How to be warned about non-existent aliases?

2017-04-25 Thread Antoine Amarilli
Hello everyone, I was interested to know whether there is a configuration option in mutt to warn the user when entering a wrong alias (that is, a recipient that does not contain '@' but is not known to mutt's alias database). My use case is that, when I type something without '@' (e.g., "jdoe"),

Re: How to be warned about non-existent aliases?

2017-04-25 Thread Michael Tatge
Hi, * On Tue, Apr 25, 2017 10:36AM +0200 Antoine Amarilli (a...@a3nm.net) muttered: > I was interested to know whether there is a configuration option in mutt > to warn the user when entering a wrong alias (that is, a recipient that > does not contain '@' but is not known to mutt's alias database)

Re: How to be warned about non-existent aliases?

2017-04-25 Thread Antoine Amarilli
Hi Michael, On Tue, Apr 25, 2017 at 11:18:01AM +0200, Michael Tatge wrote: > * On Tue, Apr 25, 2017 10:36AM +0200 Antoine Amarilli (a...@a3nm.net) > muttered: > > I was interested to know whether there is a configuration option in mutt > > to warn the user when entering a wrong alias (that is, a

Re: How to be warned about non-existent aliases?

2017-04-25 Thread Chris Green
On Tue, Apr 25, 2017 at 11:57:31AM +0200, Antoine Amarilli wrote: > Hi Michael, > > On Tue, Apr 25, 2017 at 11:18:01AM +0200, Michael Tatge wrote: > > * On Tue, Apr 25, 2017 10:36AM +0200 Antoine Amarilli (a...@a3nm.net) > > muttered: > > > I was interested to know whether there is a configuratio

Re: How to be warned about non-existent aliases?

2017-04-25 Thread Erik Christiansen
On 25.04.17 11:16, Chris Green wrote: > Essentially anything without an @ should be an alias, I never actually > send mail to local (same system) destinations. While I do send mail to myself several times per week, as paperless Post-It notes, that would involve even less typing with a "me" alias.

Re: How to be warned about non-existent aliases?

2017-04-25 Thread Chris Green
On Tue, Apr 25, 2017 at 10:42:17PM +1000, Erik Christiansen wrote: > On 25.04.17 11:16, Chris Green wrote: > > Essentially anything without an @ should be an alias, I never actually > > send mail to local (same system) destinations. > > While I do send mail to myself several times per week, as pap

Bazaar problem with index and pager view on new install. Maybe newline/linefeed issue?

2017-04-25 Thread Abner Gershon
I have been using Mutt with Gmail IMAP for years on an older server running Debian 3.1, Linux kernel 2.6.20.1-1-686, and Mutt version 1.5.9 without problems for years. Recently I installed Mutt on a newer server running Ubuntu 16.04.2, Linux 4.4.0-72-generic (x86_64, and Mutt version 1.5.24. ( In

Re: How to be warned about non-existent aliases?

2017-04-25 Thread Ed Blackman
On Tue, Apr 25, 2017 at 10:36:32AM +0200, Antoine Amarilli wrote: > I was interested to know whether there is a configuration option in mutt > to warn the user when entering a wrong alias (that is, a recipient that > does not contain '@' but is not known to mutt's alias database). No configuration

Re: How to be warned about non-existent aliases?

2017-04-25 Thread Ed Blackman
On Tue, Apr 25, 2017 at 11:16:05AM +0100, Chris Green wrote: > Yes, it's a problem I have with mutt too. For example I'm subscribed > to a list called uk-rid...@the-hug.net which is aliased to uk-r, or is > it ukr, or alias uk-riders uk-rid...@the-hug.net # remembering is hard, aliases are

Re: How to be warned about non-existent aliases?

2017-04-25 Thread Antoine Amarilli
Hi, On Tue, Apr 25, 2017 at 02:32:08PM -0400, Ed Blackman wrote: > On Tue, Apr 25, 2017 at 10:36:32AM +0200, Antoine Amarilli wrote: > > I was interested to know whether there is a configuration option in mutt > > to warn the user when entering a wrong alias (that is, a recipient that > > does not

How to tell GUI MUAs to show message in a fixed font?

2017-04-25 Thread Grant Edwards
Is there anything one can do when sending a plain text e-mail message to tell GUI-based MUAs that they should display it in a fixed font? I would have sworn that a lot of GUI e-mail programs used to use a fixed-width font for text/plain content-tupe, but they no longer seem to do that. -- Grant