Hello,
thank you for your answers - special thanks to David for the detailed
considerations!
Will Yardley wrote on 20.01.14:
> On Mon, Jan 20, 2014 at 03:29:14PM -0600, David Champion wrote:
> > * On 20 Jan 2014, Jan-Herbert Damm wrote:
> > > i would like to send an automa
Hello all,
i would like to send an automatic answer to html-mails sent to me (because i'm
tired of writing back that i prefer plain-text).
I am aware that this is hardly an issue of mutt, but rather procmail
or scripting. But i am curious how this could be approached.
A goolgle-search brought
Hello Bernard,
I read your post only recently, a bit late.
Bernard Massot wrote on 07.05.13:
> On Mon, May 06, 2013 at 02:53:35PM +0200, Jan-Herbert Damm wrote:
> > from this list (I can't find it anymore) I got a brilliant recipe to
> > make plaintext-tables like so:
&g
Hello Christian, Rado,
Christian Brabandt wrote on 06.05.13:
> > > What you are seeing are ANSI Term sequences, which are usually used to
> > > color text in the terminal. It might help to explicitly set the TERM
> > > variable to dumb or vt100 or possibly set the -c parameter. You might
> > >
Thank you Erik,
Erik Christiansen wrote on 06.05.13:
> When you try ":set fenc ?" in vim, does it show:
>
> fileencoding=utf-8
Yes, it does and the interaction of vim and mutt is fine
here is an example:
cat renders:
OBST/GEMUESE
┌─┬───┬──┬┐
│Bestnr. │ P
Hello All,
from this list (I can't find it anymore) I got a brilliant recipe to
make plaintext-tables like so:
=
.TS
box tab(|);
cb|cb|cb|cb.
Year | Hurricane | Deaths | Location
.T&
l|c|c|c.
1780|Great Hurricane of 1780|27,500+|Antilles
1998|Hurricane Mitch|18,974 - 21,000|Honduras
1900|Galv
Hello lee,
lee wrote on 19.06.11:
>
> Do you have the same effects when changing the order of the polling
> entries? Perhaps the servers are just slow?
I did change the order, but couldn't detect a difference so far. I will now
look at the conversation between fetchmail and the servers. Thanks f
Hello Patrick,
thanks!
Patrick Shanahan wrote on 19.06.11:
> Are you only starting fetchmail from the
> mutt macro or do you also have it running as a daemon?
I am also running fetchmail from the crontab every 20 min as:
/usr/bin/fetchmail -s
running fetchmail fom the macro puts me into a termi
Hello all,
I searched web and fetchmail-faq but not the fetchmail-lists. sorry for noise
but I think there are many fetchmail users here and I would appreciate a
slight hint.
Fetchmail polls the first email-adress very fast and slows down immensely with
every one that follows.
I see fetchmail wo
hello all,
please skip this mail and excuse the noise if you hate slightly OT posts.
I recently got attachments which were really pdfs but couldn't be detected as
such because they had strange content-type names:
application/x-coremedia-dynamic
application/force-download
I wrote .mailcap-entrie
Hello,
thank you, Monte!
> > How can I pull in all the addresses in my .aliases file into the
> > bcc-header-line?
>
Monte Stevens wrote on 09.11.10:
> b (to open the bcc line)
> abc
> t (hold it down until you tag all aliases)
> ;
This works well, and I don't even need the ";" to operate on a
hello,
I need to be pointed to the right place in TFM.
How can I pull in all the addresses in my .aliases file into the
bcc-header-line?
Thanks for being patient with noisy questions.
jan
Hello Simon,
Simon Ruderich wrote on 17.08.10:
> This is just a wild guess, but is the content-type set correctly?
>
> I've had this problem once with a self-compiled version of mutt
> because I run it from the mutt source and thus mutt couldn't find
> .mime.types causing a wrong content-type (
Hello,
Chip Camden wrote on 16.08.10:
> I'm not seeing this problem here, but it sounds like an issue with
> attachment encoding/decoding. Just to ask a stupid question -- are you
> using mutt on both ends of the send/receive?
Not at first. I got complaints from others with other mailers that
Jostein Berntsen wrote on 16.08.10:
> On 16.08.10,12:16, Jan-Herbert Damm wrote:
>
> http://objectmix.com/mutt/202020-pdf-attachment-file-damaged-could-not-repaired.html
the workaround described here (zipping the pdf) works for me too. But that is
not completely satisfying.
xpdf has
Hello All,
I am trying to attach a pdf to a mail. After sending it, it is broken.
A cmp with the unsent pdf-file tells me they differ in line 1 byte 9.
A diff just says they differ.
Copying line 1 from the original to the attached one won't help much.
Could this be something mutt does?
Or woul
Patrick Shanahan wrote on 28.07.10:
> > A newsletter goes to groups A and B. How can i avoid that recipient XY gets
> > the letter twice?
> >
> > Can mutt eliminate the double entries?
>
> use a 3rd group for the newsletter that goes to both groups
> cat groupA groupB |sort |uniq > groupC
str
hello all,
I want to send newsletters to groups of people. I can define groups within
mutt. Recipient XY is in groups A and B.
A newsletter goes to groups A and B. How can i avoid that recipient XY gets
the letter twice?
Can mutt eliminate the double entries?
Going OT:
I can imagine a skipt c
Hello,
yet another minor detail.
Jan-Herbert Damm wrote on 01.06.10:
> thank you, everybody.
Mutt is working now and I can send messages via its built-in smtp support as
long as I am in mutt.
But I need it to send me logfiles off the crontab (off the commandline)
regularly.
==
Hello,
Christian Brabandt wrote on 31.05.10:
> If you are using a Debian distribution, you can use
>
> sudo apt-get build-dep mutt
>
> to install all required packages, needed for compiling mutt yourself.
doh! I actually did that before, long ago.
installing libsasl-dev also seems to have be
Hello,
> judging from Josteins post in the thread right before this one i will now have
> to recompile again --with-sasl
another problem:
./configure can't find something concerning sasl2
===
checking for sasl_client_init in -lsasl2... no
configure: error: could not find libsasl2
===
but
===
Thank you, Jostein,
Jostein Berntsen wrote on 31.05.10:
>
> You must compile mutt again with the --enable-pop and --enable-smtp
> flags.
i did and now mutt prompts me that i need sasl.
judging from Josteins post in the thread right before this one i will now have
to recompile again --with-sasl
Hello All,
I have
set smtp_url="..."
set smtp_pass="..."
set pop_host="..."
set pop_user="..."
set pop_pass="..."
in a .muttrc for a knewly built mutt on another system. But alas, when i
start mutt it reports all those variables as unkown.
I am sure I have overseen something.
== snip ===
Thank you Monte and Nathan reverse_name does what i wanted.
> p.s. You didn't say what exactly happened when you tried the reply-hook
> commands you listed, but I'm guessing this sentence from the Mutt manual
> explains why they didn't do as you hoped:
>
> Note: reply-hooks are matched before t
Dear All,
i have spent over an hour on a *really* simple issue and experimented wildly
but i can't find just the right spot in the manual or elsewhere. please give
me a hint on tfm:
i have addresses "o...@web.de" and "t...@web.de".
i have
set from="o...@web.de"
send-hook . 'set from="o...@web.d
hello,
> now i have spent some additional hours on this problem which might
> turn out to be some idiot fault of the person behind the keyboard.
unfortunately this was the case. i was stuck up on pressing "s" instead of "p"
when i wanted to use gpg. it is *very* embarrassing and i apologize sinc
Hello Chuck,
thanks for taking the time.
Chuck Smith wrote on 17.03.10:
> I was looking around for a fix for you and found something interesting.
> Look at the Mutt User Manual in the section on PGP:
>
> http://wiki.mutt.org/?MuttGuide/UseGPG
>
> Look carefully at the this command:
>
> set p
Hello Niels,
Niels den Otter wrote on 17.03.10:
> > any hints are much needed...
>
> Just to be sure. You are opening an e-mail that is signed/encrypted
> with PGP and not with S/MIME?
I am able to decrypt stored gpg encrypted messages. And replying to one of
these messages also works fine. (I
Hello,
Dale Raby wrote on 17.03.10:
> I'm not an expert, but shouldn't mutt call /home/jan/.gnupg?
Indeed! Unfortunately I have no idea how mutt generates the commands for
encryption.
In muttrc i can't find any hint to s/mime. The variable pgp_sign_command is
set to a sensible gpg command. It i
dear mutt-users,
Probably my question was too imprecise.
Jan-Herbert Damm wrote on 16.03.10:
> hello all,
>
> gpg and mutt used to work fine. now mutt won't find any public keys anymore. I
> have run the following tests:
[...]
now i have spent some additional hours on this pr
eugt
2008-11-30
"Jan-Herbert Damm (email-verschlüsselung) "
this is the content of test.txt
[...]
end gpg-tests
Thus i reckon that gpg is working, though i am confused why i can decrypt the
testfile when i encrypted it with so
Hello,
Thank both of you for the suggestions.
Tim Gray wrote on 02.03.10:
> On Mar 02, 2010 at 11:57 AM +0100, Rado S wrote:
> >Get an "mbox" type archive of those mails, repair the 'From_'
> >separator line (compare with "real" mbox-folders). Then copy them
> >over to whatever you want.
>
> I u
Hello,
I have been away from my computer (and my mutt) for a couple of weeks in
febuary. On the seventh someone flooded my account by sending large
attachments. I could only fix it a week later thus missing all the mails of
the muttlist during this week.
How can I "download" those messages (or ha
Hello,
Christoph Kukulies wrote on 16.12.09:
> When I compose an email (using vi under ubuntu), and send that
> email, the recipients tell me
> that the umlauts are fine. But when I reply - in the course of
> follwups - to that email (that has made
> one turn-around), the umlauts come out garbled.
Hello Chris,
Chris G wrote on 25.09.09:
> Are there any obvious ways either within mutt or using some sort of
> external tool which would allow archiving and/or deletion of messages
> older than a certain date?
since you are a regular poster this might be old news but are you aware of the
thread
Jan-Herbert Damm wrote on 11.07.09:
> I found a behaviour in my Mutt-1.20.
[that should be mutt-1.5.20]
>
> "CTRL-Z" suspends mutt but "fg" doesn't seem to work. Mutt displays but
> pressing keys obviously still refers to the terminal below.
>
>
Hello,
Thank you everybody for the suggestions!
jan
Hello all,
Forgive me if this is slightly OT (replies off list welcome):
I know that there are several people on this list (Kyle for one) that use
scripts to add signatures dynamically.
Learning programming makes me think signature-scripting could be a nice
homework.
I have googled for signat
Tim Gray wrote on 20.07.09:
> On Mon 20, Jul'09 at 4:54 PM -0600, lee wrote:
>> Maybe some sort of print statement was missing (cut off).
>
> Yeah I probably left it off or something. It should look something like
> this:
>
> for i in dirs:
> print '"+l/%s"' % i,
or
for i in dirs:
Greetings,
I think my first post of this might have gotten lost in the shuffle.
I found a behaviour in my Mutt-1.20. (on Ubuntu.Linux) that puzzles
me. Again i have no idea where to start looking.
"CTRL-Z" suspends mutt but "fg" doesn't seem to work. Mutt displays but pressing
keys obviously sti
Hi,
Concerning Roccos gpg.py script
Cameron Simpson wrote on 10.07.09:
> Use egrep. [...]
Thanks for pointing it out, Cameron.
I got the regex to work but still the script outputs the group command only
with none of the emails from the gpg --list-keys command. Trying to figure out
why is really m
Hello,
Once more i found a behaviour in my Mutt-1.20. (on Ubuntu.Linux) that puzzles
me. Any Pointers as to which way to look will help.
"CTRL-Z" suspends mutt but "fg" doesn't seem to work. Mutt displayes but
pressing
keys obviously still refers to the terminal below.
I hadn't noticed this bef
Hi,
If you find this too OT, please accept my apolgies and ignore it. I will try to
ask somewhere "pythonic".
Rocco Rutte wrote on 09.07.09:
> #!/usr/bin/env python2.6
>
> import subprocess, re
>
> if __name__ == '__main__':
> mail_re = re.compile(r'^[^<]+<([^>]+)>.*')
> a, p = set(),
Hi,
> > * Jan-Herbert Damm wrote:
> >
> > > GPG asks my passphrase but doesn't accept it.
> >
> > What gpg setup did you use? contrib/gpg.rc? It's not gpg that's asking
> > but mutt. So maybe mutt doesn't call gpg at all or in a
Rocco Rutte wrote on 02.07.09:
> Hi,
>
> * Jan-Herbert Damm wrote:
>
> > GPG asks my passphrase but doesn't accept it.
>
> What gpg setup did you use? contrib/gpg.rc? It's not gpg that's asking
> but mutt. So maybe mutt doesn't call gpg at all or
Hello,
Testing Mutt 1.20.
GPG asks my passphrase but doesn't accept it.
I don't really know where to start looking for figuring this out.
from config.log:
---
$ ./configure -C --prefix=/opt/mutt --enable-pop --enable-imap\
--enable-smtp --enable-debug --with-gss --with-gnutls --with-sasl
Rocco Rutte wrote on 27.06.09:
> * Jan-Herbert Damm wrote:
>
> > My Ubuntu-custom version of Mutt-1.18. uses a [...] coloring scheme
> > Where are these default colors being defined?
> I'd say it'd be really strange if neither /etc/Muttrc nor .muttrc
> co
Hello,
My Ubuntu-custom version of Mutt-1.18. uses a different coloring scheme than
the latest snapshot that i am testing now. In both cases i can't figure out
where these default colors are being defined. /etc/Muttrc doesn't elaborate
it and neither does my .muttrc. The Manual describes how to s
Hello,
I am testing Mutt 1.20. - using mbox format
It notifies me of new mail in some folder as usual. I read the mail(s), the
"N" in the index view is gone, as usual. I leave the folder. Hitting "c" now
notifies me of new mail in the folder i just left. But there is no new mail
there, and no "N"
Hello Mutters,
Yannick Delbecque wrote on 20.06.09:
> I use mutt to take notes.
> I'm trying to configure mutt to skip the "sending" part of the process:
I wish I were more competent on mutt's internals because i do think this is an
interesting question.
It surprises me that those familiar
Hi,
Rocco Rutte wrote on 24.06.09:
> > The apt-get command installed elinks on my system and now opening html-mails
> > via the "v"-command starts elinks instead of w3m like before. I wonder where
> > this is being determined. My mailcap has entries for w3m, elinks and lynx in
> > this order.
>
Hello,
this .muttrc entry (in my /etc/Muttrc):
macro generic,pager " less /[...]/doc/mutt/manual.txt
seems to be trapped by Gnome somehow. F1 (from within mutt) starts the
gnome-terminal-help on my ubuntu 8.10.
How to change this?
jan
Hello all,
with your hints I was able to build Mutt-1.20. successfully. I chickened out
by running "apt-get build-dep mutt" as indicated in
http://wiki.mutt.org/?MuttFaq/Charset.
The apt-get command installed elinks on my system and now opening html-mails
via the "v"-command starts elinks instead
Hello,
Thanks for explanations!
I tried another build and found that my switches revealed more problems that i
want to gnaw on for a while.
> >+HAVE_LANGINFO_CODESET
>
> Literally, this means that your system has the langinfo.h header and
> the nl_langinfo(CODESET) function is available as
Hi,
Rocco Rutte wrote on 18.06.09:
>
> * Jan-Herbert Damm wrote:
> At first it can be tricky to get all the configure flags right. You can
> compare the output of mutt -v of both installed versions, check for
> differences and ask here again if you can't figure out where a
Hello,
Rocco Rutte wrote on 16.06.09:
> Jan-Herbert Damm wrote:
>
> > I would like to try Mutt 1.5.20
>
> I usually choose ~/opt/mutt/ so that I can easily install without sudo and
> deinstall with rm.
I am glad i followed this advice. Thanks Rocco! It turns out i
Hello,
Adam Wellings wrote on 15.06.09:
> >
> > > > Mutt 1.5.20 is out at the usual locations.
> It's on Sourceforge
Thanks. Now i found it.
I would like to try it out. To be safe i want to keep my working Mutt 1.5.18
in /usr/bin and install Mutt 1.5.20 in /usr/local/bin.
"./configure" (wi
Hello,
> > Mutt 1.5.20 is out at the usual locations.
please, where are these locations?
i couldn't find this version on mutt.org.
maybe just cvs?
jan
Hi,
Kyle Wheeler wrote on 09.06.09:
> On Tuesday, June 9 at 08:51 PM, quoth Jan-Herbert Damm:
> >i am confused about mutt's searching behaviour.
snip
> ... The *default* $simple_search is:
>
> ~f %s | ~s %s
snip
> Presumably, in your sent box, you&#x
Hello,
i am confused about mutt's searching behaviour.
if i use the "/" (slash)- command in the index of my inbox i can search for a
name of somebody who sent me a mail. But the same command doesn't work in my
"sent" box. There the search only seems to match strings in the subject line.
i am sure
Hello,
> You just want to move messages? Then use s (), which
> copies the message to whatever mailbox you specify, then marks the copy
> in the current mailbox as deleted.
Thank you Monte, Christian, Gary and Noah.
Embarrassingly i wasn't aware of . I realize that the german
explanation of
Hello,
> > after using the "C"-command to copy messages from my inbox to some other
> > folder i *sometimes* find these messages twice in the other folder.
Joost Kremers wrote on 11.05.09:
> Perhaps because C doesn't move to the next message after copying, so that
> you sometimes inadvertently
Dear List,
after using the "C"-command to copy messages from my inbox to some other
folder i *sometimes* find these messages twice in the other folder.
why?
jan
Hello,
i have a "meta-question".
imap-issues are being discussed on this list quite frequently. i wonder what
the benefit of imap generally is?
if you have access to broadband flatrate internet (as many people in
agglomerations here in germany do) i can't think of the benefit of managing my
mail
Christian Brabandt wrote on 19.02.09:
> I have made the experience, that it usually works better, if you quote
> the command using double or single quotation marks.
> So this works for me:
>
> folder-hook mutt-users 'set attribution="%n wrote on %d:"'
Wow! That did it.
Thanks, Chrisitian
-
Hello,
I try to tell my muttrc to use different attribute strings in replies in
different mailboxes (mbox-format):
# begin .muttrc-entry:
# attribute string
set attribution="%n schrieb vor kurzem:"
#
# attribute string for mbox mutt-users:
folder-hook mutt-users set attribution="%n wrote on %d:"
Hello,
> > And Simple patterns seem to be specifically associated with certain
> > keywords replacing "~,%,=" expressions.
>
> Keywords? Replacing? No, the ~ or % or = don't get *replaced*.
>
> We must be talking past each other here.
indeed, I was being unprecise. The manual (Chapter "Advance
hello,
i was surprised to read that mutt can handle smtp-sending on its own now.
because i also had to fiddle with msmtp (which is rather simple).
> So just install mutt on it's own - there don't seem to be any
> dependencies according to synaptic.
I don't know about synaptic. But using "apt-get
Kyle Wheeler:
> On Friday, February 13 at 07:20 PM, quoth Jan-Herbert Damm:
> > if you don't mind, can you explain the pattern "~r >3m" equally
> > well?
>
> Well, that's pretty simple.
With gratefulness an admiration i studied this manual-worthy
Kyle Wheeler:
>... However, because I use
> , when there aren't any tagged messages (i.e. the
> pattern "~r >3m" didn't match anything), mutt will stop processing
> that hook and none of the rest of it will happen.
>
> Does that make sense?
yes it does! thank you so much for posting this help o
Derek Martin wrote:
> What's the value of send_charset?
It is:
send_charset="us-ascii:iso-8859-1:utf-8"
Changing it manually to utf-8 only didn't change anything.
> Here's a clue:
>
> >
> > Was lange g?rt wird endlich Wut.
>
> The third word in the second line con
Hello everybody,
I suspect I have a similar encoding problem like the one discussed today. (in
the thread: "quoting urls in replies". It might be trivial and i apologize if
it is. I did try to RTFM and i have been pondering this with growing
desperation:
The problem in short: When I write mails w
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