Re: Is mutt really "handicapped"?

2002-02-28 Thread Ryan Singer
On Thu, Feb 28, 2002 at 11:05:16AM -0900, Tim Johnson wrote: > > Is there anyone on this list that would like to contribute some > comments about the advantages of switching from something like > netscape mail to mutt? the biggest advantage for me is speed. i can fly through my email

Re: Hooks & order of precedence

2002-02-28 Thread Knute
On Thu, 28 Feb 2002, Erik Rothwell wrote: > On Thu, Feb 28, 2002 at 10:28:49AM -0800, Gary Johnson wrote: > > On Thu, Feb 28, 2002 at 11:06:39AM -0500, Rob Reid wrote: > > > > > Maybe it could be made folder specific by tying the send-hook to an alias, or > > > even user+folder@domain, that is o

Re: Is mutt really "handicapped"? - ha!

2002-02-28 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On 28/02/02 Thomas Hurst did speaketh: > I doubt I'd last long with mutt with the default keys.. backup of ~/.src> I'd be interested in seeing the changes you made. I like the default keys, but then, I like Vi. :) Mike msg24868/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Hooks & order of precedence

2002-02-28 Thread Erik Rothwell
On Thu, Feb 28, 2002 at 10:28:49AM -0800, Gary Johnson wrote: > On Thu, Feb 28, 2002 at 11:06:39AM -0500, Rob Reid wrote: > > > Maybe it could be made folder specific by tying the send-hook to an alias, or > > even user+folder@domain, that is only used when emailing user from folder. > > You can

Re: Is mutt really "handicapped"? - ha! ha!

2002-02-28 Thread Tim Johnson
* Sven Guckes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [020228 14:30]: > I have guided some Linux people to switch from Netscape to mutt. > So far they are not sorry at all. But it does take a few things > to make them switch because you have to explain about some concepts. > If you want a full report, well, give a

Re: Is mutt really "handicapped"? - ha!

2002-02-28 Thread Thomas Hurst
* Sven Guckes ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > echo you cannot do this with netscape | mutt netscape-weenie > > nuff said. But I can't view all my HTML pr0n spam without an external program, mutt sucks111 > I have guided some Linux people to switch from Netscape to mutt. So > far they are no

Re: Is mutt really "handicapped"? - ha!

2002-02-28 Thread Sven Guckes
* Tim Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [020228 19:55]: > Is there anyone on this list that would like to > contribute some comments about the advantages of > switching from something like netscape mail to mutt? echo you cannot do this with netscape | mutt netscape-weenie nuff said. I have guided s

Re: regexp problem with parentheses

2002-02-28 Thread parv
in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, wrote Louis-David Mitterrand thusly... > > After much struggle understanding mutt's quoting rules I finally came up > with that kind of stuff, which works: > > folder-hook =[a-z] score ~s'([ot]\\|newbie\\|off-topic\\|your\\\ >mail\\|(unidentified\\|no)\\\

Is mutt really "handicapped"?

2002-02-28 Thread Tim Johnson
Hello All: Now that I have your attention - I and friends publish a webzine: http://www.frozen-north-linuxonline.com/ And we publish monthly. We also have a local linux user's group and a mailing list. A comment was made to the mailing list that mutt was "handicapped". As yo

Re: Hooks & order of precedence

2002-02-28 Thread Gary Johnson
On Thu, Feb 28, 2002 at 11:06:39AM -0500, Rob Reid wrote: > Maybe it could be made folder specific by tying the send-hook to an alias, or > even user+folder@domain, that is only used when emailing user from folder. You can have a folder-hook set a send-hook, like this: folder-hook .

Re: Setting the hostname used in HELO

2002-02-28 Thread Simon White
On 28-Feb-02 at 09:54, Bob McLaren's inspired musing was thus : > Wait a minute, > > If that's the case, can't I configure Mutt to connect to my public SMTP server to send > mail rather than trying to send it from it's own local sendmail program? > No, what I was trying to say (perhaps I wasn't

Re: Setting the hostname used in HELO

2002-02-28 Thread Bob McLaren
Wait a minute, If that's the case, can't I configure Mutt to connect to my public SMTP server to send mail rather than trying to send it from it's own local sendmail program? I don't see any configuration directive in the muttrc to specify an SMTP server to connect to. Simon White wrote: > On

set Folder

2002-02-28 Thread Todd Kokoszka
Hi, I'm using the set folder command and I use the default value. But when I don't open it in the default folder there's a problem. I notice it when I change mailboxes. If I change from my home directory and try to use tab completion it won't complete the folder name. But when I try and manually

Re: How to avoid and handle looong lines

2002-02-28 Thread Wolfgang Kaufmann
* Thus spake Will Yardley [26-02-02^04:46]: Hallo, > tell him to wrap his lines in his editor. how to do this will vary > depending on the editor he's using. if he's using vi (probably nvi in > debian), setting wm=8 should work. using vim, set tw=74. emacs i'm not > sure, but i doubt it's that

Re: Pity that mutt doesn't read news - what's the best match?

2002-02-28 Thread darren chamberlain
Quoting Will Yardley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [Feb 28, 2002 10:48]: > Andre Berger wrote: > > Are there key bindings for slrn around that make it use the > > same keys as mutt? > > i asked this very question on the mutt newsgroup, and didn't > get any responses. however i think it would be great if so

Re: Hooks & order of precedence

2002-02-28 Thread Rob Reid
At 6:56 PM EST on February 27 David DeSimone sent off: > Rob Reid <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > I thought that was what . is for, matching any folder, as in: > > > > folder-hook . unset save_empty > > Maybe I should explain it a little clearer: > > Suppose you have a set of hooks like thi

Problem when using IMAP: "Could not copy message"

2002-02-28 Thread Hendrik Hoeth
Hi, when I start mutt and change to an IMAP folder, mutt sometimes shows the right date and flags for each mail in the folder, but no sender or subject. When trying to read a mail, I only get the error-message "Could not copy message" (after "Fetching message"). This problem doesn't occur always,

Re: Pity that mutt doesn't read news - what's the best match?

2002-02-28 Thread Will Yardley
Andre Berger wrote: > > Are there key bindings for slrn around that make it use the same keys > as mutt? i asked this very question on the mutt newsgroup, and didn't get any responses. however i think it would be great if someone came up with this and posted their .slrnrc for us. anyone any

Re: Pity that mutt doesn't read news - what's the best match?

2002-02-28 Thread Andre Berger
* Will Yardley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, 2002-02-28 10:37 -0500: > Charles Jie wrote: > > > >I wonder very much - how could you operate mutt+vim and emacs-style > >slrn in daily life without difficulty? Isn't it like switching > >driving between left-side and right-side? Or it's more like

Re: Pity that mutt doesn't read news - what's the best match?

2002-02-28 Thread Will Yardley
Charles Jie wrote: > >I wonder very much - how could you operate mutt+vim and emacs-style >slrn in daily life without difficulty? Isn't it like switching >driving between left-side and right-side? Or it's more like >switching languages for you bilinguals? :-) switch the key bind

Re: Pity that mutt doesn't read news - what's the best match?

2002-02-28 Thread Charles Jie
Hi, Thank you all for good advices on my questions. Now I've tried both slrn and patch.vvv.nntp. I'm happy to report comments from my point of view, as a newbie of news groups. 1. vvv.nntp is easier to take up because you don't have to learn a lot before you can use it. (If you are not on the

Scoring known addresses

2002-02-28 Thread Volker Moell
Hi, all! Is there a posibillity to score all known mail addresses (i.e. all addresses defined in aliases) in one single score statement? I only found then ~l for all messages addressed to a known mailing list: score ~l +100 Greetings, -volker -- http://die-Moells.de/ * http://Stama

Re: regexp problem with parentheses

2002-02-28 Thread Louis-David Mitterrand
On Thu, Feb 28, 2002 at 02:33:35PM +0100, Volker Moell wrote: > Scott wrote: > > trying to color entries in the index matching on the from field, I use > > the following: > > > > color index blue black '~f (Person1|Person2)' > > > > However, I get a 'parentheses not matched error' > > Try: > co

Re: regexp problem with parentheses

2002-02-28 Thread Volker Moell
Scott wrote: > trying to color entries in the index matching on the from field, I use > the following: > > color index blue black '~f (Person1|Person2)' > > However, I get a 'parentheses not matched error' Try: color index blue black '~f "(Person1|Person2)"' ^

regexp problem with parentheses

2002-02-28 Thread Scott
Hi all, trying to color entries in the index matching on the from field, I use the following: color index blue black '~f (Person1|Person2)' However, I get a 'parentheses not matched error' Also, the example in the doco: ~f ("Jim +Somebody"|"Ed +SomeoneElse") doesn't work (same error). TIA, Sc

Re: mutt paints over background image

2002-02-28 Thread Dominik Vogt
On Thu, Feb 28, 2002 at 07:25:51AM -0500, Thomas E. Dickey wrote: > On Thu, 28 Feb 2002, Dominik Vogt wrote: > > > > # Reconstructed via infocmp from file: /usr/lib/terminfo/r/rxvt > > > rxvt|rxvt terminal emulator (X Window System), > > > am, bce, eo, km, mir, msgr, xenl, xon, > >

Re: mutt paints over background image

2002-02-28 Thread Thomas E. Dickey
On Thu, 28 Feb 2002, Dominik Vogt wrote: > > # Reconstructed via infocmp from file: /usr/lib/terminfo/r/rxvt > > rxvt|rxvt terminal emulator (X Window System), > > am, bce, eo, km, mir, msgr, xenl, xon, > ... > > Ah yes, I see. I must have misread the infocmp man page. But the > "

Re: mutt paints over background image

2002-02-28 Thread Dominik Vogt
> On Wed, Feb 27, 2002 at 03:11:21PM +0100, Dominik Vogt wrote: > > On Wed, Feb 27, 2002 at 08:37:22AM -0500, Thomas E. Dickey wrote: > > > On Wed, 27 Feb 2002, Dominik Vogt wrote: > > > > > > I have been using mutt in an rxvt window with a background xpm > > > > for a long time, using the version

Re: Setting the hostname used in HELO

2002-02-28 Thread Simon White
On 27-Feb-02 at 20:46, Knute's inspired musing was thus : > On Wed, 27 Feb 2002, Bob McLaren wrote: > > > What can I do to force the HELO generated by mutt to use my outside SMTP > > hostname? Mutt doesn't generate a HELO, it's a MUA not an MTA. You are probably running sendmail or something si