fetchmail mutt
I'm hopeing that someone that uses fetchmail with mutt can help. 1. without [and want mda/bsmtp "/path"] fetch times out while trying to read. 2. with [and want mda "/path"] fetch gives a no write permission error. 3. with [and want bsmtp "/path"] it fetches the mail but mutt can't look at it. I can view it with emacs, it's the mail but not a folder that mutt can read. How do I get it to fetch mail into a folder that mutt can read? Regards, Dave
Re: fetchmail mutt
Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote on mutt-users:
Something is fubarred with the permissions of /var/spool/mail I
expect. Try chmod 777 /var/spool/mail, chmod +t /var/spool/mail
And have something listening on port 25 unless you use procmail as
your mda ("/usr/bin/procmail -d %T" should do very nicely)
Thank you, that fixed it but now my mail goes to /var/spool/mail/me
where it was spooling to ~/Mail/inbox. My other folders are in
~/Mail/somenames. Is there a convenient way to get the new mail
in /var/spool/mail/me to ~/Mail/inbox ?
Regards and thanks again,
Dave
Re: fetchmail mutt
Wade A. Mosely wrote on mutt-users: This is somewhat off-topic; where your mail is delivered is the job of the mail delivery agent (MDA) and not that of the mail user agent (MUA). For example, if you are using procmail as the MDA, as I am, then if you specify a value for $DEFAULT in your ~/.procmailrc file, then any mail that "falls off the end" of the rcfile will be delivered to $DEFAULT. Is that what you desire? Thanks, all's well. Regards, Dave
Re: syntax highlighting in pager - browse mail fas
Thomas Duterme wrote on mutt-users: I would like to get Mutt to highlight the subject line while I browse my mail. Why? I go through about 500-600 emails a day (mostly mailing lists) and it would be nice to page through these in the pager mode and delete the threads as I go in this mode. Currently, I scan things through the index since my eyes can't quite speed through things as fast in the pager. For your .muttrc: color header brightyellow black "^subject:" mono header bold "^subject:" The mono line gives you highlighting when you call mutt in a non color terminal. Dave
/etc/hosts and mutt
What are the ramifications on mutt sendmail if I edit /etc/hosts? It currently is: 127.0.0.1 localhost localhost.localdomain If I were to change it to: 127.0.0.1 bozo clown.circus What will it mess up, make better, cause me to change? Regards, Dave
Re: GPG BAD Signature
Try sending one without the signature, or an attached key. Regards, Dave PGP signature
Re: selecting gpg key
Horace G. Friend III wrote on mutt-users: I've got three keys (DSS/DH, RSA and DSS/ElGamal) and I can sign with any that I choose by selecting the "save as" option. I am prompted for which key to use. All my keys have the same userid ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) and I select the key by their keyid. I've also got the default signing key in my muttrc set to DSS/ElGamal. Can't think of what's wrong with your GnuPG unless something's wrong with the muttrc config file. Have you tried running GnuPG outside of Mutt? Thanks Horace. I've revoked my old PGP DSS RSA keys and only use my GPG DSS/ElGamal keys now. They were compatible, and I could select them. My issue is sub keys, I went ahead and expired all but one. I've decided that probably the best purpose for sub keys is for changing encryption keys while keeping the same signing key. Anyway, thanks again. BTW, have you PGP/GPG users seen this?: http://cryptome.org/pgp-email-flaw.htm Dave
send problems
I have trouble with sending messages, intermittently with another list. I use sendmail and my ISP's SMTP. Mutt shows me sending, a copy ends up in record, that's the end of my knowledge. I know that this is the mutt list but perhaps someone here could help. Does sendmail keep a log file? It would help me see if it thinks that it passed it on. Thanks, Dave
Re: send problems
Thank you all, I found the log at: /var/log/mail.log I think that it is decipherable enough for me to believe that the ones that don't make it have been sent to my ISP SMPT host. I suppose that I could ask my ISP to check their log for the disposition of one of the message IDs in question, I don't know if they'll go to the bother. Still not enough information to know for sure, but I'm starting to think that it's that list and not me. Peace, Dave
header fields
Is there a way for me to define a line that will be added to the header when a message is sent? Is there a way to make it optional (bind it to a key)? I know that I can edit headers, but I'd rather nor resort to that. Thanks, Dave
Re: header fields
Barry Mitchelson wrote on mutt-users: On Thu, Mar 22, 2001 at 06:49:09AM -0700, Dave Murray wrote: Is there a way for me to define a line that will be added to the header when a message is sent? yes, add the following to your .muttrc : my_hdr your header line Is there a way to make it optional (bind it to a key)? um .. not sure. Thanks. After you told me what to look for I discovered that it's in TFM. I found that I can toggle it with :un/set hdrs Peace, Dave
selecting gpg key
I encrypt with GPG it appears to give me a choice in which of my keys to use, but it always uses the shortest key for encryption, regardless of which one I chose. Any ideas? Regards, Dave
test
I keep getting bounced off of lists, just checking
PGP old/new headers?
Since I switched from PGP to GPG mutt works as advertised with GPG/PGP except, I only can use new headers (MIME multi- part), which my friends in the land of Windoz can not deal with. I can't get it to send old inline for them. I tried "set pgp_create_traditional = ask-no" but responding yes to the query gives no header/inline/sig/encrypt at all. Any help? Regards, Dave
[zach@mthoodmedia.com: Re: Mutt/Netscape eludes me]
- Forwarded message from Zach Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] - For some reason it does not bounce. From: Zach Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Dave Murray [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Mutt/Netscape eludes me Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2001 14:01:54 -0800 Here's what I do with netscape in linux: Launch netscape with this shell script: ---BEGIN netscape.sh--- #!/bin/sh /usr/local/netscape/netscape echo "" ~/.mutt/netwin while [ "`cat ~/.mutt/netwin`X" = "X" ]; do xwininfo -root -tree | \ grep "Netscape:" | \ sed -e "s/ *\([0-9a-z]*\) .*/\1/" ~/.mutt/netwin done; ---END--- It's a cheesy way to find out the X windows id of the netscape window and load it into a file. I use ~/.mutt/netwin to store the id. Here's part of my mailcap file: ---BEGIN .mailcap--- text/html; /usr/local/netscape/netscape \ -id `cat ~/.mutt/netwin` -remote 'openURL(%s)' ---END--- It tells netsacpe to launch the url in a pre-existing window - the id that we just found in netscape.sh. Here's my .urlview file: ---BEGIN .urlview--- EXPERT COMMAND netscape -remote 'openURL(%s)' ---END--- Obviously, your mileage may vary, and I'm not responsible for any cpu fires. Works for me, though... Zach Dave Murray wrote: Arrggg! I can't get mutt to use netscape from URLView. I put: text/html; /opt/netscape/netscape -remote 'openURL(%s)' ; test=RunningX or text/html; /opt/netscape/netscape -remote 'openURL(%s)' into my .mailcap to no avail, it spawns linx. From mutt I can: |/opt/netscape/netscape -remote 'openURL(www.mutt.org); and if will work if netscape is running. Any ideas? Thanks, Dave - End forwarded message -
Re: Mutt/Netscape eludes me]
- Forwarded message from Zach Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Zach sent this to me, I tried to forward it to the list only to descover that my subscribershipt to the list had vanished. Here it comes again, wonder if I missed anything aimed at me. Regards, Dave From: Zach Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Dave Murray [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Mutt/Netscape eludes me Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2001 14:01:54 -0800 Here's what I do with netscape in linux: Launch netscape with this shell script: ---BEGIN netscape.sh--- #!/bin/sh /usr/local/netscape/netscape echo "" ~/.mutt/netwin while [ "`cat ~/.mutt/netwin`X" = "X" ]; do xwininfo -root -tree | \ grep "Netscape:" | \ sed -e "s/ *\([0-9a-z]*\) .*/\1/" ~/.mutt/netwin done; ---END--- It's a cheesy way to find out the X windows id of the netscape window and load it into a file. I use ~/.mutt/netwin to store the id. Here's part of my mailcap file: ---BEGIN .mailcap--- text/html; /usr/local/netscape/netscape \ -id `cat ~/.mutt/netwin` -remote 'openURL(%s)' ---END--- It tells netsacpe to launch the url in a pre-existing window - the id that we just found in netscape.sh. Here's my .urlview file: ---BEGIN .urlview--- EXPERT COMMAND netscape -remote 'openURL(%s)' ---END--- Obviously, your mileage may vary, and I'm not responsible for any cpu fires. Works for me, though... Zach Dave Murray wrote: Arrggg! I can't get mutt to use netscape from URLView. I put: text/html; /opt/netscape/netscape -remote 'openURL(%s)' ; test=RunningX or text/html; /opt/netscape/netscape -remote 'openURL(%s)' into my .mailcap to no avail, it spawns linx. From mutt I can: |/opt/netscape/netscape -remote 'openURL(www.mutt.org); and if will work if netscape is running. Any ideas? Thanks, Dave - End forwarded message -
Mutt/Netscape eludes me
Arrggg! I can't get mutt to use netscape from URLView. I put: text/html; /opt/netscape/netscape -remote 'openURL(%s)' ; test=RunningX or text/html; /opt/netscape/netscape -remote 'openURL(%s)' into my .mailcap to no avail, it spawns linx. From mutt I can: |/opt/netscape/netscape -remote 'openURL(www.mutt.org); and if will work if netscape is running. Any ideas? Thanks, Dave
Re: Mutt/Netscape eludes me
Michael Tatge wrote on mutt-users: Dave Murray muttered: I can't get mutt to use netscape from URLView. ^^^ What are you trying to do urlview or mailcap? man urlview edit url_handler.sh Thanks, I haven't set up anything for url_handler, it works so well for everything but netscape. I haven't found any doc that make sense to me yet, so I'm not sure what to do about it. I guess I'll keep peeping into files. Thanks, Dave
Re: Mutt/Netscape eludes me
Michael Tatge wrote on mutt-users: Dave Murray muttered: I can't get mutt to use netscape from URLView. ^^^ What are you trying to do urlview or mailcap? man urlview edit url_handler.sh That was it, all's well. Thank you. The GOOD thing about Linux, and now mutt is you CAN configure it to do things the way that you want. The BAD thing about Linux, and now mutt is you MUST configure it to do things the way that you want. I must say, user support seems superior to the commercial, listen to bad music while on hold support from that other OS. Peace, Dave http://www2.micro-net.com/~dlmurray/ "If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man." - Mark Twain
Re: outlook 2000 attachments
Drew Fisher wrote on mutt-users: I have a (hopefully) quick question to ask. I am running Mutt v1.3.14i and whenever I receive an email with an attachment from someone using Microsoft Outlook 2000, the attachment always comes up looking like: As an experiment, I made a word-doc.zip and sent it home as an attachment, saved the attachment, and told the archive tool to open it with star office. Worked fine, I guess we'll have to ask the no mimes to send us archives, rather than word files. Peace, Dave
Re: using non-local smtp server?
On Mon, Mar 12, 2001 at 11:37:12AM +, Conor Daly wrote: Funnily enough, I'm doing exactly that:- running sendmail on a box with an internal IP through an IP Masq box and I set it all up using Donncha O'Caoimh's "install-sendmail" script available from http://cork.linux.ie That's the way to go. That helped me, but it did not address the fact that I had no DNS setting for my ISP configured for sendmail. Dave "If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man." - Mark Twain
Re: outlook 2000 attachments
Drew Fisher wrote on mutt-users: I have a (hopefully) quick question to ask. I am running Mutt v1.3.14i and whenever I receive an email with an attachment from someone using Microsoft Outlook 2000, the attachment always comes up looking like: Mutt seems to know about attachments from non-Outlook 2000 mail programs, but dies whenever I get anything from Outlook 2K. What can I do to fix (or get around) this problem? I must use Outlook/NT at work. This morning I looked at the header details of something that I sent from home (mutt/PGP signed). It said something to the effect that there was MIME information in the email, and my mail reader is not MIME compliant, and I my not be able to see some or all of the data. It was true, I saw none of the PGP stuff (new headers). I looked, and could not find a way to change the settings for MIME compliance. Microsoft apparently sees no need to care about MIME standards. -- Peace, Dave "If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man." - Mark Twain
Re: using non-local smtp server?
On Mon, Mar 12, 2001 at 01:25:00PM +1100, Jeff Turner wrote: Hi, Is there any way to configure mutt to send mail through a non-local SMTP server? Yes, I've read the FAQ entry saying "this ain't mutt's job", but.. all mutt does is send mail to *some* SMTP server. Why must that be localhost:25, instead of anotherhost:25? I'm not asking mutt to do the job of a MTA; I just want it to talk to the MTA of my choice. I'd appreciate it if someone could explain the error in my thinking. thanks, --Jeff I just went round and round with this one as a recent convert to mutt. I had been using KMail which has it's own setup, and seems to not use sendmail. I got the POP3 working in mutt because it's part of the setup. The SMPT server is not. I pointed mutt at sendmail, it worked locally (bozo to root, etc) but not on the Internet via my modem. If this sounds like your story, check the setup of your sendmail, specifically DNS. The number is supplied by your ISP in the format of 987.654.32.1 Now I'm a happy camper except for PGP, my next post. Peace, Dave
PGP with mutt
Since I added a "pgp_sign_as" "pgp_sign_micalg" to my muttrc I can sign email. If someone else's email has new headers, it automatically verifies it, finding the key on my key-ring. I can not encrypt in mutt. It ignores my entries to it's questions. It also does not exhibit some of the other behavior described in the manual. The documentation says that I need two scripts "pgpewrap" which I have, and "pgpring" which I don't. From the description of it's function, it may be what I need. Anyone know about this? My other question is, what is PGP2, PGP5, and PGP6? If I go to a terminal and type PGP, it tells me that it is ver 6.5.2. Does anyone have the magic decoder ring for that? Peace, Dave
Re: Help, cant send with mutt
On Mon, 05 Mar 2001, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote: Dave Murray proclaimed on mutt-users that: I was able to set up the pop3 for my ISP's mail server and receive mail with mutt just fine. Now how do I set up sendmail for smtp to my ISP mail server? http://www.hserus.net/dlhowto.html [opps, sent it to Suresh instead of the list the 1st time] Thank you, I'm still stymied. 1. I removed and reinstalled sendmail from the .rpm, edited the .mc (best as I could), still didn't work. 2. I downloaded the latest tarball and compiled it, still doesn't work (but showed improvement, I'm becoming less enchanted with rpm with every attempt to use it). I can use mutt locally (mail from [EMAIL PROTECTED] to [EMAIL PROTECTED], etc.) I just can't figure out how to make it use my ISP's smtp address, and work. The verbose script says that it is using my ISP's smtp, but all outgoing mail goes to deadletter :0( I can read the mail just fine, pop3 works OK. This seems to be a sendmail configuration problem, as opposed to a mutt problem. Any suggestions on where to go for help with this? Regards and peace, Dave
Help, cant send with mutt
Hello, I was able to set up the pop3 for my ISP's mail server and receive mail with mutt just fine. Now how do I set up sendmail for smtp to my ISP mail server? Thanks in advance, Dave Murray
