Re: mailbox corruption and mutt

2000-06-05 Thread CaT
On Mon, Jun 05, 2000 at 08:18:56PM +0200, clemensF wrote: > > CaT: > > > Local filesystem for all mailboxes. and erm.. disjunct? > > sorry, i could not find the word and threw in what came up. i mean, can > you guarante that no links, chrooted environments or whatever make > different mailboxes

Re: procmail backup's & mutt: recognizing a MH folder.

2000-06-05 Thread David T-G
Francisco -- ...and then Francisco D. Borges said... % Hello Folks, % % I make backup of e-mail with this at procmailrc: Hmmm... This looks suspiciously like the stock backup recipe, which deals with mbox-format folders at one message per box... % % :0 c: % ${BACKUP_DIR} I don't nkow much

Re: Mutt newbie IMAP questions

2000-06-05 Thread cgreen
On Mon, Jun 05, 2000 at 01:36:52PM -0400, David T-G wrote: > % Oh thank you! :-) > > Hey, any time, pal! BTW, new email address? > Yes, I'm trying out this server in the USA rather than my previous UK one, apart from anything else it's cheaper. > % isn't an MDA involved. > > Er, I beg to di

Re: Procmail vs. Mutt variables

2000-06-05 Thread Mikko Hänninen
clemensF <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on Mon, 05 Jun 2000: > > Actually, you could embed `mkdir -p ` in any command -- it gets > > expanded but the result is an empty string. However the command does > > run. :-) > > whowherewhat? where are commands like this allowed like this? In things where yo

Re: Procmail vs. Mutt variables

2000-06-05 Thread clemensF
> Mikko Hänninen: > Actually, you could embed `mkdir -p ` in any command -- it gets > expanded but the result is an empty string. However the command does > run. :-) whowherewhat? where are commands like this allowed like this? -- clemens

Re: mailbox corruption and mutt

2000-06-05 Thread clemensF
> CaT: > Local filesystem for all mailboxes. and erm.. disjunct? sorry, i could not find the word and threw in what came up. i mean, can you guarante that no links, chrooted environments or whatever make different mailboxes undifferent, i.e. the same file? -- clemens

Re: Mutt newbie IMAP questions

2000-06-05 Thread David T-G
Chris -- ...and then [EMAIL PROTECTED] said... % On Mon, Jun 05, 2000 at 12:40:24AM -0400, David T-G wrote: % > % > I'm sure we can help you. mutt is very likable :-) I'm no IMAP guy, and % > the best folks are probably the IMAP code writers and maybe Chris Green, % > our resident IMAP-tester

procmail backup's & mutt: recognizing a MH folder.

2000-06-05 Thread Francisco D. Borges
Hello Folks, I make backup of e-mail with this at procmailrc: #-- ## backup copies of the last $MAXBACKUP e-mails. #-- :0 c: ${BACKUP_DIR} #---

Re: Question on mutt and mailbox choices

2000-06-05 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Andrew Paul Rossetti proclaimed on mutt-users that: >I was trying to set up mutt so that the program automatically starts in >the folder ~/Mail/inbox.mbx instead of the spool directory and when I run set spoolfile='~/Mail/inbox.mbx' # location of new mail mailboxes `echo ~/Mail/*`

Question on mutt and mailbox choices

2000-06-05 Thread Andrew Paul Rossetti
I was trying to set up mutt so that the program automatically starts in the folder ~/Mail/inbox.mbx instead of the spool directory and when I run fetchmail ( ) that it will download to this folder instead of my sool file as well, how might I go about doing this? Also I was wondering how might

Re: Gzip Mailboxes

2000-06-05 Thread CaT
On Mon, Jun 05, 2000 at 12:08:53AM -0400, David T-G wrote: > To open a compressed mailbox, you have to decompress it, right? So the > open-hook command tells mutt to unzip (gzip -d) to stdout (-c) from %f > (the actual folder file) to %t (the temp file); mutt is smart enough to > then look at the

Re: Mutt newbie IMAP questions

2000-06-05 Thread Bob Bell
On Mon, Jun 05, 2000 at 12:40:24AM -0400, David T-G <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > mutt will, indeed, look at all of the messages in a folder when it opens > that folder. If you keep all 20k messages in one place, then mutt will > have to go through them to get all of the headers. If you can split

Re: Results of corruption test on 1.2 (was: Re: mailbox corruption and mutt)

2000-06-05 Thread CaT
On Mon, Jun 05, 2000 at 11:43:22AM +0200, Thomas Roessler wrote: > On 2000-06-05 10:29:16 +1000, CaT wrote: > > > Before attempt: > > > -%-Mutt: /tmp/damien.work [Msgs:5492 New:12 Old:1176 Post:1 36M]---(reverse- > > > After attempt: > > > ---Mutt: /var/spool/mail/damien.work [Msgs:5038 New:9

Re: Mutt and my email address

2000-06-05 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
[EMAIL PROTECTED] proclaimed on mutt-users that: > I can't find anything in the docs to suggest that setting the From: >header, whether from a hook or not, has _any_ effect on whether mutt >marks a particular message in a folder with an "F" or not. And indeed, >in 1.0.1 it doesn't actually see

Re: Mutt newbie IMAP questions

2000-06-05 Thread cgreen
On Mon, Jun 05, 2000 at 01:25:03PM +0300, Mikko Hänninen wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on Mon, 05 Jun 2000: > > It may be the 'right' answer but unless you have control of the IMAP > > server it's not very practical is it! When using IMAP there really > > isn't an MDA invol

Re: Procmail vs. Mutt variables

2000-06-05 Thread Mikko Hänninen
David T-G <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on Mon, 05 Jun 2000: > I'm not sure I understand what you're asking, but I'll take a whack at > it. I didn't understand it either, but your guess does seem to make sense... > You want mutt to have a save-hook that will specify a directory of > mailboxes which

Re: Mutt newbie IMAP questions

2000-06-05 Thread Mikko Hänninen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on Mon, 05 Jun 2000: > It may be the 'right' answer but unless you have control of the IMAP > server it's not very practical is it! When using IMAP there really > isn't an MDA involved. This has been discussed before. :-) Just because the mail folders

Re: Mutt and my email address

2000-06-05 Thread Mrinal Kalakrishnan
Hi, [EMAIL PROTECTED] typed: > How can I get mutt to recognise messages that are from me, > even though they may have a different From: address? Basically, > I'd like to tell mutt that I have a number of addresses, that > all should be used for calculating +TCF type flags. Check the $alternat

Re: Mutt and my email address

2000-06-05 Thread Anton Graham
On Mon, 05 Jun 2000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > How can I get mutt to recognise messages that are from me, > even though they may have a different From: address? Basically, > I'd like to tell mutt that I have a number of addresses, that > all should be used for calculating +TCF type flags. F

Re: Results of corruption test on 1.2 (was: Re: mailbox corruption and mutt)

2000-06-05 Thread Thomas Roessler
On 2000-06-05 10:29:16 +1000, CaT wrote: > Before attempt: > -%-Mutt: /tmp/damien.work [Msgs:5492 New:12 Old:1176 Post:1 36M]---(reverse- > After attempt: > ---Mutt: /var/spool/mail/damien.work [Msgs:5038 New:9 Old:1074 Post:1 34M]-- What precisely did happen between these two versions of the

Re: Results of corruption test on 1.2 (was: Re: mailbox corruption and mutt)

2000-06-05 Thread AG
Hi CaT! On Mon, 05 Jun 2000, CaT wrote: > I had both /tmp and /var/spool/mail filled up. I selected two msgs for > deletion as well as read one document. It would not let me quit. I > trie dit multiple times. I freed up space on /var/spool/mail so that it > has 160meg free and it still would no

Re: How to define 'default' colour in mutt with ncurses?

2000-06-05 Thread cgreen
On Fri, Jun 02, 2000 at 08:47:59PM +0100, Chris Green wrote: > On Fri, Jun 02, 2000 at 03:49:31PM +0100, Lars Hecking wrote: > > Thomas E. Dickey writes: > > > On Fri, 2 Jun 2000, Chris Green wrote: > > > > > > > On Fri, Jun 02, 2000 at 10:43:40AM +0100, Chris Green wrote: > > > > > > > I don't

Re: Mutt newbie IMAP questions

2000-06-05 Thread cgreen
On Mon, Jun 05, 2000 at 12:40:24AM -0400, David T-G wrote: > % I want to like Mutt but I have a huge number of questions that I haven't > % been able to figure out answers to. All of them have to do with IMAP. > > I'm sure we can help you. mutt is very likable :-) I'm no IMAP guy, and > the bes

Re: Mutt and my email address

2000-06-05 Thread eparrl
Hi there. > Look at the second part...folder-hooks > > study the man on hooks... I can't find anything in the docs to suggest that setting the From: header, whether from a hook or not, has _any_ effect on whether mutt marks a particular message in a folder with an "F" or not. And indeed,