Please use the 'L' command to send mail

1999-10-26 Thread Chris Green
Since most people on this list presumably use mutt would it be too much to ask that they use the 'L' command to respond to mail on the list. Many of the responses to my recent questions and comments have been sent to both the list and to me. It's no big deal but it would make for a little less m

Re: Multiple accounts and 'personalities', mutt 'philosophy', thoughts etc.

1999-10-26 Thread Chris Green
On Wed, Oct 27, 1999 at 02:00:58AM +0200, Roy-Magne Mo wrote: > > The major advantage of IMAP for me is that from any of these locations > > I can save and retrieve 'important' mail and keep it organised in > > folders which I can 'see' from wherever I happen to be logged on at > > the time. I ac

Re: Multiple accounts and 'personalities', mutt 'philosophy', thoughts etc.

1999-10-26 Thread Roy-Magne Mo
On Tue, Oct 26, 1999 at 09:11:39AM +0100, Chris Green wrote: > As may be gathered from my recent messages on this list I'm playing at > using mutt with some IMAP accounts I have. > > However I am also using mutt as my main 'local' mail program in three > different places. Hence I am using mutt o

Key selection to encrypt a mail

1999-10-26 Thread Jan-Benedict Glaw
Hi! When you're in the lst of (possible) keys to determine which one to use, you've not got any chance to (q)uit this list anddecide to not encrypt the mail. If you don't have the public key, you're sent to the input field for prividing the keyid again and so on. I think thereshould be a way to e

Re: masq of hostname

1999-10-26 Thread Mikko Hänninen
Martin Högman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on Wed, 27 Oct 1999: > Well, thank god for FreshMeat. I'll have a check at qmail and a few others, and > if this still puzzles me, I shall return. :) I looked these up for someone from freshmeat (Daemons/SMTP), but maybe other people on the list may find th

Re: masq of hostname

1999-10-26 Thread Martin Högman
On Tue, Oct 26, 1999 at 10:34:07PM +0300, Mikko Hänninen wrote: > One suggestion: don't use sendmail, use something else more easily > managed. Point taken. > If you just want smart-host relaying, there are several alternatives, > starting with sSMTP (for links which are up all the time) to qmai

Re: Configurability a la Elm

1999-10-26 Thread F.Baube\[tm\]
> set move=ask-no > set delete=ask-yes D'oh! I did have them set that way, but then I misunderstood the meaning of the brackets in the prompts. Great mailer!, works better than the users :-/ fred baube -- F.Baube(tm)* "Geese, I'm led to understand, make G'town U. MSFS '88 * exce

Re: Configurability a la Elm

1999-10-26 Thread Mikko Hänninen
F.Baubetm" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on Wed, 27 Oct 1999: > Great mailer!, works better than the users :-/ If there's a Mutt quotes page anywhere, I vote for this to be added. :-) Mikko, who's wondering why the first " is missing in the attribution line (no I didn't touch it) -- a bug? -- the

Re: bug in 1.0i?

1999-10-26 Thread Pieter Wenk
Hello to all >Mutt uses the timestamps on the folders (try "ls -l "ls -lu foldername" to see them) to figure out which folders have new >mail. If the modified time ("ls -l") is later than the access time >("ls -lu"), then Mutt declares that the folder has new mail. If the >access time changes

Re: Copy Paste

1999-10-26 Thread Pieter Wenk
Hello Miko >Erm. You don't press Ctrl-C to copy text to the clipboard. You select >it, and it gets copied automatically. If you've selected something and >choose paste, then that selection gets pasted. This works usually >totally without any need to use the keyboard (left click selects, middl

Re: masq of hostname

1999-10-26 Thread Mikko Hänninen
Martin Högman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on Tue, 26 Oct 1999: > > Of course, the easy thing to do is to configure your local sendmail > > daemon to simply route all mail through the same server that Pine > > would've used, since that is probably the mail hub for your site > > anyway. Simply use th

Re: masq of hostname

1999-10-26 Thread Martin Högman
On Tue, Oct 26, 1999 at 11:24:35AM -0500, David DeSimone wrote: > Does the hostname really exist, or not? If it does, then you should try > to figure out why your DNS server says it doesn't. If it doesn't exist, > then this is of course a correct error. Well, since my last crash, I've been rat

Re: bug in 1.0i?

1999-10-26 Thread David DeSimone
J. Lasser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hmmm... in 1.0i, if I'm in the message index, it will occasionally > beep at me that I've got new mail in a folder, but by the time I hit a > key, the Inc: 1 line in the status bar goes away, and if I hit > hange mailbox, it's not waiting there as the def

Re: masq of hostname

1999-10-26 Thread David DeSimone
Martin Högman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Whenever I send a message to certain servers, they return the classic > message "hostname unknown" to me. Does the hostname really exist, or not? If it does, then you should try to figure out why your DNS server says it doesn't. If it doesn't exist,

Re: Colorized headers and the fu of TERM

1999-10-26 Thread David DeSimone
Phil Stracchino <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Mutt uses color, and displays everything else correctly as well, if > TERM=color_xterm, but pico breaks with this value for TERM. You didn't say how pico breaks. Does it claim that it can't figure out what the terminal setting means? Maybe pico use

more sane editting?

1999-10-26 Thread Timothy Ball
I'm using mutt 1.0i and vim to to edit my mail... I've set the edit_headers thing and I have a sig on the bottom om my mail. Is there a way to start vim at the first blank line of my mail and be ready to start editing, instead of having to hit "i" to start inserting text? TIA, timball --

bug in 1.0i?

1999-10-26 Thread J. Lasser
Hmmm... in 1.0i, if I'm in the message index, it will occasionally beep at me that I've got new mail in a folder, but by the time I hit a key, the Inc: 1 line in the status bar goes away, and if I hit hange mailbox, it's not waiting there as the default answer. Also, another problem older than 1.

Re: Multiple accounts and 'personalities', mutt 'philosophy', thoughts etc.

1999-10-26 Thread Brendan Cully
On Tuesday, 26 October 1999 at 10:35, Thomas Roessler wrote: > On 1999-10-26 09:11:39 +0100, Chris Green wrote: > > > Now comes the 'philosopy' bit, mutt really isn't aware of this sort > > of situation yet, it expects one 'set folder=' which > > says where your 'home' mail directory is. This ju

shortcut characters for mailbox paths

1999-10-26 Thread lang
I really like the shortcut characters like !,=,>,< used to change to specific mailboxes and I wonder if I can construct similar shortcuts myself. I use mutt to read my procmail log in ~/.procmail/log and my mailing list archives in ~/slist/[listname]/archive/latest, and it is difficult to type o

Re: uudencoded stuff

1999-10-26 Thread lang
On Wed, May 19, 1999 at 06:24:19PM +1100, Brian Salter-Duke wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > if you ever get urlview to work *PLEASE* let me know how you did it > 4. url_handler is url_handler.sh that comes with the release renamed > and moved to /usr/local/bin. I e

Re: Configurability a la Elm

1999-10-26 Thread Mikko Hänninen
F.Baubetm" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on Tue, 26 Oct 1999: > When I exit mutt, the defaults are not right. I do _not_ > want it to transfer mail out of my spoolfile, and I _do_ > want it to delete the messages I've marked for deletion. > "ask-no", "ask-yes". > > How do I configure these two i

Configurability a la Elm

1999-10-26 Thread F.Baube\[tm\]
Hi all, I'm an elm diehard who's finally made the jump to mutt. The fact that keypresses are about the same is great ! My questions is about configuring mutt. Yup, I've checked over the page that discusses muttrc items, but without luck. When I exit mutt, the defaults are not right. I do _not

Re: Copy Paste

1999-10-26 Thread Mikko Hänninen
Pieter Wenk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on Tue, 26 Oct 1999: > Mark. I may have a problem in following you correctly. Within a Xterm I have > no problem using copy/paste. Ok, then you should have no problem with Mutt. > But within mutt, well yes. I load mutt within a console under KDE. Now, when

Re: Copy Paste

1999-10-26 Thread Pieter Wenk
Hello Mark, > >You're clearly using Linux...why not use copy/paste in either an xterm (or >clone), or use gpm on the console? Yes. I run a SuSE 6.1 on a 586 machine with 64 RAM. Should be enough. > >Even from a dumb terminal with enough capability to run mutt, you could use >screen and use its c

Re: IMAP folder browsing in mutt 1.0

1999-10-26 Thread Thomas Roessler
On 1999-10-26 15:27:38 +0530, Raju K V wrote: > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] What's that? > Is IMAP folder browsing enabled in mutt 1.0? When I tried by > setting folder={server}Mail, I got an error message saying it is > not s

Re: Umlaute in pager

1999-10-26 Thread Hans Gubitz
On Mon, Oct 25, 1999 at 08:51:35PM +0200, Dirk Pirschel wrote: > Hi > > On Mon, Oct 25, 1999 at 04:51:15PM +0200, Hans Gubitz wrote: > > How can I manage to get german Umlaute in the builtin pager? > > This should work if you set $LANG to german. > Or, if you want $LANG=en, use configure --enabl

Re: IMAP - seeing folders on server

1999-10-26 Thread Chris Green
On Mon, Oct 25, 1999 at 04:10:40PM -0400, Brendan Cully wrote: > On Monday, 25 October 1999 at 15:39, Chris Green wrote: > > I'm somewhat confused by the way one is supposed to navigate > > folders/directories on an IMAP server. The mutt version I'm running > > here (0.96i) seems slightly differe

Re: Multiple accounts and 'personalities', mutt 'philosophy', thoughts etc.

1999-10-26 Thread Chris Green
On Tue, Oct 26, 1999 at 10:35:50AM +0200, Thomas Roessler wrote: > On 1999-10-26 09:11:39 +0100, Chris Green wrote: > > > Now comes the 'philosopy' bit, mutt really isn't aware of this sort > > of situation yet, it expects one 'set folder=' which > > says where your 'home' mail directory is. Thi

Re: Copy Paste

1999-10-26 Thread Mikko Hänninen
Pieter Wenk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on Tue, 26 Oct 1999: > I am new to mutt. Is there a way to tell mutt I should like to have > copy/paste features or is this just not suported ? Mutt doesn't support copy/paste as an application. You can run Mutt in an xterm in X for example, in which case yo

IMAP folder browsing in mutt 1.0

1999-10-26 Thread Raju K V
hi, Is IMAP folder browsing enabled in mutt 1.0? When I tried by setting folder={server}Mail, I got an error message saying it is not supported. Since folder browsing is possible in the development branch, is it enough if I just copy the imap.c from the development branch to the stable branch an

Re: Copy Paste

1999-10-26 Thread Fairlight
On Tue, Oct 26, 1999 at 09:04:19AM +0200, Pieter Wenk thus spoke: > > I am new to mutt. Is there a way to tell mutt I should like to have > copy/paste features or is this just not suported ? > > Sincerely I hope it is. > Regards. > > -- > >/ / (_)

Re: Colorized headers and the fu of TERM

1999-10-26 Thread Manoj Kasichainula
On Tue, Oct 26, 1999 at 12:23:12AM -0700, Phil Stracchino wrote: > (1) modify all my scripts to invoke mutt as 'TERM=color_xterm /usr/bin/mutt' > (2) Set editor and visual to 'TERM=xterm /usr/bin/pico -t -z' in .muttrc > > Pico, it appears, does not like color-enabled terminals, but if told the >

Re: New-User to mutt

1999-10-26 Thread Mikko Hänninen
Pieter Wenk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on Mon, 25 Oct 1999: > I just installed mutt as E-Mailer. Found a suitable muttrc on a site > in Germany. ... > How do I have to tell it to mutt, that I would be pleased, that instead > of showing just a only a number for incoming new mail, it would > also s

Multiple accounts and 'personalities', mutt 'philosophy', thoughts etc.

1999-10-26 Thread Chris Green
As may be gathered from my recent messages on this list I'm playing at using mutt with some IMAP accounts I have. However I am also using mutt as my main 'local' mail program in three different places. Hence I am using mutt on my home machine (isbd.demon.co.uk), on this ISP login account (areti.

can't cycle between folders with space bar (1.0i)

1999-10-26 Thread J. Lasser
I think this problem has been around for a couple of versions, but I just upgraded to 1.0i and I know it's a problem now. I've got a whole bunch of folders defined as incoming-mail mailboxes. The (Inc) count on the status bar is correct as to how many folders have received new mail, and when I ha

Re: IMAP, how to find out about new features?

1999-10-26 Thread Chris Green
On Mon, Oct 25, 1999 at 04:20:41PM -0400, Brendan Cully wrote: > > OK, I'll try that, thanks. What I'd *really* like is a 'move' facility > > as this is typically what I use the IMAP server for. > > er, what 's' does is copy the messages then mark them deleted. 'C' does > the copy without the d

Copy Paste

1999-10-26 Thread Pieter Wenk
I am new to mutt. Is there a way to tell mutt I should like to have copy/paste features or is this just not suported ? Sincerely I hope it is. Regards. -- / / (_) __ __ Pieter Wenk / /__/ / _ \/ // /\ \/ / Vevey/Switzerland

Re: Multiple accounts and 'personalities', mutt 'philosophy', thoughts etc.

1999-10-26 Thread Thomas Roessler
On 1999-10-26 09:11:39 +0100, Chris Green wrote: > Now comes the 'philosopy' bit, mutt really isn't aware of this sort > of situation yet, it expects one 'set folder=' which > says where your 'home' mail directory is. This just isn't > realistic when using IMAP the way I do. Many MUAs are now t