On Fri, Mar 28, 2025 at 05:49:24PM -0400, Kurt Hackenberg wrote:
Background: I received an e-mail with an attached ZIP file
(base64-encoded), where the attachment had the following mime headers:
Content-Type: text/plain; name="name.zip"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64
I think that's a
On Fri, Mar 28, 2025 at 03:07:15PM -0600, Daniel Carroll wrote:
I think I've identified the issue, but my question is: is this a bug
or expected behavior?
Background: I received an e-mail with an attached ZIP file
(base64-encoded), where the attachment had the following mime headers:
Con
That was it! Thank you very much.
Misha
On Thu, Mar 11, 2021 at 03:02:06PM -0800, Kevin J. McCarthy wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 11, 2021 at 05:21:43PM -0500, Misha Velthuis wrote:
> > The only thing that I haven't been able to fix, is the fact that - in
> > this version of mutt - the indexer does not sh
On Thu, Mar 11, 2021 at 05:21:43PM -0500, Misha Velthuis wrote:
The only thing that I haven't been able to fix, is the fact that - in
this version of mutt - the indexer does not show the number of
attachments (or attachments yes/no) anymore. It just shows "0" or "-",
even when an email actually
Cameron Simpson wrote:
> On 14May2019 09:58, jeremy bentham wrote:
> > (Whatever the e-mail abbreviation for "sound of hand slapping
> > forehead" is...)
>
> What is the sound of one hand slapping?
>
> Cheers,
> Cameron Simpson
that sound would be: "doh!"
On 14May2019 09:58, jeremy bentham wrote:
(Whatever the e-mail abbreviation for "sound of hand slapping
forehead" is...)
What is the sound of one hand slapping?
Cheers,
Cameron Simpson
On Tue, May 14, 2019 at 07:35:39AM +1000, Cameron Simpson wrote:
> On 13May2019 15:45, Patrick Shanahan and Cameron Simpson wrote:
> >>I used xwd to take a screen dump, then imagemagick to trim and
> >>save it as a gif.
> >iianm, mutt does not "decide" the file-type, mime does. you need to
> >ad
On 13May2019 15:45, Patrick Shanahan wrote:
* jeremy bentham [05-13-19 15:41]:
I used xwd to take a screen dump, then imagemagick to trim and
save it as a gif.
When I tried to attach it to a message, mutt decided it was
"audio/basic", as it did with a jpeg of the same image.
[...]
iianm, mu
* jeremy bentham [05-13-19 15:41]:
> I used xwd to take a screen dump, then imagemagick to trim and
> save it as a gif.
>
> When I tried to attach it to a message, mutt decided it was
> "audio/basic", as it did with a jpeg of the same image.
>
> png gave me "image/png" so I did, finally, get wha
On 2017-07-11 13:05, Erik Christiansen wrote:
> Curious. Here, a "| cat > /tmp/fred" produced a copy of your post,
> complete with 80 lines of headers. That's with pipe_decode unset, and
> Mutt 1.8.0 (2017-02-23).
But that is not what I'm writing about. I'm just trying to save a
single attachmen
On 10.07.17 14:29, Ian Zimmerman wrote:
> I tried both a straight save, and a pipe to a cat command. In either
> case, no headers are present, and neither is the separator line; the
> file just contains the body and that's that.
Curious. Here, a "| cat > /tmp/fred" produced a copy of your post,
c
On 16-08-16 23:40:58, Chris Green wrote:
> No, but I've fixed my problem now. :-)
Please share how, so your thread / question might help other people in
the future.
Thanks,
Georg
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On Tue, Aug 16, 2016 at 02:56:45PM -0400, Patrick Shanahan wrote:
> * Chris Green [08-16-16 13:40]:
> > On Tue, Aug 16, 2016 at 09:47:24AM -0700, Kevin J. McCarthy wrote:
> > > On Tue, Aug 16, 2016 at 10:49:45AM +0100, Chris Green wrote:
> > > > Just recently (maybe after an upgrade of my system t
* Chris Green [08-16-16 13:40]:
> On Tue, Aug 16, 2016 at 09:47:24AM -0700, Kevin J. McCarthy wrote:
> > On Tue, Aug 16, 2016 at 10:49:45AM +0100, Chris Green wrote:
> > > Just recently (maybe after an upgrade of my system to xubuntu 16.04)
> > > when I save attachments from mutt it fails because
On Tue, Aug 16, 2016 at 09:47:24AM -0700, Kevin J. McCarthy wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 16, 2016 at 10:49:45AM +0100, Chris Green wrote:
> > Just recently (maybe after an upgrade of my system to xubuntu 16.04)
> > when I save attachments from mutt it fails because it has lost the '/'
> > after the 'tmpdir
On Tue, Aug 16, 2016 at 10:49:45AM +0100, Chris Green wrote:
> Just recently (maybe after an upgrade of my system to xubuntu 16.04)
> when I save attachments from mutt it fails because it has lost the '/'
> after the 'tmpdir' directory.
Vanilla mutt does not prepend $tmpdir when saving attachments
On Tue, Nov 19, 2013 at 10:05:10AM +0100, LEVAI Daniel wrote:
> On k, nov 19, 2013 at 09:55:40 +0100, Alexandre wrote:
> > Hello,
> > using mutt every day with many mails, I sometimes do not see that some
> > mails have attachment(s).
>
> Same here; sometimes it is too late, I've already opened th
Hello,
On Tue, Nov 19, 2013 at 04:57:22PM -0600, rlhar...@oplink.net wrote:
> >>
> >>"%4C %Z %?X?@& ? %{%b %d} %-15.15n (%?M?»%3M&%4c?) %s"
> >>
> > This is fantastic. This answers my question, before I had time to ask
> > it. Could you please describe how this works: "%?X?@& ?"
>
> Those are
>>
>>"%4C %Z %?X?@& ? %{%b %d} %-15.15n (%?M?»%3M&%4c?) %s"
>>
> This is fantastic. This answers my question, before I had time to ask
> it. Could you please describe how this works: "%?X?@& ?"
Those are string formatting directives.
First of all, you need to be searching the Mutt manual as a
"%4C %Z %?X?@& ? %{%b %d} %-15.15n (%?M?»%3M&%4c?) %s"
This is fantastic. This answers my question, before I had time to ask
it. Could you please describe how this works: "%?X?@& ?"
thanks,
Martin
On Tue, Nov 19, 2013 at 06:23:19PM +0800, Chris Down wrote:
> On 2013-11-19 11:18:28 +0100, LEVAI Daniel wrote:
> > But not to worry! Body caching[1] is might be just what you need :)
>
> I cache bodies, but this is a bit irritating since it takes ages to
> download my non-inbox folders that I hav
Hello all,
many thanks for your replies/comments.
Année 2013, mardi 19 novembre, vers 10:23, Suvayu Ali écrivait:
> I use the following as my index_format:
> "%4C %Z %?X?@& ? %{%b %d} %-15.15n (%?M?»%3M&%4c?) %s"
This solution is fine for me.
> Hope this helps,
Sure!
Have a nice day.
--
A
On 2013-11-19 11:18:28 +0100, LEVAI Daniel wrote:
> But not to worry! Body caching[1] is might be just what you need :)
I cache bodies, but this is a bit irritating since it takes ages to
download my non-inbox folders that I haven't viewed for a while over
IMAP :-)
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On k, nov 19, 2013 at 17:38:27 +0800, Chris Down wrote:
> On 2013-11-19 10:23:42 +0100, Suvayu Ali wrote:
> > I use the following as my index_format:
> >
> > "%4C %Z %?X?@& ? %{%b %d} %-15.15n (%?M?»%3M&%4c?) %s"
> >
> > The @ tells me there is an attachement, and the 4c tells me the size of
>
On 2013-11-19 10:23:42 +0100, Suvayu Ali wrote:
> I use the following as my index_format:
>
> "%4C %Z %?X?@& ? %{%b %d} %-15.15n (%?M?»%3M&%4c?) %s"
>
> The @ tells me there is an attachement, and the 4c tells me the size of
> the email. I find this works mostly, except from some emails from A
On Tue, Nov 19, 2013 at 10:05:10AM +0100, LEVAI Daniel wrote:
> On k, nov 19, 2013 at 09:55:40 +0100, Alexandre wrote:
>
> > In practice, do you have any tips to signal there is any attachment to
> > emails ?
> >
> > Some "ergonomic" options:
> > - adding tag in Index
> > - adding tag in headers
On k, nov 19, 2013 at 09:55:40 +0100, Alexandre wrote:
> Hello,
> using mutt every day with many mails, I sometimes do not see that some
> mails have attachment(s).
Same here; sometimes it is too late, I've already opened the mail and
now it tries to download the 10+ megabytes, just to read the tw
On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 12:18:52AM -0600, David Champion wrote:
> * On 10 Nov 2010, Will Fiveash wrote:
> > I've received a message from an iPhone that has a MIME structure as
> > follows:
> >
> > 1[multipa/alternativ, 7bit, 48K]
>
> Mutt's attachment counter does not recurse
Hello David Champion,
Am 2010-11-11 00:18:52, hacktest Du folgendes herunter:
> Michelle Konzack wrote that iPhone's appraoch is wrong. I guess it's
> somewhat a matter of interpretation: is the text message a textual
> representation of an HTML message that includes one JPEG, or does the
> JPEG
* On 10 Nov 2010, Will Fiveash wrote:
> I've received a message from an iPhone that has a MIME structure as
> follows:
>
> 1[multipa/alternativ, 7bit, 48K]
Mutt's attachment counter does not recurse through multipart/alternative
MIME parts. See parse.c:1556. I checked the l
Hello Will Fiveash,
Am 2010-11-10 14:32:34, hacktest Du folgendes herunter:
> I've received a message from an iPhone that has a MIME structure as
> follows:
>
> 1[multipa/alternativ, 7bit, 48K]
> 2 ├─> [text/plain, 7bit, 0.1K]
> 3 └─> [m
On 2010-04-05, Chuck Smith wrote:
> How do I attach a local file to an outgoing message using Mutt with a
> Gmail IMAP account?
>
> I have used Offlineimap for a month or so and could attach a file
> without any issues, but recently I have moved away from Offlineimap
> in favor of connecting to m
On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 10:31 AM, Kyle Wheeler wrote:
> On Wednesday, June 17 at 09:28 AM, quoth Kyle Wheeler:
> >According to the mutt man page, the usage pattern line you're looking
> >for is this one:
> >
> > mutt [-nx] [-e cmd] [-F file] [-H file] [-i file] [-s subj]
> > [-b addr]
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Hash: SHA256
On Wednesday, June 17 at 09:28 AM, quoth Kyle Wheeler:
>According to the mutt man page, the usage pattern line you're looking
>for is this one:
>
> mutt [-nx] [-e cmd] [-F file] [-H file] [-i file] [-s subj]
> [-b addr] [-c addr] [-a fi
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On Wednesday, June 17 at 09:59 AM, quoth Kumar Appaiah:
> I am facing a strange issue with Mutt 1.5.20. The earlier practice
> to attach files from the command line would be:
>
> mutt -a file1 -a file2 -a file3 myfri...@somewhere -s "Documents you r
* Kumar Appaiah [06-17-09 10:15]:
>
> I still maintain that there is an issue, since this also doesn't work:
>
> mutt -a file1 -a file2 -a file3 myfri...@somewhere
>
> i.e. it still looks for a file with the same name as the e-mail address.
>
The it must be version (.20) specific as it works
On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 10:10 AM, Patrick Shanahan wrote:
> > I am facing a strange issue with Mutt 1.5.20. The earlier practice to
> > attach files from the command line would be:
> >
> > mutt -a file1 -a file2 -a file3 myfri...@somewhere -s "Documents you
> > required"
> >
> > However, in Mutt 1
* Kumar Appaiah [06-17-09 10:02]:
>
> I am facing a strange issue with Mutt 1.5.20. The earlier practice to
> attach files from the command line would be:
>
> mutt -a file1 -a file2 -a file3 myfri...@somewhere -s "Documents you required"
>
> However, in Mutt 1.5.20, it appears that even the e-m
=- P Kapat wrote on Mon 18.Aug'08 at 18:44:18 -0400 -=
> http://wiki.mutt.org/?ConfigTricks/CheckAttach
>
> But I am also using the smtp_url in my muttrc to set gmail's smtp
> srever. So, is it possible to modify/use this CheckAttach script
> in my setup?
CheckAttach takes this chain:
mutt -> $
On 2007-12-09, Jamie Griffin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi -
>
> I've read so many websites and the manuals to set up attachment
> viewing from mutt. I've got a .mutt/auto_view file and a
> .mutt/mailcap file with appropriate entries in it.
>
> The main problem i'm having is with ms applica
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On Sunday, December 9 at 07:49 PM, quoth Jamie Griffin:
> I got around this by putting the following in my .mutt/mailcap file:
>
> application/msword; view_attachment %s "-" '/Applications/Microsoft\ Office\
> 2004/Microsoft\ Word'
>
> and have a 'vi
Thanks for that.
I did keep both lines/entries in the mailcap file, only now i have swapped them
around, like so:
application/msword; view_attachment %s "-" '/Applications/Microsoft\ Office\
2004/Microsoft\ Word'
application/msword; antiword %s | less; copiousoutput; needsterminal
This does
On Sun, Dec 09, 2007 at 07:49:39PM +, Jamie Griffin wrote:
> Hi -
>
> I've read so many websites and the manuals to set up attachment viewing
> from mutt. I've got a .mutt/auto_view file and a .mutt/mailcap file
> with appropriate entries in it.
>
> The main problem i'm having is with ms
Gerhard, et al --
...and then Gerhard H?ring said...
%
% * Sven Guckes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002-06-01 15:13 +0200]:
...
% > $ mutt -s "Subject" -a foo.bar \
% > -F setup [EMAIL PROTECTED]
%
% AFAIC this requires an empty passphrase. It would be very nice if there
% was an equivalent to ssh_a
* Sven Guckes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002-06-01 15:13 +0200]:
> $ cat setup
> set auto_sign
> $ mutt -s "Subject" -a foo.bar \
> -F setup [EMAIL PROTECTED]
AFAIC this requires an empty passphrase. It would be very nice if there
was an equivalent to ssh_agent for GNUpg. Is there one?
Gerhard
--
* Gerhard Hring <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002-06-01 08:59]:
> > > X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.
> > .. but this ain't the Outlook Express list.
> What, then? The inappropriate mutt advocacy list?
if this was the inappropriate advocacy list
then we *would* be giving hints for OE u
* Sven Guckes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002-06-01 10:22 +0200]:
> * Mehdi Jabal Ameli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002-06-01 00:46]:
> > I want to send a file as attachment and sign whole message.
> > I want to use mutt as command line.
> > anybody can tell me how I do it?
>
> we could tell you..
>
> > X-M
* Mehdi Jabal Ameli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002-06-01 00:46]:
> I want to send a file as attachment and sign whole message.
> I want to use mutt as command line.
> anybody can tell me how I do it?
we could tell you..
> X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.
.. but this ain't the Outlo
On Fri, May 31, 2002 at 10:57:59PM -0700, Mehdi Jabal Ameli wrote:
> hi,
> I want to send a file as attachment and sign whole message.
> I want to use mutt as command line.
> anybody can tell me how I do it?
attachment is -a
mutt -s "Subject" -a foo.bar [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
Not sure ab
On Mon, 31 Dec 2001 12:18:19 +0100, Markus Boelter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
[..skip..]
> 022? Is it also possible to define a path in the configuration?
-- from http://www.mutt.org/changes.html ;-)
macro attach s "~/" "Pre-pend ~/ when saving attachments"
>
> I want to save all attachments in
Markus --
...and then Markus Boelter said...
%
% Hi!
Hello!
%
% On Mon, Dec 31, 2001 at 07:22:47AM -0500, David T-G wrote:
%
% [...]
% > I named the script wmunpack and, except for receiving attachments in an
% > encrypted email (in which I decrypt-save to the mailbox and run wmunpack
% > f
Markus --
...and then Markus Boelter said...
%
% Hello!
%
% Is it possible to set the "Save-Attachment"-Umask to
% 022? Is it also possible to define a path in the configuration?
Not AFAIK. I whipped up a little script to set the umask, change to a
directory, and then pump the message through
On 01/05/01, 05:43:50PM -0800, Mike E wrote:
> * John P. Verel ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> > I sometimes have to send a message with a very large attachment, e.g. in
> > excess of 2 meg. I'd like to sent a cc of this message WITHOUT the
> > attachment to another recipient. Is there a way I can
* John P. Verel ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> I sometimes have to send a message with a very large attachment, e.g. in
> excess of 2 meg. I'd like to sent a cc of this message WITHOUT the
> attachment to another recipient. Is there a way I can do this?
The simplest way I can think is to send it,
On Mon, Oct 30, 2000 at 06:37:55PM -0200, Rodrigo Rezende wrote:
> when I use mutt e-mail -s "subject" -a the program opens a vi
> screen that is to type something...
>
> I don't want to use that.. I just only want to type the command and send the
> e-mail with the attachment.
>
> Does
On Mon, Oct 30, 2000 at 06:37:55PM -0200, Rodrigo Rezende wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I'd like to known how can I send an e-mail with an attachment using only the
>prompt command.
>
>when I use mutt e-mail -s "subject" -a the program opens a vi
>screen that is to type something...
>
>I don't want to
On Wed, 25 Oct 2000, Mikko Hänninen wrote:
> Attach a file:
>
> macro compose '/path/to/file'
yes, this works.
> Open up a directory:
>
> macro compose '/path/to/dir/'
This way you get the directory attached! Adding a second
is necessary:
macro compose '/path/to/dir/'
Thanks,
Mark Weinem <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on Mon, 23 Oct 2000:
> Is it possible to attach a file via macro?
Sure.
> This doesn't work:
>
> macro compose "attach-file=/home/mark/templates/mime"
>
> Perhaps it would be more elegant if the macro just offers the
> templates directory and the use
On 2000-05-27 21:49:21 -0400, John P. Verel wrote:
> Ah. So the issue is the sender, in this case
> presumably Lotus Notes.
Yes, it is, and it is complete and utter brain-damage on
Lotus' side. For some kind of handler, you may try the
attached shell script, which helps at least in some
situat
On 05/27/00, 09:16:03PM -0400, David T-G wrote:
> %
> % The attachments are preceded by the following text:
> %
> % UUEncoded file named: 1073313B.doc follows)
> % (Its format is: Lotus Manuscript 1.0 )
>
> Here's your answer: instead of having been encoded with a modern MIME
> method (base64 o
John --
...and then John P. Verel said...
% I've received a couple of attachments which are MS Word in format.
Well, they are MS Word documents, but they have been encoded for mailing.
% They were forwarded to me by another recipient.
That's where it always starts ;-)
%
% The attachments
On Fri, May 05, 2000 at 02:59:01AM +0300, Mikko Hänninen wrote:
> Corey G. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on Thu, 04 May 2000:
> > Would changing your umask work?
>
> Probably not, my umask is 022 and Mutt still creates new folders and
> saved files with mode 600. I think it's a security precaution a
Corey G. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on Thu, 04 May 2000:
> Would changing your umask work?
Probably not, my umask is 022 and Mutt still creates new folders and
saved files with mode 600. I think it's a security precaution and a
good default, since usually you do not want other people reading your
Would changing your umask work?
On Thu, May 04, 2000 at 06:35:34PM +0100, Struan Donald wrote:
> Is there some way that I can change these from the current 600 to
> something less restrictive? I looked through the manual and there
> doesn't seem to be any option in there for changing them.
>
> t
on Jul 13, Walter E. Styles wrote:
> When I see these lines with things like %u, etc., I am completely befuddled. Can
>someone tell me where I can find an explanation of these?
>
Maybe in the fine manual (http://www.mutt.org/doc/manual):
attach_format
Type: format string
Default: "%u%D%t%2n %T
When I see these lines with things like %u, etc., I am completely befuddled. Can
someone tell me where I can find an explanation of these?
At 06:20 PM 7/12/99 -0500, you wrote:
>Brian Salter-Duke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>> Could anyone tell me where this limitation is in the code or is th
Brian Salter-Duke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Could anyone tell me where this limitation is in the code or is there
> a way to configure this in .muttrc.
It's not in the code, it's in the attach_format variable.
Here's the one I use:
set attach_format='%u%D%t%2n [%5s] "%d" %> %e %m/%M '
Robin --
...and then Robin Gruyters said...
%
% I mean that the message is also send as a attachment.
Well, technically, it's always an attachment, but usually the only one.
Once you have an attachment, you typically have the text body as another
attachment with a little blurb above it telling
I mean that the message is also send as a attachment.
On Tue, Jul 06, 1999 at 12:03:06AM -0500, Jeremy Blosser wrote:
> Please format your mails to be wrapped at 70-75 chars.
>
> Robin Gruyters [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote:
> > I've got a liltle problem. If I send a message (to a wiblow user) with
Please format your mails to be wrapped at 70-75 chars.
Robin Gruyters [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote:
> I've got a liltle problem. If I send a message (to a wiblow user) with
> mutt with a pgp signed message, then he gets the message attached together
> with my pgp signature. I've never had this probl
- Original Message -
From: David Shaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, 07 June, 1999 11:56
Subject: Re: attachment problem
> On Fri, Jun 04, 1999 at 09:55:27PM +, Jeffery Small wrote:
> > Is there some way to continue to use the "-
On Fri, Jun 04, 1999 at 09:55:27PM +, Jeffery Small wrote:
> Is there some way to continue to use the "-remote" option to netscape
> while getting mutt to better behave concerning the removal of the temp.
> file?
There are a zillion solutions to this. Probably the easiest one is to use
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