Re: Using MH folders

2008-09-18 Thread Peter Davis
On Sun, Sep 14, 2008 at 09:33:58AM -0400, Peter Davis wrote: > I'm using MH folders with Mutt 1.4.2.3i, but there are some > inconsistencies: > > 1) Mutt seems to assume the "unseen" sequence is always called > "unseen," though this can be set in the .mh_p

Re: Using MH folders

2008-09-15 Thread Peter Davis
On Mon, Sep 15, 2008 at 09:45:26AM +0300, Axel Palm wrote: > Sun, 14 Sep 2008 09:33:58 -0400 > kirjutas Peter Davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > | > | 3) Mutt doesn't seem to recognize some folders as mail folders at > | all. In MH, a mail folder is just a folder under the top mail folder > | wh

Re: Using MH folders

2008-09-14 Thread Axel Palm
Sun, 14 Sep 2008 09:33:58 -0400 kirjutas Peter Davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: | | 3) Mutt doesn't seem to recognize some folders as mail folders at | all. In MH, a mail folder is just a folder under the top mail folder | which contains files whose names are message numbers: 1, 2, 739, etc. | Somet

Using MH folders

2008-09-14 Thread Peter Davis
I'm using MH folders with Mutt 1.4.2.3i, but there are some inconsistencies: 1) Mutt seems to assume the "unseen" sequence is always called "unseen," though this can be set in the .mh_profile. If I set it to "unseen", mutt seems to know which messages in a fold

MH folders

2002-08-26 Thread Michael Herman
I am trying Mutt as a replacement for my current MUA. So far, I'm very happy with it but have run into one small challenge. My old MUA uses MH format for the folders and I have lots of folders. I have put .xmhcache into each folder so I can read them with Mutt. I use procmail to sort my mail

Pb using mh folders

2000-10-09 Thread Olivier Guillard / AFNIC
hello, One of the machine I use manage mails with Mutt 1.2i (2000-05-09) and use the mh format for folders. Many messages have the begining of their body troncated, the headers seem ok. I don't see why this happen but I think that it's when mutt writes its flags and/or content header fields (l

Re: Performance of Maildir -vs- mbox (was Re: Message attributes, MH folders)

2000-06-21 Thread Mikko Hänninen
Brett Coon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on Tue, 20 Jun 2000: > Hmm, to the extent that MH format is like Maildir, my experience > is contrary to your claim that saving changes is faster in a > one-message-per-file format. I found that closing mutt took > several times longer with MH tha

Re: Performance of Maildir -vs- mbox (was Re: Message attributes, MH folders)

2000-06-20 Thread Brett Coon
On Wed, 21 Jun 2000 01:33:31 EDT, Bennett Todd wrote: >Back to our muttons, the above performance discussion focused on >opening the folder. Once it's open, mutt has built an in-memory data >structure describing the messages, and either their offsets in the >mbox file, or the filenames where the

Performance of Maildir -vs- mbox (was Re: Message attributes, MH folders)

2000-06-20 Thread Bennett Todd
2000-06-21-01:17:34 Ronny Haryanto: > I'm still wondering why it's slower though (in general), maybe > because it fopen() more times than mbox? The mailbox is on ext2fs > if that makes any difference. Ext2 is a nice quick FS, with many great features. One of my favourites. For any size mailbox,

Re: Message attributes, MH folders

2000-06-20 Thread Ronny Haryanto
On 19-Jun-2000, clemensF wrote: > > I've converted my mailboxes to maildir once, it turned out to be > > slower than mbox, so I converted back to mbox now. Dunno about MH, but > > I'm guessing it's about the same speed as maildir since it resembles > > maildir. > are your files on a network? Nope

Re: Message attributes, MH folders

2000-06-20 Thread Brett Coon
On Wed, 21 Jun 2000 01:07:00 +0200, clemensF wrote: >well, i',m on the verge of converting to [nx]mh. but i stick to the >rules, i.e. i will answer each message to me in due time, so i can't >keep n*1000 messages, a few dozen are the utmost horror to me. > >so, why in the world would one want t

Re: Message attributes, MH folders

2000-06-20 Thread David Champion
On 2000.06.20, in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "clemensF" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > so, why in the world would one want to leave mh for mutt? Are you asking why in the world would one want to leave: next next comp ... send next next next next repl send for: m ... y r ... y ? Multipl

Re: Message attributes, MH folders

2000-06-20 Thread Mikko Hänninen
Brett Coon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on Tue, 20 Jun 2000: > So, in summary, MH format is slw in mutt. NFS makes it far > slower, no doubt due to NFS write behavior, You could try also Maildir. It's NFS safe (no locking needed!), and it might (ought to!) give you a better performance

Re: Message attributes, MH folders

2000-06-20 Thread clemensF
Gerhard den Hollander wrote: > > * clemensF <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (Mon, Jun 19, 2000 at 07:49:56PM +0200) > >> Ronny Haryanto: > > >> I've converted my mailboxes to maildir once, it turned out to be > >> slower than mbox, so I converted back to mbox now. Dunno about MH, but > >> I'm guessing it's

Re: Message attributes, MH folders

2000-06-20 Thread Brett Coon
On Mon, 19 Jun 2000 20:59:23 +0200, Gerhard den Hollander wrote: >>> I've converted my mailboxes to maildir once, it turned out to be >>> slower than mbox, so I converted back to mbox now. Dunno about MH, but >>> I'm guessing it's about the same speed as maildir since it resembles >>> maildir. >

Re: special flags (was "Re: Message attributes, MH folders")

2000-06-20 Thread Mikko Hänninen
Gerhard den Hollander <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on Mon, 19 Jun 2000: > Speaking of which, > how can I get my hands on the latest dev ? There's just a new snapshot out on the ftp site (1.3.4). If you want to live with the CVS, then read the info in doc/devel-notes.txt. Regards, Mikko -- // Mik

Re: special flags (was "Re: Message attributes, MH folders")

2000-06-20 Thread David T-G
David -- ...and then David Champion said... % On 2000.06.19, in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, % "David T-G" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: % > % > Any way to put the X-Label: contents into $index_format? % % My index_format has: "%?y?[%y] ?". From the docs: [informative stuff snipped] [lousy formatt

Re: special flags (was "Re: Message attributes, MH folders")

2000-06-20 Thread Gerhard den Hollander
* Mikko H?nninen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (Mon, Jun 19, 2000 at 06:42:41PM +0300) > David T-G <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on Mon, 19 Jun 2000: > > Any way to put the X-Label: contents into $index_format? > > I think so. I'm not sure though, it's awhile since it was discussed and > I'm not running the l

Re: Message attributes, MH folders

2000-06-20 Thread Gerhard den Hollander
* clemensF <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (Mon, Jun 19, 2000 at 07:49:56PM +0200) >> Ronny Haryanto: >> I've converted my mailboxes to maildir once, it turned out to be >> slower than mbox, so I converted back to mbox now. Dunno about MH, but >> I'm guessing it's about the same speed as maildir since it res

Re: Message attributes, MH folders

2000-06-20 Thread David T-G
Brett -- ...and then Brett Coon said... % % So, it sounds like I could define my own set of fields and flags % for X-Label, create some mutt macros to allow me to manipulate ... % or "reply in N days", it should be a simple task to create a perl % script to scan the X-Label headers for o

Re: Message attributes, MH folders

2000-06-20 Thread Brett Coon
On Mon, 19 Jun 2000 17:01:42 +0300, =?iso-8859-1?Q?Mikko_H=E4nninen?= wrote: >Brett Coon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on Mon, 19 Jun 2000: >> 2. The feature I *really* want in a mailtool is the ability to >> (conveniently) put various attributes on messages, such as >> "answer within 1 wee

Re: special flags (was "Re: Message attributes, MH folders")

2000-06-19 Thread David Champion
On 2000.06.19, in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "David Champion" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 2000.06.19, in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > "David T-G" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Any way to put the X-Label: contents into $index_format? > > My index_format has: "%?y?[%y] ?". From the doc

Re: special flags (was "Re: Message attributes, MH folders")

2000-06-19 Thread David Champion
On 2000.06.19, in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "David T-G" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Any way to put the X-Label: contents into $index_format? My index_format has: "%?y?[%y] ?". From the docs: The ``X-Label:'' header field can be used to further identify mailing lists or list subject ma

Re: Message attributes, MH folders

2000-06-19 Thread clemensF
> Ronny Haryanto: > I've converted my mailboxes to maildir once, it turned out to be > slower than mbox, so I converted back to mbox now. Dunno about MH, but > I'm guessing it's about the same speed as maildir since it resembles > maildir. are your files on a network? clemens

Re: special flags (was "Re: Message attributes, MH folders")

2000-06-19 Thread Mikko Hänninen
David T-G <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on Mon, 19 Jun 2000: > Any way to put the X-Label: contents into $index_format? I think so. I'm not sure though, it's awhile since it was discussed and I'm not running the latest dev so I can't test it out or check the docs. Mikko -- // Mikko Hänninen, aka.

special flags (was "Re: Message attributes, MH folders")

2000-06-19 Thread David T-G
Hi, folks -- ...and then Mikko Hänninen said... % Brett Coon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on Mon, 19 Jun 2000: % > 2. The feature I *really* want in a mailtool is the ability to % > (conveniently) put various attributes on messages, such as % > "answer within 1 week", "delete after 2 weeks"

Re: Message attributes, MH folders

2000-06-19 Thread Mikko Hänninen
Brett Coon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on Mon, 19 Jun 2000: > 2. The feature I *really* want in a mailtool is the ability to > (conveniently) put various attributes on messages, such as > "answer within 1 week", "delete after 2 weeks", etc, and > have the mailtool act accordingly on mes

Re: Message attributes, MH folders

2000-06-19 Thread Ronny Haryanto
On 19-Jun-2000, clemensF wrote: > > Brett Coon: > > 1. Folder changes are really slow. My MH folders (directories) > > have thousands of messages, which undoubtedly is at least > > part of the problem. Would it be faster if I stored messages > > in m

Re: Message attributes, MH folders

2000-06-19 Thread clemensF
> Brett Coon: > 1. Folder changes are really slow. My MH folders (directories) > have thousands of messages, which undoubtedly is at least > part of the problem. Would it be faster if I stored messages > in mbox format? Is there anything else I can do to speed &g

Message attributes, MH folders

2000-06-19 Thread Brett Coon
I'm currently an MH/exmh user, and I'm considering the switch to mutt.I have tried it out briefly, and browsed the documentation, so hopefully the following questions aren't too obvious. 1. Folder changes are really slow. My MH folders (directories) ha

Re: Mutt and MH folders

1999-06-26 Thread Anonymous
partially due to the fact that there is no defined locking mechanism for this file. To make a long story short: Don't use MH folders for incoming messages, and consider mutt's mh folder support "legacy format support". On 1999-06-19 18:55:04 +0200, Staffan Hamala wrote: >

Mutt and MH folders

1999-06-19 Thread Anonymous
Hi, I was just wondering.. Is there a patch available to fix newmessage status flags for MH folders? I'm using MH folders at work, and when looking at the folder-list, only empty folders and the last visited folder does not have an 'N' flag. It makes no difference if I have a n