Re: Muttrc example needed POP3/SMTP

2017-02-04 Thread sunrise 
Thank you for all your replies and suggestions - they were greatly appreciated.

I am using dial-up email and would like to setup a cron job to 1) Dial in to 
the server,
2) Retrieve any messages (probably via getmail4 or similar) and 3) Send any 
queued
messages. So I'm looking into using msmtpq (a script for use with msmtp) with 
mutt.

Are there any suggestions for which MTA would be most suitable for this purpose 
(sending
queued messages on a system that is not online when composing messages)?

Thanks.



On Fri, 3 Feb 2017 21:31:33 +1100
Erik Christiansen  wrote:

>On 03.02.17 09:47, Chris Green wrote:
>> ... and if you're on a distribution where Postfix is the standard
>> that's also pretty easy to set up.  I personally prefer Postfix from
>> the ease of configuration point of view.
>
>+1
>
>(It also has a Sendmail compatibility interface, so that we old folks
>could move over painlessly. But now my muscle memory is Postfix oriented.)
>
>> I use Postfix and both send and receive mail using SMTP as my desktop
>> machine is on all the time.  Thus I have no need for POP3/IMAP mail
>> collection.
>
>As my machine is shut down each night, I use fetchmail to bring mail in
>via POP3. It has served me well for several decades now.
>
>Erik

Re: Muttrc example needed POP3/SMTP

2017-02-04 Thread sunrise 
Thanks for your input; I will definitely be looking at the possibility of
using offlineimap. I am on a dial up connection - does offlineimap handle 
dropped
connections well?

Thanks again.


On Fri, 3 Feb 2017 21:57:21 + (UTC)
Arkadiusz Drabczyk  wrote:

>On 2017-02-03, sunrise  wrote:
>> I would like to start using mutt but am somewhat intimidated by all the 
>> possible
>> options in the muttrc config file. Would someone be willing to provide me 
>> with a basic
>> muttrc I could use to get started?
>>
>> Here is what I'm looking for:
>>
>> * POP3 (one provider) for retrieving messages
>
>I'd just like to add that these days you should give IMAP a try - I
>find better than POP3 because it automatically synchronizes
>everything.  It's easy to use with mutt as well.
>
>For example, I use offlineimap as the IMAP client on my Slackware box
>and K9Mail e-mail client on my phone.  When I mark a message as read
>on my phone it's automatically marked as read when downloaded with
>offlineimap in mutt, when I send a message on either device it's
>automatically shown in Sent folder on both devices, and when I move a
>a message to a given folder or delete a message it's automatically
>synchronized on both devices.  It's very convenient, especially if get
>a lot of mail.

Re: Forwarding attachments isn't working for some reason

2017-02-04 Thread Christian Ebert 
* Chris Green on Saturday, February 04, 2017 at 15:37:09 +
> When I forward an E-Mail with attachments (e.g. one with some
> pictures) the result is broken somehow.  In the forwarded message the
> attachments are simply seen as part of the message rather than
> attachments.
> 
> Is there something wrong with my mutt configration, or do I need to do
> something different when forwarding attachments, or what?

What is your setting of mime_forward ?

I've set it to ask-no

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Re: Forwarding attachments isn't working for some reason

2017-02-04 Thread Chris Green 
On Sat, Feb 04, 2017 at 03:37:09PM +, Chris Green wrote:
> When I forward an E-Mail with attachments (e.g. one with some
> pictures) the result is broken somehow.  In the forwarded message the
> attachments are simply seen as part of the message rather than
> attachments.
> 
> Is there something wrong with my mutt configration, or do I need to do
> something different when forwarding attachments, or what?
> 
Sorry, I should have looked harder in mutt.org first, I found the
answer:-

set mime_forward=yes set mime_forward_rest=yes

... sorry for the noise.


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Re: Forwarding attachments isn't working for some reason

2017-02-04 Thread Matthias Apitz 

On Saturday, 4 February 2017 16:37:09 CET, Chris Green  wrote:

When I forward an E-Mail with attachments (e.g. one with some
pictures) the result is broken somehow.  In the forwarded message the
attachments are simply seen as part of the message rather than
attachments.

Is there something wrong with my mutt configration, or do I need to do
something different when forwarding attachments, or what?



I do:

v  to view all attachments, parts
t  tag all attachments, parts to be fwd'ed
;  to say 'do the next command on all tagged'
f  cmd is forward

now mutt asks for To, ...

HIH

matthias



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Forwarding attachments isn't working for some reason

2017-02-04 Thread Chris Green 
When I forward an E-Mail with attachments (e.g. one with some
pictures) the result is broken somehow.  In the forwarded message the
attachments are simply seen as part of the message rather than
attachments.

Is there something wrong with my mutt configration, or do I need to do
something different when forwarding attachments, or what?

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Chris Green