disable beep sound

2008-08-20 Thread bill lam
I use mutt on xterm, It make a beep sound whenever mail box closes (because I reset internet connection to renew public IP). Is there any way to disable beep/bell sound? regards,

Re: disable beep sound

2008-08-20 Thread bill lam
On Wed, 20 Aug 2008, Stefan Wimmer wrote: > Does "set beep=no" not help? Thanks! it works. BTW when I hit reply (r), it filled your email address instead of group list address, how to reply to (1) group or (2) all , as that available in thunderbird? regards,

Re: disable beep sound

2008-08-20 Thread bill lam
On Wed, 20 Aug 2008, Michael Kjorling wrote: > On 20 Aug 2008 18:11 +0800, by [EMAIL PROTECTED] (bill lam): > > how to reply to (1) group > > L () > > Note that you will need to tell mutt that the mail came through a > mailing list for this to work. See the documen

charset problem in index view

2008-08-20 Thread bill lam
When the header was From: =?big5?q?=ABab=20=AAL?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED] it display "from" in index view =?GB2312?B?udpi however when the header was From: =?gb2312?q?=BD=F0=D8S=B3=C7?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED] it displayed as =?BIG5?B?qvfC16 Both displayed correctly in pager view. regards,

"from" in index view for mailing list

2008-08-20 Thread bill lam
eg, in the index view, it shows 4176 N F Aug 21 To mutt-users (3.0K) charset problem in index view the "from" is "To mutt-users" for all msg from this mailing list, how to set it to display the name of poster, eg. 4176 N F Aug 21 bill lam(3.0K) charset problem in index view regards,

Re: "from" in index view for mailing list

2008-08-20 Thread bill lam
On Wed, 20 Aug 2008, Kyle Wheeler wrote: > On Thursday, August 21 at 08:42 AM, quoth bill lam: > >eg, in the index view, it shows > > > >4176 N F Aug 21 To mutt-users (3.0K) charset problem in index view > > > >the "from" is "To mutt-users"

Re: charset problem in index view

2008-08-20 Thread bill lam
On Wed, 20 Aug 2008, Kyle Wheeler wrote: > Hmmm, weird. Sounds like your header_cache got messed up. Try deleting > your header cache. I delete cached but it still appears the same way. Furthermore this misbehavior is not limited to Chinese. It also happens to author name that containing of non-

how to interrupt

2008-08-26 Thread bill lam
Hi All, Sometime mutt hangs or waits for a long time during downloading or uploading mail. Is there any method to interrupt other than killall? -- regards, GPG key 1024D/4434BAB3 2008-08-24 gpg --keyserver subkeys.pgp.net --recv-keys 4434BAB3

Re: how to interrupt

2008-08-27 Thread bill lam
On Tue, 26 Aug 2008, Rocco Rutte wrote: > Is there progress in the mean time? How long does it take? Can you > exclude networking problems of any kind? > > Currently there's no way to interrupt, though IIRC there's a enhancement > request to support it for mutt 2.0. > > Rocco Thank Rocco and K

search backward

2008-09-04 Thread bill lam
In the index pane, "/" and "n" can search and search next. How to do searching backwards? -- regards, GPG key 1024D/4434BAB3 2008-08-24 gpg --keyserver subkeys.pgp.net --recv-keys 4434BAB3

Re: search backward

2008-09-04 Thread bill lam
On Fri, 05 Sep 2008, Michael Kjorling wrote: > On 5 Sep 2008 13:55 +0800, by [EMAIL PROTECTED] (bill lam): > > In the index pane, "/" and "n" can search and search next. > > How to do searching backwards? > > How about ? > Pardon, exa

Re: search backward

2008-09-05 Thread bill lam
On Thu, 04 Sep 2008, Gary Johnson wrote: > > / search-reversesearch backwards for a regular expression Thank you, I can find it now. BTW, can the output of ? screen be redirected to a file or system clipboard? -- regards, GPG

tagged items

2008-09-21 Thread bill lam
Hello, After I tag some item using "T", how to jump to previous/next tagged item, or have a list of tagged items? -- regards, GPG key 1024D/4434BAB3 2008-08-24 gpg --keyserver subkeys.pgp.net --recv-keys 4434BAB3

Re: tagged items

2008-09-21 Thread bill lam
Hi Gary, Thank you for help! A related question, how to untag all tagged items? -- regards, GPG key 1024D/4434BAB3 2008-08-24 gpg --keyserver subkeys.pgp.net --recv-keys 4434BAB3

Re: tagged items

2008-09-22 Thread bill lam
On Sun, 21 Sep 2008, Patrick Shanahan wrote: > * bill lam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [09-21-08 22:36]: > > A related question, how to untag all tagged items? > > the question mark "?" will give you a help screen. Open it in "index" > mode to see the tag

Re: tagged items

2008-09-22 Thread bill lam
On Mon, 22 Sep 2008, Vance Shipley wrote: > On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 10:34:11AM +0800, bill lam wrote: > } A related question, how to untag all tagged entrys? > > Bill, > > The tag-entry function (default = 't') key actually toggles > the tagging of an entry. Be

delete duplicated mails

2008-09-22 Thread bill lam
Hello, After forwarding or copying, there are duplicated mails in local maibox folder. Is there an method to duplicated mails and only keep a copy of each mail? The "Message-ID" field in header section is intended to be the key field. -- regards, ==

Re: delete duplicated mails

2008-09-22 Thread bill lam
On Tue, 23 Sep 2008, Marianne Promberger wrote: > in muttrc: > set duplicate_threads = yes > > then: > > D~= > > (i.e. ~= ) > > I've actually got a folder-hook set to do this: > > folder-hook . push "~=" Thank you for quick response! That folder-hook is very convenient. -- regards, ==

Re: delete duplicated mails

2008-09-22 Thread bill lam
On Mon, 22 Sep 2008, Patrick Shanahan wrote: > It would *really* be a good time to spend a few minutes glancing thru > the very fine mutt documentation which you noted earlier as rtfm! Frankly speaking, I can not understand why you keeping telling people to rtfm in a support forum. If you do not ca

Re: delete duplicated mails

2008-09-22 Thread bill lam
On Mon, 22 Sep 2008, Patrick Shanahan wrote: > > If you do not care to help, there are other more helpful people. > > as you wish. Good! Please just ignore and do not response future mails from me. -- regards, GPG key 1024D/4434BAB3 2008-08-2

Re: delete duplicated mails

2008-09-22 Thread bill lam
On Mon, 22 Sep 2008, Sahil Tandon wrote: > bill lam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Mon, 22 Sep 2008, Patrick Shanahan wrote: > > > > If you do not care to help, there are other more helpful people. > > > > > > as you wish. > > > &g

search new mails in the opposite order

2008-09-24 Thread bill lam
Hello, I sort emails in this manner set sort=reverse-threads set sort_aux=last-date-received when I read mails inside a thread, pressing search next new mail, but that will be the previous mail in chronological order. Try pressing does not help. Is there any way to search new mail in the oppos

Re: search new mails in the opposite order

2008-09-25 Thread bill lam
On Thu, 25 Sep 2008, Kyle Wheeler wrote: > bind pager,index \S previous-new-then-unread Thank you Kyle! btw, I discovered that I had made a very bad choice for choosing shift-tab as it is not supported on xterm without further hacking. -- regards, ==

where does it search

2008-09-25 Thread bill lam
In index page, / or T can search a pattern or regex, and there are modifiers like ~h ~b to force searching inside header or body etc. But what is the context for searching without any such modifiers, does it search the header or body or just what is visible of the index screen? TIA -- regards, ==

Re: where does it search

2008-09-25 Thread bill lam
On Thu, 25 Sep 2008, Rocco Rutte wrote: > This feature is called "simple search", see $simple_search and its > documentation: mutt generates a pattern with modifiers for you. Thank you Rocco! The friendly way to rtfm. ;-) -- regards, GPG key 1

Re: where does it search

2008-09-25 Thread bill lam
Thanks Vance and Kyle. I once had to kill mutt when searching gmail imap with ~b. -- regards, GPG key 1024D/4434BAB3 2008-08-24 gpg --keyserver subkeys.pgp.net --recv-keys 4434BAB3

command mode?

2008-09-28 Thread bill lam
Hello, There are some unbound functions at the bottom of the help page "?" eg, "query" "delete-thread", However when I type :query It said unknown command, How to execute these commands without binding them to shortcut keys? Also commands like "set aaa=" seems working, but how to do things l

Re: command mode?

2008-09-28 Thread bill lam
On Sun, 28 Sep 2008, Michael Kjorling wrote: > :push "" Thank you for quick response. I see the syntax is to type :push first. memo -- regards, GPG key 1024D/4434BAB3 2008-08-24 gpg --keyserver subkeys.pgp.net --recv-keys 4434BAB3

tag pattern

2008-10-02 Thread bill lam
Hi all, I often need to tag the same pattern. Instead of typing each time, how can I save the following and bind it shortcut key? tag pattern T\[.*patch.*\] TIA -- regards, GPG key 1024D/4434BAB3 2008-08-24 gpg --keyserver subkeys.p

Re: tag pattern

2008-10-02 Thread bill lam
On Thu, 02 Oct 2008, Rejo Zenger wrote: > ++ 02/10/08 21:45 +0800 - bill lam: > >I often need to tag the same pattern. Instead of typing each time, how > >can I save the following and bind it shortcut key? > >tag pattern > > T\[.*patch.*\] > > You woul

tag-prefix

2008-10-02 Thread bill lam
Suppose I tag 2 msg inside a thread and then collapse it so that those tag items are invisible. Then tag-prefix (eg ;d) can not operate on those item. Apparently tag-prefix only applies to visible items, is this intended and what is the workaround? -- regards,

Re: tag-prefix

2008-10-02 Thread bill lam
On Thu, 02 Oct 2008, Kyle Wheeler wrote: > On Thursday, October 2 at 11:21 PM, quoth bill lam: > > Suppose I tag 2 msg inside a thread and then collapse it so that those > > tag items are invisible. Then tag-prefix (eg ;d) can not operate on > > those item. Apparently ta

Re: Encoding problem

2008-10-13 Thread bill lam
On Mon, 13 Oct 2008, Przemyslaw Gawronski wrote: > set fileencodings=utf8 I guess this line is incorrect, you have to put multiple encodings see :h fencs may be you can send me a latin2 mail for testing. -- regards, GPG key 1024D/4434BAB3 2

cancel command

2008-10-13 Thread bill lam
Suppose I hit a key that is not a completely binded such as just a single , how to cancel this key gracefully, instead of continue to hit a space key so that it show an error message then abort. -- regards, GPG key 1024D/4434BAB3 2008-08-24 gpg

Re: cancel command

2008-10-13 Thread bill lam
On Tue, 14 Oct 2008, Michael Tatge wrote: > Hit ^g (that's ctrl-g) Thank you Michael, this is what I need. -- regards, GPG key 1024D/4434BAB3 2008-08-24 gpg --keyserver subkeys.pgp.net --recv-keys 4434BAB3

mime type when adding attachment

2008-11-02 Thread bill lam
When I attach an excel file, its mime type is automatically set to "application/excel", while recipient has no problem (they use outlook), my mailcap has not associate that with any spreadsheet program, thus mutt cannot open it. My question is how does mutt determine mime type when adding attachme

Re: mime type when adding attachment

2008-11-03 Thread bill lam
On Mon, 03 Nov 2008, Christian Mongeau wrote: > Chapter 5 of the manual deals with MIME: > http://www.mutt.org/doc/devel/manual.html#mimesupport > > In particular, "2. MIME Type configuration with mime.types" > (http://www.mutt.org/doc/devel/manual.html#mime-types) says: > "When you add an attachm

Re: mime type when adding attachment

2008-11-03 Thread bill lam
On Mon, 03 Nov 2008, Christian Mongeau wrote: > AFAIK there shouldn't be a /usr/etc/mime.types because it's not > FHS-compliant: > "[...] /usr/etc is still not allowed: programs in /usr should > place configuration files in /etc." I checked the mutt source and found that it set sysconfdir to prefi

tiff to pdf

2008-11-09 Thread bill lam
When I receive email with tiff attachment, my default image viewer 'feh' can not handle it and I'm reluctant to install another image viewer. Although I can save it and convert to pdf with command $tiff2ps -a foo.tif | ps2pdf - > foo.pdf How to automate this process within mutt so that it can conv

Re: tiff to pdf

2008-11-09 Thread bill lam
On Sun, 09 Nov 2008, Christian Ebert wrote: > There's also tiff2pdf which would safe the detour via ps2pdf. > > Unfortunately piping to 'xpdf /dev/stdin' doesn't work in this > case. > > But the following script does for me: > > $ cat muttiff.sh > #!/bin/sh > > tf=`mktemp` > # copy mutt's tempf

how to edit as new

2008-12-03 Thread bill lam
Hi All, I want to know how to call a old message either in sent or inbox and edit its content and then send it as a new message without the old message-id. Will the attachment in old message also be included? Thanks in advance. -- regards, GPG

Re: how to edit as new

2008-12-04 Thread bill lam
On Thu, 04 Dec 2008, Jörg Sommer wrote: > Hi bill, > > bill lam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I want to know how to call a old message either in sent or inbox and > > edit its content and then send it as a new message without the old > > message-id. Will the

multiple interactive mutt instance

2008-12-04 Thread bill lam
I always have a mutt running in screen. Is it save to run another interactive instance of mutt? -- regards, GPG key 1024D/4434BAB3 2008-08-24 gpg --keyserver subkeys.pgp.net --recv-keys 4434BAB3 唐詩235 杜甫 八陣圖 功蓋三分國 名成八陣圖 江流石不轉 遺恨失吞吳

Re: multiple interactive mutt instance

2008-12-04 Thread bill lam
Thanks Joost & Sander for quick response. I am replying from the second instance of mutt. -- regards, GPG key 1024D/4434BAB3 2008-08-24 gpg --keyserver subkeys.pgp.net --recv-keys 4434BAB3 唐詩266 王昌齡 春宮曲 昨夜風開露井桃 未央前殿月輪高 平陽歌舞新承寵 簾外春寒賜錦袍

send attachment interactively from command line

2008-12-04 Thread bill lam
Some other mua such as thunderbird can be invoked from command line to a send a file as attachment interactively such that it creates a new email with that file as attachment. Other details such recipient, subject or body message can be entered before sending. Is that possible with mutt? Thank yo

Re: send attachment interactively from command line

2008-12-05 Thread bill lam
On Fri, 05 Dec 2008, Kyle Wheeler wrote: > On Friday, December 5 at 01:35 PM, quoth bill lam: > > Some other mua such as thunderbird can be invoked from command line to > > a send a file as attachment interactively such that it creates a new > > email with that file as atta

Re: send attachment interactively from command line

2008-12-05 Thread bill lam
On Fri, 05 Dec 2008, Marianne Promberger wrote: > Let's assume you want to attach file "~/tmp/foo.txt" > > At the command line, type: > > mutt -a ~/tmp/foo.txt [ENTER] Thanks, This works very well. Also thanks Micheal for suggesting the -e command so that I can source different profiles. --

decrypt pgp mail sent from thunderbird

2008-12-11 Thread bill lam
I received an email sent using thunderbird that did not use attachment. The body is just text like the following: -BEGIN PGP MESSAGE- Charset: ISO-8859-1 Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org ... ... -END PGP MESSAGE--

Re: decrypt pgp mail sent from thunderbird

2008-12-12 Thread bill lam
On Fri, 12 Dec 2008, Jörg Sommer wrote: > Press Alt + Shift + p or ESC Shift + p. But at me, the non‐acsii > characters are broken. In my UTF‐8 environment, they aren't displayed > as UTF‐8 characters. Thanks Jörg. It works like a charm. I have not (yet) encountered the problem you described becau

Re: bind doesn't work even though it's listed with ?

2008-12-13 Thread bill lam
On Sat, 13 Dec 2008, Dave Wood wrote: > I'm using to read next-undeleted which works fine, but when I set > to read previous-undeleted it says key not bound. I have it > set for index and pager: > > bindindex next-undeleted > bindpager next-undel

certificate for gmail

2008-12-14 Thread bill lam
I have already setup gmail certificate files for mutt and msmtp. However I wondered why other email clients such as outlook in m$ windows or even thunderbird under linux do not ask for them. Are those gmail certificates bundled with email clients or are they already located in some well known dire

Re: not all attachments shown in pager

2008-12-17 Thread bill lam
On Wed, 17 Dec 2008, Rejo Zenger wrote: > |I 1 [multipa/alternativ, > 7bit, 178K] > |I 2 AA> [text/plain, 7bit, > us-ascii, 1.8K] > |I 3 AA>[multipa/mixed, > 7bit, 176K] > |I 4 AA> [t

Re: New mail not found - what to check?

2008-12-19 Thread bill lam
On Fri, 19 Dec 2008, Chris G wrote: > But mutt isn't seeing any new mail. Just wild guess, did you set mailboxes to the proper directory in .muttrc ? like this, say, set folder="$HOME/Mail" # Local mailboxes stored here mailboxes ! +freewant +ixion -- regards, =

Re: Adding local files as attachments

2008-12-23 Thread bill lam
On Tue, 23 Dec 2008, Dustin Cannon wrote: > I am using mutt to connect to an imap server. When I try to add an > attachment mutt wants to search the imap server. I can't seem to find > any way to make mutt search locally for files to attach. Can someone > enlighten me? It should not related to

Re: sendmail?

2008-12-27 Thread bill lam
On Sat, 27 Dec 2008, David Maus wrote: > So you *could* set up such software on your box that does the > delivery but you probably wouldn't be happy with this solution as some > mail providers do not accept delivery attempts from dynamic ip > addresses for spam prevention. More specifically, it n

Re: Mutt as command line attachment mailer

2008-12-30 Thread bill lam
On Tue, 30 Dec 2008, Sebastian Tennant wrote: > However, what about attachment handling? does nail/mailx help? -- regards, GPG key 1024D/4434BAB3 2008-08-24 gpg --keyserver subkeys.pgp.net --recv-keys 4434BAB3 唐詩091 張九齡 望月懷遠 海上生明月 天涯共此時

Re: how to mark all as read?

2009-01-05 Thread bill lam
On Mon, 05 Jan 2009, Ed Blackman wrote: > macro index c > "~T\n~N\n~T\n" Does it work if there is no new messages? -- regards, GPG key 1024D/4434BAB3 2008-08-24 gpg --keyserver subkeys.pgp.net --recv-keys 4434BAB3 唐詩241 李端 聽箏 鳴箏金粟柱 素手玉房

Re: how to mark all as read?

2009-01-05 Thread bill lam
On Mon, 05 Jan 2009, Kyle Wheeler wrote: > ~T~N~T Thanks. I tried and apparently it needs to expand all collapsed threads first, otherwise only those visible messages will be affected. -- regards, GPG key 1024D/4434BAB3 2008-08-24 gpg --keyser

reminder for missing attachment

2009-01-15 Thread bill lam
Some other email clients should already have this plugin. If the email body contains words like: attach(ed) or attachment(s), it will issue a warning if no attachment is added when sending. How to implement this in mutt? -- regards, GPG key 10

Re: reminder for missing attachment

2009-01-16 Thread bill lam
On Fri, 16 Jan 2009, Christian Brabandt wrote: > I have seen several solutions for that. One is mentioned at the wiki¹, > ¹ http://wiki.mutt.org/?ConfigTricks/CheckAttach Thank everyone for help. I finally modify this checkattach to my need. Yes it needs the 5MB zenity, not sure why that is so b

Re: reminder for missing attachment

2009-01-16 Thread bill lam
On Fri, 16 Jan 2009, Christian Brabandt wrote: > ¹ http://wiki.mutt.org/?ConfigTricks/CheckAttach > ² http://mako.cc/projects/attachcheck/README.html On second thought, there is an issue because the message may be in quote-printable or base64 encoding, it has to be decoded before grep for the word

autoview always dump to /tmp/mutt.html

2009-02-03 Thread bill lam
I found that in current version, it always dump to the same file name mutt.html, is this a regression? [-- Autoview using /usr/bin/w3m -dump -T text/html ''/tmp/mutt.html'' --] $ mutt -version Mutt 1.5.19 (2009-01-27) -- regards, GPG key 1024

local sendmail

2009-02-03 Thread bill lam
Apologise if this OT, I use rss2email to download rss and then it automatically calls sendmail to send them as emails to my gmail account so that they can be read with mutt. My pc does not have valid domain name. I wonder if it is possible to teach sendmail to delivery email to local maildir wit

Re: local sendmail

2009-02-04 Thread bill lam
On Wed, 04 Feb 2009, Christian Ebert wrote: > With my postfix' sendmail here this works. Thank for suggestion. I was using msmtp symlink as sendmail that doesn't work. Using postfix' sendmail it works ok. I am quite happy with rss2email/mutt combination as my newsfeed reader. -- regards, ===

Re: local sendmail

2009-02-05 Thread bill lam
On Thu, 05 Feb 2009, Anders Rayner-Karlsson wrote: > Does not work. Tried it today, and you only get a mbox that is not a > real mbox. You can edit it by hand, inserting a blank line between the It works for me. I use maildir instead of mbox if it matters -- regards, ===

Re: Check default IMAP mailbox on startup

2009-02-06 Thread bill lam
On Fri, 06 Feb 2009, Andrey Zhidenkov wrote: > Hello. > > I have configured mutt to use with GMail IMAP mailboxes. I set up > mailboxes in my .muttrc in this way: > > mailboxes ! =ml-lug-list =ml-lug-org =[Gmail]/Drafts "=[Gmail]/All Mail" > > Can I configure mutt to check one of this mailboxes

Re: How can I get mail from /var/mail/jatmin to my spoolfile

2009-02-07 Thread bill lam
On Sat, 07 Feb 2009, Josef Atmin wrote: > After having discovered macros I came up with the following solution for > moving mail from /var/mail/jatmin to ~/INBOX. > >macro index,pager G "\ > unset wait_key\ > \ > if [[ -s /var/mail/$USER ]]; then\ > cat /var/mail/$USER >> ~/INBOX;\ > echo

Re: How can I get mail from /var/mail/jatmin to my spoolfile

2009-02-08 Thread bill lam
On Sun, 08 Feb 2009, Josef Atmin wrote: > Thanks for pointing that out. How would I do that? Set permissions to > non-writable? Does any of the followings help? $ man -k lock | grep "(1)" -- regards, GPG key 1024D/4434BAB3 2008-08-24 gpg --k

how to revert an attachment when composing

2009-02-10 Thread bill lam
When composing new mails, I can use "a" to add attachments. However I cannot find any hot-key to revert an attachment (do not attach that attachment). Is there any way to do it? Thanks. -- regards, GPG key 1024D/4434BAB3 2008-08-24 gpg --keys

Re: how to revert an attachment when composing

2009-02-10 Thread bill lam
> with the attachment highlighted: > > D Thanks Cristóbal, Nicolas. That is called 'detach', no wonder I searched TFM for 'attach' and could not locate it. -- regards, GPG key 1024D/4434BAB3 2008-08-24 gpg --keyserver subkeys.pgp.net --recv-

set up multiple account

2009-02-12 Thread bill lam
(I apologise that I once saw a thread on this subject but could not locate it,) I got several gmail accounts that have to be set up inside muttrc like: folder-hook "imaps://cfoo...@imap.gmail.com" '\ set from="cfoo...@gmail.com" ; \ set folder="imaps://cfoo...@imap.gmail.com" ; \ set spoolfile="+

Re: set up multiple account

2009-02-13 Thread bill lam
On Thu, 12 Feb 2009, Ed Blackman wrote: > `muttGmail cfoobar` > `muttGmail ifoobar` > > Mutt will run muttGmail with the given argument. muttGmail will take > the argument and spit out the complete folder-hook. Mutt will then > interpret the output as configuration commands, and you're all se

Re: set up multiple account

2009-02-13 Thread bill lam
On Fri, 13 Feb 2009, Ed Blackman wrote: > Do this, inside mutt type: > > :`echo 'set my_test=foo'` > > and then > > :set ?my_test This example worked, but I might find the reason why it didn't work in general. I saved the following script as mutt-test and put a line `mutt-test bar` in my .muttrc

Re: set up multiple account

2009-02-14 Thread bill lam
On Sat, 14 Feb 2009, Ed Blackman wrote: > Use the same muttGmail script, but include it in .muttrc with > source 'muttGmail foo|' Thanks Ed, it works very well now. -- regards, GPG key 1024D/4434BAB3 2008-08-24 gpg --keyserver subkeys.pgp.

can not clone mutt hg

2009-02-18 Thread bill lam
I can not clone mutt today. it said $ hg clone http://dev.mutt.org/hg/mutt destination directory: mutt requesting all changes adding changesets adding manifests adding file changes transaction abort! rollback completed abort: premature EOF reading chunk (got 2263 bytes, expected 1196433487) The la

Re: can not clone mutt hg

2009-02-18 Thread bill lam
On Wed, 18 Feb 2009, Michael Elkins wrote: > I had no problems cloning the repo just a minute ago, so it might be your > connection. > Thanks, I had no problem today. It should be just some network error. -- regards, GPG key 1024D/4434BAB3 20

Re: newbie install

2009-02-21 Thread bill lam
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 compose > emails. Should be of interest to anyone who wants to say goodbye to > the mouse while editing emails. There is

Re: newbie install

2009-02-22 Thread bill lam
On Sun, 22 Feb 2009, James Freer wrote: > 'ItsallText' i haven't got working somehow. For gmail one has got to > do a bash script from what i can gather. Mozex is fine for me and is I just used gvim and that worked for me although I rarely use firefox now. -- regards, ===

Re: open a browser

2009-02-27 Thread bill lam
On Fri, 27 Feb 2009, Andreas Kalex wrote: > Hi, > > I want to tune my muttrc and/or mailcap to do the following: when > getting a mail with html inside or as an attachment, I want to > decide whether to open it with html2text, w3m or occasionally with > dillo or firefox. Now it is so that the fir

Re: Show my replies in thread

2009-02-28 Thread bill lam
I use an additional gmail account. Suppose I use a...@gmail to subscribe to a list. I then set at a...@gmai web interface to cc all emails to b...@gmail. When posting to the list, I bcc to b...@gmail. Use imap of b...@gmail to read list emails which contains all emails sending from/to a...@gmail.

Re: How to be compatible with Outlook's conversation mode?

2009-03-03 Thread bill lam
On Tue, 03 Mar 2009, Magicloud Magiclouds wrote: > I think this option only effects how the mails displayed, right? > My problem is that my mails (composed by mutt) could not be organized > as conversation in the receivers' outlook. But is there any positive evidents that your out-going email is o

Re: local sendmail

2009-03-10 Thread bill lam
On Thu, 05 Feb 2009, Anders Rayner-Karlsson wrote: > > On Wed, Feb 04, 2009 at 09:53:03AM -0500, Aron Griffis wrote: > > > emailj...@gmx.de wrote: [Wed Feb 04 2009, 09:38:07AM EST] > > > > Is there some other way around this other than having to run postfix? > > > > > > I haven't used rss2email

Re: accent problem replying mails

2009-04-03 Thread bill lam
On Fri, 03 Apr 2009, Roger Casaponsa wrote: > I think that es...@euro is the same that es_ES.ISO8859-15 because when > I choose wich locales I want this is displayed like: es...@euro > ISO-8859-15 If it was related to vim, you may test when replying with vim by typing :set fenc this should give th

Re: send-hook auto cc not working,

2009-04-07 Thread bill lam
On Tue, 07 Apr 2009, zhang zhengquan wrote: > send-hook a...@abc.edu \ > "push ,o...@abc.eu" may be you forget to escape the `.`, eg. send-hook a...@abc\\.edu \ "push ,o...@abc.eu" HTH -- regards, GPG key 1024D/4434BAB3 2008-

Re: Mailing list "from" format

2009-04-10 Thread bill lam
On Fri, 10 Apr 2009, J. Limon wrote: > That actually makes perfect sense. That way I could easily reply to > the person OR the list depending on the situation. I'll just have to > train myself to remember L instead of r for lists, but that > shouldn't be too hard given that lists starts with L, hur

vcf attachment

2009-04-11 Thread bill lam
There are vcf attachments with mime type text/x-vcard text/directory I don't want to look at them, how to configure the mailcap or otherwise so that vcf will not be shown inline? -- regards, GPG key 1024D/4434BAB3 2008-08-24 gpg --keyserver s

Re: signature

2009-04-11 Thread bill lam
On Fri, 10 Apr 2009, Ravi Uday wrote: > The problem is if its a lengthy email thread with many people replying > ontop of each other, when I now write a mail > my sig., will be the last line in that email, and doesn';t make sense > as to where I ended the email Does it matter if others miss your s

Re: vcf attachment

2009-04-12 Thread bill lam
On Sun, 12 Apr 2009, Sean Escriva wrote: > On Sat, Apr 11, 2009 at 06:37:50PM +0800, bill lam wrote: > > There are vcf attachments with mime type > > text/x-vcard > > text/directory > > make sure your .muttrc auto_view line doesn't have either of those. > >

Re: vcf attachment

2009-04-13 Thread bill lam
On Mon, 13 Apr 2009, Christian Ebert wrote: > * bill lam on Saturday, April 11, 2009 at 18:37:50 +0800 > > There are vcf attachments with mime type > > text/x-vcard > > text/directory > > > > I don't want to look at them, how to configure the mailcap or

Re: vcf attachment

2009-04-13 Thread bill lam
On Mon, 13 Apr 2009, Christian Ebert wrote: > >> text/x-vcard ; cat /dev/null ; copiousoutput I finally found how to do it. It need to set auto_view to specifically handle these mime types to take effect. auto_view text/html application/x-pgp-message text/directory text/x-vcard -- regards, ===

Re: html problem

2009-05-22 Thread bill lam
On Fri, 22 May 2009, Dave Feustel wrote: > A couple of people send me email in html format. > It used to be that if I typed 'v', selected the last > attachment and then typed CR, firefox would be activated > and then display the html. But then something changed > and, instead of firefox, emacs star

Re: handling very large mailboxes

2009-05-31 Thread bill lam
On Sun, 31 May 2009, James wrote: > By large I'm talking about, uhhh, ~7000 emails. More or less. My imap account in gmail have over 3 message, and also a local maildir mailbox for rss having over 8 message. They need about 10 to 30 seconds to initial cache checking. FYI -- regards, ===

Re: handling very large mailboxes

2009-05-31 Thread bill lam
On Sun, 31 May 2009, James wrote: > Bill, are you saying that after the initial 30 second process for your > Gmail, everything loads up instantly (specific email messages, etc.) > afterwards? Since only headers are downloaded, new message take time to download when actually first read the message.

Re: handling very large mailboxes

2009-05-31 Thread bill lam
On Sun, 31 May 2009, James wrote: > Bill, > > What do you have your $mail_check set to? > > If I set it to something rather low (15), mutt becomes extremely slow. This is the relevant portion of my muttrc # activate TLS if available on the server set ssl_starttls=yes # always use SSL when conne

Re: [ANNOUNCE] 1.5.20 released

2009-06-14 Thread bill lam
> Mutt 1.5.20 is out at the usual locations. This release contains an After hg pull and update. It failed to make or even make clean with error message. make: *** No rule to make target `m4/libgnutls.m4', needed by `Makefile.in' I can build earlier 1.5.19 version without problem. Any idea how to

Re: [ANNOUNCE] 1.5.20 released

2009-06-14 Thread bill lam
On Sun, 14 Jun 2009, Brendan Cully wrote: > Silly autoconf. Try: > autoreconf -i > ./config.status --recheck > ./config.status I tried $ autoconf -i ./config.status /usr/bin/m4:aclocal.m4:917: cannot open `m4/libgnutls.m4': No such file or directory autom4te: /usr/bin/m4 failed with exit status

Re: [ANNOUNCE] 1.5.20 released

2009-06-14 Thread bill lam
Many thanks for detail steps and explanation. I compiled and am now using the new mutt. -- regards, GPG key 1024D/4434BAB3 2008-08-24 gpg --keyserver subkeys.pgp.net --recv-keys 4434BAB3

Re: [ANNOUNCE] 1.5.20 released

2009-06-15 Thread bill lam
On Mon, 15 Jun 2009, Gerard Robin wrote: > On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 10:25:38AM +0800, bill lam wrote: > >Date: Mon, 15 Jun 2009 10:25:38 +0800 > >From: bill lam > >To: mutt-users@mutt.org > >Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] 1.5.20 released > > > >Many thanks for detai

imap closed after leaving index screen for awhile

2009-07-19 Thread bill lam
I use imap server for gmail. When a read an email in the pager or composing a long new message and if that takes more than several minute, the connection to imap server become disconnected. It seems the connection to imap can only be maintained alive in the index page. Is there any workaround? An

Re: imap closed after leaving index screen for awhile

2009-07-21 Thread bill lam
On Tue, 21 Jul 2009, Kyle Wheeler wrote: > There's no quick answer to this, because it largely depends on why > you're being disconnected. For example, it could be that you have > imap_idle on, but a very high (or absurdly low) imap_keepalive (IDLE > may not be used for some reason while you're

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