Re: Mysteriously purged emails
On Fri, Aug 31, 2001 at 12:10:19PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I use mutt both at home and at work on the same mailbox. Yesterday it mysteriously purged the last 15 days worth of email. I intended to quit and restart it, but it said 'writing mailbox...', and then reopened it with 15 days worth of emails gone. :'( This is a serious bug! I'm going to use Mutt in read-only mode from now on in the hope that it will prevent these spontanious large purges... Phil PS- A coworker using the same version (1.2.4i) on a different computer noted that he had a similar experience. I'll try upgrading to 1.2.5, but I've lost my confidence in letting it run r/w. How odd. I've been using mutt for years and have never had it purge mail unwanted. I don't recall when I was using what revisions, but I'm currently using 1.2.5i and have been for quite some time... and I use it quite heavily. I struggle to keep my main inbox below 1000 messages, and a few of my other boxes that procmail dumps into are approaching that number as well. Is it possible you're running into disk quota limits? - myrddin
send-hooks, autoedit, etc
I'm using 1.2.5i and have a small dilemma. I'm trying to expand my send-hooks a bit so that when I send to a particular address, it'll modify my from: header. Ok, no big deal. send-hook's work just fine for that IF I'm either _replying_ to a mail, or if I turn off autoedit. Yuk. I want to be able to send a mail, with autoedit on, and have the send-hook triggered anyway. Now, when I finish editing the message, a menu comes up wherein I can set the subject, to, etc... seems mutt should be able to filter through the send-hooks either while entering that menu immediately after I finish editing the message, or at the very least, if I choose to set a To: message in that post-editing menu. Is there any hope? Thanks! - Myrddin
Re: smtp server config?
On Mon, Apr 16, 2001 at 10:37:54PM -0700, Igor Pruchanskiy wrote: Sendmail does rock. *I* think that it is better then qmail. 8.12.0.Beta7, wich is currently out now does not need to run as root anymore. Don't want beta ? 8.11.3 is stable. Nice. Only took sendmail a decade or so to figure that one out. :) So looks like qmail's advantage of non-root thing is not an advantage anymore, is it ? :)) root/non-root is a trivial thing to program around. The fact that qmail runs as non-root has never been one of the reasons I suggest qmail. - myrddin
Re: feecher idea
On Fri, Jan 05, 2001 at 12:53:39PM -0800, Evan Vetere wrote: Just caught myself thinkin'... I'd formally classify under "bitchin'" an option to have the cursor jump to incoming mails as they arrived. The visual cue would be eye-catching (the current bottom-line "new mail" is easily missed), and the mail could be easily read with one swipe of 'return'. Eek. While I don't use Opera for my email (I'm a mutt/procmail guy) any app that moved my cursor/mouse-pointer for me would be summarily removed from my machine. - Myrddin -- ICQ: 22404528 Why Vegan? http://www.firstmagic.com/vegan --
gnupg vs pgp?
Just like the subject says. I see on the mutt homepage that gnupg is recommended over pgp. Are there reasons for this beyond the whole 'use gnu whenever possible because of their licensing'? Or are there real, functional reasons behind choosing gnupg over pgp? - Myrddin -- ICQ: 22404528 Why Vegan? http://www.firstmagic.com/vegan --
Re: Automate Bcc to myself?
On Wed, Oct 25, 2000 at 02:37:19AM +0100, Glyn Millington wrote: Hi! Is it possible to set up Mutt to send a blind copy to myself each time I send out an email? Can anyone tell me how, or point me to the right place to find out? In your .muttrc: set copy - Myrddin -- ICQ: 22404528 Why Vegan? http://www.firstmagic.com/vegan --
Re: Newbie questions
On Thu, Oct 05, 2000 at 03:25:41PM -0700, Perry The Cynic wrote: Dear Mutt experts, I'm a new mutt user (moved over from pine for the threads :-), and after using the program for a few weeks (and reading the manual, twice) am now reaching the point where I know what I don't know. :-) How do I "commit" files marked for deletion? I realize they get removed when I change mailboxes/folders, but isn't there a command that means "discard all deleted messages in the current folder NOW"? (The pine command I'm thinking of is 'x', which is rather unfortunate. :-) Alternatively, is there any way to hide (not display) deleted messages? I too was a pine refugee. I put this in my .muttrc so that 'x' does what it does in pine: bind index x sync-mailbox - Myrddin -- ICQ: 22404528 Why Vegan? http://www.firstmagic.com/vegan --
Re: A better mutt? (Was Re: catchup command?)
Jens Askengren [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on Sat, 23 Sep 2000: Yes, I'm suggesting that mutt needs a GUI. Not to nitpick, but no. mutt does not need a GUI. It'd probably be more accurate to say that you -want- a GUI for mutt. To this day, mutt is easily the most powerful, configurable, fast mailer that I've used. And for me, being a keyboard oriented dude, mutt's interface is perfect as is. Having extra windows pop up will only slow me down as I switch back and forth between windows. When I hit 'r', I want to start typing.. not have to worry about making sure focus is on the new window -- and when I dismiss the new window, I don't want to have to make sure focus goes back to my 'index' window. I realize not everyone works this way, which is fine. =) I prefer to have one window per app, if that. Currently I have two different mutt sessions (one personal, one work based that fetchmail feeds), an epic (irc) session, tf session (mush/mud client), and two shells all in one 'screen' session. Makes it easy for me to toggle between them without having to reach away from the keyboard. Also allows me to access all this stuff from work/home/friends house without having to lose state at all. So, a rather long-winded response, I know... but I just wanted to contend that mutt does not require a front end. - Myrddin
Re: how to mark ?
On Mon, Sep 11, 2000 at 03:16:41PM +0300, Mikko Hänninen wrote: Michael Seiwert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on Mon, 11 Sep 2000: how is it possible to mark a thread or a bunch of messages an copy them at once to another mailfolder ? In addition to the other replies, I'd just like to point out that the command for tagging the current thread is esc t (with the default keybindings, anyway). As well, you can do a pattern-match tag with 'T'. After hitting 'T', mutt will ask for a pattern, and all messages that match that pattern will be tagged. - Myrddin
Re: Mutt's URL support
On Mon, Sep 11, 2000 at 07:56:56AM -0400, David T-G wrote: % pine-like url viewing? Moving around in the message itself and spawning a % browser. If not, is there a better way to get an URL with some context. Aha -- you want more than just the URL, then, because of "deficiencies" in the /. mail message, right? In that case, you'll want to just pump your message through a browser that can pick up the plaintext URLs (though, since you're in a tough boat anyway, you might see if /. offers an HTML mail version and get it instead). Try w3m and links, two text-mode browsers that seem to be fairly capable. BTW, it's lynx, not links. Sounds like a nitpick, but if the poor guy was going to do a search on 'links', it wouldn't get him very far. - Myrddin
Re: Mutt's URL support
On Mon, Sep 11, 2000 at 04:50:22PM +0100, Lars Hecking wrote: Aha -- you want more than just the URL, then, because of "deficiencies" in the /. mail message, right? In that case, you'll want to just pump your message through a browser that can pick up the plaintext URLs (though, since you're in a tough boat anyway, you might see if /. offers an HTML mail version and get it instead). Try w3m and links, two text-mode browsers that seem to be fairly capable. BTW, it's lynx, not links. Sounds like a nitpick, but if the poor guy was going to do a search on 'links', it wouldn't get him very far. $ man links NAME links - lynx-like alternative character mode WWW browser Well, poo on me. That's what I get for shooting my big mouth off. =) - Myrddin
Re: Tagging messages
On Tue, Jun 06, 2000 at 02:42:22PM +0200, Åsmund Skjæveland wrote: What's the point of being able to tag messages, when you can't do anything useful with it, such as deleting all tagged messages in one fell swoop? After tagging the messages, ';' allows you to enter commands that you can execute against those tagged messages. For example: ;d will delete them ;s will save them to another box of your choosing etc. - Myrddin -- ICQ: 22404528 Why Vegan? http://www.firstmagic.com/vegan --
Re: Idea: saving vs. deleting
On Wed, May 24, 2000 at 08:34:24PM +0200, Marius Gedminas wrote: I suggest adding a new status flag: `d' to indicate that the deletion of this message resulted from decode-save, save-message, or decrypt-save. What do you think? Sounds like a great idea to me. =) - Myrddin -- ICQ: 22404528 Why Vegan? http://www.firstmagic.com/vegan --
Re: 1.2 older than 1.0.1?
On Wed, May 24, 2000 at 04:08:55PM -0300, Richard Spencer wrote: Hello all! I wasn't able to install latest mutt rpm. According to the error message, I _already_have_ the newest package :-( # rpm -U /home/rks/ftp/mutt-1.2i-1.cfp.rhl6.i386.rpm error: package mutt-1.0.1i-8 (which is newer then mutt-1.2i-1.cfp.rhl6) is already installed Whaaat'ssuuup? btw...I tried rpm -U does anyone use rpm -F? Use the '--force' option to override. - Myrddin -- ICQ: 22404528 Why Vegan? http://www.firstmagic.com/vegan --
Re: Problem with pine (i want to use mutt)
On Tue, Mar 21, 2000 at 11:08:41PM +0100, Michael Thies wrote: But all my incoming mails are going to $HOME/INBOX in pine-format. Not to /var/mail/mthies Others have told you how to get mutt to read mail from an arbitrary location, so I won't cover that here, but I felt the need to clear something up that's implied by the above statement. Pine, mutt, elm, etc are nothing more than mail -readers-. They have nothing to do with where or -how- mail is delivered. As readers, you can tell them to archive messages in different files, obviously, but with regards to the initial delivery method, location, and form, this has nothing to do with the mail reader (mutt, pine, elm, etc) but is instead handled by processes such as sendmail or qmail. In other words, there's no such thing as 'pine-format' when it comes to freshly delivered mail. - Myrddin -- ICQ: 22404528 Why Vegan? http://www.firstmagic.com/vegan --
