Re: Mutt and Maildir?

2000-10-05 Thread Erwin Kaiser
On Thu, Oct 05, 2000 at 05:45:18PM +0100, Paul wrote: > Through some nifty website I have tried to generate a .muttrc file, put it > on disk, and of course, it does not work. When I start Mutt I am presented > with a default message "Do not delete this mail" bla bla, as the header of > an mbox ma

Re: Minor bug in the manual?

2000-10-05 Thread Dave Pearson
On Thu, Oct 05, 2000 at 05:44:33PM +0200, Ulf Erikson wrote: > My .muttrc contains a few macros copied-and-pasted from different places > and some get truncated while others don't.. Thing is, the help page got > three columns; the key-binding, the command, and the description. Only the > descripi

Re: newbie problems with mutt, postfix and imap.

2000-10-05 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Using a large mallet, Robert Nelson whacked out: > 1. I am able to read mail from imap.princeton.edu, > but sent mail never arrives at its destination -- even though > it shows up in my imap Sent mail folder. It also doesn't bounce back! Likely a postfix problem, as you said. Type mailq at t

Re: Newbie questions

2000-10-05 Thread Mikko Hänninen
Perry The Cynic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on Thu, 05 Oct 2000: > My mail folders are in ~/mail (lowercase), so I use the startup command > set folder=~/mail > After that, I can refer to my folders as =foldername, which is dandy, but > means I have to type a leading "=" every time I change

Re: Newbie questions

2000-10-05 Thread Bruce DeVisser
On Thu, Oct 05, 2000 at 03:25:41PM -0700, Perry The Cynic wrote: > How do I "commit" files marked for deletion? $ > Is there a way to *not* have to type the initial "=" character? Beats me. > For that matter, is there any way I can type a prefix (say, "ord" > for "orders") with some kind of

Re: Newbie questions

2000-10-05 Thread Myrddin
On Thu, Oct 05, 2000 at 03:25:41PM -0700, Perry The Cynic wrote: > Dear Mutt experts, > > I'm a new mutt user (moved over from pine for the threads :-), and after > using the program for a few weeks (and reading the manual, twice) > am now reaching the point where I know what I don't know. :-) >

Newbie questions

2000-10-05 Thread Perry The Cynic
Dear Mutt experts, I'm a new mutt user (moved over from pine for the threads :-), and after using the program for a few weeks (and reading the manual, twice) am now reaching the point where I know what I don't know. :-) How do I "commit" files marked for deletion? I realize they get removed when

Re: Send hook question

2000-10-05 Thread Hal Burgiss
On Thu, Oct 05, 2000 at 08:08:48PM +0200, Hal Burgiss wrote: > Peter Jaques muttered: > > > > > Please post your whole muttrc. > > > http://feenix.eyep.net/xstuff/muttrc > > do you have 'autoedit' set? > > He does. And that's why the send-hooks do not work. So, Hal the solution is > obvious - gi

Re: Mutt and Maildir?

2000-10-05 Thread Jeremy Blosser
Paul [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote: > It was Oct 5, 2000, 12:22, when Jason Helfman keyboarded: > > >Was mutt install previous to your build of Qmail? You may need to > >rebuild it. I always compiled Qmail first, and then Mutt. > > I downloaded the prebuilt RPM (i686) from ftp.cdrom.com and installe

Re: Send hook question

2000-10-05 Thread Harold Oga
On Thu, Oct 05, 2000 at 08:08:48PM +0200, Hal Burgiss wrote: >Peter Jaques muttered: > >> > > Please post your whole muttrc. >> > http://feenix.eyep.net/xstuff/muttrc >> do you have 'autoedit' set? > >He does. And that's why the send-hooks do not work. So, Hal the solution is >obvious - give up th

Re: Mutt and Maildir?

2000-10-05 Thread Paul
It was Oct 5, 2000, 12:22, when Jason Helfman keyboarded: >Was mutt install previous to your build of Qmail? You may need to >rebuild it. I always compiled Qmail first, and then Mutt. I downloaded the prebuilt RPM (i686) from ftp.cdrom.com and installed that last night. Qmail is running here si

Re: Mutt and Maildir?

2000-10-05 Thread Jason Helfman
Was mutt install previous to your build of Qmail? You may need to rebuild it. I always compiled Qmail first, and then Mutt. On Thu, Oct 05, 2000 at 09:09:11PM +0100, Paul muttered: | It was Oct 5, 2000, 11:42, when Jason Helfman keyboarded: | | >If you have root on your machine, add this to /etc

Re: Mutt and Maildir?

2000-10-05 Thread Paul
It was Oct 5, 2000, 11:42, when Jason Helfman keyboarded: >If you have root on your machine, add this to /etc/profile: > >MAIL="/home/$USER/Maildir/" >MAILDIR="/home/$USER/Maildir/" > >then source your /etc/profile, or log out and then back in. These set's are already in place. Works without a p

Re: Mutt and Maildir?

2000-10-05 Thread Jason Helfman
If you have root on your machine, add this to /etc/profile: MAIL="/home/$USER/Maildir/" MAILDIR="/home/$USER/Maildir/" then source your /etc/profile, or log out and then back in. Hope this helps. On Thu, Oct 05, 2000 at 05:45:18PM +0100, Paul muttered: | Hello, | | I am completely new to the

Re: Send hook question

2000-10-05 Thread Hal Burgiss
Peter Jaques muttered: > > > Please post your whole muttrc. > > http://feenix.eyep.net/xstuff/muttrc > do you have 'autoedit' set? He does. And that's why the send-hooks do not work. So, Hal the solution is obvious - give up that autoedit stuff. HTH, Michael -- Our informal mission is to impr

Re: mutt and pgp signatures

2000-10-05 Thread Jeremy Blosser
Anand Buddhdev [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote: > I've recently started to use GnuPG 1.0.1 with mutt 1.2i. I notice a small > problem: > > 1. If I receive a message with a PGP signature attached, and view it with > mutt, gpg claims that it's a bad signature, even if the signature is good, > in certain

Re: mutt/sendmail mailing list problem

2000-10-05 Thread Dennis Melentyev
On Thu, Oct 05, 2000 at 08:46:34AM -0700, Peter Jaques wrote: > Ok, does anyone know of a mailing list where i might be able to ask such > questions? Obviously this is annoying you all. Just to respond to Claus's > questions: > > > 2. I don't see your problem > the problem is that the return-path

newbie problems with mutt, postfix and imap.

2000-10-05 Thread Robert Nelson
Hi, On my home linux box, I'm trying to switch from NS messenger to mutt and postfix. I want to read/send from my university imap/smtp servers and am having some problems: 1. I am able to read mail from imap.princeton.edu, but sent mail never arrives at its destination -- even though it shows

Re: Send hook question

2000-10-05 Thread Mikko Hänninen
Dan Boger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on Thu, 05 Oct 2000: > FWIW, I've been trying to do something very similar... mutt 1.2.5i > > send-hook . 'set [EMAIL PROTECTED]' > send-hook .*lugnet\.com 'set [EMAIL PROTECTED]' > > from what I can tell, the send hook DOES work, only AFTER I actually send >

Mutt and Maildir?

2000-10-05 Thread Paul
Hello, I am completely new to the list. Many people I know have switched to Mutt as e-mail program. I have installed it (RPMversion 1.2.5) but I can't make sense of it. For mail I use Qmail, and as mailbox-format I use the maildir format. My mail arrives in ~/Maildir. Through some nifty website

Re: Send hook question

2000-10-05 Thread Peter Jaques
do you have 'autoedit' set? if you do, here's what happens: when you hit 'm' to start a message, there is no recipient specified, so 'from' gets set to the default value. you have to let mutt prompt for the recipient before you edit, so that it can set the 'from' header. peter On 5 Oct 00, 7:4

Re: Addressbook For Mutt

2000-10-05 Thread David Champion
On 2000.10.05, in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Pyuesh Daya" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is it possible to run two external programs to run with mutt. I am already running >the "Shift Q" to query an external perl script which queries an Ldap ServerIs >this possible... > > How do I bind an

Re: mutt/sendmail mailing list problem

2000-10-05 Thread Claus Assmann
On Thu, Oct 05, 2000, Peter Jaques wrote: > Ok, does anyone know of a mailing list where i might be able to ask such > questions? Obviously this is annoying you all. Just to respond to Claus's > questions: news:comp.mail.sendmail > > 2. I don't see your problem > the problem is that the return-p

Re: Send hook question

2000-10-05 Thread Hal Burgiss
On Thu, Oct 05, 2000 at 11:45:33AM +0200, Michael Tatge wrote: > Hal Burgiss muttered: > > > > unset use_from > > Don't know why you do that, but according to the docs it shouldn't > hurt. It might be worth testing without this line, though. Still no go. -- Hal B [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PR

Re: Minor bug in the manual?

2000-10-05 Thread Ulf Erikson
On Thu, Oct 05, 2000 at 02:56:15PM +0100, Dave Pearson wrote: > In section 3.6 of the mutt (1.2.5i) manual it says: > > , > | Note: Macro definitions (if any) listed in the help screen(s), are > | silently truncated at the screen width, and are not wrapped. > ` > > but if I look in t

Re: mutt/sendmail mailing list problem

2000-10-05 Thread Peter Jaques
Ok, does anyone know of a mailing list where i might be able to ask such questions? Obviously this is annoying you all. Just to respond to Claus's questions: > 2. I don't see your problem the problem is that the return-path is getting set to be the very first sending address, ie mugwort@localhost

Re: Addressbook For Mutt

2000-10-05 Thread Roland Rosenfeld
On Thu, 05 Oct 2000, Pyuesh Daya wrote: > Is it possible to run two external programs to run with mutt. I am > already running the "Shift Q" to query an external perl script which > queries an Ldap ServerIs this possible... If you are only talking about Shift-Q (not Ctrl-T), it should be ea

Re: Addressbook For Mutt

2000-10-05 Thread Dave Pearson
On Thu, Oct 05, 2000 at 02:30:15PM -0700, Pyuesh Daya wrote: > Is it possible to run two external programs to run with mutt. I am already > running the "Shift Q" to query an external perl script which queries an > Ldap ServerIs this possible... > > How do I bind another stroke key to query a

Minor bug in the manual?

2000-10-05 Thread Dave Pearson
In section 3.6 of the mutt (1.2.5i) manual it says: , | Note: Macro definitions (if any) listed in the help screen(s), are | silently truncated at the screen width, and are not wrapped. ` but if I look in the help screen of my mutt at my macros they *are* wrapped. Is this simply a ca

Re: Send hook question

2000-10-05 Thread Dan Boger
On Thu, Oct 05, 2000 at 07:44:31AM -0400, Hal Burgiss wrote: > On Thu, Oct 05, 2000 at 01:30:40AM -0600, Harold Oga wrote: > > On Wed, Oct 04, 2000 at 11:29:30PM -0400, Hal Burgiss wrote: > > >On Wed, Oct 04, 2000 at 06:25:47PM -0600, Harold Oga wrote: > > >> > > >> send-hook . 'my_hdr From: Hal

Re: Addressbook For Mutt

2000-10-05 Thread Pyuesh Daya
Is it possible to run two external programs to run with mutt. I am already running the "Shift Q" to query an external perl script which queries an Ldap ServerIs this possible... How do I bind another stroke key to query another external Program !! Regards On Tue, Oct 03, 2000 at 09:42:55

Re: Send hook question

2000-10-05 Thread Dan Boger
On Thu, Oct 05, 2000 at 07:44:31AM -0400, Hal Burgiss wrote: > On Thu, Oct 05, 2000 at 01:30:40AM -0600, Harold Oga wrote: > > On Wed, Oct 04, 2000 at 11:29:30PM -0400, Hal Burgiss wrote: > > >On Wed, Oct 04, 2000 at 06:25:47PM -0600, Harold Oga wrote: > > >> > > >> send-hook . 'my_hdr From: Hal

Re: Send hook question

2000-10-05 Thread Hal Burgiss
On Thu, Oct 05, 2000 at 11:45:33AM +0200, Michael Tatge wrote: > Hal Burgiss muttered: > > Should the below not work? I could swear it used to ;) Recently even. > > Despite much playing with this, I cannot get the header to handle the > > exceptions. > > > > > > unset use_from > > Don't know wh

Re: Send hook question

2000-10-05 Thread Hal Burgiss
On Thu, Oct 05, 2000 at 01:30:40AM -0600, Harold Oga wrote: > On Wed, Oct 04, 2000 at 11:29:30PM -0400, Hal Burgiss wrote: > >On Wed, Oct 04, 2000 at 06:25:47PM -0600, Harold Oga wrote: > >> > >> send-hook . 'my_hdr From: Hal Burgiss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>' > >> send-hook '~C redhat-list' 'my_hdr Fr

mutt and pgp signatures

2000-10-05 Thread Anand Buddhdev
I've recently started to use GnuPG 1.0.1 with mutt 1.2i. I notice a small problem: 1. If I receive a message with a PGP signature attached, and view it with mutt, gpg claims that it's a bad signature, even if the signature is good, in certain circumstances. In particular, this happens if the inco

Re: Send hook question

2000-10-05 Thread Michael Tatge
Hal Burgiss muttered: > Should the below not work? I could swear it used to ;) Recently even. > Despite much playing with this, I cannot get the header to handle the > exceptions. > > > unset use_from Don't know why you do that, but according to the docs it shouldn't hurt. It might be worth tes

Re: cmutt & xmutt... where?

2000-10-05 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Thomas Roessler proclaimed on mutt-users that: > On 2000-10-05 00:22:40 +0530, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote: > > /usr/bin/mutt > > /usr/bin/cmutt > > /usr/bin/xmutt > What on earth are cmutt and xmutt supposed to be? Shell scripts which wrap around mutt, to set the appropriate term / xte