Re: Why sign posts on mailinglists?

2002-01-25 Thread Preben Randhol
"Derek D. Martin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 25/01/2002 (09:25) : > > Sure, but if you actually cared, you could get my key and try to > verify it. Presumably, if you cared, you'd already have it, since my > key ID is in my sig, and since you can configure gpg/mutt to get keys > from a keyserv

Don't mention MUAS to fight html email

2002-01-25 Thread Marco
> > > 2. I got tired of explaining text-only MUAs to them only to > > > receive comments like, "I guess Unix isn't very good if it > > > can't even display different colors and fonts like my PC can. .. > > .What do you say to comments like that? There's > > no point, they'll neve

[OT] Re: available MDA's: are you satisfied?

2002-01-25 Thread David Clarke
On Fri, 25 Jan 2002, Cameron Simpson wrote: > | Now, what bugs me about both of these programs: to the best of my > | knowledge, neither offers you a real programming language. > > Well, they do both offer a programming language. Oh, you mean "not with the > bells and whistles I want". True, nei

Re: macros help

2002-01-25 Thread Benjamin Smith
On Thu, Jan 24, 2002 at 12:07:28PM +0100, Nick Wilson wrote: > I'd like to do the same thing if I decide to delete a thread. I've tried > the following... > > macro pager ^d > > to no avail. Anyone spot what I'm doing wrong? I tried the above and instead of giving me a keybinding to a control

Re: message filtering in mutt

2002-01-25 Thread Prahlad Vaidyanathan
Hi, On Thu, 24 Jan 2002 Mike Schiraldi spewed into the ether: > I've written patch which brings message filtering to mutt. Once applied, you > can press F from within mutt to begin the process of setting up mail > filters. > > The patch is short, so i've attached in inline: ROTFL !! That was g

Re: prevent signature on reply

2002-01-25 Thread Prahlad Vaidyanathan
Hi, On Thu, 03 Jan 2002 Anh Lai spewed into the ether: > how do i keep adding my signature when replying? I would like to add it only > when composing a new messgae. Having my signature collect on the bottom gets > annoying sometimes. Maybe by rebinding the 'r'eply key. Like so (untested) : m

Re: char % as quote

2002-01-25 Thread Prahlad Vaidyanathan
Hi, On Thu, 10 Jan 2002 Anh Lai spewed into the ether: > How do I make mutt color lines starting with % as a quote just like > > > apparently David only uses this, and i would like to learn how to add % > as a quote indicator. A word of advice - Please don't change it. Though a *lot* of people

Re: available MDA's: are you satisfied?

2002-01-25 Thread Prahlad Vaidyanathan
Hi, On Fri, 25 Jan 2002 Roman Neuhauser spewed into the ether: [-- snip --] > I'm slowly getting the picture of the classes that would make this > happen, and would like to ask you: is there something that you sorely > lack in your favorite MDA? What is it? Currently, I use procmail ( I've never

resending a msg

2002-01-25 Thread Nick Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi everyone, and a very merry Friday to you all. I'm sure I've seen a key binding for resending a message but can't find it? How is that done? For now I've just bounced the message which I guess should send it again but I'd like to know how this is

Re: char % as quote

2002-01-25 Thread Dave Pearson
On Fri, Jan 25, 2002 at 12:44:59AM -0700, Rob 'Feztaa' Park wrote: > Alas! David T-G spake thus: > > Funny, but my prompt really used to be > back in my early days. > > Of course, good old Wintendo has always used the '>' character at the end > of the DOS prompt... [SNIP] Sort of. The default pr

Re: resending a msg

2002-01-25 Thread Ben Logan
The default keybinding is e. At least that's what it is on my system, and I don't think I re-bound it. Regards, Ben On Fri, Jan 25, 2002 at 11:50:39AM +0100, Nick Wilson wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hi everyone, > and a very merry Friday to you all. > > I'm sur

Re: resending a msg

2002-01-25 Thread Nick Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 * and then Ben Logan blurted > The default keybinding is e. At least that's what it is on my > system, and I don't think I re-bound it. Yep, thanks Ben. - -- Nick Wilson Tel:+45 3325 0688 Fax:+45 3325 0677 Web:www.explodingnet.co

Re: char % as quote

2002-01-25 Thread Martin Karlsson
On Fri Jan 25, 2002 at 12:44:59AM -0700, Rob 'Feztaa' Park wrote: > ...I dunno what shell you guys are using, but > mine uses $ for user and # for root... '%' doesn't enter into it. IIRC, '>' is the default for tcsh (and (again, IIRC) '%' is the default for csh). -- Martin Karlsson

Re: char % as quote

2002-01-25 Thread Roman Neuhauser
> Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2002 13:24:06 +0100 > From: Martin Karlsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Mutt Users' List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: char % as quote > > On Fri Jan 25, 2002 at 12:44:59AM -0700, Rob 'Feztaa' Park wrote: > > ...I dunno what shell you guys are using, but > > mine uses $ f

Re: resending a msg

2002-01-25 Thread Jeremy Blosser
On Jan 25, Nick Wilson [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote: > I'm sure I've seen a key binding for resending a message but can't find > it? How is that done? FWIW, you could hit '?' to see the keybindings, then '/resend' to search for resend, and you would find resend-message bound to e. msg23777/pgp000

Re: resending a msg

2002-01-25 Thread Nick Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 * and then Jeremy Blosser blurted > FWIW, you could hit '?' to see the keybindings, then '/resend' to search > for resend, and you would find resend-message bound to e. Sure, believe it not I did try that, I must have made a typo and not noticed

Re: char % as quote

2002-01-25 Thread Thomas Hurst
* Roman Neuhauser ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > dunno about "real" csh (csh == tcsh on FreeBSD), but % is the default > for 0http://www.aagh.net/ - Conscience is a mother-in-law whose visit never ends. -- H. L. Mencken

Re: available MDA's: are you satisfied?

2002-01-25 Thread Walt Mankowski
On Thu, Jan 24, 2002 at 09:04:22PM -0600, Jeremy Blosser wrote: > On Jan 24, Jeremy Blosser [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote: > > On Jan 25, Roman Neuhauser [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote: > > > Now, what bugs me about both of these programs: to the best of my > > > knowledge, neither offers you a real progra

Re: validating traditional signitures

2002-01-25 Thread Volker Moell
David T-G wrote: > > *This* question has started coming up relatively recently, and before now > it hasn't been a concern. I thought I read about the whole "Problems with PGP mails from Outlook" more often in the last months. > Whoa -- when did we jump to traditional style from macros? These

Re: available MDA's: are you satisfied?

2002-01-25 Thread Thomas Hurst
* Roman Neuhauser ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Procmail: > + lots of prepackaged antispam filters SpamAssassin rules all. > - config files resemble uuencoded assembler They're quite easy to understand once you grasp them. Would you prefer an XML format? :) > - quite resource-hung

Re: validating traditional signitures

2002-01-25 Thread Volker Moell
Jeremy Blosser wrote: > > procmail or other MDAs will always be able to do it better, because they're > looking at the message in exactly the right way at exactly the right time. > With Mutt you're always going to have this effect not stick with the > message (so you have to do it every time), yo

Re: available MDA's: are you satisfied?

2002-01-25 Thread Ken Wahl
Roman Neuhauser on 25/01/2002 at 02:58 opined thusly: > looks like there's just two MDA's in use: Procmail, and Maildrop. Both > have their fine (and not so fine) points, which I'll summarize briefly > > Procmail: > + lots of prepackaged antispam filters > - config files resemble uuencod

Re: macros help

2002-01-25 Thread Nick Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 * and then Benjamin Smith blurted > The following should be a working macro: > > macro pager \cd > > This is infact contrary to the documented behaviour in the manual which > says that a caret not \c indicates the control key. Is this a > docu

Re: validating traditional signitures

2002-01-25 Thread Will Yardley
Volker Moell wrote: > > The most perfect way in my eyes is a $always-check-traditional-pgp > variable. sure. but according to the many previous discussions of this, there have been problems with getting this to work. so when you send a patch to the mutt-dev list that works, i'm sure they'll be

Re: macros help

2002-01-25 Thread Jeremy Blosser
On Jan 25, Benjamin Smith [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote: > The following should be a working macro: > > macro pager \cd > > This is infact contrary to the documented behaviour in the manual which > says that a caret not \c indicates the control key. Is this a > documentation bug? No, please read i

Re: macros help

2002-01-25 Thread Nick Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 * and then Jeremy Blosser blurted > No, please read it again. What it says is that ^ is an _alternative_ for > specifying a control character when used in the _sequence_ portion of a > macro. \c is the only documented way to get a control chara

Re: Deleting Mass emails..

2002-01-25 Thread darren chamberlain
Nick Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said something to this effect on 01/24/2002: > * and then Jeremy Blosser blurted > > On Jan 23, Jason Nealis [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote: > > > What's the easyiest way to delete message 1-2000? > > > > D~m 1-2000 > > > > D - delete-pattern > > ~m 1-20

Re: DOS prompts (was "Re: char % as quote")

2002-01-25 Thread David T-G
Dave -- ...and then Dave Pearson said... % % On Fri, Jan 25, 2002 at 12:44:59AM -0700, Rob 'Feztaa' Park wrote: % > % > Of course, good old Wintendo has always used the '>' character at the end % > of the DOS prompt... [SNIP] % % Sort of. The default prompt of the default shell on WinDOS has a

Re: recognizing traditional PGP (was "Re: validating traditional signitures")

2002-01-25 Thread David T-G
Volker -- ...and then Volker Moell said... % % David T-G wrote: % > % > *This* question has started coming up relatively recently, and before now % > it hasn't been a concern. % % I thought I read about the whole "Problems with PGP mails from Outlook" % more often in the last months. Right.

Re: available MDA's: are you satisfied?

2002-01-25 Thread Mathias Gygax
On Fre, Jan 25, 2002 at 02:00:51 -0500, parv wrote: > well, i get around 100-300 messages a day from various mailing lists > and it has not bothered me, resources wise, a bit on a single user, > me, stand alone machine. i'm subscribed to over 150 mailing lists and get over 1700 mails a day. mutt

Re: char % as quote

2002-01-25 Thread Rob 'Feztaa' Park
Alas! Thomas Hurst spake thus: > What's the bet that OE or so actually impliments something like this > sometime in future. Would certainly beat a bunch of screwed poorly > generated HTML. If it's a Good Thing, you can bet Microsoft will have nothing to do with it. -- Rob 'Feztaa' Park [EMAIL

Re: validating traditional signitures

2002-01-25 Thread Rob 'Feztaa' Park
Alas! Volker Moell spake thus: > I'm honesty, I don't have much knowledge about procmail. But in my > eyes it's *not* the job of the MDA. It makes sense to me that the mail _delivery_ agent ought to _deliver_ your mail into the mboxes that you want them in ;) -- Rob 'Feztaa' Park [EMAIL PROTE

Re: S/MIME patch for Mutt-1.3.26

2002-01-25 Thread Alain Bench
[followups set to users list only] Hello Mike, On Friday, January 18, 2002 at 2:34:51 PM -0500, Mike Schiraldi wrote: > indicator.patch changes the behavior of the indicator bar when it is > defined as "mono indicator reverse" (the default). [...] With this > patch, the indicator bar, when

Problem with locale?

2002-01-25 Thread Nick Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi all I'm having a problem with an FAQ I keep getting ? and char codes etc instead of certain charicters. I've checked my LC_CTYPE and it's 'en_US' but er.. I'm not sure what to so with it. The FAQ says to set it to the correct value but what's that,

Postfix messed up?

2002-01-25 Thread Ron Secord
I'm running LM 8.1 and have been setting up Mutt (1.3.25i). Everything was going pretty good until I started playing around with my server settings. For awhile, I couldn't send/receive any mail even with Kmail or sylpheed. I removed Postfix and Mutt and re-installed them. I can now send/recei

Re: Postfix messed up?

2002-01-25 Thread Will Yardley
Ron Secord wrote: > > I removed Postfix and Mutt and re-installed them. I can now > send/receive mail with Kmail & Sylpheed, but not Mutt, which leads me > to believe it has something to do with Postfix. I can, however, > receive mail with Mutt. > > I tried installing sendmail but it conflicts w

Re: Postfix messed up?

2002-01-25 Thread Ralf Hildebrandt
On Fri, Jan 25, 2002 at 12:40:48PM -0800, Will Yardley wrote: > > I removed Postfix and Mutt and re-installed them. I can now > > send/receive mail with Kmail & Sylpheed, but not Mutt, which leads me > > to believe it has something to do with Postfix. I can, however, > > receive mail with Mutt.

Re: S/MIME patch for Mutt-1.3.26

2002-01-25 Thread Mike Schiraldi
> This context colored indicator patch seems to have no effect when > Mutt (versions 1.2.5 and 1.3.27) is linked with slang (version 1.4.4). Yow! I'll take a look and post my findings. -- Mike Schiraldi VeriSign Applied Research smime.p7s Description: application/pkcs7-signature

Re: Don't mention MUAS to fight html email

2002-01-25 Thread Michael Montagne
>On 25/01/02, from the brain of Marco tumbled: > You must answer that it's like mailing a letter inside a three pounds > box ... at the expense of the receiver. > > Never talk about text muas and operating systems when fighting HTML > mail, point out that it's bad EVEN for outlook/windows users.

Re: Don't mention MUAS to fight html email

2002-01-25 Thread Jeremy Blosser
On Jan 25, Michael Montagne [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote: > Isn't HTML just text? The tags are evaluated and formatted at the > client. So is it just that there is more text than there needs to be? Yes. "Just text" doesn't mean much; text or binary, it's all 1's and 0's in the end. The important

Re: Don't mention MUAS to fight html email

2002-01-25 Thread Nick Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 * and then Michael Montagne blurted > I often read about the evils os HTML email and since I do all my email > with mutt now, I appreciate text email. But something I don't > understand is the argument that it slows down the internet for everyon

Re: Don't mention MUAS to fight html email

2002-01-25 Thread David T-G
Michael -- ...and then Michael Montagne said... % % >On 25/01/02, from the brain of Marco tumbled: % > You must answer that it's like mailing a letter inside a three pounds % > box ... at the expense of the receiver. ... % % I often read about the evils os HTML email and since I do all my email

Re: Postfix messed up?

2002-01-25 Thread Ron Secord
On Wednesday 31 December 1969 06:59 pm, you wrote: >> what does your postconf -n output look like? > > what happens in your logs if you do: I tried the postconf -n and got: bash: postconf: command not found > > /usr/sbin/sendmail -t > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subj

Re: recognizing traditional PGP

2002-01-25 Thread Volker Moell
David T-G wrote: > > Hokay. As below, I just wanted to make sure of what we were discussing. > I've changed the subject line to help :-) Good, thanks! > You realize what you're asking, right? With PGP/MIME, mutt simply has to > look at the headers to see what it must do, and that's already d

Re: validating traditional signitures

2002-01-25 Thread Volker Moell
Rob 'Feztaa' Park wrote: > > > I'm honesty, I don't have much knowledge about procmail. But in my > > eyes it's *not* the job of the MDA. > It makes sense to me that the mail _delivery_ agent ought to _deliver_ > your mail into the mboxes that you want them in ;) Sure. "D" like in "delivery". B

Re: Postfix messed up?

2002-01-25 Thread Ron Secord
This is a followup to my other message. Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> This is messed up. It should be [EMAIL PROTECTED] shouldn't it? I'm getting that with every message I send with Mutt. If I send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] it will not go thru, but if I sent on

Re: Postfix messed up?

2002-01-25 Thread Will Yardley
Ron Secord wrote: > On Wednesday 31 December 1969 06:59 pm, you wrote: > > >> what does your postconf -n output look like? > > > what happens in your logs if you do: > > I tried the postconf -n and got: > bash: postconf: command not found it's probably in /usr/sbin - which is most likely not in

\223 and \224

2002-01-25 Thread Christopher S. Swingley
Hello, This has probably been discussed before, but I couldn't find it in the mailing list archives, so here goes: Is there any way around Microsoft's broken ISO-8859-1 character set? The ` or ' characters show up in Mutt as \222 (contractions) \223 (left single quote) and \224 (right single quo

Re: \223 and \224

2002-01-25 Thread Nick Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 * and then Christopher S. Swingley blurted > Is there any way around Microsoft's broken ISO-8859-1 character set? > The ` or ' characters show up in Mutt as \222 (contractions) \223 > (left single quote) and \224 (right single quote). In the ori

Re: Postfix messed up?

2002-01-25 Thread Jeremy Blosser
On Jan 25, Ron Secord [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote: > > echo test | sendmail recipient && tail -f /var/log/mail* > > Got: > bash: sendmai: command not found ^^^ If that's a paste, you typoed the name. msg23812/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: \223 and \224

2002-01-25 Thread Christopher S. Swingley
Quoting Nick Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Is there any way around Microsoft's broken ISO-8859-1 character set? > > The ` or ' characters show up in Mutt as \222 (contractions) \223 > > (left single quote) and \224 (right single quote). In the original > > file they're 0x92, 0x93 and 0x94 (not

Re: \223 and \224

2002-01-25 Thread Jeremy Blosser
On Jan 25, Christopher S. Swingley [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote: > That sounds familiar, but I'm not sure where I've seen that. It's > certainly not as common as the \222 - \224 issue. It looks like sed > won't do the trick because it doesn't understand octal (\222 - \224) or > hexidecimal (\x92 -

Re: \223 and \224

2002-01-25 Thread David T-G
Chris -- ...and then Christopher S. Swingley said... % % This has probably been discussed before, but I couldn't find it in the % mailing list archives, so here goes: It is there; I remember it. % % Is there any way around Microsoft's broken ISO-8859-1 character set? % The ` or ' characters

Re: \223 and \224

2002-01-25 Thread Christopher S. Swingley
> I think one that detected such chars, or perhaps detected LookOut! > headers, and changed 8859-1 to CP1252 was posted. Check for messages > with 8859 and 1252 in the body. That was the trick (8859 in mutt-users). Looks like the solution is: set display_filter=demoroniser It's a Perl scr

Re: \223 and \224

2002-01-25 Thread David T-G
Chris, et al -- ...and then Christopher S. Swingley said... % % > I think one that detected such chars, or perhaps detected LookOut! % > headers, and changed 8859-1 to CP1252 was posted. Check for messages % > with 8859 and 1252 in the body. % % That was the trick (8859 in mutt-users). Looks

Re: [OT] html email

2002-01-25 Thread Samuel Padgett
Rob 'Feztaa' Park <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Alas! Alexander Skwar spake thus: > > Well, sure it is - however don't all the HTML capable MUAs convert texts > > like http://this-is-not.a.link.de into a clickable link? Mozilla does. > > Mutt highlights that as a mail, and urlview recognizes it

I hate to ask this....

2002-01-25 Thread Kelly Scroggins
I hate to ask this. It must be right under my nose. But, I've looked in the headers of this lists messages, I've looked on the web site too, but I can't find anything that tells me how to unsubscribe. Would someone please tell me? Thanks, kelly

Re: validating traditional signitures

2002-01-25 Thread Derek D. Martin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 At some point hitherto, Will Yardley hath spake thusly: > the procmail recipe seems to work fine Except it doesn't. if the mail has an attachment. It no work good. :) I have a lot of Pine-using friends, and this is what happens when they send me a

Re: I hate to ask this....

2002-01-25 Thread David T-G
Kelly -- ...and then Kelly Scroggins said... % % I hate to ask this. It must be right under my % nose. Probably so. % % But, I've looked in the headers of this lists % messages, I've looked on the web site too, but I % can't find anything that tells me how to % unsubscribe. You mean you di

Re: Don't mention MUAS to fight html email

2002-01-25 Thread Matthew D. Fuller
On Fri, Jan 25, 2002 at 02:09:09PM -0800 I heard the voice of Michael Montagne, and lo! it spake thus: > > Isn't HTML just text? The tags are evaluated and formatted at the > client. So is it just that there is more text than there needs to be? > Or is it the links and scripts that are often inc

Re: [OT] html email

2002-01-25 Thread Marco Fioretti
> > I suppose it's equally valid for them to say, "I, the sender, should be able > to control how a message is presented to you." > No, that's the whole point, because with email the (time, money) extra expense associated with downloading useless html formatting is paid by the receiver, not the

Maildir differences

2002-01-25 Thread David Rock
I have switched over to Maildir format and I have noticed a few things that don't seem quite right... When I had mbox format set up, I had spool directories that procmail dumped mail to. I would read it, and then I would us an mbox-hook to move the read mail to a final destination. e.g. mailboxe

Re: Maildir differences

2002-01-25 Thread Jeremy Blosser
On Jan 25, David Rock [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote: > I have switched over to Maildir format and I have noticed a few things > that don't seem quite right... > > When I had mbox format set up, I had spool directories that procmail > dumped mail to. I would read it, and then I would us an mbox-hook t

Re: DOS prompts (was "Re: char % as quote")

2002-01-25 Thread Dave Pearson
On Fri, Jan 25, 2002 at 12:38:57PM -0500, David T-G wrote: > Dave -- > > % Sort of. The default prompt of the default shell on WinDOS has always > % used the ">" character. Personally I haven't used the default shell of > % WinDOS since about 1991 and the last character of the prompt hasn't been