Some fairly simple-minded questions about using mutt with IMAP

2014-12-08 Thread Chris Green
I have been using mutt for many, many years with a local (Unix style) mail spool. Mail is delivered to my system by SMTP (postfix locally). At the moment to access my mail remotely I ssh into the server and run mutt. This works well in general but there are some disadvantages, in particular the

Re: Some fairly simple-minded questions about using mutt with IMAP

2014-12-08 Thread Patrick Shanahan
* Chris Green [12-08-14 10:21]: > I have been using mutt for many, many years with a local (Unix style) > mail spool. Mail is delivered to my system by SMTP (postfix locally). > > At the moment to access my mail remotely I ssh into the server and run > mutt. This works well in general but there

Re: Some fairly simple-minded questions about using mutt with IMAP

2014-12-08 Thread Chris Green
On Mon, Dec 08, 2014 at 10:30:46AM -0500, Patrick Shanahan wrote: > * Chris Green [12-08-14 10:21]: > > I have been using mutt for many, many years with a local (Unix style) > > mail spool. Mail is delivered to my system by SMTP (postfix locally). > > > > At the moment to access my mail remotely

Re: Some fairly simple-minded questions about using mutt with IMAP

2014-12-08 Thread Patrick Shanahan
* Chris Green [12-08-14 10:40]: > On Mon, Dec 08, 2014 at 10:30:46AM -0500, Patrick Shanahan wrote: > > * Chris Green [12-08-14 10:21]: > > > I have been using mutt for many, many years with a local (Unix style) > > > mail spool. Mail is delivered to my system by SMTP (postfix locally). > > > >

Re: Some fairly simple-minded questions about using mutt with IMAP

2014-12-08 Thread Chris Green
On Mon, Dec 08, 2014 at 11:12:27AM -0500, Patrick Shanahan wrote: > * Chris Green [12-08-14 10:40]: > > > I work somewhat similarily. I store all mail on my local box and maintain > > > a tmux session which I access remotely via ssh -X. I can view html using > > > the home machine's browser remo

Re: Some fairly simple-minded questions about using mutt with IMAP

2014-12-08 Thread Patrick Shanahan
* Chris Green [12-08-14 11:52]: > On Mon, Dec 08, 2014 at 11:12:27AM -0500, Patrick Shanahan wrote: [...] > > >From *outside* I utilize fish:///local/directory/... > > Usually the html files are not that large and doing the transfer in the > > background, you can continue doing something else rat

Re: Some fairly simple-minded questions about using mutt with IMAP

2014-12-08 Thread Chris Green
On Mon, Dec 08, 2014 at 12:15:06PM -0500, Patrick Shanahan wrote: > * Chris Green [12-08-14 11:52]: > > On Mon, Dec 08, 2014 at 11:12:27AM -0500, Patrick Shanahan wrote: > [...] > > > >From *outside* I utilize fish:///local/directory/... > > > Usually the html files are not that large and doing t

Re: Some fairly simple-minded questions about using mutt with IMAP

2014-12-08 Thread John Long
On Mon, Dec 08, 2014 at 03:19:55PM +, Chris Green wrote: > I have been using mutt for many, many years with a local (Unix style) > mail spool. Mail is delivered to my system by SMTP (postfix locally). > > At the moment to access my mail remotely I ssh into the server and run > mutt. I suspec

Re: Some fairly simple-minded questions about using mutt with IMAP

2014-12-08 Thread Eduardo Alvarez
On Mon, Dec 08, 2014 at 03:19:55PM +, Chris Green wrote: > I have been using mutt for many, many years with a local (Unix style) > mail spool. Mail is delivered to my system by SMTP (postfix locally). > > At the moment to access my mail remotely I ssh into the server and run > mutt. This wor

Re: Some fairly simple-minded questions about using mutt with IMAP

2014-12-08 Thread Chris Green
On Mon, Dec 08, 2014 at 06:33:40PM +, John Long wrote: > On Mon, Dec 08, 2014 at 03:19:55PM +, Chris Green wrote: > > I have been using mutt for many, many years with a local (Unix style) > > mail spool. Mail is delivered to my system by SMTP (postfix locally). > > > > At the moment to ac

Re: Some fairly simple-minded questions about using mutt with IMAP

2014-12-08 Thread Chris Green
On Mon, Dec 08, 2014 at 06:40:15PM -0300, Eduardo Alvarez wrote: > On Mon, Dec 08, 2014 at 03:19:55PM +, Chris Green wrote: > > I have been using mutt for many, many years with a local (Unix style) > > mail spool. Mail is delivered to my system by SMTP (postfix locally). > > > > At the moment

Re: Some fairly simple-minded questions about using mutt with IMAP

2014-12-08 Thread David J. Weller-Fahy
* Chris Green [2014-12-08 17:09 -0500]: Doesn't anyone use IMAP? I must admit when I tried it (a few times over the years, but not very recently) it never felt quite as easy and transparent as using mutt on a local mail spool. I stopped using IMAP directly a while ago, and started using offli

Re: Some fairly simple-minded questions about using mutt with IMAP

2014-12-08 Thread John Long
On Mon, Dec 08, 2014 at 09:59:17PM +, Chris Green wrote: > On Mon, Dec 08, 2014 at 06:33:40PM +, John Long wrote: > > On Mon, Dec 08, 2014 at 03:19:55PM +, Chris Green wrote: > > > I have been using mutt for many, many years with a local (Unix style) > > > mail spool. Mail is delivered

Stupid regexp tricks

2014-12-08 Thread John Long
The pron spammers are at it again on a bunch of email lists I subscribe to. I noticed most if not all of this reprehensible lot is using mail hosts that use email addresses and also generate a message-id in the form of Obnoxious Spammer I have tried a few combinations but nothing works properly.

Re: Some fairly simple-minded questions about using mutt with IMAP

2014-12-08 Thread Cameron Simpson
On 08Dec2014 22:04, Chris Green wrote: Doesn't anyone use IMAP? I must admit when I tried it (a few times over the years, but not very recently) it never felt quite as easy and transparent as using mutt on a local mail spool. I would advocate trying offlineimap. I am a huge fan of having one'

Re: Stupid regexp tricks

2014-12-08 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Tue, Dec 09, 2014 at 07:15:13AM +, John Long wrote: > The pron spammers are at it again on a bunch of email lists I subscribe > to. I noticed most if not all of this reprehensible lot is using mail hosts > that use email addresses and also generate a message-id in the form of > Obnoxious Spa