Re: invalid preceding regular expression
Darren, Thanks for the reply. I'd given up hope on this one! I tried going in and explicitly setting the mask, but that did not resolve the issue. I'll try compiling from source next time I get some time and see what goes on when I do that. Once again, thanks for the reply. On Fri, Mar 02, 2001 at 12:19:16PM -0500, darren chamberlain wrote: Timothy Grant ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said something to this effect on 03/02/2001: Hi all, I just changed boxes, copied my home directory to the new box, fired up mutt and things seem to be working well. However, I am seeing a message I have never seen before (or else I wasn't paying very good attention. I have also bumped my mutt version from 1.2.4 to 1.2.5 using one of the RPM packages. Mutt now reports: invalid preceding regular expression every time I start it or change mailboxes. Any clues would be appreciated. Sounds like the mask is a little off. Check your .muttrc for the value of mask, and also check the defaults in /usr/etc/Muttrc. Finally, build mutt from source, to make sure that there are reasonable defaults; RPM versions of some software can be a little, um, idiosyncratic. -- Stand Fast, rhacer. Timothy Grant, RHCE MIG #1433 [EMAIL PROTECTED] '00 Marauder www.exceptionalminds.com/rhacer Craigelachie Linux, because rebooting is *NOT* normal. This machine was last rebooted: 48 days 8:33 hours ago
invalid preceding regular expression
I thought I would send this again, since there were no takers the first time. Hi all, I just changed boxes, copied my home directory to the new box, fired up mutt and things seem to be working well. However, I am seeing a message I have never seen before (or else I wasn't paying very good attention. I have also bumped my mutt version from 1.2.4 to 1.2.5 using one of the RPM packages. Mutt now reports: invalid preceding regular expression every time I start it or change mailboxes. Any clues would be appreciated. -- Stand Fast, tjg. Timothy Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] Red Hat Certified Engineerwww.exceptionalminds.com Avalon Technology Group, Inc. (503) 246-3630 Linux, because rebooting is *NOT* normal
invalid preceding regular expression
Hi all, I just changed boxes, copied my home directory to the new box, fired up mutt and things seem to be working well. However, I am seeing a message I have never seen before (or else I wasn't paying very good attention. I have also bumped my mutt version from 1.2.4 to 1.2.5 using one of the RPM packages. Mutt now reports: invalid preceding regular expression every time I start it or change mailboxes. Any clues would be appreciated. -- Stand Fast, tjg. Timothy Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] Red Hat Certified Engineerwww.exceptionalminds.com Avalon Technology Group, Inc. (503) 246-3630 Linux, because rebooting is *NOT* normal
Silly Macro Question
Hi all, This is probably a silly question, but I thought I would ask just in case. Is there a way to create a macro that will run a shell command and then return to mutt without me having to press a key to continue? -- Stand Fast, tjg. Timothy Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] Red Hat Certified Engineerwww.exceptionalminds.com Avalon Technology Group, Inc. (503) 246-3630 Linux, because rebooting is *NOT* normal This machine was last rebooted: 3 days 3:34 hours ago
KMail and Mutt
Hi all, I'm kind of new to this GPG thing, and I have read here about how Outlook messes up GPG and PGP stuff. I fear I am running into the exact same problem with a KMail user. When I send him encrypted mail it is shown as an attachment. When he sends me encrypted mail, I don't get a MIME attachment. I simply get a block of encrypted text that I then have to save to a file to decrypt. Has anyone else had this experience, and are there any good workarounds? -- Stand Fast, tjg. Timothy Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] Red Hat Certified Engineerwww.exceptionalminds.com Avalon Technology Group, Inc. (503) 246-3630 Linux, because rebooting is *NOT* normal This machine was last rebooted: 22 days 20:49 hours ago PGP signature
Two PGP/GPG questions
Hi all, We are in the middle of a mini-battle over PGP/GPG in my office. Having done a bit of reading it appears that Mutt behaves correctly in dealing with encrypted and signed messages and that Outlook and many other mailers do not. However, I am--at the moment--the only mutt user in this office. I need to support Outlook, Outlook Express, Kmail, Mozilla, Communicator, etc. I realize that there are a couple of procmail recipes that will fix incoming messages. However, is my only option on outgoing messages to clearsign? Is it possible to determine who gets clearsigned messages and who gets PGP/MIMED messages? Thanks for your assistance. -- Stand Fast, tjg. Timothy Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] Red Hat Certified Engineerwww.exceptionalminds.com Avalon Technology Group, Inc. (503) 246-3630 Linux, because rebooting is *NOT* normal This machine was last rebooted: 22 days 21:38 hours ago
Re: Different signature/tag line each day/email.
On Wed, Jun 14, 2000 at 10:47:35AM -0400, Bob Bell wrote: Wouldn't something like this work and be simpler? set signature='(cat .signature fortune -s) |' I've been playing around with some stuff to put my uptime in my signature. You can see that it works from the sig below. I use the above format to do this set signature='(buildsig)|' Problem is that I have two signatures, the formal one below, and an informal one. So I modified my script to take an argument depending on the sigfile I want to use. send-hook exceptionalminds.com set signature='(buildsig .siginformal)|' This doesn't work. and mutt spits up over it. How do I pass an argument to a script in my .muttrc? Thanks. -- Stand Fast, tjg. Timothy Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] Chief Technology Officer www.exceptionalminds.com Red Hat Certified Engineer (503) 246-3630 Avalon Technology Group, Inc. fax (503) 246-3124 I have not rebooted for: 32 days 20:22 hours
Re: Different signature/tag line each day/email.
On Wed, Oct 04, 2000 at 04:25:45PM -0600, Charles Curley wrote: How do I pass an argument to a script in my .muttrc? I don't think you do. What I do is this: I have a perl script which does what I want: so much time to a certain event (which I am not using here). I customize it by providing different input times as one input string and an event input string string that describes what will happen x days, etc from now. I provide the time and event to the perl script in a shell script, very brain dead. I have a default send-hook to set up my defaul signature file, below. Then I have send hooks for various lists and/or people which change the signature file to execute the appropriate script. So, where until.pl is the perl script, this is the shell script I use for the Wyoming Libertarian Party, polls.sh: # -*- shell-script -*- # Time-stamp: 2000-10-03 12:23:59 ccurley until.pl "The Wyoming Libertarian Party, http://www.geocities.com/wyolp/ Vote early and vote often! -- W.C. Fields privacy The polls open " "7:00 Nov 7th 2000" And here are some appropriate lines from my .muttrc: send-hook . set signature=~/.signatures/.signature send-hook '~C [EMAIL PROTECTED]' "set signature=~/.signatures/polls.sh|; \ my_hdr Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; unset pgp_autosign" send-hook my sweetie's email address set signature=~/.signatures/sweetie.sh| The result for the Wyoming LP list is: -- C^2 The Wyoming Libertarian Party, http://www.geocities.com/wyolp/ Vote early and vote often! -- W.C. Fields The polls open 1 month, 2 days, 14 hours, 39 minutes, 38 seconds from now. So, when I thought I might have to create a separate script for each sig I wasn't wrong! That's too bad, but it has the advantage of being easy to implement! Thanks for the response! -- Stand Fast, tjg. Timothy Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] Chief Technology Officer www.exceptionalminds.com Red Hat Certified Engineer (503) 246-3630 Avalon Technology Group, Inc. fax (503) 246-3124 I have not rebooted for: 32 days 22:33 hours
Threading display
Hi again. I like threaded view very much, but am curious as to what the * in the thread tree display means. -- Stand Fast, tjg. Timothy Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] Chief Technology Officer www.exceptionalminds.com Red Hat Certified Engineer MIG #1433 Avalon Technology Group, Inc. Slight disorientation after prolonged system uptime is normal for new Linux users
Re: Threading display
On Fri, Jun 09, 2000 at 04:39:32PM -0400, David T-G wrote: % I like threaded view very much, but am curious as to what the * in the % thread tree display means. Then you should read the manual ;-) Hey who needs manuals when a resource like this list is available!wink Never being shy about reading manuals I did, just couldn't find it. part of the problem is a such a lack of familiarity That I didn't know where to look. The section on threads under the basic use section doesn't talk about it. I thank you for your gentle response. This list has been a wonderful source of information about all things Mutt. -- Stand Fast, tjg. Timothy Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] Chief Technology Officer www.exceptionalminds.com Red Hat Certified Engineer MIG #1433 Avalon Technology Group, Inc. Slight disorientation after prolonged system uptime is normal for new Linux users
Re: How do I make pop support do polling?
Hi all, Thanks for all your wonderful assistance in getting Mutt up and running. I haven't started Messenger all day, so your help was really useful! I do have a few other questions, two of them are not *really* Mutt related, but one of them is, so let me start with that. Being a Mutt newbie, I don't know what negative side effects might be caused by my desire. The default Mutt behaviour has the j key going to the next message. I think I would prefer that it go to the next unread message. I think I am capable of writing the macro to make that happen. However, I don't know what undesirable side effects that might occur should I do this. Is there a downside that I don't see? Moving more off-topic. In the discussions over my getting colour working, it was suggested that I use rxvt. I tried it and liked it very much. I'm going to show both my X ignorance and my rxvt ignorance here. One of the things I like about rxvt is its default fonts. I particularly like the largest font, however, I have no idea what the font is called, nor how to automatically start with the largest font. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. I also would love to turn off the scroll bar, but the -sb switch doesn't appear to work. Moving even more off-topic. I'm using joe as my e-mail editor. However, since my window defaults to 80x40, joe's display is completely mangled when it starts. Using a ^R tends to fix most of the mangling, but not always. Also, who is using what for an editor (I use emacs all the time, but it is out as an e-mail editor as startup speed is too long) Other than joe, who's using what and why. Thanks in advance -- Stand Fast, tjg. Timothy Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] Chief Technology Officer www.exceptionalminds.com Red Hat Certified Engineer MIG #1433 Avalon Technology Group, Inc. Linux...Because rebooting isn't normal
Re: Mutt/Procmail/Fetchmail question NEW colour question
clemensF wrote:
Timothy Grant:
However, when I start mutt I get an error telling me that
/var/spool/mail/tjg is not a mailbox.
set logfile /var/log/fetchmail
set daemon 77177
defaults
fetchall
mda "/usr/local/bin/procmail -t -f-"
... will make "from " headers needed by mbox-format.
Thanks to all who provided assistance on this problem. Mutt now appears
to be working, not quite to the point where I'm comfortable using it
yet, but much better.
I'm not quite sure I know how to get the colours working. I have run it
in both a Eterm and an rxvt session and there is no colour. Do I have to
do something to turn colour on, or do I need to do something to my
terminal settings to make it work (ls --color works in both sessions, so
I know my terminals both are configured for colour support)
Thanks for your kind assistance.
--
Stand Fast,
tjg.
Timothy Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Chief Technology Officer www.exceptionalminds.com
Red Hat Certified Engineer MIG #1433
Avalon Technology Group, Inc.
Linux...Because rebooting isn't normal
More newbie question SMTP
Hi again, OK, so fetchmail-procmail-mutt now work correctly Colours aren't working right but I'm getting closer Thanks for everyone who assisted on the above problems. Now the newest problem is sending. I have a tremendous hate relationship with Sendmail, so I use Postfix pretty much everywhere, however on my puny little notebook computer where I live, I would prefer not to be running a smtp daemon at all times. I looked at a tool called nbsmtp, but everytime I attempt to send a message I get a 127 error. Error sending message, child exited 127 (Exec error.). So, how should I configure my smtp? Thanks -- Stand Fast, tjg. Timothy Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] Chief Technology Officer www.exceptionalminds.com Red Hat Certified Engineer MIG #1433 Avalon Technology Group, Inc. Linux...Because rebooting isn't normal
Mutt/Procmail/Fetchmail question
Hi again, Though I really want to make Mutt work with IMAP, I've decided to take the plunge anyway (What the heck I have some space on my notebook) so I have setup fetchmail to retrieve mail from my IMAP account. It then pipes it into procmail which filters the mail for me into various and sundry mailboxes, and hopefully leaves very little in my regular mail spool. However, when I start mutt I get an error telling me that /var/spool/mail/tjg is not a mailbox. Thanks for any assistance you might be able to provide. -- Stand Fast, tjg. Timothy Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] Chief Technology Officer www.exceptionalminds.com Red Hat Certified Engineer MIG #1433 Avalon Technology Group, Inc. Linux...Because rebooting isn't normal
Re: Mutt/Procmail/Fetchmail question
Acually, the file is there, it is owned by tjg.mail, and has -rw-rw---
permissions. Procmail writes to it just fine, but I get that error
message from mutt.
Thanks for the input.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Create a mailbox. Log in as root, if you have to and go to
/var/spool/mail and "touch tjg"
This is an ls -al of /var/spool/mail on my system
-rw-r- 1 deklown deklown142865 Jun 6 12:08 deklown
Make sure the rights are nice and pretty, and you are off like a skirt.
On Tue, Jun 06, 2000 at 11:45:03AM -0700, Timothy Grant muttered:
| Hi again,
|
| Though I really want to make Mutt work with IMAP, I've decided to take
| the plunge anyway (What the heck I have some space on my notebook) so I
| have setup fetchmail to retrieve mail from my IMAP account. It then
| pipes it into procmail which filters the mail for me into various and
| sundry mailboxes, and hopefully leaves very little in my regular mail
| spool.
|
| However, when I start mutt I get an error telling me that
| /var/spool/mail/tjg is not a mailbox.
|
| Thanks for any assistance you might be able to provide.
|
|
| --
| Stand Fast,
| tjg.
|
| Timothy Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED]
| Chief Technology Officer www.exceptionalminds.com
| Red Hat Certified Engineer MIG #1433
| Avalon Technology Group, Inc.
| Linux...Because rebooting isn't normal
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Chief Technology Officer www.exceptionalminds.com
Red Hat Certified Engineer MIG #1433
Avalon Technology Group, Inc.
Linux...Because rebooting isn't normal
Mutt newbie IMAP questions
Hi, I want to like Mutt but I have a huge number of questions that I haven't been able to figure out answers to. All of them have to do with IMAP. My mail servers at work are all IMAP. I like being able to keep my mail on the server and not suck up my own personal disk space. However, I don't know how best to use Mutt in this situation. I currently use Netscape Communicator for my IMAP access It does some things I really like, however, it is unstable and flaky and huge and slow and it doesn't do some things that Mutt can do (e.g., different sigs for different To: addresses). First, I would like to be able to filter all new messages to there appropriate folders when I check my mail. (e.g., messages from mutt.org go to the mutt folder). I know if I was using POP3 or fetchmail and procmail that this would be a cinch, how can it be accomplished with IMAP. Second, I tend to archive my messages (20,000 at the moment) It appears that Mutt starts processing all the messages each time it is invoked. Is this the way it works, or have I just got something configured incorrectly? Third, I can set Netscape up to show me only the new messages, can I do that with Mutt? Thanks for your assitance. BTW: I have not yet subsccribed to the list, so could any replies come to me personally. -- Stand Fast, tjg. Timothy Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] Chief Technology Officer www.exceptionalminds.com Red Hat Certified Engineer MIG #1433 Avalon Technology Group, Inc. Linux...Because rebooting isn't normal
