Re: creating folders in mutt
* Sam Rosenfeld [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010410 21:57]: I don't see any obvious way of creating folders, and then filtering the index so that messages will be easily shipped to the appropriate folder. Where I can find the way? Please check out procmail from http://www.procmail.org/ -- christian r. mollsthe rain descended, [EMAIL PROTECTED] and the floods came
Re: SCO Installation
* Dave Hodgson [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010314 21:31]: Thanks in advance for any assistance you can provide. David A. Hodgson Perry's Ice Cream Company, Inc. One Ice Cream Plaza Kiddin'? Akron, NY 14001-0328 -- christian r. mollsthe rain descended, [EMAIL PROTECTED] and the floods came
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: Replying to From: address
* Dirk Laurie [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010301 09:43]:
Very properly, mutt replies to the "Reply-To" address if one is set.
I belong to some mailing lists where "Reply-To" is set to the list.
This is OK if I wish to send to the sender and the list ("g") or to
the list only ("r") but not if I wish to reply to the sender only.
E.g. "Listen old chap, I don't want to be nasty but this sort of
drivel really makes you look a fool" and "Why don't the pair of us get
together at Luciano's tonight?" fall into that category.
Is there a mutt function that lest me reply to the "From" address even
when "Reply-To" is provided?
Make sure $reply_to is set to ask-yes in your .muttrc.
, [ mutt manual ]
| 6.3.171. reply_to
|
| Type: quadoption
| Default: ask-yes
|
| If set, Mutt will ask you if you want to use the address
| listed in the Reply-To: header field when replying to a
| message. If you answer no, it will use the address in the
| From: header field instead. This option is useful for
| reading a mailing list that sets the Reply-To: header field
| to the list address and you want to send a private message
| to the author of a message.
`
You might also want to take a look at mutts mailing list features
(e.g. the lists and subscribe commands).
chris
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christian r. mollsthe rain descended,
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Re: Fix broken threading
* Jan Johansson [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010301 14:47]: On Thu, Mar 01, 2001 at 12:28:56AM +0100, Christian R Molls wrote: I usually read my mail sorted by threads. Once in a while (on some lists the while is pretty short), threading breaks because some moron hit the "Reply"-Button not to reply but to compose a message completely unrelated to the one he is replying to. His messages and the replies to it subsequently clutter the original thread. As I swa no replies to you inquire I have one loosy suggestion that works but is a PITA. Use the E key to edit the raw message adn delete the lines. Actually, I got a private response from Ulf Erikson [0]. He made a pretty nifty macro for that matter. It uses formail as editor for the edit command. I added "change-folder^Enter", which re-reads the folder after the message has been edited. You'll need Byrial Jensen's current shortcut patch for that to work. It can be found on his homepage [1]. Although written for mutt 1.2, it works for later versions without problems. Regards, chris macro index ,U "enter-commandset editor=\ 'formail -R References Old-References -R In-Reply-To Old-In-Reply-To\ %s /tmp/mutt-fix.$$;mv /tmp/mutt-fix.$$ %s; sleep 1; touch %s'enter\ editenter-commandset editor=vimenterchange-folder^Enter" \ "remove current message's \"References:\" header" [0] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [1] http://home.worldonline.dk/~byrial/mutt/patches/ -- christian r. mollsthe rain descended, [EMAIL PROTECTED] and the floods came
Re: How to read mutt-users-digest
* [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010301 21:44]: I have a question about your formail suggestion. The individual messages that make up the digest only have 2 headers: "From" and "Subject". So when I run formail, the resulting messages don't have anything unique that procmail can use to identify them as being from mutt-users. Other list's digests typically do one of two things: * Include other headers in the individual messages, such as "To" or "Cc", or * Prepend something to the subject, like "[wm-users] Original subject here". How do you handle this when using formail to split the mutt-users digest? The trick is to run formail from your .procmailrc. I'll post the example from the procmailex manpage: :0: * ^Subject:.*surfing.*Digest | formail +1 -ds surfing All messages containing "surfing" and "Digest" in the Subject: header (that condition should match the surfing list digests) are piped to formail which splits them, skipping what it considers the first message. The output, ie the separate messages, are appended to folder "surfing". So all the messages from one digest go into one mailbox. No more filtering is necessary. For mutt-users you would use something like: :0: * ^Subject:.*mutt-users-digest | formail +1 -ds mutt-users chris -- christian r. mollsthe rain descended, [EMAIL PROTECTED] and the floods came
Re: Changing Index Colors
* Murray Maxwell Dancey [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010301 23:51]: How can I make new messages to me one color, and new messages in general another color? I also want old messages to me to be yet another color. # messages to me (requires $alternates) color index cyan default ~p # new messages color index red default ~N # old messages to me color index green default "~p ~O" chris -- christian r. mollsthe rain descended, [EMAIL PROTECTED] and the floods came
Re: hilite new msgs to me?
* Zach Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010228 21:45]: Does anyone know of a way to hilite rows in the message index that correspond to messages that are addressed to me, and are new? In other words, I'm always looking for "N +" in %Z (the message status flags), and I'd like to make that visual search easier. I don't filter my email, and I occasionally miss things buried in mailing list messages... color index cyan default "~t zach@mthoodmedia\\.com ~N" chris
Re: hilite new msgs to me?
* Christian R Molls [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010228 22:04]: ...talking to myself... * Zach Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010228 21:45]: Does anyone know of a way to hilite rows in the message index that correspond to messages that are addressed to me, and are new? In other words, I'm always looking for "N +" in %Z (the message status flags), and I'd like to make that visual search easier. I don't filter my email, and I occasionally miss things buried in mailing list messages... color index cyan default "~t zach@mthoodmedia\\.com ~N" Better still: tell mutt what your e-mail addresses are: set alternates="(zach@mthoodmedia\\.com)|(zach@home\\.com)" Then use color index cyan default "(~p | ~P) ~N" to highlight new messages to and from you. chris
Fix broken threading
I usually read my mail sorted by threads. Once in a while (on some lists the while is pretty short), threading breaks because some moron hit the "Reply"-Button not to reply but to compose a message completely unrelated to the one he is replying to. His messages and the replies to it subsequently clutter the original thread. Example given below. "Considering Debian" is completely unrelated to the thread "Communicator-after-Mozilla", but appears as part of the thread. I know that I have read about this matter before, but had no luck searching the archives: what possibilities are there to fix that issue? Im thinking of a macro/script combination called from withing mutt that deletes the misleading "In-Reply-To:" and "Reference" headers in the mbox file that holds the thread, and makes mutt re-read the folder, now with two separate threads. Anyone done that before? chris , [ ascii art - plz forgive me ] | Communicator-after-Mozilla | I= |I= | I=Considering Debian | I= | I= |I= | I= | I= | I= | I= |I= | I= ` -- christian r. mollsthe rain descended, [EMAIL PROTECTED] and the floods came
Re: Loading mail setup at editor (vim) start
* Johannes Zellner [EMAIL PROTECTED] [000731 11:50]: how can I let read some special mail configs (e.g. set tw=72) when edit a email/news messages? autocmd FileType mail set tw=72 nocin ai expandtab (this is what I have) au BufNewFile,BufRead /tmp/mutt* source ~/.vim/mutt_vimrc (this is what I have) The advantage of this solution is that it also works on messages which have been postponed and are recalled (via the "R" command). My vim 5.4 fails to properly detect the syntax in those cases, and Johannes' autocmd would not be executed. Which leads to the question: why does syntax detection work on all mails except that have been postponed and are recalled? -- christian molls student of laws univ of cologne
Re: Loading mail setup at editor (vim) start
* Suresh Ramasubramanian [EMAIL PROTECTED] [000731 13:20]: Which leads to the question: why does syntax detection work on all mails except that have been postponed and are recalled? Mutt uses a totally different naming syntax (apparently a random string - not mutt-hostname-foo) for postponed or recalled messages. So that does not match the regexp being checked for. Citing the vim manual: The type of highlighting will be selected using the file name extension, and sometimes using the first line of the file. So it should make no difference if recalled postponed messages are named "mutt-hostname-foo" or "mutt837rsd7348". Still, apparently it does. To work around the problem I put au BufNewFile,BufRead /tmp/mutt* set syntax=mail in my .vimrc. -- christian molls student of laws univ of cologne
Re: expunge messages
* Dmitry S. Sivachenko [EMAIL PROTECTED] [000726 19:59]: Is it possible to delete messages marked for deletion (with 'D') without leaving mutt? sync-mailbox, by default bound to the "$" key. -- christian molls student of laws univ of cologne
Re: Digression: mutt and mixmaster
* Howard Arons [EMAIL PROTECTED] [000713 20:48]: Er, where in Mutt's documentation is there a reference to this "--with-mixmaster option"? I've read the INSTALL or CONFIGURE files, and I don't find it. What other config options have I missed? Try ./configure --help Christian -- christian molls student of laws univ of cologne
Printing with only some headers
Hi, how can I make mutt print only some (ie important) header lines? Right now I use: set print_command='enscript -2 -r -G -i3' which results in all headers being printed. So I piped the mail through sed/formail before passing it to enscript, and that worked, but I wonder if there is a nicer way to do it? Maybe with a mailcap-print setting? Chris -- christian molls student of laws univ of cologne
mutt and grepmail
Hi, has anybody looked into using grepmail from within mutt? I was thinking of some macro/script that reads parameters, queries grepmail and presents the results in a temporarily created mailbox afterwards? If nobody tried, I will. Regards, Chris -- christian molls student of laws univ of cologne
Searching multiple folders
Hi, I am afraid this might be a FAQ, but all I could find was a detailed description of how to do it with pine, so here is my question: How can you search for mails in different folders (eg search through all the mailboxes you have in ~/Mail/)? Regards, Chris -- christian molls student of laws univ of cologne
Re: alias question
* Shao Zhang [EMAIL PROTECTED] [000311 14:21]: Is it possbile in mutt, to create an alias, such that some addresses are displayed on the To: field, and some will be displayed on the Cc: filed, and other will be displayed on the Bcc: field? I don't think you can do it with an alias but a kind of template mail should do the trick: - Create a mail containing the to, cc, and bcc lines you want. Leave the body empty and postpone it. - To send such a prepared message, change to +postponed and choose "resend-message", usually bound to Esc-e. - If you don't want to fill your +postponed-mailbox with such templates, move them to +templates for example and resend them from there. Hope this helps. -- christian molls student of laws univ of cologne
Re: [jcm@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org: word wrap]
* J McKitrick [EMAIL PROTECTED] [000311 18:00]: On my machine i use vim. I have this line in my .vimrc, which sets textwidth only for mail editing in mutt: au BufNewFile,BufRead /tmp/mutt* set tw=70 -- christian molls student of laws univ of cologne
Strange header fields
Hi everybody, I am using GMX (a German freemail service) to collect e-mail from various accounts. Mails that have been collected with GMX have the following header lines (the example is a mail to this list): From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fri Mar 10 23:43:44 2000 Return-Path: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Who is responsible for the garbled "From " and "Return-Path:" headers (as I don't think these are correct)? Is it GMX or is it my MTA? If the latter, how can I educate my sendmail? Right now I am using formail to do the job, but that is more cosmetics than a solution. And at last: what is the purpose of a "From " header (it doesn't even conform to RFC822, does it?) Christian -- christian molls student of laws univ of cologne
Re: pop support
On Tue, 30 Mar 1999, rfi from Rich Roth wrote: On Tue, Mar 30, 1999 at 11:48:02PM +0200, Christian R Molls wrote: does mutt's internal pop-support forward mail via sendmail or via port 25? I think you have a mis-understanding of POP - pop has nothing to do with forwarding or, for that matter, sending email - and Mutt, does use a MTA (like sendmail) to send mail. Sure, I just wondered if the mail that is fetched from the pop host wanders through sendmail or is directly put into some folder. Thanks for your help. -- Christian Molls [EMAIL PROTECTED] student of laws [EMAIL PROTECTED] univ of cologne
Re: Installing LBDB problem
On Sat, 03 Apr 1999, Rejo wrote: When trying to get LBDB installed it tells me mutt_dotlock is not on my system. When i do ./configure i get ERROR: mutt_dotlock is required to build this package. ERROR: You can get it from the mutt package's source code. I guess this should be fixed when compiling Mutt, but i'm not able to find that switch. What should i do? I've got the same problem here when compiling lbdb on a SuSE 5.2 box. On an alpha machine running Redhat 5.1 it worked right out of the box, ie without recompiling mutt, though. -- Christian Molls student of laws [EMAIL PROTECTED] univ of cologne
Re: Features
On Wed, 31 Mar 1999, Roland Rosenfeld wrote: lbdb will never be incorporated into Mutt, because it is a separate package which can be used by Mutt using a clear interface. So it shouldn't be a problem to combine Mutt and lbdb. For new versions of lbdb see http://www.spinnaker.de/debian/#lbdb (you'll also find system independent sources there). I actually got it there and it works great (that was the reason for my question). As a former pine user, I missed the Take-Address feature in mutt, and lbdb is more than a replacement for it. sources. I didn't hear that someone except me is using this patch, so I fear that nobody needs it and wants it. But maybe this only means that there are no problems with this patch? In the latter case the patch should be incorporated now. This shouldn't be a big problem, I'm using it (ok, not for too long, but with really large folders) and it runs very smoothly. For those archiving their mailing lists, folder compression is -at least- nice to have. Putting some kind of "enable at your own risk" into the sources should be enough to keep it away from the careful. -- Christian Molls [EMAIL PROTECTED] student of laws [EMAIL PROTECTED] univ of cologne
Some novice questions
Dear list, after two days of hacking muttrc, mutt is pretty much doing what I wanted it to do. Yet I've got some questions left: (1) How can I purge messages flagged as "D" without changing the folder / leaving mutt? (2) How can I make mutt execute keystrokes on startup? Putting the "push" command into muttrc doesn't show any effect. (3) I can't get German "Umlaute" in mutt on my Alpha box running RedHat 5.1. On a SuSE 5.2 Intel box things work fine with the same config file. Can anybody point me into the right direction? Thanks in advance and greeting from Cologne, Chris
