Fetching patches from a mailinglist with mutt

2015-06-13 Thread Oliver Graute
Hello, I would like to apply patches received from a public mailinglist to a git repository. There for i'am looking for an easy to handle maintainer workflow for mutt and git. How do maintainers of known open source projects handle these workflow with incoming patches? Best regards, Oliver

How to ask mutt to not check for new mail

2015-06-13 Thread Xu Wang
Dear all, I would like to disable checking of new mail after mutt starts up. I have the following set: set timeout = 0 set mail_check = 0 but mutt still checks. Which variable am I missing? I found references to imap_checkinterval, but it has been removed [1] http://www.mutt.org/changes.html .

saving messages to files/permissions?

2015-06-13 Thread Tom Fowle
Greetings all, Not sure if this may be a debian problem but I often save individual incomming emails in seperate files in my home directory with the mutt "s" command. In any session, the first time I save to a particular file it goes fine. However if I try to save another message to the same

Re: saving messages to files/permissions?

2015-06-13 Thread Ian Zimmerman
On 2015-06-13 21:59 -0700, Tom Fowle wrote: Tom> I often save individual incomming emails in seperate files in my Tom> home directory with the mutt "s" command. In any session, the Tom> first time I save to a particular file it goes fine. However if I Tom> try to save another message to the same

What does check-new in browser menu actually do?

2015-06-13 Thread Ian Zimmerman
I often spend lots of time in the browser view, in fact it is my default interface to mutt. When I get bored I hit the key combo. I think I have never once seen new mail detected that way, though. When I get _really_ bored I hit the "y" key to return to the index of the last mailbox I was in.

Your hostname [Was: saving messages to files/permissions?]

2015-06-13 Thread Ian Zimmerman
BTW, you should configure your system so that mutt puts some sensible domain in your message-id, instead of localhost.localdomain. I think on debian the file /etc/mailname is the one to change. -- Please *no* private copies of mailing list or newsgroup messages. Rule 420: All persons more than e