using Mutt to read mail server

2016-03-04 Thread James Freer
Hi folks I have just joined the list as I am thinking of trying Mutt. But what I want to do is just use it for reading and replying to emails from the server rather than downloading headers. Hope you follow me I am not too IT technical. Why - you might well ask! Using Ubuntu with upgrades eve

Re: IMAP disconnection issue.

2016-10-13 Thread James Freer
On Thu, 13 Oct 2016, KONRAD Frederic wrote: Hi everybody, I'm new to Mutt and I'm trying to get emails from my yahoo IMAP account so I configured ~/.muttrc like this: set folder=imaps://konrad.frede...@imap.mail.yahoo.com set spoolfile=imaps://konrad.frede...@imap.mail.yahoo.com/INBOX set he

Re: IMAP disconnection issue.

2016-10-14 Thread James Freer
On Fri, 14 Oct 2016, KONRAD Frederic wrote: Le 13/10/2016 à 21:15, James Freer a écrit : On Thu, 13 Oct 2016, KONRAD Frederic wrote: Hi everybody, I'm new to Mutt and I'm trying to get emails from my yahoo IMAP account so I configured ~/.muttrc like this: set folder=imaps://ko

Archiving

2009-02-12 Thread James Freer
I've just joined this group to learn more about mutt. I like the idea of using vim for editing but i'm unsure of what one can do to archive emails. I've used Thunderbird and that has an ImportExportTool that allows one to do an index and copy individual emails as html to a folder. I don't know wha

newbie install

2009-02-13 Thread James Freer
I'd be grateful if someone could just clarify a couple of things before i do an installation. using Ubuntu 8.04 on a standalone PC connected to broadband. I chose Mutt as i can use vim as an editor and hopefully will be able to reply to emails from my many yahoogroups and mail lists rather more qu

Re: newbie install

2009-02-13 Thread James Freer
Kyle Thanks for your reply - that has helped clarify some things. Ubuntu 8.04 repos has the mutt 1.5.17 [but as the 8.04 version is the Long Term Support version it may well automatically replace it with the updated version on install]. >> I have three emails addresses with googlemail.com > > Ah,

Re: newbie install

2009-02-14 Thread James Freer
2009/2/13 Kyle Wheeler : > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Friday, February 13 at 10:33 PM, quoth sigi: >> On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 03:06:49PM -0600, Kyle Wheeler wrote: >>> Collecting email from multiple accounts is what programs like >>> fetchmail or getmail do best. I recom

Re: newbie install

2009-02-15 Thread James Freer
Jan > I don't know about synaptic. But using "apt-get install mutt" > exim4 was installed automatically with mutt on my sytem. i was using exim > > what should I learn from this? better building mutt from the source? {Using Ubuntu 8.04 I wanted to use mutt for coping with my mail for three email

Re: newbie install

2009-02-15 Thread James Freer
2009/2/15 Agathoklis D. Hatzimanikas : >> On Sunday, February 15 at 06:41 PM, quoth James Freer: >> >esmtp [poor documentation not SSL > > Not true, if libesmtp is linked against openssl. Also it supports > multiply accounts and the documentation is quite decent. > >

Re: newbie install

2009-02-16 Thread James Freer
Brandon > Are you wanting to do filtering beyond what you are doing with Gmail's > filtering? Or are you trying to subvert the web interface altogether? > This matters to answering your question. Sorry i think i might have slightly misled your thinking and should clarify. a] I want to use mutt

Re: newbie install

2009-02-16 Thread James Freer
Kyle > You mean procmail, not postfix, right? Procmail *APPEARS* easier, but > has some massive problems with error handling (see No assuming Ubuntu Linux by Von Hagan is correct. examples [if i've learnt anything!] MTA [mail transfer agent] - sendmail, postfix, qmail, exim, mstmp MDA [mail de

Re: newbie install

2009-02-16 Thread James Freer
> Of course, now we're getting into pedantry, and kinda off track. :) > > ~Kyle Yea sure. I've been trying to learn my way through this. Now that exim appears to be a default install and maildrop has dependencies on exim. I'll be installing maildrop shortly and hopefully end up with the mutt insta

Re: newbie install

2009-02-16 Thread James Freer
2009/2/16 James Freer : >> Of course, now we're getting into pedantry, and kinda off track. :) >> >> ~Kyle > > Yea sure. I've been trying to learn my way through this. Now that exim > appears to be a default install and maildrop has dependencies on exim. >

Re: newbie install

2009-02-21 Thread James Freer
Thank you for your help and comments. Just to recap i had wanted to use a text editor to speed up answering emails and considered Mutt and Emacs. I had used Thunderbird for sometime and liked the app. A text email client seemed the answer but i wasn't that impressed by Mutt. However, i'm not as kn

Re: newbie install

2009-02-21 Thread James Freer
2009/2/21 Brian Salter-Duke : > On Sat, Feb 21, 2009 at 07:56:47PM +0000, James Freer wrote: >> Thank you for your help and comments. Just to recap i had wanted to >> use a text editor to speed up answering emails and considered Mutt and >> Emacs. I had used Thunderbird for s

Re: newbie install

2009-02-22 Thread James Freer
2009/2/22 Chris G : > On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 10:39:05AM +0800, bill lam wrote: >> On Sat, 21 Feb 2009, James Freer wrote: >> > some v.clever person has developed an external editor addon instead of >> > the TB editor. It allows emacs, vi, joe, gedit or whatever to com

Re: newbie install

2009-02-22 Thread James Freer
2009/2/22 James Freer : > 2009/2/22 Chris G : >> On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 10:39:05AM +0800, bill lam wrote: >>> On Sat, 21 Feb 2009, James Freer wrote: >>> > some v.clever person has developed an external editor addon instead of >>> > the TB editor. It a

Re: newbie install

2009-02-22 Thread James Freer
2009/2/22 Chris G : > On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 10:45:50AM +0000, James Freer wrote: >> 2009/2/22 James Freer : >> > 2009/2/22 Chris G : xvile -geometry 200x60+200+200 %t >> >> On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 10:39:05AM +0800, bill lam wrote: >> >>> On Sat,

Re: newbie install

2009-02-25 Thread James Freer
2009/2/22 Chris G : > On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 10:45:50AM +0000, James Freer wrote: >> 2009/2/22 James Freer : >> > 2009/2/22 Chris G : >> >> On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 10:39:05AM +0800, bill lam wrote: >> >>> On Sat, 21 Feb 2009, James Freer wrote: &

Re: newbie install

2009-02-28 Thread James Freer
>> I have set up IMAP gmail with Thunderbird and wondered about POP and >> SMTP. Gmail has an odd way of handling IMAP which i'm not sure about. >> Using as webmail Gmail has an Inbox, Sent and All Mail box - when >> using Thunderbird in IMAP all incoming mail remains in the Inbox, then >> has to b