Re: How to handle a lot of emails via IMAP

2010-01-29 Thread Omari Norman
On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 10:54:40AM -0500, John Villalovos wrote: > So I have been subscribed to LKML (Linux Kernel Mailing List) for > several years on my gmail account. I decided to try to read that > email using IMAP with Mutt. You might try OfflineIMAP. The disadvantage of that though is that

Re: Mutt freezes if network lost and regained

2009-11-12 Thread Omari Norman
On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 07:46:04AM +0100, Jeffrey Ratcliffe wrote: > Is there a better way? Can I make mutt more tolerant of patchy network > access? I use offlineimap for this reason. It solves some problems and creates some other ones. -- When it's springtime in Alaska, it's forty below.

Re: mutt + imap + gprs

2009-10-16 Thread Omari Norman
On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 04:43:35PM +0100, Toby Cubitt wrote: > Offlineimap claims to be extremely fast at synchronising IMAP folders, so > it might be usable over GPRS. In any case, it can be left to run away in > the background, so it's speed doesn't have much impact on mutt's > responsiveness oth

Re: Regexps suddenly case-sensitive?

2009-10-02 Thread Omari Norman
On Fri, Oct 02, 2009 at 02:20:35PM +0200, Joost Kremers wrote: > I recently upgraded from Slackware 12.2 to Slackware 13.0. I installed mutt > 1.5.20 from source both on the old and on the new system. > For some reason, since I did the OS upgrade, mutt's regular expressions are > case-sensitive. I

Case insensitive limits not working?

2009-09-25 Thread Omari Norman
Hi folks, The Mutt manual says that if I do a limit with all lower-case letters, like "l ~f omari", that the limit will be case-insensitive. However this does not seem to be working for me--there are messages that I find if I use the correct case in the pattern, but not if I use all lowercase lett

Re: lists and subscribe commands and the To: header

2007-06-20 Thread Omari Norman
On Wed, Jun 20, 2007 at 07:04:43AM -0600, Kyle Wheeler wrote: > Generally, the lists and subscribe commands just add addresses to an > internal list. This list is then consulted for several things. For > example, it is used for the ~l pattern (which, according to the > manual, matches "messages

lists and subscribe commands and the To: header

2007-06-20 Thread Omari Norman
Hi all, According to the manual, it seems that the lists and subscribe commands only examine the "To:" field of incoming mail. Is that true? Occasionally you get people who Bcc: a list, so then it slips past the lists and subscribe commands. I've set up maildrop to examine messages and change thei

Re: OT: offending sig + headers

2007-05-17 Thread Omari Norman
On Thu, May 17, 2007 at 06:30:26PM -0400, Derek Martin wrote: > And the comment in my sig is anything but glib. A great deal of > thought and effort went into all parts of my spam management scheme, > including weighing any potential irritation of people who might want > to send me mail against t