Re: reconstituting mangled quotes

2001-07-17 Thread Biju Chacko
On Mon, Jul 16, 2001 at 11:20:15AM -0700, Chris Fuchs wrote: > >On Mon, Jul 16, 2001 at 01:00:09PM -0500, David Champion wrote: > > Thanks, looks like I'll add vim to my mutt learning curve. > > > >Are you already using vim? No reason to start, just to get word wrap. > >par (under vi) handles this

Re: reconstituting mangled quotes

2001-07-17 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Biju Chacko [mutt-users] <17/07/01 12:56 +0530>: > If you can easily run external programs from it, then look into 'par'. Or fmt - which, as part of the GNU textutils package you can reasonably expect to find on most unix systems. Par is much better, of course ... -suresh -- Suresh

Re: vfolders

2001-07-17 Thread Tracy R Reed
On Fri, Jul 13, 2001 at 02:59:00PM +0200, Ralf Hildebrandt wrote: > On Fri, Jul 13, 2001 at 08:56:08AM -0400, Walt Mankowski wrote: > > > I've done some experimenting with Maildirs. I've found it to be quite > > a bit *slower* than mbox, particularly on big folders. This is on a > > Linux ext2

print_command ignored?

2001-07-17 Thread Jim Crumley
I'm having problems with the print_command I have set in my muttrc being ignored. These problems are with version 1.2.5. I have print_command set as: set print_command = "enscript -2Gr" I've also tried setting it equal to a2ps, or even /bin/false, but it always prints to lpr (I've checked this

Re: vfolders

2001-07-17 Thread Ralf Hildebrandt
On Tue, Jul 17, 2001 at 12:48:53AM -0700, Tracy R Reed wrote: > Not only that but create a reiserfs filesystem and put your Maildir on it. > It will absolutely FLY! reiserfs was designed for handling many small > files such as in a Maildir. I've been using reiserfs for a year now with > excellent

Re: print_command ignored?

2001-07-17 Thread Dave Pearson
On Mon, Jul 16, 2001 at 05:00:12PM -0500, Jim Crumley wrote: > Any hints on how to debug this? I started to look at the configuration > file reading part of the code, but C is not my best language so I am not > very sure what to look at. What gets printed if you enter: , | :set ?print_comma

Re: print_command ignored?

2001-07-17 Thread Jim Crumley
On Tue, Jul 17, 2001 at 11:39:41AM +0100, Dave Pearson wrote: > On Mon, Jul 16, 2001 at 05:00:12PM -0500, Jim Crumley wrote: > > > Any hints on how to debug this? I started to look at the configuration > > file reading part of the code, but C is not my best language so I am not > > very sure what

Newbie question

2001-07-17 Thread Fox Mulder
hi all.. finally i have got mutt working with fetchmail and procmail. I am really happy. I have a few questions, and basically want to know if i am doing things the right way. I hav a fetchmail daemon that gets mails from 3 accounts. procmail leaves mail from 1 account in spool, and sends the

Re: Newbie question

2001-07-17 Thread Biju Chacko
On Tue, Jul 17, 2001 at 06:21:44PM +0530, Fox Mulder wrote: > Now when i start mutt, i get only the spool. I have to do a c=foldrname to get > to the folder. i expect this is normal. Is there some way in which i can get > to know if any new messages are in the other folders without actually going

Re: Newbie question

2001-07-17 Thread Fox Mulder
hi... thanks for the quick reply. I could not find any "set mailboxes=" in the manual. Perhaps you are refering to the "mailboxes" command, which i have already given. it is something like, mailboxes ! ankit mulder whai i want to know is whether there is a way to find the number of unread mess

more questions

2001-07-17 Thread Fox Mulder
hi. i already have a few more questions. 1) in the thread view, the indication that i get for a thread is like broken characters, unlike the smooth and better looking ones in the screenshots at the mutt website. I hope you understand what i mean... And this is after i give the "set ascii_chars"

Re: more questions

2001-07-17 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Fox Mulder [mutt-users] <17/07/01 19:14 +0530>: > 1) in the thread view, the indication that i get for a thread is like broken > characters, unlike the smooth and better looking ones in the screenshots at > the mutt website. I hope you understand what i mean... And this is after i > give the "set

Re: more questions

2001-07-17 Thread Chris Gentle
On Tue, Jul 17, 2001 at 07:14:40PM +0530, Fox Mulder wrote: > 2) again at the mutt.org site, in one of the screenshots, i saw > menus on the top of the window reading messages, folders, pgp etc. > how do i get those? do i need some sort of a patch or something? This is Eterm adding the menus. Th

Re: reconstituting mangled quotes

2001-07-17 Thread David Champion
On 2001.07.17, in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Suresh Ramasubramanian" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Biju Chacko [mutt-users] <17/07/01 12:56 +0530>: > > If you can easily run external programs from it, then look into 'par'. > > Or fmt - which, as part of the GNU textutils package you can reaso

Re: more questions

2001-07-17 Thread Fox Mulder
* Suresh Ramasubramanian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [19:39 17/07/01]: > Fox Mulder [mutt-users] <17/07/01 19:14 +0530>: > > 1) in the thread view, the indication that i get for a thread is like broken > > characters, unlike the smooth and better looking ones in the screenshots at > > the mutt website. I

Re: FCC lines header?

2001-07-17 Thread Paul Cox
On Monday, Jul 16, 2001, Drew Raines wrote: > > Sure... don't bother with line counts. Just change your index_format to > > show the size of the message instead. > > Interesting. Although I like the linecount better, I think. It gives me a > better picture of the length of a message at first

Inc?

2001-07-17 Thread Justin R. Miller
Quick question: At the top of my Mutt there are the standard indications, such as Msgs, Del, New, Old, and Inc... what does Inc stand for? I know it's the number of folders with new messages, but what is it an abbreviation for? Just curious. -Justin -- [ ] -- Justin R. Miller - [EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: Inc?

2001-07-17 Thread Fox Mulder
hi.. i am trying to get something like this. how and where do you get these indicators? ankit mohan * Justin R. Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [20:23 17/07/01]: > Quick question: > > At the top of my Mutt there are the standard indications, such as Msgs, > Del, New, Old, and Inc... what does Inc sta

Re: Inc?

2001-07-17 Thread Justin R. Miller
Thus spake Fox Mulder ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > i am trying to get something like this. how and where do you get these > indicators? I believe this is what accomplishes it: set status_on_top=yes You can also configure what this looks like with on of those ..._format variables. -Justin --

Re: more questions

2001-07-17 Thread Andre Wyrwa
On Tue, 17. Jul 2001 um 08:00:18PM +0530, Fox Mulder wrote: > yea, that is what it looks like. i am on slackware 8.0, and have terminal type set >to "linux". i get the same even when the terminal type is "xterm", only then i dont >get colors. > also, it is the same in text mode, and xwindows...

Re: Inc?

2001-07-17 Thread Andre Wyrwa
On Tue, 17. Jul 2001 um 08:26:19PM +0530, Fox Mulder wrote: > hi.. > i am trying to get something like this. how and where do you get these indicators? > ankit mohan It's the status bar, normally at button of mutt, but you can switch it to top with the canonical status_on_top . André.

Re: Simple mutt question ... I think?

2001-07-17 Thread Mr. Wade
On Mon, Jul 16, 2001, Chris Fuchs wrote: > on Wed,11 Jul 2001, Mr. Wade wrote: > > Anthony Green <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I would just like to find out if its possible in mutt to setup so that > > > if you use a signature file, the signature is added to the top of the > > > email, rather t

Re: Inc?

2001-07-17 Thread Michael Elkins
On Tue, Jul 17, 2001 at 10:33:28AM -0400, Justin R. Miller wrote: > At the top of my Mutt there are the standard indications, such as Msgs, > Del, New, Old, and Inc... what does Inc stand for? I know it's the > number of folders with new messages, but what is it an abbreviation for? "Incoming".

Re: Inc?

2001-07-17 Thread Dave Pearson
On Tue, Jul 17, 2001 at 10:33:28AM -0400, Justin R. Miller wrote: > At the top of my Mutt there are the standard indications, such as Msgs, > Del, New, Old, and Inc... what does Inc stand for? I know it's the number > of folders with new messages, but what is it an abbreviation for? Just > curiou

Re: Simple mutt question ... I think?

2001-07-17 Thread Chris Fuchs
on Tue,17 Jul 2001, Mr. Wade wrote: > Yeah,... only the first line of output from the

Re: Inc?

2001-07-17 Thread Ken Weingold
On Tue, Jul 17, 2001, Michael Elkins wrote: > On Tue, Jul 17, 2001 at 10:33:28AM -0400, Justin R. Miller wrote: > > At the top of my Mutt there are the standard indications, such as Msgs, > > Del, New, Old, and Inc... what does Inc stand for? I know it's the > > number of folders with new message

Re: Newbie question

2001-07-17 Thread Gary Johnson
On Tue, Jul 17, 2001 at 07:00:01PM +0530, Fox Mulder wrote: > thanks for the quick reply. I could not find any "set mailboxes=" in > the manual. Perhaps you are refering to the "mailboxes" command, which > i have already given. it is something like, > > mailboxes ! ankit mulder Yes, I believe t

Re: Simple mutt question ... I think?

2001-07-17 Thread John Arundel
On 2001-07-17 at 09:28:55, Chris Fuchs warbled: > Yes, I quite agree - unfortunately I have to deal and comply > with this format Why? -- "I had to stop driving my car for a while. The tires got dizzy." - Steven Wright __

mail sorting #2

2001-07-17 Thread Lukasz Zamel
Procmail is really cool. I've downloaded a faq and it's not fo hard to configure. But still I have a small problem. I'm getting 'Error writing to ...' even if I set a+rw to those mailboxes. -- Lukasz Zamel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reg. Linux User: #202048 640K ought to be enough for enybody - Bill G

Re: Newbie question

2001-07-17 Thread Andre Wyrwa
On Tue, 17. Jul 2001 um 07:00:01PM +0530, Fox Mulder wrote: > whai i want to know is whether there is a way to find the number of unread messages >in a folder when i am in another folder, or when i start mutt with the -y option, or >if I do a "c?" I had the same question, but you`ve given me th

Re: Simple mutt question ... I think?

2001-07-17 Thread Chris Fuchs
on Tue,17 Jul 2001, John Arundel wrote: > On 2001-07-17 at 09:28:55, Chris Fuchs warbled: > > Yes, I quite agree - unfortunately I have to deal and comply > > with this format > > Why? As a professional courtesy to some of the people I work and deal with. Chris -- Be who you are and say what

Re: reconstituting mangled quotes

2001-07-17 Thread Contagious Specialist
Suresh Ramasubramanian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Par is much better, of course ... http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~amc/Par/ Oh! The wasted reformatting keystrokes! However have I survived this long without it? --

Re: Simple mutt question ... I think? [now miles OT]

2001-07-17 Thread John Arundel
On 2001-07-17 at 11:06:14, Chris Fuchs warbled: > As a professional courtesy to some of the people I work and > deal with. Ah - yes, I realise that you will receive top-posted mail, and that you don't have time to educate everyone you deal with, but why are you yourself forced to originate this r

Re: Simple mutt question ... I think? [now miles OT]

2001-07-17 Thread Ken Weingold
On Tue, Jul 17, 2001, John Arundel wrote: > On 2001-07-17 at 11:06:14, Chris Fuchs warbled: > > As a professional courtesy to some of the people I work and > > deal with. > > Ah - yes, I realise that you will receive top-posted mail, and that you > don't have time to educate everyone you deal wit

folder-hook problem

2001-07-17 Thread Drew Raines
Forgive me if this has been asked before, but what's wrong with this line in my muttrc: folder-hook outbox.*$ set index_format="%4C %Z %{%b/%d} %-20.20F (%4c) %s" It tells me that %Z is an unknown variable, and proceeds to only shows message numbers in the index once I change to an outbox* fo

Re: Simple mutt question ... I think? [now miles OT]

2001-07-17 Thread Chris Fuchs
on Tue,17 Jul 2001, John Arundel wrote: > For a moment I had a horrible vision of a company which dictated top-posting > as a corporate email policy... May as well be around here. > RUN!!! Just as soon as the job market allows ;-) -- You lose it if you talk about it. -Ernest Hemingway

Re: folder-hook problem

2001-07-17 Thread Andre Wyrwa
On Tue, 17. Jul 2001 um 02:52:44PM -0500, Drew Raines wrote: > Forgive me if this has been asked before, but what's wrong with this line > in my muttrc: > > folder-hook outbox.*$ set index_format="%4C %Z %{%b/%d} %-20.20F (%4c) %s" > Just a guess, but how about this one: folder-hook outbox.*$

About emacs, about quoting text, about writing message.

2001-07-17 Thread Jens Paulus
Hi, three questions: 1.) about emacs text editing, 2.) about mutt quoting text, 3.) about mutt composing a new message 1.) I'm using vim and don't know too much of emacs. One thing I find very useful with vim is that if I want to wrap a very long quoted line with width greater than 80 characters

Re: reconstituting mangled quotes

2001-07-17 Thread Tony Godshall
> > Par is much better, of course ... > http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~amc/Par/ apt-get --simulate install par apt-get install par

Re: folder-hook problem

2001-07-17 Thread Drew Raines
* Andre Wyrwa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Just a guess, but how about this one: > > folder-hook outbox.*$ 'set index_format="%4C %Z %{%b/%d} %-20.20F (%4c) %s"' I am a moron. Yep, that works. I've seen a hundred people do that before on this list, too. Thanks, Andre. -- Drew (banging head)

Segfault in Mutt 1.2.5i, while executing $ update

2001-07-17 Thread John P. Verel
I produced a segfault in Mutt 1.2.5i as follows. I have a folder hook set for mbox to show only new messages. I started Mutt, went to mbox. Deleted the one message which was marked as new. I then pressed $ to update mbox, thinking this would show the remaining contents (which is over 300 messa

[OT] Re: vfolders

2001-07-17 Thread David
On Tue, 17 Jul 2001, Ralf Hildebrandt wrote: > > We had several problems with ReiserFS, we even lost a machine due to > FS corruption. We rather use XFS... or ext3 > Little off topic, but how well has ext3 been working for you? Are you having problems with it? -- Don't tell me I'm burning the

Re: more questions

2001-07-17 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Fox Mulder [mutt-users] <17/07/01 20:00 +0530>: > yea, that is what it looks like. i am on slackware 8.0, and have terminal > type set to "linux". i get the same even when the terminal type is "xterm", > only then i dont get colors. > also, it is the same in text mode, and xwindows... Heck, I g

Re: reconstituting mangled quotes

2001-07-17 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Tony Godshall [mutt-users] <17/07/01 15:14 -0700>: > > > Par is much better, of course ... > > > http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~amc/Par/ > > apt-get --simulate install par > apt-get install par cd /usr/ports/textproc/par make install clean HTH HAND --suresh -- Suresh Ramasubramanian + W

Problems with vvv port on FreeBSD

2001-07-17 Thread Louis LeBlanc
Hey all. I am trying to get the vvv port for FreeBSD built, but it keeps dying on some wchar code. Any ideas what the hangup is there? Thanks Lou -- Louis LeBlanc [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fully Funded Hobbyist, KeySlapper Extrordinaire :) http://acadia.ne.mediaone.net ԿԬ "In or

Re: Problems with vvv port on FreeBSD

2001-07-17 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Louis LeBlanc [mutt-users] <17/07/01 23:51 -0400>: > Hey all. I am trying to get the vvv port for FreeBSD built, but it > keeps dying on some wchar code. Any ideas what the hangup is there? I personally had no problems. However, there is a note which says vvv can't coexist with Roland's comp

Re: Newbie question

2001-07-17 Thread Fox Mulder
* Gary Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [22:24 17/07/01]: > No. The reason is that it is very time-consuming to obtain and keep > up-to-date that information for large mbox folders. You should see an > "N" indicator by folders containing new mail, though. Hey, i dont get any such indicator. guess i

Re: mail sorting #2

2001-07-17 Thread Christoph Maurer
Am Die, 17 Jul 2001, schrieb Lukasz Zamel: > Procmail is really cool. I've downloaded a faq and it's not fo > hard to configure. But still I have a small problem. I'm getting > 'Error writing to ...' even if I set a+rw to those mailboxes. Did you set your MAILDIR Variable korrekt (normally $HOME

Re: Inc?

2001-07-17 Thread Fox Mulder
* Justin R. Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [21:31 17/07/01]: > I believe this is what accomplishes it: > > set status_on_top=yes > > You can also configure what this looks like with on of those ..._format > variables. hi.. i tried to do this, but i have the following problem. i put in a %b in

Re: Newbie question

2001-07-17 Thread Fox Mulder
* Fox Mulder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [10:30 18/07/01]: > * Gary Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [22:24 17/07/01]: > > No. The reason is that it is very time-consuming to obtain and keep > > up-to-date that information for large mbox folders. You should see an > > "N" indicator by folders containing new

Re: Newbie question

2001-07-17 Thread Fox Mulder
* Suresh Ramasubramanian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [11:42 18/07/01]: > Fox Mulder [mutt-users] <18/07/01 11:30 +0530>: > > > Hey, i dont get any such indicator. guess i will have to look it up in the > > > manual... > > I tried to put in the %N to the folder_format. but, i still dont get the an > > "N"

Re: About emacs, about quoting text, about writing message.

2001-07-17 Thread Thomas Roessler
On 2001-07-17 18:14:01 +0200, Jens Paulus wrote: >3.) Suppose I'm in the index and my position indication arrow is >marking an email from somebody I want to write an email to. I >don't want to hit 'r' because I don't want to _reply_ to this >email. One solution would be: Why not reply to that

From: is blank

2001-07-17 Thread James L. Gale
Mutt users, On my computer at work (mutt 1.2.5, solaris), whenever I send a message, mutt fills in the From header with my name and my email address. I don't think I ever did anything to configure this, but I like it. On my home computer (mutt 1.3.x, debian), whenever I send a message, the ``F