Imap folders not listed in the sidebar
Hi Folks, I wanted to save a message I received. So I pressed s and was asked where I wanted to save the message. I chose to create a new folder called TurboTax. My question is what do I need to do for this new folder to appear in my sidebar? In my .muttrc file I have: set imap_list_subscribed set imap_check_subscribed I am using StartMail as my email provider. When I go to their webmail interface I do see the new TurboTax folder listed as a subfolder of Inbox. I have several subfolders and they all appear in the Mutt sidebar except for the new TurboTax folder. Thank you, John
Re: HTML email?
Thank you - where do you put the python3 script and how do you let mutt know it is there?
HTML email?
Hi Folks, How do you all deal with HTML email? Thank you, John
Re: IMAP Folders - Mutt Patched
Actually no, here is a link to a scrot that is full size. 647x462 pixels https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/23115609/Selection_002.png On Mon, Aug 03, 2015 at 10:39:22AM -0700, Ian Zimmerman wrote: Doesn't this make your mutt window way wide? -- John
IMAP Folders - Mutt Patched
For what it's worth, I use Mutt Patched from the Ubuntu repository. It gives me a side bar that lists all of my IMAP folders. Ctrl+n moves to the next folder and Ctrl+p moves to the previous folder. I have this in my .muttrc file: # Sidebar set sidebar_width=30 set sidebar_visible=yes set sidebar_delim='|' set sidebar_sort=yes color sidebar_new brightblue black# b toggles sidebar visibility macro index b 'toggle sidebar_visible' macro pager b 'toggle sidebar_visible' bind index \CP sidebar-prev bind index \CN sidebar-next bind index \CO sidebar-open bind pager \CP sidebar-prev bind pager \CN sidebar-next bind pager \CO sidebar-open https://doc-0g-80-docs.googleusercontent.com/docs/securesc/ha0ro937gcuc7l7deffksulhg5h7mbp1/g7rtu2d3gqfs3uk5ensjkhnjhm20l6nb/143861760/08771943643953911230/*/0B05fj21T_0AtMndZZjlxSjh2V2c?e -- John
Re: Fwd: MAP "mailbox closed" with Outlook.com
set folder=imaps://$imap_user:$imap_p...@imap-mail.outlook.com:993/ set smtp_url = smtp://$imap_user:$imap_p...@smtp-mail.outlook.com:587/ set spoolfile = "+INBOX" set postponed = "+Drafts" set record = "+Sent Items" set ssl_starttls = yes set imap_passive = yes set imap_keepalive = 300 set imap_idle set signature=~/.signature I am FAR from an exprert, but I see a couple of differences between your .muttrc file and mine. I do not use Outlook.com, but I do connect to an IMAP account. In my case I have a line that says: set smtp_url="smtps://j...@jfniendorf.org@server_name.com/465" I have another line that lists the smtp password: set smtp_pass="dummy_password" For the set folder lines I have: set folder="imaps://server_name.com:993" set folder="imaps://server_name.com/INBOX." This is followed by the login and password information: set imap_user="j...@jfniendorf.org" set imap_pass="dummy_password" -- John
Re: Swedish chars in attached gpg-encrypted message fails
On Sun, Jun 21, 2015 at 02:42:25PM +0200, jonas hedman wrote: I think I have to convince my friends to get decent email clients =) Hey, at least you have managed to get them to try and use encryption! My friends and family can't be bothered. :-( -- John
Re: showing mails with attachment in index
Great - thank you guys! -- John
Re: showing mails with attachment in index
Use %X in index_format to show the attachment count. You can use it conditionally to make it look better: %?X?%2X& ? I use something like this: %?X?{%2X}&%4c? which shows me the attachment count if there are attachments, or the message size otherwise. Perhaps I misread this, but how specifically are you using %?X?{%2X}&%4c? How is this written in your .muttrc file? Thank you -- John
Re: Saving all attachments
On Sun, Jun 07, 2015 at 02:44:22PM -0400, Chris Spackman wrote: I have this in my .muttrc: macro index,pager X "ripmime -i - -d " when I press X, ripmime asks for a directory and then puts all the attachments there. No need to select any attachments or confirm the saving (but you have to "press any key to continue" after it finishes). This seems to be the "official" site for ripmime: http://www.pldaniels.com/ripmime/ -- Chris Spackman Hey thanks Chris, This is really handy! I wish I'd known about it earlier. -- John
Re: List headers and List Reply [Was: Sent attached doc from Libreoffice]
Derek> Come on Patrick, you are not new here... You know full well that Derek> most mailer software does not have any list-reply function; mutt Derek> is a rare exception, and despite this being a mutt-related list, Derek> not the only mailer people use here. If by now you still can't Derek> handle people posting both to mailing lists and to you directly Derek> at the same time, perhaps you should stop subscribing to mailing Derek> lists... Exactly - I've been on this list for a few years. It seems that Patrick wakes up in a bad mood EVERY day. -- John
Re: Unable to send, and certificate error
On Thu, May 14, 2015 at 10:20:06AM -0400, cipher wrote: port 25 is correct, I also have 587 and 465 open on my exchange server, and all give the same error On May 14, 2015, at 9:52 AM, John Niendorf wrote: I am no expert, but is port 25 the correct port? set smtp_url = "smtp://u...@mail.domain.com:25/" set ssl_starttls=yes Not to beat a dead horse, but when you say that both ports 587 and 465 are open on the exchange server and you get the same error, does that mean that you tried with ports 465 and 587 in your .mutrc file, that is where you now have 25, you had 465 and got the same error and also tried with 587 and got the same error? Or does that simply mean that the ports are open on the server, but you still tried to connect to them via port 25? I *think* in the case of an Exchange server, the server admin has to enable IMAP for a user to be able to use Mutt to read their email. In any case, here is how the smtp_url is in my .muttrc file: set smtp_url="smtps://u...@server.com/465" -- John
Re: Unable to send, and certificate error
I am no expert, but is port 25 the correct port? On 05/14/2015 03:14 PM, cipher wrote: > cant send email, and when trying to send email get a certificate error > > > [ with these settings ] > > set smtp_url = "smtp://u...@mail.domain.com:25/" > set ssl_starttls=yes > > [ get this ] > Authenticating (NTLM)... > SASL authentication failed > > > [ with these setting ] > set smtp_url = "smtp://u...@domain.com@mail.domain.com:25/" > set ssl_starttls=yes > > [ get this ] > Authenticating (NTLM)... > SASL authentication failed > > tried with set ssl_starttls=no > and same issue > > also have certificate issues > > [ with these settings ] > set certificate_file = ~/.mutt/certificate > > > [ get thsi ] > Certificate host check failed: certificate owner does not match hostname > mail.domain.com > > -- Mutt: SSL Certificate check (certificate 0 of 0 in chain) > (r)eject, accept (o)nce, (a)ccept always > > i choose (a) and states certificate saved, but always get prompted for it > i check my certificates file and it has the certificate in there over and > over again, certificate file is chmod 600 > > please help >
Re: line wrap with editors
I use nano which I think is the default editor in Ubuntu. I have this in my .muttrc file: set wrap=78 set smart_wrap set editor="nano -r 75" and it seems to work well. On Tue, Nov 18, 2014 at 02:12:27PM -0500, Dale wrote: seem to have line wrap problems with nano and vi(vim?) how can I fix this or use gedit,emacs thanks -- (my whereabouts below) http://www.dalekelly.org -- John
Re: address book?
Check out abook in the repository. John > On 10 Nov 2014, at 14:34, DaleKelly wrote: > > how can I configure/maintain an address book? > > -- > (my whereabouts below) > http://www.dalekelly.org/
Re: trying repository mutt again
Interesting. I see on their support web page they say: Outgoing Port Without SSL - one of the following 25, 80, 3535 With SSL - 465 Is there a reason you do not want to use SSL? John On 11/09/2014 08:26 PM, DaleKelly wrote: > On 11/09/2014 03:40 AM, John Niendorf wrote: >> >> The references I found were not mutt specific, but tend to point to a >> problem with GoDaddy in general. > > Thunderbird works fine, with SSL/TLS or without > (have to use port 80 instead of 25 for SMTP without SSL/TLS) >
Re: trying repository mutt again
John Long raises some good points. It seems pretty haphazard the way things are now. I think I would purge Mutt and Postfix and then start over in an orderly fashion. Having said that, it appears after searching the web that many many people have trouble sending mail with a GoDaddy account. Specifically, authentication seems to be problematic. The references I found were not mutt specific, but tend to point to a problem with GoDaddy in general. http://www.computerrepairhouston.net/wpress/blog/godaddy-smtp-server-problem-get-530-error-cant-authenticate-to-smtpout-secureserver-net/ https://www.google.se/webhp?tab=ww&ei=wiVfVNqmBZDcaqP1gJAC&ved=0CAkQ1S4#q=authentication+error+godaddy+email -- John
Re: SMTP one more time, with all the details
Dale, I'm curious, what email provider are you using? -- John
Re: SMTP one more time, with all the details
Dale, What happens when you put this in your .muttrc file? set smtp_url="smtps://your_email_addr...@email.server.com/465" set smtp_pass="your_password" -- John
Re: pop(s),smtp(s)
I have to ask. Dale what distro are you using? Why are you trying to install mutt from scratch when there is probably a fine version in the repository? Install from the repository and configure the .muttrc file (I would put that file in ~/) This should avoid any problems like mutt not being configured for SMTP. John On 11/04/2014 04:41 AM, DaleKelly wrote: > On 11/03/2014 09:43 PM, DaleKelly wrote: >> >> sudo apt-get install libsasl2-2 >> Reading package lists... Done >> Building dependency tree >> Reading state information... Done >> libsasl2-2 is already the newest version. >> >> already there, maybe need a link in my .muttrc > > tried --with-sasl[=PFX] on configure > tried PFX > tried various locations where sasl was listed > (might have to find where sasl is listed) > > get the following error: > configure: error: could not find sasl lib >
Re: pop(s),smtp(s)
Just a note: ~/ is shorthand for /home/dale/ John > On 03 Nov 2014, at 17:29, Patrick Shanahan wrote: > > * DaleKelly [11-03-14 11:23]: >>> On 11/03/2014 04:51 AM, John Long wrote: >>> You need to resolve this issue or you will have no idea what mutt is using >>> for config info. >> >> made a .muttrc file, out of sample.muttrc, with your input on >> pop/smtp, does not deliver mail, probably have to look at where this >> file should be, put it where sample.muttrc was > > yes, you are very confused. You need ~/.muttrc or ~/.mutt/.muttrc > either will work. > >> I forgot one thing, I had a problem installing mutt-1.5.1.23 as a user >> >> make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/dale/Downloads/mutt-1.5.23/intl' >> Making install in doc >> make[2]: Entering directory `/home/dale/Downloads/mutt-1.5.23/doc' >> make[3]: Entering directory `/home/dale/Downloads/mutt-1.5.23/doc' >> make[3]: Nothing to be done for `install-exec-am'. >> xsltproc --nonet -o manual.html ./html.xsl manual.xml >> /bin/bash: xsltproc: command not found >> make[3]: [manual.html] Error 127 (ignored) >> cat instdoc.sh > instdoc >> /bin/bash: instdoc: Permission denied >> make[3]: *** [instdoc] Error 1 >> make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/dale/Downloads/mutt-1.5.23/doc' >> make[2]: *** [install-am] Error 2 >> make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/dale/Downloads/mutt-1.5.23/doc' >> make[1]: *** [install-recursive] Error 1 >> make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/dale/Downloads/mutt-1.5.23' >> make: *** [install] Error 2 >> >> as root, it installs okay, but still does not deliver mail > > user does not have permissions to install outside of /home/ > > Are you perhaps somewhat new to linux/unix? > If so, questions or some study should preceed actions unless you have no > problem with reinstalling your *entire* system as much can and does go > amiss with incorrect actions. > > ps: happens even for knowledgable users :^( > -- > (paka)Patrick Shanahan Plainfield, Indiana, USA @ptilopteri > http://en.opensuse.orgopenSUSE Community Memberfacebook/ptilopteri > http://wahoo.no-ip.orgPhoto Album: http://wahoo.no-ip.org/gallery2 > Registered Linux User #207535@ http://linuxcounter.net
Re: pop(s),smtp(s)
Dale, For what it is worth I have this in my .muttrc file and I am able to send and receive securly to my server. set smtp_url="smtps://j...@jfniendorf.org@secure_server.com/465" -- John
Never mind - I should have searched first
Sorry for the spam guys. I found the answer to my questions: Mutt also supports a ``batch'' mode to send prepared messages. Simply redirect input from the file you wish to send. For example, mutt -s "data set for run #2" profes...@bigschool.edu < ~/run2.dat This command will send a message to ``profes...@bigschool.edu'' with a subject of ``data set for run #2''. In the body of the message will be the contents of the file ``~/run2.dat''. -- John
Template Question
Hello Fellow Mutters, I often have to send the same message to the same group of people. Specifically I send a note that a website has been updated. I have been doing this in Mutt using an alias that contains all of the email address the message is sent to and then hitting a key sequence to call a script that uses xclip and xdotool to paste the contents of a file into the message body. What I am wondering is there a way I can save the message recipients, message subject and message body as a template in mutt and then run a command to send that message whenever I wish? The idea is that I'd no longer have to type a subject or paste in the message body. -- John
Mutt and Exchange
Hello Mutters, I'm using Mutt to access my personal IMAP account, but was wondering if there is a way to use Mutt to connect to my work Exchange 2010 account? I'm using Thunderbird that has an add-on that allows T-bird to connect to Exchange using the Outlook Web Access settings. Has anyone ever connected to Exchange with Mutt? -- Thank you, John
Re: Saving attachments (Again) in no way guarantees a positive review, I just can't afford to keep doing this for free. I feel ten bones is not much and hopefully I'll get enough cash to keep the sit
Type ';' or whatever you have the tag-prefix command bound to, then 's'. Mutt will prompt you for a file name, give it a directory name. When mutt asks for confirmation, type 'a' to save all attachments in the directory. Thank you for the clear concise answer! -- John
Saving attachments (Again)
Hi Guys, I have a question that I'm sure has been asked before but due to a brain cramp I can't find the answer. How can I save multiple attachments to a specific folder without having to type the destination path for each attachment. Specifically, if I get an email with 20 images attached, what is the easiest way to save them all to a specific folder. I know I can tag them all, but what is the next step? Thanks Mutt folks! -- John
Re: Namespace with/without on dovecot server on/off and issues
Congratulations Miroslav, Boy it sounds like you had a much more difficult time than I did. I didn't know anything about Mutt a few months ago, but I was able to download Mutt-patched from the Ubuntu repository and get it going without too much fuss. But then, I'm using Mutt to access my email account on a server at my hosting company. It sounds like you set up EVERYTHING from scratch. John On Sun, Oct 13, 2013 at 09:56:14PM +, miro wrote: On Sun, Oct 06, 2013 at 07:34:36AM +0200, miro.ro...@croatiafidelis.hr wrote: I'm trying to reply to this thread, but I still haven't set up all the mail tools, so... And that was the case for weeks! Do you know, folks, that you are guilty of criminal offence of compelling old people like me to read your manuals, wikis, howtos and things for longer than the inventors of the internet spent on this newfangled virtual thingies! Aargh, I think I finally got the first mail out with normal tools, meaning dovecot, mutt and ...the following took me so long that I could cry on your shoulder, kind reader!: ... and with sSMTP after I finally understood that postfix was an overkill for my needs, and that sSMTP was just fine, and that it must be within my intellectual reach after all the weeks of dedicated study of the agglomerate of mailing tools that I was to choose for my future life on the internet, with a little more chance for true privacy and freedom... (Just in case: of course I was joking about you people compelling old people to study.) I am so confident that things are working, and this will be my first (the test mail that I just successfully sent is not counted) mail in earnest, that is, without the help of the odious M$ Outlook or somesuch, which I stopped using at least five or more years ago, and even without the clever GUI tools like Thunderbird or Claws-Mail, which are so much better, but they don't compare with the power that Mutt and his friends Dovecot, Getmail, Maildrop and sSMTP can arm myself with... So confident that things work now, that I will go somewhat desparate and unstable if they don't yet again. http://marc.info/?l=mutt-users&m=138021971816188&w=2 I have made progress on this issue. For now, have a look at how I solved it, here: http://www.dovecot.org/list/dovecot/2013-October/092810.html and there's today's message, which is due anytime there. But not all is solved, and there are issues. There are issues, and I intend to expand on them in the subsequent mail. Let me just, after weeks of my personal research for an actually rather typical user case like mine (no real but only fantasy FQDN hostname, my case being SOHO doesn't subtract much to the typicality of my case), let my just emphasize my findings of what is the best to use for standalone (or part of SOHO) host, in general terms. So people who are looking for real mailing life, and don't want to depend on fine GUI solution that are actually more complicated that the following, only under the hood, but that's exactly where you need to know things when real issues affect you in you life on the internet where you need free and unsurveilled moving and friendship to you wishes and not to some yucky stasibook, sorry I meant zucky Facebook or the likes... So for real mailing tools, according to my real-life-needs research that I have now successfully completed the minimun indispensable for, and which research lasted pretty long because of my slowliness to pick up new ideas which is typical of old age (I am actually in my early old age, being 56, but in my heart I feel young for ever), but also because there was not enough of an explanation and advice to be found on that issue (actually there was lots of conflicting advice to be found on the web!), or because I wasn't able to find sufficiently clear and reliable advice and explanation, or for completeness, was not able to find it sooner than I did... (have a look at how little or nothing there is at this time, again: at *this* time, at the time of my writing this, on namespace that is needed to apply in the Dovecot, to have proper Maildir++ for your mail and for your Mutt, how little or nothing about it yet, on the Mutt wiki!)... So... the real mailing tools for standalone[,SOHO] hosts: 1) getmail to retrieve mail (*) 2) maildrop to sort it (**) 3) Dovecot to serve it (***) 4) sSMTP to send mail () 5) Mutt of course (*) (*) fetchmail is old and doesn't compare in simplicity and effectiveness (**) so much simpler than procmail! very powerful! (***) very popular, not too difficult to configure for a case like mine () while I spent weeks on postfix, and I do have some understanding now of it: it is a great program!, I wasn't able to configure it for just smtp (no smtpd, I don't need that at this time), because some things are really hidden in very ample documentation and not easy to phathom... so much so that I went on a rampage of learning stunnel and particular configur
Re: Key Bindings issue
On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 03:45:26PM +1000, Richard Sandilands wrote: Here's an example: in Index view, I hit ctrl-n and the status bar shows "key is not bound". I hit ctrl-n again, and this time I advance to the next message as expected. I'm pretty much a mutt noob, so there is a good chance that I am wrong about this, but I wonder if you might have that key combination mapped twice? I'm not even sure if it would work at all if you had it mapped to two different commands. On my system which is also running Mutt 1.5.21, although the patched version with the sidebar, I use the arrow keys to move to the next or previous message in the index. I mapped ctrl+n to highlight the next mailbox in the sidebar. -- John
Re: Mutt Tips / Guide
On Sat, Sep 21, 2013 at 12:14:15AM -0700, Josef Bailey wrote: I have been getting stuff from other peopls public .muttrc and its helping me so much That's what I've been doing as well. Are there good n00b guides for mutt ? If you find some please post the links. I've come across a couple here and there, but I find the documentation sometimes to be really confusing. Is there a very active place for mutt users who really want to learn ? or would the mailing list be the best place ? This list seems pretty active and for the most part friendly. -- John
Re: Setting message priority levels
Thank you Kevin. I appreicate the help. On Sun, Sep 15, 2013 at 04:21:44PM -0700, Kevin J. McCarthy wrote: John Niendorf wrote: How can I add something like "Low, Normal, Medium, High" priority to a mail right before sending? You could, for example, add the following to your muttrc: # Set message priority macro index ,mph 'my_hdr Priority: High' macro index ,mpm 'my_hdr Priority: Medium' macro index ,mpn 'my_hdr Priority: Normal' macro index ,mpl 'my_hdr Priority: Low' macro index ,mpd 'unmy_hdr Priority' Then, hitting the key sequence ",mph" will add a high priority header to all subsequent emails. ",mpd" will delete the priority header from all subsequent emails. It may be helpful to have $edit_headers set so you can see the added header when you compose the email. (Of course, you could just directly add the header yourself while in your editor too.) If I understood at least partially correctly, using this macro I can write a priority level to the header. Although this is a non-standard header and the recipient may or may not see it depending on the receiving MUA. Is that correct? Yes, that's correct. -Kevin -- John
Re: Setting message priority levels
Hey Patrick, Did you see the link above the text? The one where I said From: directly before the link? I guess I should have put quotation marks around everything I was quoting. I thought, erroneously, that writing I found:directly after that link would be taken to mean that the following text was found at the above link. Guess I was wrong about that. I copied the dev.mutt.org entry regarding my question and pasted it in the email I sent. Down below I specifically said I don't understand this. I guess that makes two of us then, eh? On Sun, Sep 15, 2013 at 06:21:33PM -0400, Patrick Shanahan wrote: * John Niendorf [09-15-13 18:10]: This is usually done through a Priority: Pardon my ignorance, but *what* are you attempting to convey using "" and "". The significance is _lost_ on me. -- (paka)Patrick Shanahan Plainfield, Indiana, USA @ptilopteri http://en.opensuse.orgopenSUSE Community Memberfacebook/ptilopteri http://wahoo.no-ip.orgPhoto Album: http://wahoo.no-ip.org/gallery2 Registered Linux User #207535@ http://linuxcounter.net -- John
Re: Setting message priority levels
I found some information about setting the outgoing message priority. From: http://dev.mutt.org/trac/wiki/MuttFaq/Header I found: How can I change "Message Priority" for outgoing mails? How can I add something like "Low, Normal, Medium, High" priority to a mail right before sending? This is usually done through a Priority: header, although it is not a standard header. It is up to the MUA whether it supports it or not. If the receiving MUA does not support it, it will not be displayed to the receiver. Mutt allows you to setup macros, various -hooks, and my_hdr to add the header to a message. I'm afraid I really don't understand this though. What are macros? If I understood at least partially correctly, using this macro I can write a priority level to the header. Although this is a non-standard header and the recipient may or may not see it depending on the receiving MUA. Is that correct? -- Thank you, John
Setting message priority levels
I'm using Mutt 1.5.21 (Mutt patched from the Ubuntu repository) and connecting to the IMAP server that is run by my hosting company. I was wondering is there a way to set the importance out outgoing messages in Mutt, like in Outlook (Yuck, I feel so dirty even typing the name ;-) ) or I believe also in Thunderbird? Thank you, -- John
Re: Folders not in the sidebar list of folders
On Mon, Aug 05, 2013 at 02:24:05PM -0400, staticsafe wrote: You can also "subscribe" to the folder in IMAP terms and it will show up in the sidebar since you have imap_check_subscribed set to yes. [0] - http://www.lunar-linux.org/mutt-sidebar/ -- Thank you, I just realized hitting s will subscribe me to a folder. Once I did the folder showed up in the sidebar. Problem solved - once again user error ;-) -- John
Re: Folders not in the sidebar list of folders
On Mon, Aug 05, 2013 at 04:50:24PM +0200, Suvayu Ali wrote: I think it should be listed in mailboxes. I use mutt-kz (a mutt fork with sidebar patch applied), and that is what I have to do. Hope this helps, Yeah that is the funny thing. I don't see anywhere in my .muttrc file where I explicitly tell mutt to display any particular folders by name. -- John
Folders not in the sidebar list of folders
Hi Guys, I am running Mutt 1.5.21 with the sidebar patch. (Mutt-patched in the Ubuntu repository) I'm using an IMAP account and all the mail is stored on the server. Today I noticed that some mail folders I made on the server are not showing up in the list of folders in the sidebar. For the life of me I can't remeber if I had to do anything special the last time I made a folder in order to have that folder appear in the sidebar. In my .muttrc I have: set imap_check_subscribed set sidebar_width=30 set sidebar_visible=yes set sidebar_delim='|' set sidebar_sort=yes color sidebar_new brightblue black# b toggles sidebar visibility macro index b 'toggle sidebar_visible' macro pager b 'toggle sidebar_visible' bind index \CP sidebar-prev bind index \CN sidebar-next bind index \CO sidebar-open bind pager \CP sidebar-prev bind pager \CN sidebar-next bind pager \CO sidebar-open Pressing y brings up a list of all the folders in the sidebar that looks like this: 26 0 imaps://path-to-server/INBOX.mutt The 26 is the number of this particular folder. I don't know what the 0 means. Only the folders that are visible in the sidebar are in this list. I did notice that the folders that are not visible in the sidebar all have a . after their name, for example Amazon-UK. Anyone have an idea what I am doing wrong? Thank you, -- John
Re: Download multiple attachments at once
Thanks for the really useful tip Charles. Today as I was saving about 20 photos I received from my sister, I thought I wonder if there is a way to save all of the images attached to an email in one swoop as opposed to hitting s for each one. How do you guys manage attachments? On the list of attachments, tag them all, then tag-save. You'll be prompted for filenames for each one, but you can just hold the enter key to use the defaults for each. Charles -- John
Download multiple attachments at once
Hi Mutt-folks, Today as I was saving about 20 photos I received from my sister, I thought I wonder if there is a way to save all of the images attached to an email in one swoop as opposed to hitting s for each one. How do you guys manage attachments? -- John
Re: The etiquette of RTFM (Re: I have forgotten ...)
I've been watching this thread for a while and thinking "Good grief, give me a break". This is only my point of view. 1. RTFM is rude. It is usually written by people who seem to feel the need to show that they know more than someone else. 2. Having to put up with people who ask basic questions is a lame complaint. News: It isn't a burden to hit the delete or simply ignore a post. Self-righteous claims of pedagogical concern that the person asking the question will not really learn anything if you simply give them the answer ring hollow to me. A good teacher never says "Read the Fing book, kid." 3. The idea of having a seperate moderated list for basic questions vesus advanced questions strikes me as a huge confusing waste of time. The same people who get so upset that they have to reply RTFM will get upset and whine about questions being posted to the wrong list. If you don't want to answer something, don't answer it. Replying RTFM does nothing except make you look like a jerk. -- John
Re: Unable to view images
I figured it out - graphicsmagick was corrupted. For some reason uninstalling and removing the configuration files for graphicsmagick then reinstalling gm didn't solve the problem. So I changed the mailcap file to use ImageMagick and now I can see images again. On Fri, Jun 14, 2013 at 12:32:45PM +0200, John Niendorf wrote: Hi Guys, I'm on Ubuntu 12.04 and had to reinstall my system. I backed up my home directory prior to the reinstall and then copied everything back into home when I had finished. Mutt is almost working the way it was prior to reinstallation. Now when I try to view an attached image by pressing v and the number of the image I get the following error: gm display: Unable to load font (-*-helvetica-medium-r-normal--12-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1) [Resource temporarily unavailable]. Does anyone know what this means or how I can fix it? Thank you -- John -- John
Unable to view images
Hi Guys, I'm on Ubuntu 12.04 and had to reinstall my system. I backed up my home directory prior to the reinstall and then copied everything back into home when I had finished. Mutt is almost working the way it was prior to reinstallation. Now when I try to view an attached image by pressing v and the number of the image I get the following error: gm display: Unable to load font (-*-helvetica-medium-r-normal--12-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1) [Resource temporarily unavailable]. Does anyone know what this means or how I can fix it? Thank you -- John
Re: Search utilities for use with mutt - I use mairix but it's not perfect
On Wed, May 08, 2013 at 12:21:58AM +1000, Erik Christiansen wrote: Mutt's own body search does the job for me within a mail folder, and egrep provides full Extended Regular Expressions when searching some set of my 1106 mail folders. What is egrep and how does it work? (OK I guess I could look up the man page.) Biggest question is: Is egrep a vim only thing or can a nano wimp use it too? ;-) -- John
Re: Searching for an email by sender's address
On Sat, Apr 27, 2013 at 03:49:48PM -0400, Tim Gray wrote: Try '~f'. So limit, then `~f name`. Thanks Tim, That seems to work pretty well. -- John
Searching for an email by sender's address
Hi Guys, How do you guys search for all messages from a particular sender? When I do a search, it picks up words from the subject by ignores the sender's (or recipient's) address. -- John
Re: Shift key in a macro
No, I didn't realize that would let me use the shift key. John On Fri, Apr 19, 2013 at 03:07:09PM +0300, Sauli H. wrote: On 19/04/13 at 13:23, John Niendorf wrote: Hi Guys, I can't seem to find how to bind a macro with the shift key. I see that \Cb will bind the macro to Ctrl+b, but can you bind a macro to Shift+B? Hello! Have you tried something like: macro index B "your macro here" It should run "your macro" in the index with shift-b or is there something I'm not getting here? -- Sauli -- John
Shift key in a macro
Hi Guys, I can't seem to find how to bind a macro with the shift key. I see that \Cb will bind the macro to Ctrl+b, but can you bind a macro to Shift+B? -- John
Re: Long urls - update
Hi Guys, I guess I'm the slow one on the list. Is there more to the patch than commenting out # $command =~ s/%s/'$url'/g; and replacing it with $command=~s/&/\\&/g Because either way, extract_url.pl isn't working for me. I can see the list of urls, but if I click on one I still get a page not found error. Another odd thing is that if I press c for context I sometimes get the full url displayed in a little box, like it should, but I often see the text that is near the link in the email, in the little box. I've tried changing the view, but that doesn't seem to have much effect. I've fallen back to using urlscan which seems to work albeit not very elegantly. On Tue, Apr 02, 2013 at 01:51:22AM +1300, Chris Bannister wrote: On Tue, Apr 02, 2013 at 01:06:05AM +1300, Chris Bannister wrote: On Sun, Mar 31, 2013 at 10:00:58PM -0600, s. keeling wrote: > Incoming from Luis Mochan: > > I found a mistake in the extract_url.pl program: it doesn't escape > > ampersands when present in the url, so when the command to actually > > view the url is invoked, the shell gets confused. I made a quick fix > > by substituting $command=~s/&/\\&/g before running command. > > Line 633? 634? So: > ># $command =~ s/%s/'$url'/g; >$command=~s/&/\\&/g; > > I'm a perl guy, yet that's non-trivial here. Thx. :-) Are you sure that will work? You've just commented out a line of code. (Just wondering what your patch would look like.) Ahh, see it's included in a message by Luis Mochan in this thread. -- "If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing." --- Malcolm X
Re: Long urls - update
This looks really great, but where do I put the script? I made it exicutable and put it in my path and I got the error that it wasn't there. I coped it to ~/ and got the same error. John http://www.memoryhole.net/~kyle/extract_url/ Try this. It's brilliant.
Long urls - update
Thank you all for the tips. Actually all I did was install urlview from the repository and then when I clicked ctrl+B I got a list of ur$ I'll see how it works with urls that extend onto multiple lines the next time one comes by. John
Long urls
I am using Mutt-patched from the Ubuntu repository (Yes, I am one of the unwashed.) Anyway, it works really well except that if a url extends to multiple lines, Mutt can't figure it out and clicking leads to a page not found error. I tried copying the url, but when I highlight the lines with the url I end up copying a bunch of other stuff that is not in the url (like part of the list of folders in the Mutt side panel, for example). Does anyone know a way to deal with long urls aside from opening up Thunderbird? Thanks for any advice, I really appreciate it. John