nbook: a notmuch based address book for mutt

2012-09-24 Thread Suvayu Ali
Hi, I wrote a small address book program for use with mutt based on the notmuch email indexer. I thought notmuch users on the list might be interested to try this out. This uses the python bindings for notmuch, so the appropriate python packages should be ins

Re: nbook: a notmuch based address book for mutt

2012-09-24 Thread Suvayu Ali
Hi Niels, First a thank you for testing it out. On Mon, Sep 24, 2012 at 02:18:24PM +0200, Niels den Otter wrote: > Hello Suvayu, > > On Monday, 24 September 2012, Suvayu Ali wrote: > > I wrote a small address book program for use with mutt based on > > the notmuch emai

Re: nbook: a notmuch based address book for mutt

2012-09-24 Thread Suvayu Ali
On Mon, Sep 24, 2012 at 03:23:31PM +0200, Niels den Otter wrote: > Hello Suvayu, > > On Monday, 24 September 2012, Suvayu Ali wrote: > > > Interesting idea. It would be nice if the e-mail address would > > > be sorted on last-seen, to ensure you have the last address

Unread email status in folder view

2012-10-16 Thread Suvayu Ali
Hi Mutt users, As many subscribers on this list, I subscribe to many mailing lists. I follow some closely and have included in the mailboxes command in my Mutt config, but there are some lists I catch up with from time to time. Is there anyway to show how many unread emails a folder has when in f

Questions about pipe-message and pipe_decode=yes

2012-11-08 Thread Suvayu Ali
Hi Mutt users, I am a new Mutt user and I recently came across muttprint; I am absolutely blown away by the quality of prints I can get from my emails. However I could not find a way to interactively choose from mutt the printer I want to print to (or print to file for that matter). So I setup mu

Re: Questions about pipe-message and pipe_decode=yes

2012-11-09 Thread Suvayu Ali
Hello Jeremy, On Thu, Nov 08, 2012 at 02:35:40PM -0800, Jeremy Kitchen wrote: > On Thu, Nov 08, 2012 at 11:20:20PM +0100, Suvayu Ali wrote: > > > > macro index,pager \cp "muttprint --printer " > > > > Now I have a few scripts that I use to parse messag

Viewing attachments with wrong MIME types

2012-11-19 Thread Suvayu Ali
Hi, I often get attachments with completely wrong MIME types. For example today I received a pdf and a doc file as application/octet-stream. Is there anyway to bypass my mailcap and ask mutt to open the attachment with the proper application? So in this particular case, I would want to open the

Re: Viewing attachments with wrong MIME types

2012-11-19 Thread Suvayu Ali
Hi Mandar, On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 07:26:28PM +0530, Mandar Mitra wrote: > Suvayu Ali wrote (Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 02:25:37PM +0100): > > I often get attachments with completely wrong MIME types. For example > > today I received a pdf and a doc file as application/octet-stream

Re: Viewing attachments with wrong MIME types

2012-11-19 Thread Suvayu Ali
On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 10:41:48AM -0800, Gary Johnson wrote: > On 2012-11-19, Suvayu Ali wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I often get attachments with completely wrong MIME types. For example > > today I received a pdf and a doc file as application/octet-stream. Is > >

Re: email has changed, you won't change everyone, and you don't have to

2012-11-20 Thread Suvayu Ali
Hi, I would like to share a different perspective on this issue. On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 09:18:36PM +0100, Rado Q wrote: > =- David Young wrote on Tue 20.Nov'12 at 11:59:55 -0600 -= > > > "What, you have computers in your pockets but there is no > > conformance to the width in columns of 40 year

Re: Specific folder and emacs

2013-01-14 Thread Suvayu Ali
On Sat, Jan 12, 2013 at 12:25:09PM +0100, Igor Sosa Mayor wrote: > Hi, > > I'm using emacs with mutt with > set editor="emacsclient" > > Is there a way to tell emacs from which folder I'm writing/replying? I'm > affraid this is not possible, but maybe... > > any ideas? > You could try the -e

Making changes by edit-type persistent

2013-01-20 Thread Suvayu Ali
Hi Mutt users, Often I receive attachments with bad MIME types (usually application/octet-stream). I have the following config to deal with these attachments: mime_lookup application/octet-stream But sometimes the attachments are files of uncommon types without entries in my ~/mime.types file

Re: Making changes by edit-type persistent

2013-01-21 Thread Suvayu Ali
Hi Stephen, On Sun, Jan 20, 2013 at 12:08:00PM -0700, s. keeling wrote: > > FYI, I also use: > > unset mime_forward > unset mime_forward_decode > These relate to forwarding messages, I don't think they are relevant to my question. Thanks for your response though. Cheers, -- Suvayu Ope

Re: Making changes by edit-type persistent

2013-01-21 Thread Suvayu Ali
Hi Derek, On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 12:59:28AM -0600, Derek Martin wrote: > On Sun, Jan 20, 2013 at 10:33:27AM +0100, Suvayu Ali wrote: > > But sometimes the attachments are files of uncommon types without > > entries in my ~/mime.types file. I would like to edit the types of > &

Re: Making changes by edit-type persistent

2013-01-21 Thread Suvayu Ali
Hi Luis, On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 11:28:26AM -0600, Luis Mochan wrote: > > I don't believe it is (with Mutt). You'd have to edit the raw message > > with a text editor. > I sometimes have had a related problem; not persistency but simply > being able to choose which command to run in order to open

Re: Sent-folder to display SEND TO address instead SEND FROM

2013-02-07 Thread Suvayu Ali
On Thu, Feb 07, 2013 at 10:11:22PM +0100, Torsten Flammiger wrote: > I use for my regular inbox: > set index_format="%4C %Z [%-25.25n] [%d] (%?M?C%3M&%4c?) %s" > > and I try to use this for my Sent folder to display the TO address > in my Sent folder instead of my FROM address. > > folder-hook

Re: Customise headers shown in editor

2013-02-08 Thread Suvayu Ali
On Fri, Feb 08, 2013 at 04:26:32PM +0100, Marco wrote: > Hi, > > I use the setting “edit_headers” resulting in the headers being > displayed in my editor when I creating a message. Is there a way to > customise which headers are being displayed? I never change the > “Reply-To:” header, for instanc

Re: Customise headers shown in editor

2013-02-08 Thread Suvayu Ali
On Fri, Feb 08, 2013 at 05:19:53PM +0100, Marco wrote: > On 2013–02–08 Suvayu Ali wrote: > > > I use a combination of ignore and unignore to choose which headers I see > > Ignore and unignore control the headers displayed in the pager and > not the ones shown in the editor

Re: Time Format

2013-02-14 Thread Suvayu Ali
On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 02:14:35PM +0100, Konrad Vrba wrote: > Hello, > > could somebody please advise how I can change the default time format, > which is displayed when I view my messages? At the moment, I see only > Month and day (ie, Aug 21). But I would like to see the year aswell, > as I am

Supporting readline editing in Mutt entry fields

2013-02-18 Thread Suvayu Ali
Hi, As far as I can tell, full readline editing features are not supported in Mutt entry fields (I know there is some basic support, but not everything). So I would like to try my hand at writing a patch to use readline. I looked at the source but felt rather lost, so I was hoping someone here c

Re: Supporting readline editing in Mutt entry fields

2013-02-19 Thread Suvayu Ali
Hi Michael and David, On Mon, Feb 18, 2013 at 06:34:05PM +, Michael Elkins wrote: > It has been a very long time since I looked at readline, but the time the > problem was that readline wants control of drawing on the screen, which > conflicts with mutt's use of the curses library. readline i

Re: Supporting readline editing in Mutt entry fields

2013-02-19 Thread Suvayu Ali
Hi Michael, On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 06:57:41PM +, Michael Elkins wrote: > If are interested in it as a programming exercise, I would recommend trying > to add functionality that is missing in mutt's line editor rather than > trying to fiddle with readline. But if you did find a way for them t

Re: Supporting readline editing in Mutt entry fields

2013-02-19 Thread Suvayu Ali
Hi Andre, On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 01:14:45AM +0100, Andre Klärner wrote: > Hi Suvayu, > > On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 09:46:25PM +0100, Suvayu Ali wrote: > > On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 06:57:41PM +, Michael Elkins wrote: > > > If are interested in it as a programming exe

Re: opening +[Gmail]/All Mail is slowish

2013-04-07 Thread Suvayu Ali
On Sun, Apr 07, 2013 at 04:01:25PM +, Grant Edwards wrote: > > Usually if I get to the point where I decide I'm going to have to look > in "All Mail" for something, I fire up a browser and do it via the > GMail web UI. The host-side search facility just can't be matched by > mutt (or any IMAP

From address when responding to your own emails

2013-04-18 Thread Suvayu Ali
Hi, I use multiple from addresses. When I respond to my own emails in a thread, I would like to use the same from address as in my original email. Instead my default address gets picked up. I thought this works by setting alternates. But that does not seem to work. I use the following regular

Re: From address when responding to your own emails

2013-04-18 Thread Suvayu Ali
Hi Will and James, On Fri, Apr 19, 2013 at 12:10:48AM +0100, James Griffin wrote: > Thu 18.Apr'13 at 8:41:11 -0700, Will Yardley > > On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 03:41:02PM +0200, Suvayu Ali wrote: > > > > > I use multiple from address

Re:

2013-05-01 Thread Suvayu Ali
On Wed, May 01, 2013 at 12:37:13PM -0700, Kevin J. McCarthy wrote: > Tim Gray wrote: > > What exactly does the command do? The manual > > states 'get a temporary copy of an attachment' but it's unclear to > > me what the use case might be. > > It looks like it takes an existing attachment (e.g.

Using send and reply hooks to set from address and reverse_name

2013-05-02 Thread Suvayu Ali
Hi Mutt users, I have been having some problems setting my from address when I'm responding to my emails in a thread. I have $reverse_name set to yes and have posted about this before[1]. Since then I have realised my problem arises from conflicting hooks and I can't think of a way to resolve th

Re: Using send and reply hooks to set from address and reverse_name

2013-05-03 Thread Suvayu Ali
Hi Patrick, On Thu, May 02, 2013 at 08:28:15AM -0400, Patrick Shanahan wrote: > * Suvayu Ali [05-02-13 04:31]: > [...] > > Note that I do not have any default send-hook set. I also have the > > following reply-hooks so that I can automatically reply with the correct > &g

Re: Using send and reply hooks to set from address and reverse_name

2013-05-07 Thread Suvayu Ali
Hello Patrick and others, First, apologies for the delayed response. On Fri, May 03, 2013 at 08:08:48AM -0400, Patrick Shanahan wrote: > > Try the following: > set reverse_name > add as the very first send-hook: send-hook . "" > comment out or remove subject reply-hooks > > Make sure that

Re: Using send and reply hooks to set from address and reverse_name

2013-05-07 Thread Suvayu Ali
On Tue, May 07, 2013 at 01:58:57PM +0200, Suvayu Ali wrote: > Hello Patrick and others, > > First, apologies for the delayed response. > > On Fri, May 03, 2013 at 08:08:48AM -0400, Patrick Shanahan wrote: > > > > Try the following: > > set reverse_name >

Re: Using send and reply hooks to set from address and reverse_name

2013-05-10 Thread Suvayu Ali
Hi Patrick, On Tue, May 07, 2013 at 08:23:41AM -0400, Patrick Shanahan wrote: > * Suvayu Ali [05-07-13 08:14]: > > On Tue, May 07, 2013 at 01:58:57PM +0200, Suvayu Ali wrote: > [...] > > > This is what I did: > > > > > > 1. I removed all reply

Re: Using send and reply hooks to set from address and reverse_name

2013-05-10 Thread Suvayu Ali
Hi Andre, On Tue, May 07, 2013 at 08:28:46PM +0200, Andre Klärner wrote: > > small question: why don't you use "set from=wor...@domain.com" etc? As far as I'm aware, 'set from=..' and 'my_hdr From ..' serves the same purpose. > I have the setup as following: > each mail is filed to a matching f

Re: Using send and reply hooks to set from address and reverse_name

2013-05-12 Thread Suvayu Ali
Hi Patrick, On Fri, May 10, 2013 at 08:34:39PM -0400, Patrick Shanahan wrote: > * Suvayu Ali [05-10-13 20:09]: > > On Tue, May 07, 2013 at 08:28:46PM +0200, Andre Klärner wrote: > > > > > > small question: why don't you use "set from=wor...@domain.com&quo

Re: Using send and reply hooks to set from address and reverse_name

2013-05-12 Thread Suvayu Ali
On Sat, May 11, 2013 at 11:24:53AM +0100, James Griffin wrote: > > This works for me, it may be of some use? The main setting is to have a > default hook (folder-hook) that undoes the hooks you have set in other > folder-hooks. I think that tip helps a lot. I'll try to work out from your example

Re: OT making ascii tables

2013-05-22 Thread Suvayu Ali
On Wed, May 22, 2013 at 11:22:53AM +0300, Alexander Gattin wrote: > > There's also org mode for emacs and for vim. > > It serves many other purposes besides drawing > excellent ASCII tables, and I'd like to have > table-mode only subset of it. You can use orgtbl-mode. orgtbl-mode is an intera

Re: Gmail IMAP takes ages to login

2013-05-28 Thread Suvayu Ali
Hi Mick, On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 11:17:56PM +0100, Mick wrote: > > set folder = "imaps://imap.gmail.com:993" > set spoolfile = "imaps://imap.gmail.com:993/INBOX" > #set record = "+INBOX/Sent Mail" > set record = "+[Gmail]/Sent Mail" > #set postponed = "+INBOX/Drafts" > set postponed = "+[Gmail]/D

Re: Gmail IMAP takes ages to login

2013-05-29 Thread Suvayu Ali
On Wed, May 29, 2013 at 07:16:47AM +0100, Mick wrote: > > Meanwhile, the "Unknown command" error every time mutt parses my > ~/.mutt/gmail/.muttrc remains. :-( It should show you line numbers. That should tell you where to start looking. Hope this helps, -- Suvayu Open source is the future

Re: I have forgotten ...

2013-06-20 Thread Suvayu Ali
On Thu, Jun 20, 2013 at 09:41:06AM -0500, Luis Mochan wrote: > I use alt-q. > And the function name is fill-paragraph. AFAIK, there is no need to select the region if you have a paragraph. Hope this helps, -- Suvayu Open source is the future. It sets us free.

Re: Folders not in the sidebar list of folders

2013-08-05 Thread Suvayu Ali
On Mon, Aug 05, 2013 at 04:18:01PM +0200, John Niendorf wrote: > Hi Guys, > > I am running Mutt 1.5.21 with the sidebar patch. (Mutt-patched in the Ubuntu > repository) > I'm using an IMAP account and all the mail is stored on the server. > Today I noticed that some mail folders I made on the ser

Re: notmuch - Hook return code: 134

2013-08-08 Thread Suvayu Ali
Hi Marcelo, Did you intend to send this to the notmuch list? Anyway, since I use notmuch, I will try to answer. On Thu, Aug 08, 2013 at 07:57:09AM -0300, Marcelo Laia wrote: > A few days a go I got problems with notmuch: it dosent index my > messages. > > To day I try it by CL and got the messa

Re: Beginner having difficulty saving to IMAP "sent" folder

2013-08-13 Thread Suvayu Ali
On Tue, Aug 13, 2013 at 04:04:51PM +0100, sqli...@posteo.co.uk wrote: > > Spec: Debian 7 "Wheezy", Mutt 1.5.21. I'm successfully connecting to IMAPS > using TLS1.2 and can retrieve mail. Sending is set up to use Mutt's built-in > SMTPS capability, though because of the problems below I haven't be

Re: notmuch - Hook return code: 134

2013-08-18 Thread Suvayu Ali
On Fri, Aug 16, 2013 at 09:53:14PM -0300, Marcelo Laia wrote: > Hi Ali, > > I deleted taht message and got the similar message! > > > Calling hook: notmuch new > Hook stdout: > Hook stderr:terminate called after throwing an instance of > 'std::length_error' > what(): basic_string::assign >

Re: TO: header

2013-09-15 Thread Suvayu Ali
On Sun, Sep 15, 2013 at 02:31:06PM -0700, Robert Holtzm wrote: > On Thu, Sep 12, 2013 at 03:46:26PM -0700, Kevin J. McCarthy wrote: > > Robert Holtzm wrote: > > > What file does mutt source to generate the TO: header? Compare the one > > > in this post to the last name in the sig. It appears that t

Re: Gmail lables w/Mutt

2013-09-21 Thread Suvayu Ali
Hi Josef, On Fri, Sep 20, 2013 at 11:29:48PM -0700, Josef Bailey wrote: > > I'm really trying to figure out Gmail Lables and Mutt > > I'm going to gmail.com and subscribing to multiple list .. When i launch$ > > Is there anyway to fix this > > Somebody posted this This is from my muttrc: s

Re: Gmail lables w/Mutt

2013-09-21 Thread Suvayu Ali
On Sat, Sep 21, 2013 at 01:43:39AM -0700, Josmutt new mail pageref Bailey wrote: > On 09/21, Suvayu Ali wrote: > > > > This is from my muttrc: > > > > set folder="imaps://imap.gmail.com:993" > > set postponed="=[Google Mail]/Drafts" >

Re: Mutt Tips / Guide

2013-09-21 Thread Suvayu Ali
On Sat, Sep 21, 2013 at 03:55:49PM -0700, Josef Bailey wrote: > > Once again thanks for the non helpful link but it seems that i > resolved my own issue .. Not even that i resolved it without a link > retarted link that didn't do anything to help the converstation > > If that was an attempt to be

Syncing changes after edit-type

2013-10-09 Thread Suvayu Ali
Hi, Is there any way to sync changes to the MIME type of an attachment after I edit with edit-type? I use maildir (sometimes an IMAP folder) as my mailbox. Thanks for any ideas. Cheers, -- Suvayu Open source is the future. It sets us free.

Re: mutt: new user

2013-11-17 Thread Suvayu Ali
On Sun, Nov 17, 2013 at 04:41:30PM +0100, Rejo Zenger wrote: > ++ 17/11/13 08:16 -0600 - rlhar...@oplink.net: > >$ mkdir -p ~/.mail/archive/(cur,new,tmp) > > That should have curly brackets and read: > > mkdir -p ~/.mail/archive/r{ur,new,tmp} Correcting the typo: mkdir -p ~/.mail/archive/{c

Re: mutt: new user

2013-11-17 Thread Suvayu Ali
On Sun, Nov 17, 2013 at 01:59:04PM -0600, rlhar...@oplink.net wrote: > > At first, the time required to configure the mail system may seem > excessive and a wasteful expenditure. But once you are running, it > should be evident to you that with Mutt you can process messages much > faster than you

Re: Attachment signal

2013-11-19 Thread Suvayu Ali
On Tue, Nov 19, 2013 at 10:05:10AM +0100, LEVAI Daniel wrote: > On k, nov 19, 2013 at 09:55:40 +0100, Alexandre wrote: > > > In practice, do you have any tips to signal there is any attachment to > > emails ? > > > > Some "ergonomic" options: > > - adding tag in Index > > - adding tag in headers

Re: Attachment signal

2013-11-19 Thread Suvayu Ali
On Tue, Nov 19, 2013 at 06:23:19PM +0800, Chris Down wrote: > On 2013-11-19 11:18:28 +0100, LEVAI Daniel wrote: > > But not to worry! Body caching[1] is might be just what you need :) > > I cache bodies, but this is a bit irritating since it takes ages to > download my non-inbox folders that I hav

Re: Attachment signal

2013-11-19 Thread Suvayu Ali
Hello, On Tue, Nov 19, 2013 at 04:57:22PM -0600, rlhar...@oplink.net wrote: > >> > >>"%4C %Z %?X?@& ? %{%b %d} %-15.15n (%?M?»%3M&%4c?) %s" > >> > > This is fantastic. This answers my question, before I had time to ask > > it. Could you please describe how this works: "%?X?@& ?" > > Those are

Re: Inbox and Sent messages in one thread. How To?

2013-12-06 Thread Suvayu Ali
On Thu, Dec 05, 2013 at 08:21:00PM -0500, Patrick Shanahan wrote: > * Kirill Tkhai [12-05-13 20:05]: > > I want to have a posibility to see inbox and sent messages together in > > one thread. Is this possible without copying content of Sent folder to > > Inbox? > > Leave the "sent" msgs in the i

Re: Sidebar not working (OS X)

2013-12-06 Thread Suvayu Ali
On Fri, Dec 06, 2013 at 02:24:34PM -0500, Peter Davis wrote: > After repeated attempts, I finally got Homebrew to download, build and > install mutt with the sidebar patch enabled. At least, that's what I > thought I did, and mutt doesn't complain about the > sidebar_... variables in my .muttrc fil

Re: Sidebar not working (OS X)

2013-12-06 Thread Suvayu Ali
On Fri, Dec 06, 2013 at 03:54:09PM -0500, Peter Davis wrote: > News flash: I've been using iTerm 2 as the terminal program on my > Mac. When I tried mutt in the built-in Terminal, the sidebar > worked. > > So something about iTerm 2 is nixing it. I suspect there's some > emulation setting I need t

Re: Sidebar not working (OS X)

2013-12-06 Thread Suvayu Ali
On Fri, Dec 06, 2013 at 04:20:58PM -0500, Peter Davis wrote: > On Fri, Dec 06, 2013 at 10:07:33PM +0100, Suvayu Ali wrote: > > > > I believe usually Mutt is compiled with slang but you can also compile > > with ncurses; I use my distro's defaults and compile with ncurse

Re: message body (text) not displayed in compose menu

2013-12-07 Thread Suvayu Ali
On Sat, Dec 07, 2013 at 12:16:08PM +0100, Martin Vegter wrote: > hello, > > When composing a new mail, after I exit the editor mutt drops me into the > compose menu. > > Here I can see the email header, but the text (body) that I have just > composed is not displayed. Instead, I see it only as at

Re: Sidebar not working (OS X)

2013-12-09 Thread Suvayu Ali
On Mon, Dec 09, 2013 at 01:47:41PM -0500, Peter Davis wrote: > Well, now that I've gotten the sidebar patch working, I'm sorry to say > I don't see much point to it. It does allow me to get to other > mailboxes quickly, but so does 'c TAB' and then j and k to move around > the list. In general, the

Re: Sidebar not working (OS X)

2013-12-09 Thread Suvayu Ali
On Mon, Dec 09, 2013 at 04:40:15PM -0500, Peter Davis wrote: > On Mon, Dec 09, 2013 at 08:08:05PM +0100, Suvayu Ali wrote: > > On Mon, Dec 09, 2013 at 01:47:41PM -0500, Peter Davis wrote: > > > Am I missing something? Is it more useful for non-IMAP use? > > > > I us

Re: got mutt to compile, but won't authenticate

2014-01-04 Thread Suvayu Ali
On Sat, Jan 04, 2014 at 12:28:46PM -0500, Charles E Campbell wrote: > Hello! > > I used David Champion's suggestion to compile mutt with: > > --enable-smtp > > so at least its not complaining about smtp_pass and smtp_url being undefined > variables (Thanks!). > > However, mutt still doesn't rec

Re: Distinguishing Cc'd e-mail from To'd email

2014-02-09 Thread Suvayu Ali
On Sun, Feb 09, 2014 at 02:23:08AM +0800, Chris Down wrote: > Right now I color my e-mails bright red when they match ~p. This is > useful, but it aso highlights when I am Cc'd on a message, and I would > like to only have e-mails that have me in the To header to be > highlighted. > > Of course, I

Re: sidebar_{width,refresh} in man muttrc

2014-02-11 Thread Suvayu Ali
On Sun, Feb 02, 2014 at 04:45:30PM -0500, glphvgacs wrote: > > is that swapped or what? The sidebar patch is a non-standard Mutt extension, so not everyone can answer. However, I happen to use it. Looks like you are correct. -- Suvayu Open source is the future. It sets us free.

Re: pin flagged messages

2014-02-27 Thread Suvayu Ali
On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 02:34:29PM +0100, Mart Lubbers wrote: > Hi, > I've looked in the overwhelming and detailed documentation but couldn't > find an answer. I was wondering if it was possible to pin flagged emails > on top of the mailbox. So that mutt displays my email by date(or any > other sor

Re: Cancel limit-search?

2014-03-21 Thread Suvayu Ali
On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 05:11:38PM -0400, Peter P. wrote: > * Rejo Zenger [2014-03-21 17:00]: > > ++ 21/03/14 14:13 -0400 - Peter P.: > > >when I run a search across a folder using the "limit" function, I > > >can't find a way to stop it while it is searching through messages > > >(apart from kill

Re: Using maildir

2014-04-29 Thread Suvayu Ali
On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 11:30:24AM +0100, David Woodfall wrote: > >Dear David, > > > >Are you sure that you installed mail_location variable in Dovecot correctly? > > > >http://wiki2.dovecot.org/MailLocation > > If I'm not using imap it won't matter will it? I'm just using mutt -f > ~/mail. What

Re: Using maildir

2014-04-29 Thread Suvayu Ali
On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 07:54:24AM -0700, Will Yardley wrote: > On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 12:52:29PM +0200, Suvayu Ali wrote: > > On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 11:30:24AM +0100, David Woodfall wrote: > > > > If I'm not using imap it won't matter will it? I'm just using

Re: Using maildir

2014-04-29 Thread Suvayu Ali
On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 11:27:38PM +0100, David Woodfall wrote: > >On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 10:44:38PM +0100, David Woodfall wrote: > > > >>Well, I'm not quite out of the woods. Although mutt starts off in my > >>Inbox (using mutt -f ~/Mail) and it shows everything correctly, when > >>I change folde

Re: Correct syntax of send hook

2014-05-09 Thread Suvayu Ali
Hi Guy, On Thu, May 08, 2014 at 06:37:21PM -0400, Guy Gold wrote: > > The usage of "-c ':r !cat /tmp/file'" does solve the issue of > editing two files, but, I cannot seem to get the send-hook correct, > and depending on how/where I place my quotes, I get different > errors. - > Which is troubli

Re: disabling shell-escape

2014-05-11 Thread Suvayu Ali
Hi, On Sun, May 11, 2014 at 12:20:27PM -0700, Shawn Zaidermann wrote: > I understand. There is definitely always that possibility that users will > get a shell. However, can SELinux help in this case? Perhaps I can confined > the users with basic access, one that does not allow a user to run any >

Re: Correct syntax of send hook

2014-05-12 Thread Suvayu Ali
On Mon, May 12, 2014 at 01:12:54AM -0400, Mark Filipak wrote: > On 2014/5/11 11:08 PM, Chris Bannister wrote: > -snip- > > More worrying are the strange ammendments that American English is > > imposing (or has imposed) on us people who speak the proper English! > > I'm sorry, but as an American I

Re: integration with mu (or similar programm)

2014-05-20 Thread Suvayu Ali
On Tue, May 20, 2014 at 08:15:38AM +0200, Rejo Zenger wrote: > ++ 20/05/14 08:34 +1000 - Cameron Simpson: > >>[1] http://dev.mutt.org/trac/wiki/UseCases/SearchingMail > > > >My approach to this is twofold. > > That's an interesting approach. However, it still requires an external > terminal (or s

Flag a message and continue reading

2014-05-20 Thread Suvayu Ali
Hi, Often when reading a message I realise I would like to flag it for review, or just that it is important. However I want to continue reading. Mutt however, moves on to the next message and I have to go back. For long messages this can be quite annoying if I was reading somewhere in the middl

Re: Flag a message and continue reading

2014-05-20 Thread Suvayu Ali
Hi Ferran, On Tue, May 20, 2014 at 11:03:58AM +0200, Ferran Fontcuberta wrote: > On Tue, May 20, 2014 at 09:40:09AM +0200, Suvayu Ali wrote: > > Can mutt be configured such that I can flag the message without moving > > on to the next one in the mailbox? > > set resolve=

Re: Need help with coloring the indicator line

2014-07-16 Thread Suvayu Ali
Hi Paul, On Tue, Jul 15, 2014 at 07:48:34PM -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: > I'm not sure of the correct but by the indicator line > I mean the black horizontal bar that is covers one entry > in the table of entries in the index display. It is > intended, I think, to hilight a slngle selected email

Re: change recipient on mailing list

2014-08-15 Thread Suvayu Ali
On Fri, Aug 15, 2014 at 12:11:27PM -0400, Jon LaBadie wrote: > A mailing list I subscribe to is changing their host. > For a while messages will be received from both servers. > > I would like that any replies I make automatically go > to the new server even if I'm replying to one from the > old s

Re: address book?

2014-11-12 Thread Suvayu Ali
On Tue, Nov 11, 2014 at 03:09:17PM +0100, Daniël de Kok wrote: > > Of course, notmuch can be wrapped to provide similar functionality. This repo has a very nice wrapper for notmuch: https://github.com/domo141/nottoomuch/ Cheers, -- Suvayu Open source is the future. It sets us free.

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

2014-12-09 Thread Suvayu Ali
Hi Cameron, On Tue, Dec 09, 2014 at 06:21:31PM +1100, Cameron Simpson wrote: > > For me this is all theoretical so far as I have not had time. But it is a > real issue I need to address, and I'd like to hear of your efforts if you > try this route. I have been doing this for some years now, with

Re: Alternative pager?

2015-01-11 Thread Suvayu Ali
On Sun, Jan 11, 2015 at 11:40:31AM -0500, Peter Davis wrote: > I'm trying to use emacs as an alternative pager for mutt. Specifically, I'd > like to use the gnus Article mode to display articles. I've > tried just setting emacsclient as the pager, but I have some questions: > > 1) What exactly is

Re: mutt's counterpart feature to gmail's archive?

2015-04-16 Thread Suvayu Ali
On Thu, Apr 16, 2015 at 12:32:23AM +0200, Quolick wrote: > Hi! > > What is mutt's counterpart feature to gmail's archive? what is used here? > I don't want to delete messages, but I want to have them locally searchable, > like gmail can do. > What is the best practice? Just to move to another fol

Re: mutt's counterpart feature to gmail's archive?

2015-04-16 Thread Suvayu Ali
On Thu, Apr 16, 2015 at 03:21:48PM +0200, Heinz Diehl wrote: > On 16.04.2015, Suvayu Ali wrote: > > > ..I just tag it archived, and it disappears from my virtual > > folder. The physical message stays in the original mailbox as before. > > Interesting. To what d

Re: mutt's counterpart feature to gmail's archive?

2015-04-16 Thread Suvayu Ali
On Thu, Apr 16, 2015 at 09:47:21AM -0500, Luis Mochan wrote: > > I see that everyone else either have written custom scripts, or manage > > the archiving manually. Since you mention something similar to Gmail, I > > would suggest use something search based: notmuch, mu, etc. > > > > I use notmuch

Re: mutt's counterpart feature to gmail's archive?

2015-04-17 Thread Suvayu Ali
On Thu, Apr 16, 2015 at 07:43:54PM +0200, Suvayu Ali wrote: > On Thu, Apr 16, 2015 at 09:47:21AM -0500, Luis Mochan wrote: > > > I see that everyone else either have written custom scripts, or manage > > > the archiving manually. Since you mention something similar to Gmail,

Re: mark as read all messages with message ID

2015-05-11 Thread Suvayu Ali
Hi Xu, On Mon, May 11, 2015 at 03:19:35AM -0400, Xu Wang wrote: > > If you are curious about motivation, it is because GMail treats labels > as different folders. So when we sync back, to have a message marked > as read in GMail, it must be marked as read in all labels (or in > Mutt's point of vi

Re: mark as read all messages with message ID

2015-05-15 Thread Suvayu Ali
Hi Xu, Sorry I didn't respond, I got too busy with work. On Fri, May 15, 2015 at 02:00:13AM -0400, Xu Wang wrote: > On Tue, May 12, 2015 at 4:51 PM, Xu Wang wrote: > > > > This helps a lot. I am starting to piece some things together. I am > > not sure if I am rethreading or not. Looking at my .

Re: mark as read all messages with message ID

2015-05-20 Thread Suvayu Ali
Hi, On Tue, May 19, 2015 at 10:44:35PM -0400, Xu Wang wrote: > > I see. So you do not have any such "archive" macro? And you do not use > the "All Mail" workflow of Gmail? This is correct. But I can still access "All Mail" over IMAP. I just don't sync it with OfflineIMAP. It would take up to

Re: mark as read all messages with message ID

2015-05-21 Thread Suvayu Ali
On Thu, May 21, 2015 at 02:13:03AM -0400, Xu Wang wrote: > On Wed, May 20, 2015 at 3:08 AM, Suvayu Ali > wrote: > > >> I am guessing that you have set the 'trash' rc variable and/or the > >> 'realdelete' offlineimap rc variable. > > &g

Re: options for mutt + notmuch integration

2015-05-24 Thread Suvayu Ali
Hi Xu, On Sun, May 24, 2015 at 05:55:02PM -0400, Xu Wang wrote: > > I would prefer not to use mutt-kz because I do not like using forks in > general. I wouldn't mind rebasing the patches on top of mutt though. > Has anyone had success with this or do they not apply cleanly? I use mutt-kz for a f

Re: options for mutt + notmuch integration

2015-05-25 Thread Suvayu Ali
(Looks like my message didn't go through because of my example image attachment. I thought it was small enough, resending without it.) On Mon, May 25, 2015 at 03:48:17AM -0400, Xu Wang wrote: > > > > Being able to search emails from within mutt is really convenient. On > > top of that, I can acc

Re: options for mutt + notmuch integration

2015-05-26 Thread Suvayu Ali
On Tue, May 26, 2015 at 06:03:18AM -0400, Xu Wang wrote: > > I have taken your advice and have now set up mutt-kz. I have one > question. Suppose I have a message id. How can I have a command that > starts mutt and have it show that message (i.e. run the notmuch search > query and show results)?

Re: Sent attached doc from Libreoffice

2015-05-27 Thread Suvayu Ali
On Wed, May 27, 2015 at 05:28:08PM -0300, Marcelo Laia wrote: > Take it easy, good guys!!! > > sensible-lomua %u > Maybe you can put a wrapper script with the following content: #!/bin/sh mutt -a $@ Cheers, -- Suvayu Open source is the future. It sets us free.

Re: folder-hook for postponed messages

2015-05-29 Thread Suvayu Ali
On Fri, May 29, 2015 at 10:24:01AM +0200, Andrzej Popielewicz wrote: > > So You want to achieve something like shown below > > folder-hook "imap.googlemail.com/Drafts" set editor="vim" > folder-hook "imap.googlemail.com/Sent" set editor="pico" Note that for folder-hooks it is important to have a

Re: set a variable to a value with spaces in

2015-05-30 Thread Suvayu Ali
On Sat, May 30, 2015 at 02:03:49PM -0400, Xu Wang wrote: > > macro index w "set my_var2=$editor" "test" Probably this is better: macro index w "set my_var2=\"$editor\"" "test" -- Suvayu Open source is the future. It sets us free.

Re: set a variable to a value with spaces in

2015-05-30 Thread Suvayu Ali
On Sat, May 30, 2015 at 02:03:49PM -0400, Xu Wang wrote: > Dear all, > > If I have the following in my rc: > > set editor="one -arg1 -arg2" Maybe try: set editor="\"one -arg1 -arg2\"" -- Suvayu Open source is the future. It sets us free.

Re: Cannot render Spanish accents in builtin pager

2015-06-01 Thread Suvayu Ali
On Mon, Jun 01, 2015 at 08:06:47PM -0400, Xu Wang wrote: > Dear all, > > I cannot seem to configure mutt such that the builtin pager renders accents. > > "Todavía" is shown as "TodavM-CM--a" > "También" is shown as "TambiM-CM-)n" > > When I set the pager to "less" or "vim", they are shown correc

Re: why does mutt open PDF with okular over mupdf?

2015-06-06 Thread Suvayu Ali
On Sat, Jun 06, 2015 at 11:17:26AM -0400, Xu Wang wrote: > I do not want to change it. I just want to understand. mupdf is my > default PDF reader. Also, xdg-open uses mupdf. mimeopen uses mupdf. I > have nothing in .mailcap about PDFs. > > I have read the manual but it mostly talks about .mailcap

Re: mutt license and SSL libraries

2015-06-17 Thread Suvayu Ali
On Wed, Jun 17, 2015 at 02:40:18AM -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: > > > Of course I know that it doesn't matter if I build binaries just for my > > personal use and don't distribute them, but in fact I build debian > > packages which are available over unauthenticated http, because I want a > > quick wa

Re: How to ask mutt to not check for new mail

2015-06-18 Thread Suvayu Ali
On Thu, Jun 18, 2015 at 04:46:02AM -0400, Xu Wang wrote: > > It is actually not documented (in 'man muttrc') what happens if > mail_check is set to 0. Does this mean it never checks or that it > checks as often as possible? Look at the main manual (usually available from Mutt with F1). On my sys

Re: How to ask mutt to not check for new mail

2015-06-18 Thread Suvayu Ali
On Thu, Jun 18, 2015 at 02:49:35PM -0400, Xu Wang wrote: > On Thu, Jun 18, 2015 at 5:48 AM, Suvayu Ali > wrote: > > On Thu, Jun 18, 2015 at 04:46:02AM -0400, Xu Wang wrote: > >> > >> It is actually not documented (in 'man muttrc') what happens if > &

Re: How to ask mutt to not check for new mail

2015-06-18 Thread Suvayu Ali
On Thu, Jun 18, 2015 at 06:28:34PM -0500, Derek Martin wrote: > > So, no, there's no way to prevent mutt from checking for new mail. I guess there is another way to go about this. The OP can set it to a large number of seconds, maybe something like 86400 (that's a day). That should effectively d

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