Re: lbdb-fetchaddr
Am Die, 29 Mai 2001, schrieb Joss Winn: > Hello, > > I've been trying to get lbdb-fetchaddr working with the m_inmail > module for a while but still my ~/.lbdb/m_inmail file is empty. > > I have > > :0hc > | lbdb-fetchaddr > > in my .procmailrc file (does it matter where it is in the file?) > and lbdlq _is_ working with my mutt aliases. However, I would like to > achieve what the man pages describes as: Do you have lbdb-fetchaddr anywhere in your $PATH? The recipe is correct in principle, but should be the first of your recipes if you want alle the messages you receive being piped through lbdb. Perhaps you could consider logging procmail's activities by having an entry like LOGFILE=~/.procmaillog in your procmailrc. This could give you some hints how to solve the problem. You also should have a proper .lbdb/lbdbrc file. My one looks like this: SORT_OUTPUT="name" MUTT_DIRECTORY="$HOME/.mutt" MUTTALIAS_FILES="aliases" METHODS="m_inmail m_muttalias " Greetings Christoph -- Christoph Maurer - Jülicher Str. 80 - D - 52070 Aachen - Tux# 194235 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.christophmaurer.de On my Homepage: SuSE 7.0 on an Acer Travelmate 508 T Notebook
Using Jed with Mutt
Hi all, I'm using JED as my editor. When I reply/forward a message, it fires up JED and puts the current message at the top of the buffer. I want to put a few blank lines above the message cause I'm too lazy to hit enter a bunch of times :) I've tried all the command line tricks I can think of for JED, but it dosen't work. Anybody using JED have any ideas I can try out? Thanks alot! -- Chris PGP Public Key 0x519E3777
Re: Editing Aliases
Biju Chacko [mutt-users] <29/05/01 10:45 +0530>: > I have written one that emulates the look-and-feel of mutt. It's a little > buggy, and not very featureful, but if anybody is interested I'll make it > available for download. Mail me offlist. Put it up on sourceforge (or wherever) and post the url, please .. -- Suresh Ramasubramanian + Wallopus Malletus Indigenensis mallet @ cluestick.org + Lumber Cartel of India, tinlcI EMail Sturmbannfuhrer, Lower Middle Class Unix Sysadmin
Re: Editing Aliases
On Mon, May 28, 2001 at 11:50:18AM -0700, Dale Morris wrote: > I have a *newbie* questioan. Is it good to have my muttrc setup files > configured so I can edit aliases? I have been using the setup files > prepared by Sven Guckes (great!) and although everything else is > covered, I can find no key sequence that allows me to edit aliases. I > am wondering if there is a reason for this? I can't believe that > anything this detailed would overlook alias editing, unless it was > intentional. Hi, You may want to install an address book program. Abook ( http://abook.sourceforge.net/ ) is a very full featured one. I have written one that emulates the look-and-feel of mutt. It's a little buggy, and not very featureful, but if anybody is interested I'll make it available for download. Mail me offlist. I suppose with ppl hollering at me, I'll get round to fixing the bugs. ;-) Biju -- - Biju Chacko| [EMAIL PROTECTED] (work) Exocore Consulting | [EMAIL PROTECTED] (play) Bangalore, India | http://www.exocore.com -
Re: Mailing list From: field in index
Thusly Thwacked By Louis LeBlanc: > Just to get you started, this is what I have in my Sent folder: > > folder-hook =Sent 'set index_format="%3C %Z %d %-18.18t (%4l) %s"' > > %t is the hook to get the To field. If you hook this in your sent > folder, this is all you want, anyway. Just don't forget to set the > default folder hook to the value you currently use. > Works for me. Louis, Thank you! The folder-hook is what I needed. I see the To: header field now and all is well. jc
Re: How to call an external program against an attachment - without mime?
Nevermind. Found it. attach is what I was looking for. I probably need some sleep. :) Bye L On 05/28/01 11:42 PM, Louis LeBlanc sat at the puter and typed:' > Hmm. Only one problem. I can't seem to set up a macro to work in the > attachment menu. attachment doesn't seem to be a valid menu. > > I can't find a list of valid menus in the docs either. > Any ideas? > > Thanks again. > > Lou > > On 05/28/01 11:22 PM, Louis LeBlanc sat at the puter and typed:' > > > > Actually, I think I can make that work. I will have to go back and > > relearn some shell scripting to make sure it is done right, but thank > > you! > > > > Lou > > -- > > Louis LeBlanc > > Fully Funded Hobbyist, KeySlapper Extrordinaire :) > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > http://acadia.ne.mediaone.netԿԬ > > -- > Louis LeBlanc > Fully Funded Hobbyist, KeySlapper Extrordinaire :) > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://acadia.ne.mediaone.netԿԬ -- Louis LeBlanc Fully Funded Hobbyist, KeySlapper Extrordinaire :) [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://acadia.ne.mediaone.netԿԬ
Re: How to call an external program against an attachment - without mime?
Hmm. Only one problem. I can't seem to set up a macro to work in the attachment menu. attachment doesn't seem to be a valid menu. I can't find a list of valid menus in the docs either. Any ideas? Thanks again. Lou On 05/28/01 11:22 PM, Louis LeBlanc sat at the puter and typed:' > > Actually, I think I can make that work. I will have to go back and > relearn some shell scripting to make sure it is done right, but thank > you! > > Lou > -- > Louis LeBlanc > Fully Funded Hobbyist, KeySlapper Extrordinaire :) > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://acadia.ne.mediaone.netԿԬ -- Louis LeBlanc Fully Funded Hobbyist, KeySlapper Extrordinaire :) [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://acadia.ne.mediaone.netԿԬ
Re: How to call an external program against an attachment - without mime?
On 05/28/01 11:06 PM, Brendan Cully sat at the puter and typed:'
> On Monday, 28 May 2001 at 22:57, Louis LeBlanc wrote:
> > Hey all. I have an unusual request here.
> > I noticed that for any message, if you look at the attachments menu
> > ('v'), you will always see the message itself as an attachment (which
> > makes perfect sense if you understand even a little about RFC 822).
> > Anyway, it gave me an idea. What if I wanted to call an external
> > program against the text in that attachment - regardless of the mime
> > type? How could that be done?
>
> pipe-entry, bound to | by default, will pipe the attachment to a
> command line of your choice.
Actually, I think I can make that work. I will have to go back and
relearn some shell scripting to make sure it is done right, but thank
you!
Lou
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Re: How to call an external program against an attachment - without mime?
On 2001.05.28, in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"Louis LeBlanc" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hey all. I have an unusual request here.
> I noticed that for any message, if you look at the attachments menu
> ('v'), you will always see the message itself as an attachment (which
> makes perfect sense if you understand even a little about RFC 822).
> Anyway, it gave me an idea. What if I wanted to call an external
> program against the text in that attachment - regardless of the mime
> type? How could that be done?
You can use pipe-entry ("|") from the attachments menu. Is that about
what you mean?
--
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How to call an external program against an attachment - without mime?
Hey all. I have an unusual request here.
I noticed that for any message, if you look at the attachments menu
('v'), you will always see the message itself as an attachment (which
makes perfect sense if you understand even a little about RFC 822).
Anyway, it gave me an idea. What if I wanted to call an external
program against the text in that attachment - regardless of the mime
type? How could that be done?
For instance:
Someone sends me a 2000 line message that I know is mostly babble. I
want to run a script or other program to condense it, maybe put it
into a more readable format, whatever. The program in question would
simply take the text through a pipe or a tempfile as a parameter. The
output could then either be saved, or depending on the outcome, have
another application run to view it immediately.
Any ideas? I know this is a bit vague, but there is some room for
speculation. One idea is to sort the joke mail by using a hook,
binding or macro or something from the attachment menu to strip the
'>' quoted chars and save the message in a specified directory under a
given name without having to edit and save manually. Or even append
it to an existing file. If the previous forwarded message shows up as
a separate attachment, as is often the case, it would be easy to just
hit a hotkey from there to zap that message to the end of a file.
Seems this might also be applied to some of the NG posts - they would
need to run something against the message to decode the binary posts,
right? I have been looking at some of the *.games binary NGs and I
noticed they are all handled on the fly by Netscape. I'm not sure how
to handle these in mutt, but that's not a big deal, but the idea is
interesting.
Any ideas?
TIA
Lou
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Re: first steps v.1.2.5-4
Alexander Skwar wrote: >So sprach Charles Cazabon am Mon, May 28, 2001 at 11:40:40AM -0600: > > I don't use mbox files much; I don't know if mutt is supposed to leave a > > 0-byte file there when you delete all the message in an mbox file. > >I also don't know if mutt is *SUPPOSED* to leave the file behind - but it >does leave the file behind. Hi, This behavior is controlled by the save_empty variable, which by default it set. If save_empty is unset, all empty mailboxes except the spoolfile are removed when they are closed. If you don't want the default behavior, then stick the following in your .muttrc: set save_empty=no -Harold -- "Life sucks, deal with it!"
Re: Mailing list From: field in index
On 05/28/01 03:50 PM, Jeff Coppock sat at the puter and typed:' >Still doesn't work. I tried %-15.15F, %-18.18L and %-18.18F >and my +sent-mail still shows the From: header (my name) and >not the To: header. It's like mutt's not recognizing my name. >I've been playing with the index_format for some time now >using any possible option listed in 'man muttrc' with no luck. > >Any other suggestions are most welcome. > >thanks, >jc > The mutt manual - section 6.3 describes the index variable and the formatting strings in pretty good detail. %F should give the author name, or the recipient name if it is from you, so it makes sense that this would be the one to use. One thing the manual doesn't tell you is that if you use a 'spamproofed' email address in your From header, mutt may not recognize it as you, even though you use it regularly. Other measures are called for. Folder hooks to be precise. Just to get you started, this is what I have in my Sent folder: folder-hook =Sent 'set index_format="%3C %Z %d %-18.18t (%4l) %s"' %t is the hook to get the To field. If you hook this in your sent folder, this is all you want, anyway. Just don't forget to set the default folder hook to the value you currently use. Works for me. If you also use mutt to read news (with one of the various nntp patches, you will want to use a server hook like the following so you can see which group was posted to - this would have to be a separate 'sent' folder for nntp posts though. To tell mutt to save news posts in nntp_saved: server-hook news.myplace.net 'save-hook . =nntp_saved' To tell mutt to use the Newsgroups header value instead of the From or To values: folder-hook =nntp_sent 'set index_format="%3C %Z %d %-18.18g (%4l) %s"' HTH Lou -- Louis LeBlanc Fully Funded Hobbyist, KeySlapper Extrordinaire :) [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://acadia.ne.mediaone.netԿԬ
Re: Mailing list From: field in index
On Mon, May 28, 2001 at 03:50:13PM -0700, Jeff Coppock wrote: >Still doesn't work. I tried %-15.15F, %-18.18L and %-18.18F >and my +sent-mail still shows the From: header (my name) and >not the To: header. It's like mutt's not recognizing my name. >I've been playing with the index_format for some time now >using any possible option listed in 'man muttrc' with no luck. > >Any other suggestions are most welcome. > Do you have added the list to .muttrc with subscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED]? So, for this list I added subscribe mutt-users so mutt will know this list. Perhaps you can use set alternates , too, in your .muttrc? Something like set alternates="([EMAIL PROTECTED]|[EMAIL PROTECTED])" Maybe that will work. No other ideas at the moment. Regards, Arvid -- .''`. [Arvid Warnecke] [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] [05323-715724] : :' : [ICQ 55906559] [ www.mad-hatter.de ] [PGP-Subject:"get pgp key"] `. `' Linux 2.4.2 i686 XFree86 Version 4.0.2 Uptime: 10 days, 12:11 `-- BOFH #183: filesystem not big enough for Jumbo Kernel Patch PGP signature
Re: Mailing list From: field in index
Still doesn't work. I tried %-15.15F, %-18.18L and %-18.18F
and my +sent-mail still shows the From: header (my name) and
not the To: header. It's like mutt's not recognizing my name.
I've been playing with the index_format for some time now
using any possible option listed in 'man muttrc' with no luck.
Any other suggestions are most welcome.
thanks,
jc
Thusly Thwacked By Arvid Warnecke:
> On Mon, May 28, 2001 at 11:03:12AM -0700, Jeff Coppock wrote:
> >I have the same problem with my +sent-mail directory. I
> >displays my name and the not who the mail was sent to even
> >though I'm using this index_format in .muttrc
> >
> >set index_format="%4C %Z %{%b %d} %-18.18F (%4c) %s"
> >
> >I verified that my name is correct on the /etc/passwd file,
> >since mutt checks there, and it was wrong and I fixed it and
> >it's still not working.
> >
> >Is there anything else I can check that would cause this?
> >
> >
>
> You have to change the index_format. Standard is
> set index_format "%4C %Z %{%b %d} %-15.15L (%4l) %s" in the .muttrc
> Just change %-15.15L to %-15.15F. Or 18.18L then ;-)
> So you will always see the author's name in the index.
> For more details on changing the index-format, please take a look at
> section 6.3.73. of the mutt-help-page.
>
> HTH,
> Arvid
>
> --
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lbdb-fetchaddr
Hello, I've been trying to get lbdb-fetchaddr working with the m_inmail module for a while but still my ~/.lbdb/m_inmail file is empty. I have :0hc | lbdb-fetchaddr in my .procmailrc file (does it matter where it is in the file?) and lbdlq _is_ working with my mutt aliases. However, I would like to achieve what the man pages describes as: "This will pipe a copy of every mail message you receive through a small C program lbdb-fetchaddr(1) which grabs that message's "From:" header." any ideas where I am going wrong? thank you joss -- http://www.josswinn.org
Re: Mailing list From: field in index
On Mon, May 28, 2001 at 11:03:12AM -0700, Jeff Coppock wrote:
>I have the same problem with my +sent-mail directory. I
>displays my name and the not who the mail was sent to even
>though I'm using this index_format in .muttrc
>
>set index_format="%4C %Z %{%b %d} %-18.18F (%4c) %s"
>
>I verified that my name is correct on the /etc/passwd file,
>since mutt checks there, and it was wrong and I fixed it and
>it's still not working.
>
>Is there anything else I can check that would cause this?
>
>
You have to change the index_format. Standard is
set index_format "%4C %Z %{%b %d} %-15.15L (%4l) %s" in the .muttrc
Just change %-15.15L to %-15.15F. Or 18.18L then ;-)
So you will always see the author's name in the index.
For more details on changing the index-format, please take a look at
section 6.3.73. of the mutt-help-page.
HTH,
Arvid
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Re: Editing Aliases
Dale Morris muttered: > I have a *newbie* questioan. Is it good to have my muttrc setup files > configured so I can edit aliases? > I can find no key sequence that allows me to edit aliases. I > am wondering if there is a reason for this? Use 'a' to enter an alias. If you want to edit your $alias_file from inside mutt you could use a macro: macro index \ea "vim ~/.mutt/aliases" HTH, Michael -- Running Windows on a Pentium is like having a brand new Porsche but only be able to drive backwards with the handbrake on. (Unknown source) PGP-Key: http://www-stud.ims.uni-stuttgart.de/~tatgeml/public.key
Editing Aliases
Hi! I have a *newbie* questioan. Is it good to have my muttrc setup files configured so I can edit aliases? I have been using the setup files prepared by Sven Guckes (great!) and although everything else is covered, I can find no key sequence that allows me to edit aliases. I am wondering if there is a reason for this? I can't believe that anything this detailed would overlook alias editing, unless it was intentional. thanks
Re: Mailing list From: field in index
I have the same problem with my +sent-mail directory. I
displays my name and the not who the mail was sent to even
though I'm using this index_format in .muttrc
set index_format="%4C %Z %{%b %d} %-18.18F (%4c) %s"
I verified that my name is correct on the /etc/passwd file,
since mutt checks there, and it was wrong and I fixed it and
it's still not working.
Is there anything else I can check that would cause this?
thanks,
jc
Thusly Thwacked By Mr. Wade:
> Brian Nelson wrote:
> > I recently added the mailing lists I subscribe to using the
> > 'subscribe' setting in my muttrc. Apparently, by default, when mutt
> > recognizes an email from mailing list, it changes the display in the
> > index to show 'To [EMAIL PROTECTED]' or 'CC [EMAIL PROTECTED]' for
> > example instead of the name of the person who sent the email.
> >
> > This is undesirable since I already sort my mailing lists into folders
> > with procmail. It's not very helpful to see that every email in the
> > folder was send to the mailing list.
> >
> > How would I override this behavior to make mutt show the 'From' field
> > in the index for mailing lists instead of 'To' or 'CC'?
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> > --
> > Brian Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> You'll want to take a look at the $index_format variable. Like
> many things in Mutt, the format of the index is highly
> configurable.
>
> As an example, I am currently using:
>
> set index_format="%4C %S %{%m/%d} %-18.18n %?M?(#%03M)&(%4c)? %s"
>
> Good luck.
>
> -- Mr. Wade
>
> --
> Linux: The Choice of the GNU Generation
>
Re: first steps v.1.2.5-4
On Mon, May 28, 2001, Charles Cazabon wrote: > john gennard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Additionally, when after reading the mail I type 'd' for deletion, > > the folders I'm in is deleted. > > I don't use mbox files much; I don't know if mutt is supposed to leave a > 0-byte file there when you delete all the message in an mbox file. save_empty Type: boolean Default: yes When unset, mailboxes which contain no saved messages will be removed when closed (the exception is ``spoolfile'' which is never removed). If set, mailboxes are never removed. Note: This only applies to mbox and MMDF folders, Mutt does not delete MH and Maildir directories. -Ken -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]AIM: ScopusFest
Re: first steps v.1.2.5-4
Quoting john gennard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, who wrote: > My mail is pulled to my /home/user/Mail directory which contains > folders for filtered stuff from specific sources and an inbox for > the remainder. I selected one of the .muttrc files on the web site > (it was Felix von Leitner's) and amended and adjusted according to > what I perceive as my simple needs. > > If I merely launch mutt, it refers to '/var/spool/mail/user' and > says 'no messages'. If however I use 'mutt -f /home/user/Mail/inbox' set spoolfile=~/Mail/inbox or (if folder points to ~/Mail) set spoolfile=+inbox > (or /mutt, /debian, /auntsally etc), I get the contents of the quoted > folder for viewing without problems. I've tried various changes to > .muttrc, but so far have not hit upon the correct one (I assumed > 'set folder=' would work but it does not). folder is your ~/Mail or equiv directory, it allows you to use mailbox names like +inbox or =inbox to refer to ~/Mail/inbox. spoolfile is your mail spool, usually /var/spool/mail/user. > Additionally, when after reading the mail I type 'd' for deletion, > the folders I'm in is deleted. I have this set up, too, but I like it! Try "set save_empty", I think that will get what you want. That's the default, so you probably have an "unset save_empty" somewhere in the cfg file you downloaded? > Would some knowledgeable person kindly let me know what stupid > errors I'm making. Hopefully this will get you a little further. Sam -- Sam Roberts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Don't Understand Macro Key Bindings
Hello All: I have found "many" example muttrc's with macro key binding examples. However, I have found nothing to explain what many of the key bindings expand to. Greg sent me some good examples below, but I do not understand what keystrokes that they expand to. > > You can create macros for the editor like: > > bindeditor delete-char bindeditor \CB bol macro editor '\L'~/Mail/z/l macro editor '\T'~lang/Mail/t macro editor '\P'~lang/Mail/p macro editor '\S'"Don\'t forward or cc email to penpals-partner" i.e. : \CB expands to ? '\L` expands to ? I am on RH 6.0, I haven't found clarifications in the man pages, other than references to classic "C-programming" escape sequences. Also, being pointed to documentation on this matter would be great! Best Regards and Thanks for all the help. Tim
first steps v.1.2.5-4
I run debian Potato and have used kmail for some time. I'm now trying to set up my email differently. So far I have setup getmail and procbox for pulling and filtering my mail from a POP account with an ISP. I've installed Mutt and read a good deal - man pages, the Manual and the contributions on the official web site. There is so much information available, but I cannot get the basics clear in my mind. My mail is pulled to my /home/user/Mail directory which contains folders for filtered stuff from specific sources and an inbox for the remainder. I selected one of the .muttrc files on the web site (it was Felix von Leitner's) and amended and adjusted according to what I perceive as my simple needs. If I merely launch mutt, it refers to '/var/spool/mail/user' and says 'no messages'. If however I use 'mutt -f /home/user/Mail/inbox' (or /mutt, /debian, /auntsally etc), I get the contents of the quoted folder for viewing without problems. I've tried various changes to .muttrc, but so far have not hit upon the correct one (I assumed 'set folder=' would work but it does not). Additionally, when after reading the mail I type 'd' for deletion, the folders I'm in is deleted. Would some knowledgeable person kindly let me know what stupid errors I'm making. Thanks, John.
