Re: Where can I get the address book for mutt?
On Wed, Mar 07, 2001 at 10:16:16AM +0300, Vitaly A. Repin wrote: Hello, All! Where can I get the abook program? abook.sourceforge.net gruss goetz
Re: Where can I get the address book for mutt?
How do you use abook with mutt? Thx in advance! B. -- Botjan Mller [NEONATUS], [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://neonatus.net/~neonatus For my PGP key finger: [EMAIL PROTECTED], RSA id: 0x90178DBD, ICQ #:7506644 Celular: +386(0)41243189, Powered by Debian GNU/LiNUX , Student of VFUL The dark ages were caused by the Y1K problem.
pipe command
Hi Everyone, I'm sorry if I seem to be asking all the basic questions. I'm really new at this. I recv mail in text/html and prev 'v' to view it. How do I use the '|' pipe command from 'v' to view the text/html in lynx? Thanks. -- Horace G. Friend III [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP DH/DSS Key Fingerprint [Send email for public key.] 046A FAE0 1E45 FC3E 0560 BAA5 3BA7 9671 5D87 2BAA
virus
Hi, The windoze world is full of all kinds of viruses. Is it the same in Linux? I just received an email from [EMAIL PROTECTED] (probably a fake) with an attachment (AHAOFIA.EXE) described as application/octet-stream, base64 encoding, size 30K. This seems off-topic but pls. read on because I'd like to know how to handle this when I receive such emails. The email looked looked suspicious because of the source and the subject is empty and I've read somewhere that Unices (including Linux) bothered by viruses. So I bounced this file back to myself so that I can download it again from windoze where I've got two anti-virus programs to check on this. I did that this morning (from windoze) and when I try to save the file my PC just locks with a black screen and two horizontal lines spaced apart by about 3 inches. None of my anti-virus apps detected it and all my av definitions are uptodate (Norton AV and PC-cillin98). I tried to detect the virus by scanning Inbox directly, doing it in DOS, etc. but still no detection. So now I'm back in Linux. I can just delete the file but before doing that I'd like to know what options do I have. Can I save this AHAOFIA.EXE to my hdd w/o harm to my system? ... so that I can send it as an attachment to my email to Norton and PC-cillin? Can I possible track where this came from? Here's the bottom-most Received hdr: andrzejs (pa197.gdansk.ppp.tpnet.pl [212.76.24.197]) SMTP id C55165DA54. How can I include all headers for my reply. I had to get out of this msg to take a look at the above Received hdr? Thanks all. -- Horace G. Friend III [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP DH/DSS Key Fingerprint [Send email for public key.] 046A FAE0 1E45 FC3E 0560 BAA5 3BA7 9671 5D87 2BAA
Re: pipe command
Horace G. Friend III wrote: Hi Everyone, I'm sorry if I seem to be asking all the basic questions. I'm really new at this. I recv mail in text/html and prev 'v' to view it. How do I use the '|' pipe command from 'v' to view the text/html in lynx? Thanks. I use the program urlview to view links in my emails. I setup two macros: macro pager \cl "|urlview\n" #Extract Links from Emails" macro index \cl "|urlview\n" #Extract Links from Emails" I just press ctrl+l and it brings up a list of the links in the email and I select the one i want. You can play around with what it runs to view the links in the url_handler.sh that is part of the package. -- Don't tell me I'm burning the candle at both ends -- tell me where to get more wax!! - Fingerprint : 869B 53DD 5E80 E1F0 93F6 9871 0508 0296 5957 F723 David Clarke [EMAIL PROTECTED] || [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP signature
Re: Where can I get the address book for mutt?
On Wed, Mar 07, 2001 at 10:28:04AM +0100, Bostjan Muller wrote: How do you use abook with mutt? m send mail with mutt in your .muttrc set query_command="abook --mutt-query '%s'" best regards goetz
Re: pipe command
Hi, I already have the macros and when I execute them in X-Windows it automatically opens my Netscape viewer. Fine. Neat. But when I'm in Term and out of X-Windows, nothing happens. What should I do so that it opens Lynx, for instance. Thanks. Horace On Wed, Mar 07, 2001 at 10:13:56PM +1100, David wrote: Horace G. Friend III wrote: Hi Everyone, I'm sorry if I seem to be asking all the basic questions. I'm really new at this. I recv mail in text/html and prev 'v' to view it. How do I use the '|' pipe command from 'v' to view the text/html in lynx? Thanks. I use the program urlview to view links in my emails. I setup two macros: macro pager \cl "|urlview\n" #Extract Links from Emails" macro index \cl "|urlview\n" #Extract Links from Emails" I just press ctrl+l and it brings up a list of the links in the email and I select the one i want. You can play around with what it runs to view the links in the url_handler.sh that is part of the package. -- Don't tell me I'm burning the candle at both ends -- tell me where to get more wax!! - Fingerprint : 869B 53DD 5E80 E1F0 93F6 9871 0508 0296 5957 F723 David Clarke [EMAIL PROTECTED] || [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: virus
On Wed, Mar 07, 2001 at 02:28:38PM +0800, Horace G. Friend III wrote: that I'd like to know what options do I have. Can I save this AHAOFIA.EXE to my hdd w/o harm to my system? ... so that I can send it as an attachment to my email to Norton and PC-cillin? Yes, that should not harm your _Linux_ installation. You cannot execute a Wintendo executable on a native Linux system. Java-Script / Java / mal-ware may harm your Linux-system, too, but AFAIK most Wintendo-Viruses use the Outlook address book and on Linux you do not have it. Can I possible track where this came from? Possibly, but you need access to the logs of (some) involved mail-servers. How can I include all headers for my reply. I had to get out of this msg to take a look at the above Received hdr? By forwarding the mail to ... you include the complete header. HTH Frank
Re: pipe command
Horace G. Friend III proclaimed on mutt-users that: I already have the macros and when I execute them in X-Windows it automatically opens my Netscape viewer. Fine. Neat. But when I'm in Term and out of X-Windows, nothing happens. What should I do so that it opens Lynx, for instance. Use `test` to see if you are in X or in console mode. -s -- Suresh Ramasubramanian + Wallopus Malletus Indigenensis mallet @ cluestick.org + Lumber Cartel of India, tinlcI EMail Sturmbannfuhrer, Lower Middle Class Unix Sysadmin
Re: pipe command
On Wed, Mar 07, 2001 at 08:29:37PM +0800, Horace G. Friend III wrote: Hi, I already have the macros and when I execute them in X-Windows it automatically opens my Netscape viewer. Fine. Neat. But when I'm in Term and out of X-Windows, nothing happens. What should I do so that it opens Lynx, for instance. I use this (-stdin is post-2.8.3) text/html; lynx -force_html -stdin -- Thomas E. Dickey [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://dickey.his.com ftp://dickey.his.com
mutt as newsreader
Is anyone using mutt as a newsreader? Supposedly there is a nntp patch for mutt. Any comments on how well this works? Do mutt users have a preferred newsreader? -- LINUX~~nobody owns it~~everybody can use it~~anybody can improve it ~~~
Re: mutt as newsreader
mike polniak proclaimed on mutt-users that: Is anyone using mutt as a newsreader? Supposedly there is a nntp patch for mutt. Any comments on how well this works? Vselvolod (sp?) Volkov has a newsreader patch for mutt - and you'd post through a mail2news gateway. Do mutt users have a preferred newsreader? slrn - http://space.mit.edu/~davis/ The interface is just like an old mutt (with the dual window view) -s -- Suresh Ramasubramanian + Wallopus Malletus Indigenensis mallet @ cluestick.org + Lumber Cartel of India, tinlcI EMail Sturmbannfuhrer, Lower Middle Class Unix Sysadmin
Re: mutt as newsreader
On Wed, Mar 07, 2001 at 08:44:16AM -0500, mike polniak wrote: Is anyone using mutt as a newsreader? Supposedly there is a nntp patch for mutt. Any comments on how well this works? Just today the same thought crossed my mind. I found a mutt-1.2.5 with an NNTP patch but thought it was not worth the hassle :) Do mutt users have a preferred newsreader? I use SLRN. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] System Engineerinnominate AG Diplom-Informatiker the linux architects tel: +49.30.308806-62 fax: -698 www.innominate.com PGP signature
Re: mutt as newsreader
I use Orjan Stromberg's NNTP patch for mutt, works pretty well. But watch out for it's own keybindings.. it might clash with what u have pre-programmed. http://www.ing.umu.se/~connor/programs/mutt.html -- Benny On Wed, Mar 07, 2001 at 08:44:16AM -0500, mike polniak wrote: | Is anyone using mutt as a newsreader? Supposedly there is a nntp | patch for mutt. Any comments on how well this works? | Do mutt users have a preferred newsreader? | -- | LINUX~~nobody owns it~~everybody can use it~~anybody can improve it | PGP signature
Re: off-topic (printing man pages)
Hi Rich, Here's the output from man procmail | col -b procmail.txt sh: -c: line 2: syntax error: unexpected end of line Error executing formatting or display command. System command (cd /usr/share/man ; (echo -e ".pl 11i"; /usr/bin/gunzip -c /usr/share/man/man1/procmail.1.gz | /usr/bin/gtbl | /usr/bin/groff -S -Tlatin1 -mando | /usr/bin less -isr) exited with status 2. No manual entry for procmail That's it. So what happened here and what's next? Thanks. Had a difficult time writing the above. How can I catch these error msgs into a text file for reading into another editor such as in here? Horace On Tue, Mar 06, 2001 at 10:13:02AM -0500, Rich Lafferty wrote: On Tue, Mar 06, 2001 at 02:50:23PM +0800, Horace G. Friend III ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Hi All, This is off-topic but I need a quick fix so I hope you'll oblige. I still do double-sided printing in windoze because of my printer (HP710C). :( I'd like to convert several man pages into plain text and save it to my windoze dir. How can I do that? I've tried this command as suggested by man man page but doesn't work. man procmail | col -b procmail.txt Any ideas? Thanks. First idea -- tell us what's happening, rather than saying it "doesn't work". That's the correct way to get a copy of a manual page with the bold and underline bits removed (-b strips out backspaces, which is how you do bold and underline in man). However, if you're doing this to print them out, why not generate postscript? Manual pages are just nroff documents. -Rich -- -- Rich Lafferty --- Sysadmin/Programmer, Instructional and Information Technology Services Concordia University, Montreal, QC (514) 848-7625 - [EMAIL PROTECTED] --
Re: virus
On Wed, Mar 07, 2001 at 02:28:38PM +0800, Horace G. Friend III wrote: Hi, The windoze world is full of all kinds of viruses. Is it the same in Linux? I just received an email from [EMAIL PROTECTED] (probably a fake) Yep. So now I'm back in Linux. I can just delete the file but before doing that I'd like to know what options do I have. Can I save this AHAOFIA.EXE to my hdd w/o harm to my system? ... so that I can send it as an attachment to my email to Norton and PC-cillin? Can I possible track where this came from? If you're that interested, I would suggest investing in VMware for GNU/Linux or similar, and set up an "undo-able" machine/Win32 installation/instance/whatever. Then you can boot this VM, let the potential virus tear apart your VM in whatever way it wants, and then just hit VMware's undo function and you get back a usable VM again. Or just simply copy the virtual disk and config files and such, boot/ruin, delete working copy, copy/move back saved copy. -- Oo---o, Oo---o, O-weem-oh-wum-ooo-ayyy In the jungle, the silicon jungle, the process sleeps tonight. Joe Philipps [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.philippsfamily.org/Joe/ public PGP/GPG key 0xFA029353 available via http://www.keyserver.net PGP signature
Re: virus
Viruses can only infect when they are executed. In other words you can copy the file as much as you like. Saving, using cat to read it, vi to edit it or whatever. This is even safe on a Windows machine so go ahead and use Notepad. In Windows (and a few other) email attachments are dangerous for alot or reasons. The icon shown is in some cases extracted from the .exe file, which can lead to that the program is exectued when you open the mail. It is all to easy to run stupid stuff, just click on it and then yes (or not even the yes step), lusers do not read messages boxes. Some mailers understand html, java and/or javascript. Embed som nice features in there and you get the problem when people open their mail. Old folks like myself (hmmpf 24 years) usually say that it is safe to open mails as long as one does not touch the attachment, sadly that is not so anymore. Default is to hide the file extension so that we also get the nice problem of sexygirl.jpg.vbs, is it a nice girl or a virus? In other words Outlook, IE and VBS engine are all parts in the wounderfull VRE [1] called Windows. [1] Virus Runtime Enviroment. -- Security only costs $30. http://www.openbsd.org/
Re: virus
On Wed, Mar 7, 2001, Horace G. Friend III wrote: The windoze world is full of all kinds of viruses. Is it the same in Linux? I just received an email from [EMAIL PROTECTED] (probably a fake) with an attachment (AHAOFIA.EXE) described as application/octet-stream, base64 encoding, size 30K. It sounds like the only way this could affect your Linux partition is if you ran it from a Windows OS and it messed with the MBR or something, but still I would think that Linux itself would be okay. The email looked looked suspicious because of the source and the subject is empty and I've read somewhere that Unices (including Linux) bothered by viruses. So I bounced this file back to myself so that I can download it again from windoze where I've got two anti-virus programs to check on this. I did that this morning (from windoze) and when I try to save the file my PC just locks with a black screen and two horizontal lines spaced apart by about 3 inches. None of my anti-virus apps detected it and all my av definitions are uptodate (Norton AV and PC-cillin98). I tried to detect the virus by scanning Inbox directly, doing it in DOS, etc. but still no detection. That sounds weird. All you did was try to save the file, no execute it? If this is the case, unless you have Outlook (?) configured to automatically execute attachments (stupid), it sounds coincidental. My suggestion? Ditch Outlook. It's mediocre for email, and a constant target. If you have to use a Windows MUA, I would recommend Eudora. -Ken -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]AIM: ScopusFest
Re: mutt as newsreader
On 2001.03.07, in [EMAIL PROTECTED], "Suresh Ramasubramanian" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: mike polniak proclaimed on mutt-users that: Is anyone using mutt as a newsreader? Supposedly there is a nntp patch for mutt. Any comments on how well this works? Vselvolod (sp?) Volkov has a newsreader patch for mutt - and you'd post through a mail2news gateway. There isn't a good newsreader. The mutt patch works OK in some respects, but I keep finding constraints which I haven't had time to investigate and bring up with VVV. For *basic* newsreading, though it's my preference. Do mutt users have a preferred newsreader? slrn - http://space.mit.edu/~davis/ The interface is just like an old mutt (with the dual window view) I disagree. I don't think slrn is like mutt at all. I love mutt. I find slrn very difficult to use - I'd rather use trn. -- -D.[EMAIL PROTECTED]NSITUniversity of Chicago
Re: mutt as newsreader
Hello Mike, On Wed, 07 Mar 2001 at 8:44 -0500, mike polniak wrote: Is anyone using mutt as a newsreader? Supposedly there is a nntp patch for mutt. Any comments on how well this works? Do mutt users have a preferred newsreader? I use mutt as newsreader. I'll take the patch from Vsevolod Volkov, and it works great. Some problem occurs when I use it to read news directly over an isdn- connection on the newsserver of my isp. But in combination with leafnode there's no problem. I've made some RPMS/SRPMS for SuSE 7.1/7.0. A small perl-script (needs perl-nntp-modul) is included because configuration of inews/cnews to post some news is in my experience to difficult. RPMs/SRPMS you find here http://packman.links2linux.de . cya Waldemar -- * Packman! Ein neuer Service von L2L | (o_ * * http://packman.links2linux.de| //\ * * Linux rulez!;-)| V_/_ * * GnuPG-Key: 0xBE21BD90 | Tux: #155220 | ICQ: 64035650 *
Re: mutt as newsreader
On 2001.03.07, in [EMAIL PROTECTED], "ndrw mchl grnbrg" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, slrn requires some config, just like mutt does, but all in all, I think it's a very good newsreader. It's not the configuration, mainly; it's the way it works. It doesn't accomodate the way I read news. But the configuration is also less than ideal. I don't enjoy S-Lang. -- -D.[EMAIL PROTECTED]NSITUniversity of Chicago
Re: mutt as newsreader
On Wed, Mar 07, 2001 at 05:54:38PM +0100, Waldemar Brodkorb wrote: I'll take the patch from Vsevolod Volkov, and it works great. Some problem occurs when I use it to read news directly over an isdn- connection on the newsserver of my isp. But in combination with leafnode there's no problem. I've made some RPMS/SRPMS for SuSE 7.1/7.0. A small perl-script (needs perl-nntp-modul) is included because configuration of inews/cnews to post some news is in my experience to difficult. RPMs/SRPMS you find here http://packman.links2linux.de . Hello Waldemar, Are any other packages needed other than Perl-NNTP-Client-0.36-1.i386.rpm? Does it work with SuSE 6.4? Thanks for putting the rpms together. Regards, -rex
Re: mutt as newsreader
* David Champion [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010307 17:12]: "ndrw mchl grnbrg" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, slrn requires some config, just like mutt does, but all in all, I think it's a very good newsreader. It's not the configuration, mainly; it's the way it works. It doesn't accomodate the way I read news. Either your are missing some commands/features - or you really need a better newsreader - like Gnus. But the configuration is also less than ideal. I don't enjoy S-Lang. Then you won't enjoy Gnus either. ;-) Sven
Re: mutt as newsreader
Hello, On Wed, 07 Mar 2001 at 9:22 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello Waldemar, Are any other packages needed other than Perl-NNTP-Client-0.36-1.i386.rpm? nope, only perl ;-) . Does it work with SuSE 6.4? I haven't tested this. The best is to rebuild the srpms. rpm --rebuild mutt-version.src.rpm Thanks for putting the rpms together. no problem. -- * A good website for linuxsoftware:| (o_ * * http://www.freshmeat.net | //\ * * Linux rulez!;-)| V_/_ * * GnuPG-Key: 0xBE21BD90 | Tux: #155220 | ICQ: 64035650 *
Mutt as POP3 Cliient
Sorry for such a basic question, but I don't want to get too involved in figuring out Mutt, if the answer to this quesstion is NO... If it is YES, I'll get some FAQs/Docs and do some reading before I ask any more questions... I have an AIX machine with about 20 dumb terminals and 10 PC's using a term program for access. All the PC's get their email via my ISP's POP3 on a 24 hour connection (using Pegasus/Outlook or the like). I was told that Mutt could be configured to run on the AIX box as a stand alone POP3 "client". In other words, configured to check my _ISP's_ POP3, thus elminiating the need for my AIX box to handle all the mail using sendmail and/or qmail, etc. Can this scenerio be done? TIA Bill
Pager binding to advance to next-new in thread
Hi, is it possible to make the tab key advance to the next-new message in the current thread, if any, and return to the index if the last new message in the current thread has been reached? -- christian r. mollsthe rain descended, [EMAIL PROTECTED] and the floods came
Re: off-topic (printing man pages)
On Wed, Mar 07, 2001 at 10:46:26PM +0800 or so it is rumoured hereabouts,
Horace G. Friend III thought:
Hi Rich,
Here's the output from man procmail | col -b procmail.txt
sh: -c: line 2: syntax error: unexpected end of line
Error executing formatting or display command.
System command (cd /usr/share/man ; (echo -e ".pl 11i"; /usr/bin/gunzip -c
/usr/share/man/man1/procmail.1.gz | /usr/bin/gtbl | /usr/bin/groff -S -Tlatin1 -mando
| /usr/bin less -isr) exited with status 2.
No manual entry for procmail
Do you get anything from
man procmail
? I'm inclined to think the man page for procmail is not installed. try
"man ls" (you can be pretty sure of having that manpage..)
That's it. So what happened here and what's next? Thanks.
Had a difficult time writing the above. How can I catch these error msgs into a text
file for reading into another editor such as in here?
Do
man procmail | col -b procmail.txt 2 errors.txt
The redirector operator "" works on a number of "streams".
1. STDOUT ("Standard out" which is the "normal" output from a program)
Useage: 'command 1 stdout.txt'
or
'command stdout.txt'
2. STDERR ("Standard error" which usually carries error/debug messages)
Useage: 'command 2 stderr.txt'
"" or "1" sends standard out to whatever you specify.
"2" sends standard error to whatever you specify.
Conor
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HTML in body
I am using mutt for command line use only. I would like to embed an HTML file in the message body. I am not a fan of doing this, but it is necessary in the application I am implementing. I am using the following command: mutt -n -s Hello [EMAIL PROTECTED] blah.html When I receive the message in Outlook Express, the content type is always Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii. So I just get the tags, and stuff. How do I get it to show as HTML content using the command line interface? Any help would be appreciated. Thanks, David Hilker
Line length using EDITOR=emacs
Hello, I know that there are mutt users using emacs as their editor. I would like to know how to set line length at 72 chars in my .emacs It infuriates many to have messages longer that 72 chars to a line Robert
Re: Where can I get the address book for mutt?
On Wed, Mar 07, 2001 at 11:00:46AM +0100, goetz haeberle wrote: Hello, All! Where can I get the abook program? abook.sourceforge.net Thanks a lot. -- WBR WBW, Vitaly.
macro running an interactive command?
hi, I'm trying to make a macro so that on a single keypress I can change a from, change my signature (both to known things, not prompting or anything) compose a new message with these variables, then set them back when I'm done, however, binding something to do ":set from=\"User someone@somewhere\"\n:set signature=\"~/.altsig\"\nm:unset from\n:unset signature\n" passes everything after the 'm' (that starts a new compose) as the to: line, which just tries to send email to ":unset from\n:unset signature\n", hardly what I want :) any hints/alterative appreciated -- -Barry Hughes "We all know Linux is great...it does infinite loops in 5 seconds." (Linus Torvalds about the superiority of Linux on the Amterdam Linux Symposium) http://bazza.com/
Re: HTML in body
David Hilker writes: I am using mutt for command line use only. I would like to embed an HTML fil e in the message body. I am not a fan of doing this, but it is necessary in th e application I am implementing. I am using the following command: mutt -n -s Hello [EMAIL PROTECTED] blah.html When I receive the message in Outlook Express, the content type is always Con tent-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii. So I just get the tags, and stuff. How do I get it to show as HTML content using the command line interface? I don't see any reason to be using mutt for that purpose. Why not set up the headers yourself (you need setup the MIME headers correctly for the receiving mail client to know what to do) and pipe that directly into sendmail (or whatever you are using) for delivery? -- David Kelly N4HHE, [EMAIL PROTECTED] = The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system.
Re: Line length using EDITOR=emacs
On 03/08/01, 09:42:49AM +1100, Robert Martinovic wrote: Hello, I know that there are mutt users using emacs as their editor. I would like to know how to set line length at 72 chars in my .emacs It infuriates many to have messages longer that 72 chars to a line Robert Put this in .emacs: (setq default-major-mode 'text-mode) (add-hook 'text-mode-hook 'turn-on-auto-fill) Should fix the problem. -- John P. Verel Norwalk, CT
