Mutt addessbook - better than abook

Hi, I am looking for an addressbook for mutt. I searched a little. I like abook, but I miss the feature of having categories. Is there some addressbook I might have missed, that you can suggest? Thanks! nathan

definition of signature separator

Hello, Mutt separates correctly the text and my signature (from the file ~/.elm/signature) in the body by inserting the '-- \n' line; I'm asking me, where this definition of '-- \n' in Internet comes from? Any RFC or other pointer? Thx matthias -- Matthias Apitz Manager Technical Sup

Re: definition of signature separator

On 12:45, Tue 20 Jan 09, Matthias Apitz wrote: > I'm asking me, where this definition of '-- \n' in Internet comes from? > Any RFC or other pointer? In fact there is an RFC:

Viewing multiple attachments at once

Hi, I have mails with multiple pictures attached. Is it possible to view them all, i.e. call the viewer with “pic1 pic2 pic3.” My viewer is able to show more than one picture. doesn't work. Bye, Jörg. -- Ein Narr, er sieht die Weisheit nicht, selbst wenn sie närrisch zu ihm spricht.

Re: Viewing multiple attachments at once

* Jörg Sommer [01-20-09 08:28]: > > I have mails with multiple pictures attached. Is it possible to view > them all, i.e. call the viewer with “pic1 pic2 pic3.” My viewer is > able to show more than one picture. doesn't > work. > Not directly, to my knowledge, but should be do-able via macro.

Re: definition of signature separator

On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 12:45:59PM +0100, Matthias Apitz wrote: > > Mutt separates correctly the text and my signature (from the file > ~/.elm/signature) in the body by inserting the '-- \n' line; Mutt does does indeed do that, but it's syntax hilighting won't work for format-flowed messages, or

Open a partially encrypted mail

Hi, I've got a bounce of a message that was encrypted but not with my key. When opening the message mutt asks for the PGP passphrase but it fails, because it wasn't encrypted with my key. So mutt refuses to show me the rest of the message. I've the same problem with . Mutt asks for the passphrase

Re: Open a partially encrypted mail

On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 02:02:15PM +, Jörg Sommer wrote: I've got a bounce of a message that was encrypted but not with my key. When opening the message mutt asks for the PGP passphrase but it fails, because it wasn't encrypted with my key. So mutt refuses to show me the rest of the message.

Starting shell command with name of current mailbox as parameter

Hi, Can I somehow write a macro, which starts a shell command with the currently selected Mailbox as argument? Thanks! Nathan

Re: Starting shell command with name of current mailbox as

> Can I somehow write a macro, which starts a shell command with the currently > selected Mailbox as argument? Well, I can get you started on that anyway. With the help of Kyle Wheeler and Patrick Shanahan, we have a way to get the currently selected mailbox into a mutt variable, like so: folder

Re: Starting shell command with name of current mailbox as

Noah Sheppard wrote: [Tue Jan 20 2009, 11:41:11AM EST] > As yet I don't know how to pass a mutt variable as the argument > to a shell command. You can't with simple but you can by a sequence such as... set my_shell=$shell set shell="blah blah $somevar blah" set shell=$my_shell

Re: Mutt addessbook - better than abook

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday, January 20 at 12:04 PM, quoth Nathan Huesken: > I am looking for an addressbook for mutt. I searched a little. I like > abook, but I miss the feature of having categories. > > Is there some addressbook I might have missed, that you can sug

Re: definition of signature separator

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday, January 20 at 06:17 AM, quoth George Davidovich: >> Mutt separates correctly the text and my signature (from the file >> ~/.elm/signature) in the body by inserting the '-- \n' line; > > Mutt does does indeed do that, but it's syntax hiligh

Re: definition of signature separator

On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 01:16:17PM -0600, Kyle Wheeler wrote: > On Tuesday, January 20 at 06:17 AM, quoth George Davidovich: > > > Mutt separates correctly the text and my signature (from the file > > > ~/.elm/signature) in the body by inserting the '-- \n' line; > > > > Mutt does does indeed do t

Re: definition of signature separator

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday, January 20 at 12:51 PM, quoth George Davidovich: >> This message I'm sending right now is a format-flowed message, and >> as far as I can tell, the syntax highlighting works perfectly. What >> makes you say that it doesn't? > > Quoted-pri

Re: definition of signature separator

* Kyle Wheeler [01-20-09 16:53]: > > In any case: DON'T USE MBOX! It's a lousy format for general-purpose > email. The right mbox flavor can be good for read-only archives, but > that's about it. > While I have no doubt that you are speaking fact, I have been using mbox (with mutt/procmail/po

Re: definition of signature separator

On Tuesday, January 20 at 05:03 PM, quoth Patrick Shanahan: * Kyle Wheeler [01-20-09 16:53]: In any case: DON'T USE MBOX! It's a lousy format for general-purpose email. The right mbox flavor can be good for read-only archives, but that's about it. While I have no doubt that you are speak

Re: definition of signature separator

* Kyle Wheeler [01-20-09 17:17]: > On Tuesday, January 20 at 05:03 PM, quoth Patrick Shanahan: > >While I have no doubt that you are speaking fact, I have been using > >mbox (with mutt/procmail/postfix) for > 10 years starting with > >Mandrake 5.0 and have not experienced mailbox corruption/garbli

Re: definition of signature separator

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday, January 20 at 05:58 PM, quoth Patrick Shanahan: > Then I guess I have probably had a lot of corruption that I didn't > even realize :^). But the posts were not broken apart or grabled > as to be unreadable or unusable. Well, sure, but

Re: Viewing multiple attachments at once

On 20Jan2009 08:47, Patrick Shanahan wrote: | * Jörg Sommer [01-20-09 08:28]: | > I have mails with multiple pictures attached. Is it possible to view | > them all, i.e. call the viewer with “pic1 pic2 pic3.” My viewer is | > able to show more than one picture. doesn't | > work. | | Not directl

Certificate

Hello, When I connect to one remote server, I am told that my certificate expired and get "(r)eject, accept (o)nce". When I connect to another one, I don't get it. What is this and what to do about it? Regards, ~mto -- In a museum in Havana, there are two skulls of Christopher Columbus, "on

Re: definition of signature separator

On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 05:58:25PM -0500, Patrick Shanahan wrote: > but the ">" was inserted by procmail, > > If there is no Content-Length: field or the -Y option has been > specified and procmail appends to regular mailfolders, any lines in > the body of the mes‐ sage that look like postma