query_command handling of '%s' vs. %s

2001-08-30 Thread Volker Moell
Hi! When setting set query_command="~/bin/mutt-email '%s'" and searching for two words, e.g. "foo bar", it my $query_command got two args "foo" and "bar", not the single one "foo bar". When I see "command '%s'" I think that the single quotes will use only one argument (including the space). O

query_command handling of '%s' vs. %s

2001-08-30 Thread Volker Moell
Hi, there! When setting set query_command="~/bin/mutt-email '%s'" and searching for two words, e.g. "foo bar", it my $query_command got two args "foo" and "bar", not the single one "foo bar". When I see "command '%s'" I think that the single quotes will use only one argument (including the spa

No record of mails (on fcc-hook) when mailbox is not valid

2001-08-30 Thread Volker Moell
Hi, there! When specifying the fcc-hook: fcc-hook 'foo' "+x/y/z" without having a folder x/y/, mutt displays an error message which I can't read, and then at once the "Mail sent.". I even can't read the 'message when increasing the $sleep_time. But not the not-readable error message is the

Echoing text in the status bar?

2001-08-31 Thread Volker Moell
Hi, there! Is there a possibility to echo text in the status bar (I mean the very last line in mutt, where messages like "You are on the first page." appear)? I want to display some informations after applying complex macros. -volker -- http://die-moells.de/ * http://stama90.de/ *

"fcc-hooks" collide with "my_hdr From:"?

2001-08-31 Thread Volker Moell
quot;fcc" part of the fcc-save-hook (the "save" part works fine). When I don't use the "my_hdr From:", fcc works as expected. I use these lines in my muttrc: my_hdr From: Volker Moell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> fcc-save-hook 'peter@' "+peter"

Re: GPG, mutt and Outlook Express

2001-09-03 Thread Volker Moell
Andre Bonhote wrote: > > I just installed GPG 1.0.6 on my linux box and configured mutt to work > with it. Fine so far. Next, I set up a test win2k box with Outlook > Express, PGP 6.5.8 and later with 7.0.3. Now, after exchanging keys > (which are different, for testing purpose), I first tried to

Re: Umlaut blues

2001-09-05 Thread Volker Moell
Kai Blin wrote: > I compiled mutt-1.3.21 with imap and ssl support, not touching the nls > setting. My LANG is set C and my LC_CTYPE is de_DE. Still, my umlauts show a > question mark. > > What did I miss? Try to compile with one or both of the ./configure switches --enable-locales-fix and --wit

To Me, Myself and I

2001-09-05 Thread Volker Moell
Hi, there! When using the "set from='[EMAIL PROTECTED]'" every mail from this address to another person is displayed in the index with "To ...". But I use several e-mail addresses (and I have some more, older ones). Is it possible to specify *multiple* e-mail addresses (or better a RegExp) which

Re: Handling attachments

2001-09-13 Thread Volker Moell
Mack Stevenson wrote: > I am using mutt 1.2.5, but I can't read/view attachments if I don't first > save them into a separate file. When the viewer expects the name of a file > in the command-line, piping doesn't work; so how do other mutt users solve > this problem? Just by pressing "v" in th

Output of UNIX commands

2001-09-13 Thread Volker Moell
Hi, there! The output of UNIX commands traditionally will be substituted before the line is parsed. For the example my_hdr X-Operating-System: `uname -a` this is ok. But is there a solution to get the output of commands which change often, for example my_hdr X-Date: `date` I tried to put it

Re: Output of UNIX commands

2001-09-14 Thread Volker Moell
I wrote: > But is there a solution to get the output of commands which change > often, for example > my_hdr X-Date: `date` Anser to myself: Quote the backticks. \`...\` (Thanks to Peter due to his "send-hook . my_hdr X-Uptime: \`uptime\`"!) -volker -- http://die-Moells.de/ * http://S

Re: shell escape (!) oddity

2001-09-14 Thread Volker Moell
Drew Raines wrote: > I press ! to execute a shell command, and if I press enter at the prompt > instead of a command, it kicks me out of mutt without saving. Not really: Type "exit" and you get back to mutt. It's just a sub shell. > If this is the desirable behavior, will someone explain why?

Re: Optimizing GnuPG...

2001-09-17 Thread Volker Moell
Alexander Wasmuth wrote: > > I don't know how it works (but it does), it comes with newer version of > mutt (contrib/gpg.rc) and there isn't any screen output after > encrypting. Actually it has nothing to do with the original question. But in the current mutt tarball (1.3.22.1i) in all of the

next mail on reverse sorting

2001-09-27 Thread Volker Moell
Hi, all! E.g., when deleting a mail mutt jumps to the "next" mail. This seems to be the next unread mail with a *higher* index number. Is it possible to reverse this behaviour? I use "set sort=reverse-date", and it's very inefficient to read mails in the right order when deleting some of them on

Re: Temporarily deactivate auto_view

2001-10-17 Thread Volker Moell
Rob 'Feztaa' Park wrote: > > Also, what is the _effective_ difference between sourcing a file, and > writing some kind of mutt-script to toggle a bunch of options? I don't > actually see one :) I think: way better clearness. See for example the following situation: Using different identities via

Re: Temporarily deactivate auto_view

2001-10-18 Thread Volker Moell
Rob 'Feztaa' Park wrote: > > You don't _have_ to split up your .muttrc. It's just a feature, and it > has it's uses. Well, really? This would be great for me. But I don't know how to write only one muttrc when switching my digfferent identity settings on pres- sing a key (F11/F12). Is there real

Re: Temporarily deactivate auto_view

2001-10-19 Thread Volker Moell
René Clerc wrote: > macro index ":set foo=bla\ >:set bar=bla\ >:set ... > >... > >:set bart_simpson=crazy\ [...] > So you'd be better of sourcing some files ;) Indeed. And luckily! :-) In the meantime I arrived at

my_hdr vs. $from

2001-10-23 Thread Volker Moell
Hi, there! I get some mailing lists to a second account "volker-ml@..." (instead of volker@..."). So I want to set the correct header line "From:" for these lists. I tried set realname="Volker Moell" set use_from=yes send-hook . 'set from="[

Re: neato PGP/push thing... almost

2001-10-29 Thread Volker Moell
Hi, mutt-users! (I lost the original posting, so excuse the lost reference.) A week ago Justin asked how to check automatically traditional signed/crypted mails. He had the problem that mutt seems to go into an endless loop. I tried to figure it out and I got the same results, even with Thomas'

Re: [Q] send-hook

2001-10-31 Thread Volker Moell
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Can I do that by > send-hook A "set [EMAIL PROTECTED]" > send-hook B "set [EMAIL PROTECTED]" Use "myhdr" instead, $from does not work unfortunately. send-hook . 'unmy_hdr From:' send-hook . 'my_hdr From: Doughnut <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>' send-hook '~L mut

Re: Read-only

2001-10-31 Thread Volker Moell
Thorsten Haude wrote: > > >> 1. Is there any problem except writing mailboxes? > >No, I often do that. > Do you have any special provisions in this respect? I'm not Christoph, but I often use several mutt's at the same time, too. I even modify mails in both of the mut's, and I never got problems.

Re: Read-only

2001-10-31 Thread Volker Moell
Thorsten Haude wrote: > I can see me appending mail, eg. when I send one; but I usually don't > modify the mails in my mboxes. What do I miss here? Argh... ok, this was confusing. What I really meant was, you can get into trouble, when you append two mails to one mailbox *at the same time*. But

Re: Read-only

2001-10-31 Thread Volker Moell
Thorsten Haude wrote: > > You do that without excessive 's? Of course *with*. I often forget that somewhere else on another screen another mutt is open... ;-) > OK then, I'm game. Good luck! :-) -volker -- http://die-Moells.de/ * http://Stama90.de/ * http://ScriptDale.de/ Fachbeg

Re: reply_regexp question

2001-11-08 Thread Volker Moell
Robson Braga Araujo wrote: > > I would like to know why a regular expression like > '^(\[[^]]+\] *[Rr][Ee](\[[0-9]+\])?: *)|([Rr][Ee](\[[0-9]+\])?: *\[[^]]+\] >*)(([Rr][Ee](\[[0-9]+\])?: *)?(\[[^]]+\] *)?)*' > does not work in mutt. If you are testing $reply_regexp: It's case *insensitive*. S

Re: Inhibit display of MIME type during Autoview

2001-11-13 Thread Volker Moell
Prahlad Vaidyanathan wrote: > > [-- Autoview using lynx -dump etc etc --] > > Now, how do I prevent this from showing up ? AFAIK you can't. But at least you can colorize this in your background color. Assume your term background is black, use color attachment black default

Re: mail2procmailrc

2001-11-17 Thread Volker Moell
Markus Sagebiel wrote: > > Can't locate Curses.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /usr/lib/perl5/i386-linux > /usr/lib/perl5 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/i386-linux > /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl .) at > /home/mark/.procmail/m2proc/mail2procmail.pl line 7. > Where to find it ? See CPAN:

$attribution/$post_indent_string for new mail

2001-12-05 Thread Volker Moell
Hi, mutt-users! When replying a mail I use $attribution and $post_indent_string to spare the time to write both of them. This works good. But I'd like to have something similar when composing a new mail, but unfortunately $attribution and $post_indent_string are only for replying. Is there a eq

Re: $attribution/$post_indent_string for new mail

2001-12-05 Thread Volker Moell
Thorsten Haude wrote: > I could send you a NEdit solution that could be changed to do what you > want. Thanks, but I use emacs. > In any case, ask your editor (and its command line), not Mutt. I often read this answer (and I accept it). But I thought that if mutt supports $attribution/$post_

Re: $attribution/$post_indent_string for new mail

2001-12-05 Thread Volker Moell
David T-G wrote: > > I don't get it, though. Those variables reference data from the replied > mail. What on earth do you expect to have in them when you're starting > a new mail? In replied messages it's the realname part in "From:", so now I want the realname part in "To:" (prompted after typ

Re: $attribution/$post_indent_string for new mail

2001-12-05 Thread Volker Moell
David T-G wrote: > % In replied messages it's the realname part in "From:", so now I want the > % realname part in "To:" (prompted after typing "m"). Is this so > % illogical? > > Nothing is ever illogical once the point of view is understood -- but I > don't yet understand your point of view :-

Re: [Announce] mutt-1.3.24i is out (BETA).

2001-12-09 Thread Volker Moell
David T-G wrote: > > I see the new PATCHES file and its use in the ChangeLog. Yay :-) Apropos the PATCHES file: I just wanted to apply the patch-1.3.24.vvv.initials patch mentioned a few postings above (the only other patch I use in addition is patch-1.3.24.vvv.nntp). In both cases -p1 is the

Re: Mutt file browser question

2001-12-17 Thread Volker Moell
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I have all my mail sorted in a number of mailboxes and when I change > from one to another (i.e. go to file browser and select needed mailbox) > cursor is always at the top. Is it possible to make it stay on the last > open file, not jump to the top? Try patch-1.3.23.

Re: Mutt file browser question

2001-12-17 Thread Volker Moell
Volker Moell wrote: > > (It works with 1.2.14, too.) Sorry, typo^2. I certainly mean 1.3.24. Greets, -volker -- http://die-Moells.de/ * http://Stama90.de/ * http://ScriptDale.de/ fortune: cpu time/usefulness ratio too high -- core dumped. msg21685/pgp0.pgp Descriptio

Re: my-text-mode

2002-01-03 Thread Volker Moell
giorgian wrote: > > i put in my .muttrc the row: > set editor="emacs -f my-text-mode" > > but it doesn't work: mutt still opens my emacs in the default mode > (lisp interaction); i don't want to change the default mode, just to > use my-text-mode with mutt. Try set editor="emacs %s --eval '(

save-hook on Reply-To:

2002-01-05 Thread Volker Moell
Hi, mutt-users! I got an e-mail from greetings.yahoo.com, and with this I noticed a strange behaviour. Don't know, if this is a bug^wflea or feature, but maybe it's interesting, though. The interesting header lines are: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] When saving ("s"

Re: Mutt sucks less than the rest

2002-01-07 Thread Volker Moell
Lars Hecking wrote: > > Secondly, mutt also supports checking of traditionally signed email > (i.e. without conversion). > > P check-traditional-pgp check for classic pgp Months ago there was a thread how to do this automatically. But at that time all tries didn't work; AFAIR there wa

Re: Mutt sucks less than the rest

2002-01-09 Thread Volker Moell
David T-G wrote: > > Do you mean a folder of emails that are non-MIME pgp and you want them to > be seen as PGP messages? Well, what about a muttrc hook line or a macro > that simply says > > . > > to tag 'em all, hit esc-P for 'em, and then untag? Great, thanks! I should think more in macr

Re: Suggestion for List Etiquette

2002-01-09 Thread Volker Moell
Charles Jie wrote: > I Agree. For an hacker, his message should be as well tailored as his > programs. But please: Don't snip *everything*! Just reading the answer or comment (to an unknown question, because I deleted the original posting in the meantime) ist more painful than ignoring superfluou

Re: validating traditional signitures

2002-01-24 Thread Volker Moell
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Then I sugest you to use: > > macro pager \cv "set >pgp_verify_sig\nunset pgp_verify_sig\n" "Check >PGP sig" One question: Why isn't there a general solution for this FAQ (sic!)? In the last five months I read mutt-users this problem came up several times. Lots

Re: validating traditional signitures

2002-01-25 Thread Volker Moell
David T-G wrote: > > *This* question has started coming up relatively recently, and before now > it hasn't been a concern. I thought I read about the whole "Problems with PGP mails from Outlook" more often in the last months. > Whoa -- when did we jump to traditional style from macros? These

Re: validating traditional signitures

2002-01-25 Thread Volker Moell
Jeremy Blosser wrote: > > procmail or other MDAs will always be able to do it better, because they're > looking at the message in exactly the right way at exactly the right time. > With Mutt you're always going to have this effect not stick with the > message (so you have to do it every time), yo

Re: recognizing traditional PGP

2002-01-25 Thread Volker Moell
David T-G wrote: > > Hokay. As below, I just wanted to make sure of what we were discussing. > I've changed the subject line to help :-) Good, thanks! > You realize what you're asking, right? With PGP/MIME, mutt simply has to > look at the headers to see what it must do, and that's already d

Re: validating traditional signitures

2002-01-25 Thread Volker Moell
Rob 'Feztaa' Park wrote: > > > I'm honesty, I don't have much knowledge about procmail. But in my > > eyes it's *not* the job of the MDA. > It makes sense to me that the mail _delivery_ agent ought to _deliver_ > your mail into the mboxes that you want them in ;) Sure. "D" like in "delivery". B

Re: s/mime questions

2002-02-01 Thread Volker Moell
Mike Schiraldi wrote: > [...] Just a question: Is it really necessary to attach at each message the smime.p7s file (your signature or so)? It has always about the 10th size of your underlying posting, so it increases the size of your posting way much. What is it for at all? Why is this (I think)

Re: Sorting in mailbox question

2002-02-06 Thread Volker Moell
> On Wed, Feb 06, 2002 at 10:25:43AM -0600, Kenneth Pronovici wrote: > > > >sort=thread/subject/date Aside from the (IMHO good) sense of the multiple sort fields just one comment to the original poster. Even if implemented, I think your problem wouldn't be solved. When sorting by "thread/su

send-hook for NNTP folders

2002-02-07 Thread Volker Moell
Hi, there! I'm doing my first steps on VV's NNTP patch. Great one! :-) But I didn't found out to build a send-hook (for $attribution et al) recognizing when a posting is sent to a newsgroup (via "F"). I tried send-hook '~h ^Newsgroups:' 'set attribution="%n wrote:"' but this did not work:

Re: regexp problem with parentheses

2002-02-28 Thread Volker Moell
Scott wrote: > trying to color entries in the index matching on the from field, I use > the following: > > color index blue black '~f (Person1|Person2)' > > However, I get a 'parentheses not matched error' Try: color index blue black '~f "(Person1|Person2)"' ^

Scoring known addresses

2002-02-28 Thread Volker Moell
Hi, all! Is there a posibillity to score all known mail addresses (i.e. all addresses defined in aliases) in one single score statement? I only found then ~l for all messages addressed to a known mailing list: score ~l +100 Greetings, -volker -- http://die-Moells.de/ * http://Stama

Compiling problems with newer autoconf on vvv.nntp patch

2002-03-14 Thread Volker Moell
Hi, there! I have problems in compiling mutt (1.3.28) with together with the vvv.nntp patch on the latest (self compiled) autoconf release (2.53). On autoconf-2.52 I get the following warnings(?): $ ./configure [...] $ make cd . && aclocal -I m4 cd . && automake --foreign --include-de