Re: Anyone using Mutt on a Mac?

2012-05-12 Thread Cameron Simpson
[ CCed back to the list; I'd like to keep the discussion public. ] On 12May2012 21:59, Jim Graham wrote: | On Sun, May 13, 2012 at 12:46:23PM +1000, Cameron Simpson wrote: | > on a | > number of lists the "post to list and cc author" procedure is common, | | I use procmail for some lists to kill

Re: Anyone using Mutt on a Mac?

2012-05-12 Thread Cameron Simpson
On 12May2012 21:50, Jim Graham wrote: | On Sun, May 13, 2012 at 12:40:27PM +1000, Cameron Simpson wrote: | > and I miss my infinite desktops setup I use under FVWM). I do turn off | > the "when switching to an app, switch to a desktop with its window" | > setting in the spaces prefs. | | Ok, here

Re: Anyone using Mutt on a Mac?

2012-05-12 Thread Jim Graham
On Sun, May 13, 2012 at 12:40:27PM +1000, Cameron Simpson wrote: > and I miss my infinite desktops setup I use under FVWM). I do turn off > the "when switching to an app, switch to a desktop with its window" > setting in the spaces prefs. Ok, here's a question for you: can I use ctwm for my wind

Re: Anyone using Mutt on a Mac?

2012-05-12 Thread Cameron Simpson
On 12May2012 21:04, Jim Graham wrote: | Ok... Why does mutt-users not show up as a list with your posts, | and works for all others? I've never seen this happen before with | Mutt and lists. I would guess that the post lacks the list-id header; I'm copying both you and the list; mutt or gmail m

Re: Anyone using Mutt on a Mac?

2012-05-12 Thread Cameron Simpson
On 12May2012 20:58, Jim Graham wrote: | On Sun, May 13, 2012 at 11:43:29AM +1000, Cameron Simpson wrote: | > On 12May2012 19:42, Indulekha wrote: | > Make sure you get iTerm2; iTerm is the older codebase and iTerm2 is a | > LOT better. | | I will. But I'll also compare it to xterm, and choose o

Re: Anyone using Mutt on a Mac?

2012-05-12 Thread Cameron Simpson
On 12May2012 20:52, spooky1...@gmail.com wrote: | But all of these things aren't so complicated. The reason for my | original post in this thread was to see if anything in OS X might | interfere with using Mutt. I didn't expect that there would be, | but I'd hate to try to pull up an xterm and f

Re: Anyone using Mutt on a Mac?

2012-05-12 Thread Jim Graham
On Sat, May 12, 2012 at 10:01:03PM -0400, Ravi Pina wrote: > That and I haven't figured out how to save custom words to a aspell > dictionary. I also haven't spent much time on it either after it > wasn't immediately obvious how to do it. I'd offer to help, but I use ispell (when I remember to..

Re: Anyone using Mutt on a Mac?

2012-05-12 Thread Jim Graham
Ok... Why does mutt-users not show up as a list with your posts, and works for all others? I've never seen this happen before with Mutt and lists. On Sun, May 13, 2012 at 11:39:00AM +1000, Cameron Simpson wrote: > On 12May2012 19:39, Jim Graham wrote: > Simple enough, but you could configure p

Re: Anyone using Mutt on a Mac?

2012-05-12 Thread Ravi Pina
I use mutt + offlneimap + aspell + gpg + ldap flawlessly. Most of the dot files I have on my FreeBSD box ported right over wholesale. Since I use mutt tin this context for work mail I save all my dot files to Dropbox and symlink .mutt it, my .muttrc to .mutt/muttrc, and have my passwords in a loc

Re: Anyone using Mutt on a Mac?

2012-05-12 Thread Jim Graham
On Sun, May 13, 2012 at 11:43:29AM +1000, Cameron Simpson wrote: > On 12May2012 19:42, Indulekha wrote: > Make sure you get iTerm2; iTerm is the older codebase and iTerm2 is a > LOT better. I will. But I'll also compare it to xterm, and choose one. :-) Thanks, --jim -- THE SCORE: ME: 2

Re: Anyone using Mutt on a Mac?

2012-05-12 Thread spooky130u
On Sun, May 13, 2012 at 11:37:50AM +1000, Cameron Simpson wrote: > On 12May2012 19:34, Jim Graham wrote: > Macs ship with postfix, far easier to configure than sendmail. :-) Postfix and I don't get along. I tried just configuring it to handle internal e-mail (e.g., from calendar to me, etc.),

Re: Anyone using Mutt on a Mac?

2012-05-12 Thread Cameron Simpson
On 12May2012 19:42, Indulekha wrote: | On Sat, May 12, 2012 at 07:29:29PM -0500, Jim Graham wrote: | > On Sun, May 13, 2012 at 12:22:49AM +0100, Koralatov wrote: | > > As for OS X's Unix base: I'm not at all experienced, or even | > > particularly knowledgeable, about Unix, but it appears pr

Re: Anyone using Mutt on a Mac?

2012-05-12 Thread Cameron Simpson
On 12May2012 19:39, Jim Graham wrote: | On Sat, May 12, 2012 at 07:34:29PM -0500, Jim Graham wrote: | | > I'm also going to have to (hopefully) remember | > the set of options I set to use Gmail to SEND mail, and fetchmail to | > get mail, and procmail as my MDA/mail filter. | > | > sendmail---it

Re: Anyone using Mutt on a Mac?

2012-05-12 Thread Cameron Simpson
On 12May2012 19:34, Jim Graham wrote: | On Sun, May 13, 2012 at 10:23:53AM +1000, Cameron Simpson wrote: | > I use the mutt from MacPorts (WELL worth installing - very easy and | > gives you access to a HUGE suite of common UNIX tools). If you install | > MacPorts it is important to use "mutt-deve

Re: Anyone using Mutt on a Mac?

2012-05-12 Thread Jim Graham
Just a quick comment on a .sig On Sun, May 13, 2012 at 10:23:53AM +1000, Cameron Simpson wrote: > Mac OS X. Because making Unix user-friendly is easier than debugging > Windows. 1) Unix is user-friendly. It's just finicky about who its friends are. 2) Unix is by far the most user-friendly OS I'

Re: Anyone using Mutt on a Mac?

2012-05-12 Thread Indulekha
On Sat, May 12, 2012 at 07:29:29PM -0500, Jim Graham wrote: > On Sun, May 13, 2012 at 12:22:49AM +0100, Koralatov wrote: > > > As for OS X's Unix base: I'm not at all experienced, or even > > particularly knowledgeable, about Unix, but it appears pretty intact to > > me. The biggest differe

Re: Anyone using Mutt on a Mac?

2012-05-12 Thread Jim Graham
On Sat, May 12, 2012 at 07:34:29PM -0500, Jim Graham wrote: > I'm also going to have to (hopefully) remember > the set of options I set to use Gmail to SEND mail, and fetchmail to > get mail, and procmail as my MDA/mail filter. > > sendmail---it's been a LONG time since configuring sendmail Ummm,

Re: Anyone using Mutt on a Mac?

2012-05-12 Thread Jim Graham
On Sun, May 13, 2012 at 10:23:53AM +1000, Cameron Simpson wrote: > > I use the mutt from MacPorts (WELL worth installing - very easy and > gives you access to a HUGE suite of common UNIX tools). If you install > MacPorts it is important to use "mutt-devel" instead of "mutt" as the > package name;

Re: Anyone using Mutt on a Mac?

2012-05-12 Thread Jim Graham
On Sun, May 13, 2012 at 12:22:49AM +0100, Koralatov wrote: > As for OS X's Unix base: I'm not at all experienced, or even > particularly knowledgeable, about Unix, but it appears pretty intact to > me. The biggest difference I've discovered from other *nixen is that it's > deprecated cron i

Re: Anyone using Mutt on a Mac?

2012-05-12 Thread Cameron Simpson
On 12May2012 19:10, Jim Graham wrote: | On Sat, May 12, 2012 at 07:03:29PM -0500, Indulekha wrote: | > On Sat, May 12, 2012 at 06:51:52PM -0500, Jim Graham wrote: | > > I'm curious about how that's working out, etc. | > | > I used to, a few years ago. Good guide here: | > http://linsec.ca/opense

Re: Anyone using Mutt on a Mac?

2012-05-12 Thread Jim Graham
On Sat, May 12, 2012 at 07:03:29PM -0500, Indulekha wrote: > On Sat, May 12, 2012 at 06:51:52PM -0500, Jim Graham wrote: > > I'm curious about how that's working out, etc. > > > > I used to, a few years ago. Good guide here: > http://linsec.ca/opensearch_desc.php -- ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? ??? >

Re: Anyone using Mutt on a Mac?

2012-05-12 Thread Indulekha
On Sat, May 12, 2012 at 06:51:52PM -0500, Jim Graham wrote: > I'm going to be replacing my old, rapidly dying systems with a > Mac next month, and am wondering if anyone here has used Mutt > on Mac OS X (Lion). I'm curious about how that's working out, > etc. (I've never actually SEEN Mac OS X, s

Anyone using Mutt on a Mac?

2012-05-12 Thread Jim Graham
I'm going to be replacing my old, rapidly dying systems with a Mac next month, and am wondering if anyone here has used Mutt on Mac OS X (Lion). I'm curious about how that's working out, etc. (I've never actually SEEN Mac OS X, so I don't know how much of the Unix base is still there). Thanks,