vimrc to enforce this text width?
--
===
Nathan Cullen [EMAIL PROTECTED]
=
On Mon, Sep 20, 1999 at 01:56:23PM -0500, David DeSimone wrote:
>
> For reasons that are still not clear to me, Mutt calls sendmail by
> inserting a "--" argument between the options and the mail addresses.
> Apparently this is an option recognized by later sendmails, so that even
> if an addres
Brian Salter-Duke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Does mutt use TMPDIR? I have TMPDIR set to /var/tmp but it writes
> messages into /tmp. I do not know about the mailbox as above.
Mutt also has a "tmpdir" variable setting, which is supposed to be
initially set to $TMPDIR, but you can set it else
On Mon, Sep 20, 1999 at 05:33:04PM -0500, David DeSimone wrote:
> Brian Butler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > In this case, though, something is definitely not going right because
> > the length of the mailbox file does not change and the messages which
> > were flagged deleted are still liste
A few days ago I posted a question about setting up python so mail2muttalias.py
worked on AIX. I had no replies from this list or the python or aix lists,
but finally figured it out. My information may help others.
1. cursesmodule.c is not compliled by default. Move the improved version
into plac
Brian Butler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> In this case, though, something is definitely not going right because
> the length of the mailbox file does not change and the messages which
> were flagged deleted are still listed and available in the same
> mailbox.
>
> Also, when the request is to '
David DeSimone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Are you certain that the mailbox is not getting fully written? Mutt has
> an optimization that makes it only update messages in the folder,
> starting from the first one that has *changed status*. That means that,
> if you only modify a message in the
Brian Butler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> It gets to about 55% now (recently it was 73%), sits there and
> says "Writing messages... 3178 (55%)" then quits doing that and
> awaits a command. Everything seems to work like it always has,
> except the completion of the 'save' directive.
A
[attempting resend; I was rejected as a nonsubscriber from this address...]
Hello. Have had good times with mutt for years now.
Recently, with my disgustingly large /var/spool/mail box, mutt has not
completely written my mailbox after changes are made. I recognize that
the massive mailbo
Dirk Huebner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> The problem is, that using save-hooks (which normally work fine) isn't
> possible, because those mails should go to "sent-mail", not to the
> folder which contains the mail _from_ the user I sent the mail _to_ .
While I'm not sure that I understand your
Chris Green <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > ./prepare --enable-imap
> > make
> > make install
>
> I don't have autoconf or automake installed here so I'll need them
> before I can build using ./prepare.
It's true that you need those tools in order to run the "prepare"
script, but I have never i
Hi
On Mon, Sep 20, 1999 at 04:03:45PM +0200, Dirk Huebner wrote:
>I'm doing a BCC to myself from different machines I use in different
>places (just to have all outgoing mails on my primary machine). The problem
>is, that using save-hooks (which normally work fine) isn't possible,
>because those
Timothy Ball <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> I already have a pub/secret key using pgp 2.6.2 on my solaris machine
> I wanted to know how do I move that set of keyrings over to my linux
> machine?
Is there some reason you can't just copy the files in your .pgp
directory from one machine to the oth
Horacio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> I'm trying to write a macro for copying a message from box A to box B,
> and having the msg. in box A deleted (ie. moving) ... well, that's
> what does, but it asks if I want to copy the msg. to a box named
> after the sender's name, unless I press then
On Monday, 20 September 1999, at 11:25:35 (+0100),
Chris Green wrote:
> I like the look of the mutt screenshots with the eterm menubar, does
> anyone have a basic menu configuration for mutt available. I'd
> prefer an rxvt one rather than eterm because I'm not quite into the
> excesses (IMHO) of
rex <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Premail works from the command line and will send an encrypted message
> that Mutt can decode with PGP 2.6.3i, but when attempting to send from
> Mutt, premail reports:
> unknown option -- . Please send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with details
For reasons that ar
Hi, I am trying to make a macro for a digest which I read that as
message seperaters uses:
___
___
I want to be able to search for this, but th
> you mentioned the way to do it. Use send-hooks.
> For example:
> send-hook gmx 'my_hdr From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]'
> All mails goig to gmx are the send using my address at gmx.
Not quite. All email's sent after sending one to gmx,
have the From: field sent to the above. Settings are
*per
On Mon, Sep 20, 1999 at 07:10:42AM -0700, R. Marc wrote:
> I picked up the snapshot from last friday (9/17) and it works pretty well
> for me. As noted in a previous post to this group, it does die, but only
> occasionally opening large mailboxes for me. I originally said about 1 in
> 5 times, b
Hi Matt,
you mentioned the way to do it. Use send-hooks.
For example:
send-hook gmx 'my_hdr From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]'
All mails goig to gmx are the send using my adress at gmx.
Greetings
Dirk
On Mon, 20 Sep 1999, Matt Brock wrote:
> Hi.
>
> Is it possible to use 'send-hooks' or somesuch to p
Chris Green <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> What's a reasonable stable version of mutt to build to get the new
> IMAP4 goodies? Is the current 'unstable' version a reasonable one to
> go for?
> Then, when I've got the source, how do I build it?
I picked up the snapshot from last friday (9/17) and
Hi.
Is it possible to use 'send-hooks' or somesuch to provide customised
settings (such as the 'From:' address when replying), based on who the
message was sent _to_? I know you can do that sort of thing based on
who the message is _from_, but I have several email accounts and I
want things (as I
Hi all,
another question about saving mails :-)
I'm doing a BCC to myself from different machines I use in different
places (just to have all outgoing mails on my primary machine). The problem
is, that using save-hooks (which normally work fine) isn't possible,
because those mails should go to
On Mon, Sep 20, 1999 at 12:39:47AM -0400, Tom Goulet wrote:
> I have mutt configured to use GPG, and most of it works very well, but, Mutt
> can't find most of the keys that are on my GPG public key ring. It finds
> SOME. I don't know what the ones it finds has in common.
This can be related to
Hello. Have had good times with mutt for years now.
Recently, with my disgustingly large /var/spool/mail box, mutt has not
completely written my mailbox after changes are made. I recognize that
the massive mailbox (15Mb, >5000 messages) may have something to do
with this. (I know I need to cha
On Mon, Sep 20, 1999 at 01:25:31AM +0200, Roberto Suarez Soto wrote:
> I mean columns in the folder list, like Pine. If you have a lot of
> folders (as I do), the ways to see and read them all in a sane manner are,
> basicly, two: (1) making directories to store the folders, or (2) having co
I like the look of the mutt screenshots with the eterm menubar, does
anyone have a basic menu configuration for mutt available. I'd prefer
an rxvt one rather than eterm because I'm not quite into the excesses
(IMHO) of eterm.
What do mutt users in general feel about adding menus this way, does
i
What's a reasonable stable version of mutt to build to get the new
IMAP4 goodies? Is the current 'unstable' version a reasonable one to
go for?
Then, when I've got the source, how do I build it? I can build the
non-development versions but there seems to be another layer (from
prepare to config
On 18/Sep/1999, Fairlight wrote:
> > Please! :-) I really need them. Are they so difficult to implement, or
> > is there another reason for not having them? :-m
>
> E...perhaps I'm missing a bit of info, but what do you mean by "columns
> in the folder lists" -specifically-?
O
Greets Again:
I'm liking this puppy so much that I'm going to install it on another box.
I don't know much about the ncurses or slang though. Enlightenment?
Thanks-- Ken
40 matches
Mail list logo
