Catchup new messages

Hi, how can I change the status of a mail from New to Read? I want to have a keybinding for automatic "catchup" all new messages if I see that they are not interessting or if I have no time to read. I know how to select new messages but do not find a switch for the "read-status". Point me to the

Cancel message writing

Hi, maybe I am to stupid to find it, but how can I cancel the writing of a mail? Let's say I pressed "m" for writing a new mail or "r" for a reply and now I find out I dont want to write the mail. Is there a shortcut to cancel the process? TIA Kai. -- + mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] + http://www.tu-

Re: Cancel message writing

+ Suresh Ramasubramanian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >mutt's cancel key is Ctrl-G; Ctrl-C will tell mutt to go away entirely. > > He wanted to cancel the message - with the q (abort) key. Not to exit > mutt. CTRL-G was what I wanted. Kai. -- + mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] + http://www.tu-ilmenau.de/~

Loading mail setup at editor (vim) start

Hi, how can I let read some special mail configs (e.g. set tw=72) when edit a email/news messages? Kai. -- + mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] + http://www.tu-ilmenau.de/~bond/

Strategies for archiving mails

Hi, I am searching for some tips how to archive and collect my mails. I do not want to delete mails I get. After 3 months using Linux my mailboxes grow and grow. How do you sort and archive your mails? I want to collect some possible solutions for first information and to see what is possible.

Re: Strategies for archiving mails

+ Chris Gushue <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I'm using a combination of procmail and a couple shell scripts for mail > sorting and archiving. Procmail sorts things into monthly directories such > as ~/mail/2000/08 with various mail folders (Maildir-style) in there. I like the idea of hierarchic mail so

Mutt in an Eterm

Hi, I am using Mutt in an Eterm. There is some bad behaviour, I guess it's coming from Eterm, with the function keys F1-F5. Pressing F1 in Eterm does not show the Manual: the key is not defined. Xterm : ^[OQ Eterm : ^[[11~ $ echo $TERM xterm Keys F6-F12 are working normal. Anyt

Re: Mutt in an Eterm

+ Ben Reser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Add this to the keyboard section of the MAIN file for the theme you use for > mutt: > [keysyms] Thank you. This works for me. I had the idea, but not the knowledge to do it for myself. Kai. -- ::: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] . http://www.tu-ilmenau.de/~bond/ :::

Filtering through a lot of levels

Hi, how can I check, I a message was sent to a certain address? I want to realise that mails to address <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> is first filtered into the maillists and if no matching mailbox is found it should go to mailbox "junk". Mails to address <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> should also be sorted in its ma

GnuPG problem with locking

Hi, I have a problem decoding gnupg stuff. I can not find any lock file from gnupg. What does the following output mean and how can I solve it? Output follows: [-- PGP output follows (current time: Tue Dec 19 11:14:35 2000) --] gpg: Signature made Die 19 Dez 2000 01:38:55 CET using RSA key ID E

Re: Filtering through a lot of levels

+ Dirk Pirschel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > [Mail filtering] > > Any idea how to solve it cleverly? > > maildrop: http://www.flounder.net/~mrsam/maildrop/ > procmail: http://www.procmail.org/ Aerm, yes. The sentence should be "Any idea how to solve it cleverly with procmail?" Kai. -- ::: mailto:

Day-By-Day work with GnuPG

Hi, maybe it is not a question for Mutt but because I mostly use gpg with Mutt it fits the on-topic-rules. How can I automatically clean up my pubring? Let's say, a key has expired. Mutt/Gpg uses still the key in the pubring. I have to go and remove the key to fetch a new one. This is just an e

Re: binding F1 to manual, Eterm vs. Xterm

+ Jason Helfman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > This works fine in Xterm, however in Eterm this brings up a mod menu for > the Eterm I am working in. Does anyone know how to change this behavior? Had this problem, too. Someone on this list helped me (sorry, forget who exactly). Add this lines to your the

Folder specific TO-Address

Hi, I am searching for a way defining a default TO: address depending on the actual folder. Let's say I am in the mutt's Mailinglist folder. If I press "m" I want a default address [EMAIL PROTECTED] there. I think it is an folder-hook thing, but I have no idea how to implement this. Any suggesti

Setting XTerminal Title

Hi, I am searching for a way to set the Xterminals window title when running mutt in such a window. I have no idea where to start. I would like to see the for example "Mutt - list.mutt-users 31/301" or something similar. Kai. -- k a i w e b e r | mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] w w w |

Getting current folder name

Hi, I am searching for a way to get the current selected folder for scripting. I want something like this: folder-hook . source $MATCHED_FOLDER.rc Depending on what folder I entered, I want to know what folder that was. Maybe storing the wohle path in a shell variable, something like that. Ka

After change-folder listing the attachments folder does not work

Hello, I have a quite common multi account setup with multiple folders for my account. I use folder-hooks to switch various settings based on the folder I change into. I have some macros to go directly to one folder: macro index ,i "=personal/INBOX" If I use this macro to go to a folder,

Re: After change-folder listing the attachments folder does not work

On 08-31-17, Ian Zimmerman wrote: I strongly suspect this is related to the following discussion: https://github.com/neomutt/neomutt/issues/609 You could try neomutt, where my proposed patch has been integrated. I just build the Github master and it works.

Re: After change-folder listing the attachments folder does not work

On 08-31-17, Kevin J. McCarthy wrote: Browsing folders using '?' does change some state: it records the most recent directory so the next browsing starts in the same place. Just entering the folder name and hitting enter doesn't do that. I'll have to dig in a bit to see the problem, but some r

Re: After change-folder listing the attachments folder does not work

On 08-31-17, Kevin J. McCarthy wrote: In an off-list reply, Kai mentioned he's running the Debian neomutt package. Which was a mistake... Kai, would you be willing to try compiling the mutt-1.8.3 tarball or mercurial tip and see if the bug is present there? Mutt 1.8.3 tarball works. NeoMut

Re: After change-folder listing the attachments folder does not work

On 08-31-17, Kevin J. McCarthy wrote: Mutt 1.8.3 tarball works. NeoMutt Github master works Debian NeoMutt/Mutt package NeoMutt 20170609 (1.8.3) does not work So, I have to file a bug against the Debian package? It sounds like a good idea. However, there is currently a freeze in the Debian mu

Re: header_cache

On 09-01-17, Ian Zimmerman wrote: On 2017-09-01 07:51, Kai Weber wrote: BTW, with either NeoMutt or Mutt 1.8.3 I get Error in /home/kai/.config/mutt/muttrc, line 13: header_cache: unknown variable source: errors in /home/kai/.config/mutt/muttrc Is this also the case if you build neomutt

muttrc for different mutt versions

At home I use Debian unstable with mutt 1.10.x, at work I am bound to Debian 9 and mutt 1.7.2. I know, I could compile and install mutt by myself but let's say I can not: How can I have the same muttrc on both machines without running into errors during mutt start? Error in /home/kai/.config/mutt

Re: mutt 1.12.0 released

* Kevin J. McCarthy : > This release has new features and bug fixes. Please see the UPDATING file, > or the more detailed release notes at . Congratulations and thank you for this release. In the screenshots of the release notes the header is colored in a way

Marking as unread when moving mail to another folder

I have a save-hook defined to move all mail into a certain folder. save-hook "~A" +personal/Archive Very often I want to move the mail into the archive without opening the mail at all but then the mail ends up as unread in the archive. I want to mark the mail as "read" when moving. How coul

Re: Abort macro if limit pattern does not match anything

* Max Görner : > Is there a way to abort the macro if the pattern does not match anything? It > is quite annoying to tidy up after the macro every now and then. Have a look at

Forwarding a false positive classified message

>From time to time I have to report a falsly classified message to my mail >provider so that they can adjust their filters. I am looking for a way to >automate that: 1. Forward selected mail as attachement to x...@foo.com 2. Set Subject to "reporting false positive -- [original subject]" 3. open

Organizing mailfolders (strategies and using with mutt)

Hi all, I am just reorganzing my mail sorting and filtering. I now use a structure like that: Mail/list/mutt-users Mail/list/debian-users Mail/mail/inbox Mail/mail/private ... (another idea I had was Mail/list/mutt-users/2002-04 but now I archive my mails

Re: Organizing mailfolders (strategies and using with mutt)

+ Thorsten Haude <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >What's wrong with that and how should i tune my settings? > I use > mailboxes `find ~/Mail -type f -print | grep -Ev '(admin|postponed|archiv)' | >xargs` Thank you all for your tips. Seems I forgot to set the mailboxes relativly to $HOME. Now it seem

Re: Organizing mailfolders (strategies and using with mutt)

+ Dan Sully <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > mailboxes `find Mail -type f` > > If you are using procmail - this script might be useful. > > #!/usr/bin/perl -w > [...] Nice idea and sure helps a lot. But in my .procmailrc nearly no folder name is used. Most of the stuff is done by $MATCH. But a sc

Re: Organizing mailfolders (strategies and using with mutt)

+ David T-G <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > No, but your entire muttrc could be > > source "/some/cool/script|" > > and you could have that cool script look thru your procmail file(s) and > define your hooks, including a default hook, as well as do everything > else... Yes, I see the point. This is a

Re: [OT] Vim

+ Ken Weingold <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Yeah, but with procmail I can send them to /dev/null. With > Spamassassin they go to my spam folder for review. You can use procmail to filter the spamassasin'ated mails to /dev/null, too. | :0 | * ^X-Spam-Status: Yes | /dev/null Kai