I am looking for a way to access mail stored in ~/Maildir but can't find
it in man page for muttrc. Any takers? Flamers? ;-)
TIA
-Wash
S y s t e m s A d m i n.
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On Sun, Jan 20, 2002 at 11:32:46AM +0300, Odhiambo Washington wrote:
>I am looking for a way to access mail stored in ~/Maildir but can't find
>it in man page for muttrc. Any takers? Flamers? ;-)
Do you mean only just to read/write? ,I use setting in .muttrc like this:
set mbox_type=mailbox
set s
in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
wrote David T-G thusly...
>
> parv --
>
> ...and then parv said...
> %
> % i am using mutt 1.3.25i version and the following key binding/macro
> % is not working anymore; it used to in some 1.2 version...
> %
> % macro index \cO ' ~r>1m\;s ' "move >1 month old
On Sun 20-Jan-2002 at 11:32:46AM +0300, Odhiambo Washington wrote:
> I am looking for a way to access mail stored in ~/Maildir but can't
> find it in man page for muttrc. Any takers? Flamers? ;-)
Flamers? This is the default mailfolder if you are also accessing your
mail with courier-imap.
When
On Sun, Jan 20, 2002 at 02:10:09AM -0500, David T-G wrote:
| Andreas --
|
| ...and then Andreas Herceg said...
| %
| % Hello,
|
| Hi!
|
| % in my .muttrc I have included the lines
| %
| % my_hdr Bcc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
| % my_hdr X-Label: coprija
| %
| % I wanted to achieve that outgoing mess
Andreas --
...and then Andreas Herceg said...
%
% On Sun, Jan 20, 2002 at 02:10:09AM -0500, David T-G wrote:
% |
% | ...and then Andreas Herceg said...
% | %
...
% | % my_hdr X-Label: coprija
% | %
% | % I wanted to achieve that outgoing messages are sent to my alternate
% | % address which I
Wash --
...and then Odhiambo Washington said...
%
% I am looking for a way to access mail stored in ~/Maildir but can't find
% it in man page for muttrc. Any takers? Flamers? ;-)
Um, what about
mutt -f $HOME/Maildir/
for starters? And if that's your incoming mailbox, you could set
your $s
A Guy Called Tyketto wrote:
> bradl@bellicha:/usr/local/src/mail/mutt> gpg mutt-1.3.26i.tar.gz.asc
> gpg: Warning: using insecure memory!
> gpg: Signature made Fri 18 Jan 2002 03:45:17 AM PST using RSA key ID CE6AC6C1
> gpg: BAD signature from "Thomas Roessler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>"
> bradl@bellich
On 12-Jan-2002 19:08 Viktor Rosenfeld wrote:
|
| One thing though: Somewhere the following header is created:
|
| Content-Disposition: inline; filename="msg.pgp"
|
| This causes Outlook to show an attachment where there obviously is
| none. Could this be safely ommited?
Viktor, I wa
> I was just reading about grepmail and was led to a wrapper for it
> specifically for mutt called grepm. Sounds like something that might be
> neat. After installing the software, how do I implement it in mutt?
> thanks.
I'm coming into this thread a little late, but if you have Python
availa
I was just wondering what the real differences were between maildir and
mbox formats? I know mbox is an appended file while maildir is a
separate directory for each mail (each what, exactly)?
What are the benefits of using one type over the other?
Thanks.
--
David Rock
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
ms
Hi,
On Sun, Jan 20, 2002 at 12:08:44PM, David Rock wrote:
> I was just wondering what the real differences were between maildir and
> mbox formats? I know mbox is an appended file while maildir is a
> separate directory for each mail (each what, exactly)?
one folder for a box, each mail in a sep
On Sun, Jan 20, 2002 at 12:08:44PM -0600, David Rock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I was just wondering what the real differences were between maildir and
> mbox formats? I know mbox is an appended file while maildir is a
> separate directory for each mail (each what, exactly)?
>
> What are the b
On Sun, Jan 20, 2002 at 07:33:10PM +0100, Benjamin Michotte wrote:
> opening a mbox with ± 7000 mails : less than 10 seconds.
> opening the same in Maildir : 3 minutes...
uhhh ... what kind of system did you use for measurement??
on my P100 with a quite old HDD running OpenBSD 2.9 it takes
about
On Sun, Jan 20, 2002 at 10:04:37AM -0500, David T-G wrote:
| Andreas --
|
| ...and then Andreas Herceg said...
| %
| % On Sun, Jan 20, 2002 at 02:10:09AM -0500, David T-G wrote:
| % |
| % | ...and then Andreas Herceg said...
| % | %
| ...
| % | % my_hdr X-Label: coprija
| % |
| % | Gaack! Th
On Sun, Jan 20, 2002 at 09:01:39PM, Christian Ordig wrote:
> uhhh ... what kind of system did you use for measurement??
P2-350 with a 20Gb HDD running Linux 2.4.17 on a Slackware 8.0.
My ~/mail is on a 600 Mb reiserfs partition. I think I will convert my
/home dir to ext3 and then try Maildir to c
> Date: Sun, 20 Jan 2002 12:08:44 -0600
> From: David Rock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: Mutt Users List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: maildir over mbox?
>
> I was just wondering what the real differences were between maildir and
> mbox formats? I know mbox is an appended file while maildir is a
> s
Hi,
I have made several modifications to my mail plugin for vim. It is
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http://vim.sourceforge.net/scripts/script.php?script_id=99
Below is a description with what it does.
This plugin's purpose is helping with mail editing. It has two major roles.
The first
Andreas Herceg wrote:
>
> OK, I did not know that X-Label is that common. Now I thought of just
> defining 'X-Coprija: coprija'.
>
> Now I would like to know if this would be against some standard which I
> do not know.
my understanding is that X headers are pretty much up for grabs.
i say if
On Sun, Jan 20, 2002 at 07:33:10PM, Benjamin Michotte wrote:
> > What are the benefits of using one type over the other?
> opening a mbox with ± 7000 mails : less than 10 seconds.
> opening the same in Maildir : 3 minutes...
Oh my good... convert my reiserfs partition to ext3...
about 10-15 second
On Sun, Jan 20, 2002 at 02:18:59PM -0800, Will Yardley wrote:
| Andreas Herceg wrote:
| >
| > OK, I did not know that X-Label is that common. Now I thought of just
| > defining 'X-Coprija: coprija'.
| >
| > Now I would like to know if this would be against some standard which I
| > do not know.
Andreas --
...and then Andreas Herceg said...
%
% On Sun, Jan 20, 2002 at 10:04:37AM -0500, David T-G wrote:
% |
% | ...and then Andreas Herceg said...
% | %
% | % On Sun, Jan 20, 2002 at 02:10:09AM -0500, David T-G wrote:
% | % |
% | % | ...and then Andreas Herceg said...
% | % | %
% | ...
Will, et al --
...and then Will Yardley said...
%
% Andreas Herceg wrote:
% >
% > OK, I did not know that X-Label is that common. Now I thought of just
% > defining 'X-Coprija: coprija'.
% >
% > Now I would like to know if this would be against some standard which I
% > do not know.
%
% my un
On Sun, Jan 20, 2002 at 09:39:05PM +0100, Benjamin Michotte wrote:
>On Sun, Jan 20, 2002 at 09:01:39PM, Christian Ordig wrote:
>> uhhh ... what kind of system did you use for measurement??
>P2-350 with a 20Gb HDD running Linux 2.4.17 on a Slackware 8.0.
>My ~/mail is on a 600 Mb reiserfs partition
David T-G wrote:
>
> Sure. One could say the same thing about just about any header.
> Maybe I'd want to use the References: header for notes about where I
> did my research on this particular email. Then there's always the
> Message-ID: games you can play, too.
the difference being that these
On Sun, Jan 20, 2002 at 09:39:05PM +0100, Benjamin Michotte wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 20, 2002 at 09:01:39PM, Christian Ordig wrote:
> > uhhh ... what kind of system did you use for measurement??
> P2-350 with a 20Gb HDD running Linux 2.4.17 on a Slackware 8.0.
> My ~/mail is on a 600 Mb reiserfs parti
> Oh my good... convert my reiserfs partition to ext3...
> about 10-15 seconds to open my mutt Maildir now !!!
ooops ... I should have already read this mail before answering the
last subthread ,-)
little question: cached or first opening ?
> Absolutly... reiserfs sucks.
*g*
--
Christian Ordi
At some point hitherto, A Guy Called Tyketto hath spake thusly:
> Interesting. I have ncftp set to grab it as binary, but I gave it a
> try as well with the de facto ftp program:
[SNIP]
> 250 Current directory is now /pub/mutt/.
> ftp> hash
> Hash mark printing on (1024 bytes/hash mark)
As a slight aside on this discussion, I had read somewhere --- citation
lost --- that the munging of mboxes to escape lines beginning "From " in a
message to ">From " messed up PGP signing. Is this valid? [I suspect not,
because I see lots of signed messages and you can't *all* be using
maildirs,
At some point hitherto, budsz hath spake thusly:
> >yes, I know. I tried to convert my mbox to Maildirs, but about 3 minutes
> >to open a folder is really awfull, so I keep mbox
>
> If we look in speed to read right..? how about savety...? let's say I want
> to copy paste 1000 email to some place
Christian Ordig wrote:
>
> Filesystem: UFS, mounted sync
[...]
> Are there others having such poor performance with Maildir as Benjamin
> has? And with which filesystem OS combinations?
our office mail machine is (unfortunately) linux with ext2, and i can
attest to the fact that Maildir is pret
At some point hitherto, Roman Neuhauser hath spake thusly:
> This format can get _very_ slow with large mailboxes on filesystems that do
> not handle directoris with many files in them. This should include the
> Linux ext2fs.
>
> FreeBSD post-4.4 FFS with softupdates and dirhas
Andy Davidson wrote:
> As a slight aside on this discussion, I had read somewhere --- citation
> lost --- that the munging of mboxes to escape lines beginning "From " in a
> message to ">From " messed up PGP signing. Is this valid? [I suspect not,
> because I see lots of signed messages and you c
At some point hitherto, Will Yardley hath spake thusly:
> Christian Ordig wrote:
> >
> > Filesystem: UFS, mounted sync
> [...]
> > Are there others having such poor performance with Maildir as Benjamin
> > has? And with which filesystem OS combinations?
>
> our office mail machine is (unfortuna
Derek D. Martin wrote:
> I'm no expert, but it strikes me that OPENING maildir mailboxes on ANY
> filesystem will ALWAYS be slower than mbox, because of what you need
> to do. An mbox mailbox will generally have little fragmentation on
I'd be curious to get some feedback on my header caching pat
Will, et al --
...and then Will Yardley said...
%
% David T-G wrote:
% >
% > Sure. One could say the same thing about just about any header.
% > Maybe I'd want to use the References: header for notes about where I
% > did my research on this particular email. Then there's always the
% > Messa
On Sun, Jan 20, 2002 at 09:21:44PM -0500, Derek D. Martin wrote:
>It's not any safer if you do it RIGHT. In computer science, you want
>to tend to optimize for the common case, and the common case when
>reading e-mail is wanting quick access. :)
Absolutely, I mean in my experience, I'll choise
Derek D. Martin wrote:
>
> But how does it compare to mbox on the same FS? I'll bet it's still
> significantly slower.
but with mbox, the entire file has to be stated every time the file is
read or modified. with a large file, this can be pretty resource
intensive, and can also be time consumin
Derek D. Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> No manager I've ever worked for would tolerate waiting 3 minutes to
> open their inbox...
That's funny because where I work, we use Lotus Notes, and I'm
sure many managers routinely wait this long for Notes to open
their inboxes (particularly if they
On Mon, Jan 21, 2002 at 02:31:56AM, Christian Ordig wrote:
>
> little question: cached or first opening ?
the first opening takes about 20 seconds (for this 7900 mails) and when
it's cached, it takes about 10-15 seconds, which is really more
acceptable ;)
> Christian Ordig
---end quoted text---
Hi,
On Sun, 20 Jan 2002 David T-G spewed into the ether:
[-- snip --]
> I can see entering a pattern for which to grep, but do you also have to
> enter the mailbox through which to look? In other words, is this just a
> hotkey that starts your grepm command, or does it somehow tie to the box
> y
Hi,
On Fri, 18 Jan 2002 Aaron Schrab spewed into the ether:
[-- snip --]
> No, that's just his local MTA listing where it got the message from.
> There's likely no way to change the value there, since it would likely
> always use the login name of the invoking user, and "localhost" since
> it's g
On Mon, Jan 21, 2002 at 02:29:22AM, Christian Ordig wrote:
> well ... promises of ReiserFS should even tell us "it's optimized for
> filesystems holding thousands of small files" ...
well, I think it's "it's optimized for... hum, nothing" ;)
>
> Number of messages: 9089 (mutt-users archive of 2
John Kearney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
[ a big quote from Christian Schoepplein ]
[ and then a short but useful suggestion ]
Remember that for many blind users these messages are being spoken
to the reader by a voder. Where it's merely inconsiderate to not trim
quotations when replying ordinaril
Michael Elkins wrote:
>
> I'd be curious to get some feedback on my header caching patch for
> maildir folders (can be found at http://www.sigpipe.org:8080/mutt/).
(thanks to michael for helping me to get this to compile)... anyway
finally got this to work. note that you have to put '--enable-
one last thing - if you're using the patch by david champion to count
attachments, it won't work with this patch. this is because mutt
doesn't look at the message file at all... so all files show up as if
they had one attachment.
w
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