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: Archiving

2009-02-13 Thread Kyle Wheeler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday, February 13 at 09:37 PM, quoth Javier Rojas: > however, this doesn't catch all the messages of the threads of the > matched messages (the idea behind the addition of ~() ). I think > this is caused because I also have another folder hook t

Re: Archiving

2009-02-13 Thread Javier Rojas
On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 04:00:12PM -0600, Kyle Wheeler wrote: > Heh, well, some people I know don't do anything. Their inbox is > several thousand messages. For me, my inbox is used as a list of > "things I need to take care of". Things like mailing list emails get > automatically delivered into

Re: newbie install

2009-02-13 Thread sigi
On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 04:15:30PM -0600, Kyle Wheeler wrote: > On Friday, February 13 at 10:33 PM, quoth sigi: > > On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 03:06:49PM -0600, Kyle Wheeler wrote: > >> Collecting email from multiple accounts is what programs like > >> fetchmail or getmail do best. I recommend getmai

Re: newbie install

2009-02-13 Thread Michael
Noah Sheppard wrote: [..] well too. The only thing with them is: they will pull your email to your computer and delete it from the server. You won't be able to read email with the webmail frontend anymore; you'll have to use something on your own computer. Run fetchmail with the -k switch or

Re: newbie install

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

Scoring

2009-02-13 Thread Chris Willard
Hello All, Can someone please explain how scoring works for a beginner? I belong to a few mailing lists and some of them have quite a lot of messages. As I understand it I can use scoring to filter the messages but I am not sure of how to do this and how scoring works! Any help would be apprecia

Re: newbie install

2009-02-13 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2009-02-13, James Freer wrote: > Kyle > > Thanks for your reply - that has helped clarify some things. Ubuntu > 8.04 repos has the mutt 1.5.17 [but as the 8.04 version is the Long > Term Support version it may well automatically replace it with the > updated version on install]. >>> I have thre

Re: newbie install

2009-02-13 Thread sigi
On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 03:06:49PM -0600, Kyle Wheeler wrote: > Collecting email from multiple accounts is what programs like > fetchmail or getmail do best. I recommend getmail, but fetchmail works > well too. The only thing with them is: they will pull your email to > your computer and delete

Re: newbie install

2009-02-13 Thread Noah Sheppard
> [..] > well too. The only thing with them is: they will pull your email to > your computer and delete it from the server. You won't be able to read > email with the webmail frontend anymore; you'll have to use something > on your own computer. Run fetchmail with the -k switch or set keep on y

Re: newbie install

2009-02-13 Thread Kyle Wheeler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday, February 13 at 07:44 PM, quoth James Freer: >>> I have three emails addresses with googlemail.com >> Ah, fun. > Does that mean considerable stress and grief?? Maybe. Gmail's IMAP support is a little weird. There are ways of working around

Re: Clarification on tag-prefix-cond vs. tag-prefix

2009-02-13 Thread Kyle Wheeler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday, February 13 at 07:20 PM, quoth Jan-Herbert Damm: > if you don't mind, can you explain the pattern "~r >3m" equally > well? Well, that's pretty simple. First, mutt uses what it calls "simple patterns" to match messages. (That's what you s

Re: newbie install

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

Re: Clarification on tag-prefix-cond vs. tag-prefix

2009-02-13 Thread John J. Foster
On Fri, 13 Feb 2009 19:20 +0100, "Jan-Herbert Damm" wrote: > Kyle Wheeler: > >... However, because I use > > , when there aren't any tagged messages (i.e. the > > pattern "~r >3m" didn't match anything), mutt will stop processing > > that hook and none of the rest of it will happen. > > > >

Re: Clarification on tag-prefix-cond vs. tag-prefix

2009-02-13 Thread Jan-Herbert Damm
Kyle Wheeler: >... However, because I use > , when there aren't any tagged messages (i.e. the > pattern "~r >3m" didn't match anything), mutt will stop processing > that hook and none of the rest of it will happen. > > Does that make sense? yes it does! thank you so much for posting this help o

Re: set up multiple account

2009-02-13 Thread Ed Blackman
On Sat, Feb 14, 2009 at 12:17:43AM +0800, bill lam wrote: 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 o

Re: newbie install

2009-02-13 Thread Kyle Wheeler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday, February 13 at 05:37 PM, quoth James Freer: > I'd be grateful if someone could just clarify a couple of things > before i do an installation. I can try! :) > using Ubuntu 8.04 on a standalone PC connected to broadband. I chose > Mutt as

newbie install

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

Re: 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: Archiving

2009-02-13 Thread Nicolas Sebrecht
On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 03:25:04PM +0100, Andreas Kalex wrote: > > (Except for spam; that goes to bogofilter for accounting and then > > discarded.) > How do you implement it in the muttrc? Or do you use tools like procmail. I have those lines in my muttrc : macro pager "\Cxs" "bogofilter -s &&

Re: Archiving

2009-02-13 Thread Andreas Kalex
* Cameron Simpson wrote on 13.02.2009 at 12:30: > > (Except for spam; that goes to bogofilter for accounting and then > discarded.) How do you implement it in the muttrc? Or do you use tools like procmail. andreas

Re: Archiving

2009-02-13 Thread Kyle Wheeler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday, February 13 at 08:58 AM, quoth Christian Brabandt: >> If I ever need to refer to something in deep storage, I can always >> go find it (using mutt) and search for it (using mutt). > > The last time I did that it would take an considerably a