Re: [POSSIBLE SPAM] Re: a concept for spam filter

2012-11-11 Thread Russell L. Harris
* Cameron Simpson [121103 09:12]: ... > - anything else lands in my "UNKNOWN" folder; it is 99% spam > I always sort that folder on subject when I visit it; > it makes tossing it much easier because a lot of spam gets repeated > in big chunks ... Cameron, I thank you for the detai

Re: procmail vs dovecote (was Re: What are the current fetchmail/getmail and/or procmail/maildrop utilities?)

2012-11-11 Thread Chris Green
On Sat, Nov 10, 2012 at 10:37:04PM +, Tony's unattended mail wrote: > > However, I find dovecot deliver (which uses the sieve language > > for filtering) to be much more readable/writable than procmail. > > Sieve does not include regular expressions -- I shit you not. > > Dovecote needs regu

coloured threads

2012-11-11 Thread Eric Smith
I am coming across more and more (non techy) html email with colouring of threads. We, do fine with our reply prefixes (`>' and friends). Anyone found a nice way to deliver html mail from mutt? Never though I would ever ask such a question. -- Eric Smith

Re: Expiring Messages

2012-11-11 Thread Jamie Paul Griffin
/ David Champion wrote on Fri 9.Nov'12 at 15:00:44 -0600 / > * On 09 Nov 2012, Jeremy Kitchen wrote: > > On Fri, Nov 09, 2012 at 11:12:34AM +, Jamie Paul Griffin wrote: > > > Hi > > > > > > I would like to use the method of setting messages to expire described > > > on Gary's page[1] but th

What use is the mbox variable?

2012-11-11 Thread Chris Green
I was just looking at changing some of my muttrc settings and, as a result, looked in the documentation for the mbox variable. It says:- mbox Type: path Default: "~/mbox" This specifies the folder into which read mail in your `` $spoolfile'' folder will be appended. So, wha

Re: coloured threads

2012-11-11 Thread Patrick Shanahan
* Eric Smith [11-11-12 11:15]: > I am coming across more and more (non techy) html email with colouring of > threads. We, do fine with our reply prefixes (`>' and friends). > > Anyone found a nice way to deliver html mail from mutt? > > Never though I would ever ask such a question. Mail *is* t

Re: What use is the mbox variable?

2012-11-11 Thread Nikola Petrov
The mbox variable can also be used for automatic moving of read emails. For example I am by default putting read email in Archive folder for each specific account and this is specified by different mboxe. Then I delete emails that I will *never* need again. You can also check the move variable fo

Re: What use is the mbox variable?

2012-11-11 Thread Kevin J. McCarthy
Chris Green wrote: > So, what good is it? If one sets spoolfile then there's nothing more to > do is there and mbox is redundant. Or am I missing something obvious? Having an mbox in your home directory was more useful on shared systems with quotas. Typically the spoolfile quota was fairly smal

Re: What use is the mbox variable?

2012-11-11 Thread Chris Green
On Sun, Nov 11, 2012 at 12:37:08PM -0800, Kevin J. McCarthy wrote: > Chris Green wrote: > > So, what good is it? If one sets spoolfile then there's nothing more to > > do is there and mbox is redundant. Or am I missing something obvious? > > Having an mbox in your home directory was more useful

Re: coloured threads

2012-11-11 Thread ed
On Sun, Nov 11, 2012 at 05:13:36PM +0100, Eric Smith wrote: > I am coming across more and more (non techy) html email with colouring of > threads. We, do fine with our reply prefixes (`>' and friends). > > Anyone found a nice way to deliver html mail from mutt? > > Never though I would ever ask s

Re: coloured threads

2012-11-11 Thread ed
On Sun, Nov 11, 2012 at 10:08:17PM +, ed wrote: > Tap it out in your mail editor and set the content type to text/html > (ctrl-t) perhaps? Might work, never wanted to do that myself and I don't > have a mailer capable of reading HTML handy to find out. Oh yeah, although it /may/ work, please d

Re: a concept for spam filter

2012-11-11 Thread Cameron Simpson
On 11Nov2012 09:02, Russell L. Harris wrote: | * Cameron Simpson [121103 09:12]: | > - anything else lands in my "UNKNOWN" folder; it is 99% spam | > I always sort that folder on subject when I visit it; | > it makes tossing it much easier because a lot of spam gets repeated | > in

ldap_bind: Invalid credentials (49)

2012-11-11 Thread Csányi Pál
Hi, I have Ubuntu 12.10 operating system. I just installed slapd and want to use it as my e-mail AddressBook. I'm following the tutorial: http://linsec.ca/Using_OpenLDAP_as_an_Address_Book When I'm trying to run the following command: ldapadd -h localhost -D "cn=root,dc=mylan,dc=net" \ -W -x -f