Re: Why not include compressed folder support in official Mutt?

2000-06-15 Thread Jason Helfman
Sure it would. Why wouldn't it? If these are not incoming folders, does it matter? Well, I do know that gzip support is an unstable archiving method, or I have read, and that tar is much more effective. Why do you see it not being a stable? On Thu, Jun 15, 2000 at 10:12:45AM +0530, Suresh Ramasu

Re: Why not include compressed folder support in official Mutt?

2000-06-15 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Jason Helfman proclaimed on mutt-users that: >Sure it would. Why wouldn't it? If these are not incoming folders, does >it matter? Well, I do know that gzip support is an unstable archiving >method, or I have read, and that tar is much more effective. I store old mails in tar.gz format. Best of

Re: mutt w/ courier-imap and vpopmail

2000-06-15 Thread cgreen
On Wed, Jun 14, 2000 at 06:14:52PM -0500, Ben Beuchler wrote: > I am using Mutt 1.2i with a server running courier-imap and vpopmail. I > would like to be able to create remote folders and I understand > courier-imap supports this. I'm just not sure what to specify for my > folder path. On non-

Muttrc2html

2000-06-15 Thread Jason Helfman
Wow, I find this to be a difficult script to ignore anything...I put ignore blah blah blah and a stream of errors.Working through it, but I believe it is a coding issue. -- /helfman "At any given moment, you may find the ticket to the circus that has always been in your possession." F

Re: Startup in compressed thread mode

2000-06-15 Thread Gerhard den Hollander
* Michael Tatge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (Wed, Jun 14, 2000 at 06:34:29PM +0200) > Gerhard den Hollander muttered: >> How can I have a mailfolder by default start Up in compressed thread mode > ^^ > collapsed? Yup, sorry, my mind was still h

imap_close_connection()

2000-06-15 Thread Andre Wobst
Hi, I've troubles with the bug, that imap_close_connection() is not called in mutt-1.2. Our server doesn't destroy the DCE credentials, because it recieves only a close, but not a logout while exiting mutt. Is there already a bugfix for this? (And how about version 1.2.1?) André -- by _ _

Re: No Valid Author Specification Present

2000-06-15 Thread Thomas Roessler
On 2000-06-14 09:59:43 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > No Valid Author Specification Present > Error sending message, child exited 9 (). > I'm running Mutt on a sco openserver 5.0.5 box, using > MMDF for mail transport. Any ideas on what may stop > this problem would be helpful, mutt runs fin

Re: Adding a header with information taken from the message

2000-06-15 Thread Roberto Suarez Soto
On Jun/15/2000, Mikko Hänninen wrote: > You can't really do that with Mutt, since you can't store information in > arbitrary variables and then refer to them -- unfortunately, in this > case. That's what I thought :-m Time for several hours of creative hacking, then :-) Anyway,

Re: news with mutt

2000-06-15 Thread Roberto Suarez Soto
On Jun/10/2000, Janek Richter wrote: > i want to know if it is possible to read newsgroups in mutt. Yep! It's possible. But not simple :-) I do it with several Perl scripts of my own. I plan to tidy up and release them when I've solved some problems (as, for example, using them

Re: Different signature/tag line each day/email.

2000-06-15 Thread Roberto Suarez Soto
On Jun/14/2000, eric a . Farris wrote: > i use signify (part of Debian GNU/Linux, couldn't find a home page for I use it too :-) It's ... well, perfect :-) And it's done in Perl, what makes it even more perfect :-D The homepage, I guess, should be the one of the company that did

Re: No Lines: tag in sent mail folder

2000-06-15 Thread Mikko Hänninen
David T-G <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on Wed, 14 Jun 2000: > Walt, I can't help you with adding a Lines: header to your sent mail, > but I would like to second the very interesting idea of being able to fcc > to a program instead of just to a single file/folder/maildir. You know, you can -- sort of

Re: muttrc.el

2000-06-15 Thread Charles Curley
On Thu, Jun 15, 2000 at 01:07:21AM +0100, Dave Pearson wrote: -> On Wed, Jun 14, 2000 at 04:45:52PM -0600, Charles Curley wrote: -> -> > While scrounging through the new mutt, 1.2, I found evidence of a muttrc -> > mode for Emacs. Where do I find such a beastie? -> -> What evidence did you find?

Re: A nice feature

2000-06-15 Thread David T-G
John -- ...and then John Franklin said... % On Thu, Jun 15, 2000 at 12:28:11AM +0300, Mikko Hänninen wrote: % > Jason Helfman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on Wed, 14 Jun 2000: % > > folder to mailbox folder that you aren't asked to delete whenever % > % > You mean like "set delete=yes"? % > % > >

Re: No Lines: tag in sent mail folder

2000-06-15 Thread David T-G
Mikko -- ...and then Mikko Hänninen said... % David T-G <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on Wed, 14 Jun 2000: % > Walt, I can't help you with adding a Lines: header to your sent mail, % > but I would like to second the very interesting idea of being able to fcc % > to a program instead of just to a sing

posting news with mutt

2000-06-15 Thread Anatoly Vorobey
I have a, possibly, unusual question. I find it convenient to fetch news from a remote server in large batches and store them as mbox folders, for reading with mutt. Threading works fine, so why not? Now, the question is, can I use mutt's reply to compose a good followup message? Obviously I don't

HOWTO ..

2000-06-15 Thread Nils Vogels
Hi! Im enhancing my mutt again and I was severly wondering howto make mutt generate an overview of statusses (unread/read/total) of all my mailboxes (from my .muttrc) in one line .. How would I start ? Grtz and 10q for any hints, Nils. -- How can a species, that can create machines to commu

Re: Adding a header with information taken from the message

2000-06-15 Thread Roberto Suarez Soto
I did it ':-) It was easy, but I don't know if what I've done can break something. I just took the "in_reply_to" variable and added the "X-Comment-To:" part at its end. Like this: set in_reply_to=\ "%i; from %a on %{!%a, %b %d, %Y at %I:%M:%S%p %Z}\nX-Comment-To:

Re: Adding a header with information taken from the message

2000-06-15 Thread David T-G
Roberto -- ...and then Roberto Suarez Soto said... % % I did it ':-) Woo hoo! % % It was easy, but I don't know if what I've done can break something. I % just took the "in_reply_to" variable and added the "X-Comment-To:" part at its % end. Like this: % % set in_reply_to=\

Re: muttrc.el

2000-06-15 Thread Byrial Jensen
On Thu, Jun 15, 2000 at 06:19:04 -0600, Charles Curley wrote: > On Thu, Jun 15, 2000 at 01:07:21AM +0100, Dave Pearson wrote: >> On Wed, Jun 14, 2000 at 04:45:52PM -0600, Charles Curley wrote: >> >>> While scrounging through the new mutt, 1.2, I found evidence of a muttrc >>> mode for Emacs. > >

Re: Adding a header with information taken from the message

2000-06-15 Thread Martin Schröder
On 2000-06-15 14:06:49 +0200, Roberto Suarez Soto wrote: > Can this harm anything? I mean, some rfc stuff or the like :-? As long as it's 7-Bit ASCII, I don't think so. X- header-lines should be passed through by MTAs (although some MxAs will interpret certain headers (?)). Can't the name

Re: A nice feature

2000-06-15 Thread John Franklin
On Thu, Jun 15, 2000 at 08:18:37AM -0400, David T-G wrote: > % Sometimes, my connection goes down before I get a chance to expunge, > % and have to figure out what I had set to delete all over again. > > Is this your IMAP connection or, just because I'm still not quite sure > what you're asking,

Re: Adding a header with information taken from the message

2000-06-15 Thread Mikko Hänninen
David T-G <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on Thu, 15 Jun 2000: > % set in_reply_to=\ > % "%i; from %a on %{!%a, %b %d, %Y at %I:%M:%S%p %Z}\nX-Comment-To: %n" > > Hmmm... Doesn't that mean that the X-Comment-To: will appear in the body > instead of in the header? Try a reply to this note with

Re: mutt w/ courier-imap and vpopmail

2000-06-15 Thread Ben Beuchler
On Thu, Jun 15, 2000 at 02:39:12AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > To create a new mailbox on the IMAP server it needs to named as > follows:- > {imap.server.name}INBOX.new_folder What do you use for a $folder setting? > The INBOX part may appear automatically and is required, all > Cour

Re: mutt w/ courier-imap and vpopmail

2000-06-15 Thread cgreen
On Thu, Jun 15, 2000 at 10:15:46AM -0500, Ben Beuchler wrote: > On Thu, Jun 15, 2000 at 02:39:12AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > To create a new mailbox on the IMAP server it needs to named as > > follows:- > > {imap.server.name}INBOX.new_folder > > What do you use for a $folder sett

Re: Adding a header with information taken from the message

2000-06-15 Thread David T-G
Mikko & Roberto -- ...and then Mikko Hänninen said... % David T-G <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on Thu, 15 Jun 2000: % > % set in_reply_to=\ % > % > Hmmm... Doesn't that mean that the X-Comment-To: will appear in the body % > perhaps... % % No, it goes into the header. That's $in_reply_to, not

Re: posting news with mutt

2000-06-15 Thread Jason Helfman
I actually found a patch to mutt that someone has done to do this with mutt. Gets all the headers and stores them in mboxs. http://www.ing.umu.se/~connor/programs/mutt.html Note from page: What does it do? Same thing as any other news-reader, really. Except in the sense that most readers work

Re: muttrc.el

2000-06-15 Thread Dave Pearson
On Thu, Jun 15, 2000 at 06:19:04AM -0600, Charles Curley wrote: > On Thu, Jun 15, 2000 at 01:07:21AM +0100, Dave Pearson wrote: > -> it doesn't do anything special but it does highlight comments correctly . > > The evidence was this at the beginning of one of the sample files: > > # -*-muttrc-*-

Re: muttrc.el

2000-06-15 Thread Charles Curley
On Thu, Jun 15, 2000 at 03:30:25PM +0200, Byrial Jensen wrote: -> On Thu, Jun 15, 2000 at 06:19:04 -0600, Charles Curley wrote: -> > On Thu, Jun 15, 2000 at 01:07:21AM +0100, Dave Pearson wrote: -> >> On Wed, Jun 14, 2000 at 04:45:52PM -0600, Charles Curley wrote: -> >> -> >>> While scrounging th

Help! hung by mutt

2000-06-15 Thread Rebecca Lynne Sutton
Help! I tried to send this last night with elm, and it never went through. I don't know if that was a problem with elm, or if there are more problems on this system. I forgot to give very many other details, don't know if they will help any or not-- this machine is a Sun, running SunOS 5.6 .

help! hung by mutt

2000-06-15 Thread Rebecca Lynne Sutton
Help, oh wise mutt-users! Yesterday mutt was working fine, today I can't get it to work. I try to start it and it hangs while trying to open my mail folder. All I get is: Reading /usr/mail/rsutton... The same thing happens if I try to start with other folders besides my inbox. I can't even

Re: muttrc.el

2000-06-15 Thread David T-G
Byrial, et al -- ...and then Charles Curley said... % On Thu, Jun 15, 2000 at 03:30:25PM +0200, Byrial Jensen wrote: % % -> P.S. Please don't use non-standard $indent_string. It prevents % -> editors with mail modes (like jed) from rewrapping long lines in % -> quotes while preserving the quote

Re: Adding a header with information taken from the message

2000-06-15 Thread Byrial Jensen
On Thu, Jun 15, 2000 at 14:06:49 +0200, Roberto Suarez Soto wrote: > > set in_reply_to=\ > "%i; from %a on %{!%a, %b %d, %Y at %I:%M:%S%p %Z}\nX-Comment-To: %n" > > Can this harm anything? I mean, some rfc stuff or the like :-? No, I don't think so. [NB: Mail-Followup-To head

Re: help! hung by mutt

2000-06-15 Thread Mikko Hänninen
Hello, Rebecca Lynne Sutton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on Wed, 14 Jun 2000: > to start it and it hangs while trying to open my mail folder. > > All I get is: > Reading /usr/mail/rsutton... > The same thing happens if I try to start with other folders besides my > inbox. This, and because upg

Re: muttrc.el

2000-06-15 Thread Mikko Hänninen
David T-G <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on Thu, 15 Jun 2000: > ...and then Charles Curley said... > % What are the standard quote characters? An RFC reference will do > % fine. However, I doubt I'm the only person who uses this, so perhaps you > % could add it to the appropriate regex for your editor?

Re: muttrc.el

2000-06-15 Thread Thomas Roessler
On 2000-06-15 15:36:17 +0100, Dave Pearson wrote: > Whoever wrote the file in question will have been using > my mutt mode for jed. In case you didn't realise it jed > can use the same mode identifier that emacs uses (as > above). I was the one to add these comments in the beginning of quite a f

quoted-printable problems

2000-06-15 Thread Cesar Crusius
Hi. I am having problems with quoted-printable messages. Whenever someone sends me with quoted-printable encodings (=E40 and the likes), mutt invariably decodes all the encoded characters to '?,' and not to the iso-8859-1 equivalents. The term handles 8-bit characters correctly, and in fact when I

[bug?] pager_index_lines

2000-06-15 Thread Marius Gedminas
Today a strange thing occured to me: setting pager_index_lines to 4 or 10 (I have macros for this) gave me just one index line on top. I've checked (with :set pager_index_lines=) that the value was correct. After restarting mutt things were back to normal. Has anyone else experienced this? I'm

Re: [bug?] pager_index_lines

2000-06-15 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Marius Gedminas proclaimed on mutt-users that: >Today a strange thing occured to me: setting pager_index_lines to 4 or >10 (I have macros for this) gave me just one index line on top. I've >checked (with :set pager_index_lines=) that the value was correct. >After restarting mutt things were bac

mutt 1.0.1us as an imap client

2000-06-15 Thread Enrique Vadillo
Hi, I'm trying to use mutt 1.0.1us with courier-imap using maildirs, i've tried to look into the mailing list archives but don't seem to find what i need. I would like to know how i can configure my mutt to work with either imap (i've compiled it with --enable-imap) or as a localhost mail reader

Re: mutt 1.0.1us as an imap client

2000-06-15 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Enrique Vadillo proclaimed on mutt-users that: >I would like to know how i can configure my mutt to work with either >imap (i've compiled it with --enable-imap) or as a localhost mail reader call it as local, and call it as mutt -f {imap.server}Inbox or, can you set folder hooks to use [local

Re: muttrc.el

2000-06-15 Thread Marius Gedminas
On Thu, Jun 15, 2000 at 10:33:33AM -0600, Charles Curley wrote: > -> P.S. Please don't use non-standard $indent_string. It prevents > -> editors with mail modes (like jed) from rewrapping long lines in > -> quotes while preserving the quote characters. > > What are the standard quote characters?

Re: [bug?] pager_index_lines

2000-06-15 Thread Marius Gedminas
On Thu, Jun 15, 2000 at 11:53:46PM +0530, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote: > Marius Gedminas proclaimed on mutt-users that: > > >Today a strange thing occured to me: setting pager_index_lines to 4 or > >10 (I have macros for this) gave me just one index line on top. I've > >checked (with :set page

compressed folder rpm location

2000-06-15 Thread brd
Can someone point me to the url for the rpms of mutt compiled with compressed folder support, please? Thanks, Brian -- The 21st century begins on January 1, 2001.

Re: mutt 1.0.1us as an imap client

2000-06-15 Thread Jeremy Blosser
Enrique Vadillo [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote: > I'm trying to use mutt 1.0.1us with courier-imap using maildirs, i've > tried to look into the mailing list archives but don't seem to find what > i need. I strongly suggest you upgrade to at least mutt 1.2. The IMAP code in 1.2 is far superior to wha

Re: compressed folder rpm location

2000-06-15 Thread Charles Curley
On Thu, Jun 15, 2000 at 03:10:56PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -> Can someone point me to the url for the rpms of mutt compiled with -> compressed folder support, please? -> -> Thanks, -> Brian -> -- -> The 21st century begins on January 1, 2001. http://mutt.linuxatwork.at/ --

Re: quoted-printable problems

2000-06-15 Thread Marius Gedminas
On Thu, Jun 15, 2000 at 10:38:32AM -0700, Cesar Crusius wrote: > Hi. I am having problems with quoted-printable messages. Whenever > someone sends me with quoted-printable encodings (=E40 and the likes), > mutt invariably decodes all the encoded characters to '?,' and not to > the iso-8859-1 equiv

Re: mutt w/ courier-imap and vpopmail

2000-06-15 Thread cgreen
On Thu, Jun 15, 2000 at 10:09:30AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > What do you use for a $folder setting? > > > If I am *only* using the IMAP server with mutt then I have:- > set folder={imap.server.name} > > and I have > set spoolfile={x-1.net:50143}inbox > Of course the subtle ch

Re: mutt 1.0.1us as an imap client

2000-06-15 Thread cgreen
On Thu, Jun 15, 2000 at 01:23:13PM -0500, Enrique Vadillo wrote: > > I'm trying to use mutt 1.0.1us with courier-imap using maildirs, i've > tried to > look into the mailing list archives but don't seem to find what i need. > You'd be better off with mutt 1.2 as it has quite a few IMAP enhanceme

Mailing Lists problem

2000-06-15 Thread fred smith
Hi guys! i've been using mutt for quite a while now and mostly it does what I need, but my needs are pretty modest, I don't stress it a lot. I'm subscribed to several mailing lists, and have procmail set up to filter them out to their own folders, and the appropriate settings in my .muttrc so th

Re: Mailing Lists problem

2000-06-15 Thread Lars Hecking
fred smith writes: > Hi guys! > > i've been using mutt for quite a while now and mostly it does what I > need, but my needs are pretty modest, I don't stress it a lot. > > I'm subscribed to several mailing lists, and have procmail set up to > filter them out to their own folders, and the appropr

Re: [bug?] pager_index_lines

2000-06-15 Thread Michael Tatge
Marius Gedminas muttered: > Today a strange thing occured to me: setting pager_index_lines to 4 or > 10 (I have macros for this) gave me just one index line on top. I've > checked (with :set pager_index_lines=) that the value was correct. > After restarting mutt things were back to normal. > > H

Re: [bug?] pager_index_lines

2000-06-15 Thread Mikko Hänninen
Marius Gedminas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on Thu, 15 Jun 2000: > Today a strange thing occured to me: setting pager_index_lines to 4 or > 10 (I have macros for this) gave me just one index line on top. I've > checked (with :set pager_index_lines=) that the value was correct. > After restarting mu

index out of sync -- bug?

2000-06-15 Thread Ben Beuchler
This is a problem I've seen in the past and passed off as being sloppy terminal emulation. I'm convinced that is not the case now. I am using v1.3.3. When viewing large ( ~2000 msgs) mailboxes over IMAP the index listing is out of sync with the actual messages. If I select a message from the in

'postponed' over IMAP not working

2000-06-15 Thread Ben Beuchler
It appears that the normal 'postponed' functionality doesn't work so well over IMAP. If I postpone a message when $folder is set to an IMAP folder and hit 'm' to compose a new message, it does not prompt me to see if I would like to resume the postponed message. If $folder is local, it works jus

Re: [bug?] pager_index_lines

2000-06-15 Thread Marius Gedminas
On Fri, Jun 16, 2000 at 12:16:28AM +0200, Michael Tatge wrote: > Are you sure you had more than 1 message in the folder? On Fri, Jun 16, 2000 at 02:33:56AM +0300, Mikko Hänninen wrote: > I've seen this situation when the folder has only one message, the mini > index at the top doesn't use up the

Re: index out of sync -- bug?

2000-06-15 Thread Ben Beuchler
On Thu, Jun 15, 2000 at 07:07:42PM -0500, Ben Beuchler wrote: > This is a problem I've seen in the past and passed off as being sloppy > terminal emulation. I'm convinced that is not the case now. I am using > v1.3.3. > > When viewing large ( ~2000 msgs) mailboxes over IMAP the index listing is

Why mutt is the best mail program?

2000-06-15 Thread Martynas Kriauciunas
Hello, In my pop3 server is installed Pine and Mailx. I asked administrator to install Mutt too, but he asked me to tell some things what mutt can do that other mail programs can't (Pine or Mailx). Now I'm asking You. P.S. Sorry for my English.

Re: help! hung by mutt

2000-06-15 Thread Rebecca Lynne Sutton
On Thu, Jun 15, 2000 at 08:04:56PM +0300, Mikko Hänninen wrote: > > Rebecca Lynne Sutton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on Wed, 14 Jun 2000: > > to start it and it hangs while trying to open my mail folder. > > > > All I get is: > > Reading /usr/mail/rsutton... > > The same thing happens if I try

Re: Why mutt is the best mail program?

2000-06-15 Thread CaT
On Thu, Jun 15, 2000 at 09:47:33PM +0200, Martynas Kriauciunas wrote: > Hello, > In my pop3 server is installed Pine and Mailx. I asked administrator to > install Mutt too, but he asked me to tell some things what mutt can do that > other mail programs can't (Pine or Mailx). Now I'm asking You.

Re: Why mutt is the best mail program?

2000-06-15 Thread Mikko Hänninen
Martynas Kriauciunas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on Thu, 15 Jun 2000: > In my pop3 server is installed Pine and Mailx. I asked administrator to > install Mutt too, but he asked me to tell some things what mutt can do that > other mail programs can't (Pine or Mailx). Now I'm asking You. They're on

Re: help! hung by mutt

2000-06-15 Thread Mikko Hänninen
Rebecca Lynne Sutton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on Thu, 15 Jun 2000: > Thanks for the help, Mikko. Eventually, all my defunct mutt processes > disappeared, and now I am (happily) using mutt again. I'm not certain > that it was the dotlock, though that sounds like a good possibility. Okay, this m

Re: Why mutt is the best mail program?

2000-06-15 Thread Nils Vogels
On Fri, Jun 16, 2000 at 11:05:07AM +1000, CaT wrote: > On Thu, Jun 15, 2000 at 09:47:33PM +0200, Martynas Kriauciunas wrote: > > Hello, > > In my pop3 server is installed Pine and Mailx. I asked administrator to > > install Mutt too, but he asked me to tell some things what mutt can do that > > o

Re: Why mutt is the best mail program?

2000-06-15 Thread Mipam
On Thu, Jun 15, 2000 at 09:47:33PM +0200, Martynas Kriauciunas wrote: > Hello, > In my pop3 server is installed Pine and Mailx. I asked administrator to > install Mutt too, but he asked me to tell some things what mutt can do that > other mail programs can't (Pine or Mailx). Now I'm asking You. >

Re: muttrc.el

2000-06-15 Thread Thomas Roessler
On 2000-06-15 21:08:02 +0200, Marius Gedminas wrote: > The Jargon File also mentions "> " as the standard inclusion leader. Doesn't RFC 1036 have something on this? Anyway, regardless of being RFC-documented or not, ">" _is_ the most widely accepted standard for tagging quoted messages when rep

Re: muttrc.el

2000-06-15 Thread Eugene Lee
On Thu, Jun 15, 2000 at 11:54:47PM +0200, Thomas Roessler wrote: :On 2000-06-15 21:08:02 +0200, Marius Gedminas wrote: : :> The Jargon File also mentions "> " as the standard inclusion leader. : :Doesn't RFC 1036 have something on this? Nope. :Anyway, regardless of being RFC-documented or not, "

Re: No Lines: tag in sent mail folder

2000-06-15 Thread Mikko Hänninen
David T-G <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on Thu, 15 Jun 2000: > % can be done with a little hacking. And this need is probably so > % specialized that a little hacking is justified for it. :-) > > Oh, so now you think I should have to work for it, eh? :-) Well, either that, or you can submit a patch