Re: an awful mutt thing just happened

2001-03-03 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
On Sat 03 Mar 01, 1:56 AM, Colin Watson said: debian-user goes to a folder (via procmail), and the only way i have to read my debian mail is by using vi on the mailbox it gets sent to. Surely you could type the folder name in manually, even without knowing the TAB trick? yeah -- i just

Re: an awful mutt thing just happened

2001-03-03 Thread kmself
on Sat, Mar 03, 2001 at 12:32:19AM -0800, Peter Jay Salzman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Sat 03 Mar 01, 1:56 AM, Colin Watson said: debian-user goes to a folder (via procmail), and the only way i have to read my debian mail is by using vi on the mailbox it gets sent to. Surely

Re: an awful mutt thing just happened

2001-03-03 Thread Glyn Millington
On Sat, Mar 03, 2001 at 12:32:19AM -0800, thus spake Peter Jay Salzman: do you happen to know offhand how to change the default directory to look in for mail folders? if you know it offhand, cool. if not, i can RTFM. Put this line in ~/.muttrc set folder=~/Mail # where i keep

Re: an awful mutt thing just happened

2001-03-03 Thread will trillich
On Sat, Mar 03, 2001 at 12:48:37AM -0800, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: on Sat, Mar 03, 2001 at 12:32:19AM -0800, Peter Jay Salzman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: set folder=~/Mail mailboxes ! \ +mbox \ +debian-user ... or, if you're piggish (like me) just use

Re: an awful mutt thing just happened

2001-03-03 Thread Tyler Braun
This is a bug with the version of mutt included with unstable. I missed this feature bad, so I went to www.mutt.org, downloaded the source for mutt1.6.13i, compiled it, and rather than do a full install I just moved the mutt binary over my old binary, which I of course saved incase this failed

Re: an awful mutt thing just happened

2001-03-03 Thread MaD dUCK
also sprach will trillich (on Sat, 03 Mar 2001 04:17:57AM -0600): mailboxes `echo ~/Mail/[a-z]*` oh. nice. didn't know muttrc can execute `` martin [greetings from the heart of the sun]# echo [EMAIL PROTECTED]:1:[EMAIL PROTECTED]@@@.net -- and if the cloud bursts, thunder in your

Re: an awful mutt thing just happened

2001-03-03 Thread Brian Frederick Kimball
Peter Jay Salzman wrote: yeah -- i just figured out that folder names are relative to $HOME, not $HOME/Mail. Actually, folder names are relative to your current working directory. It just so happens that most people start mutt while they're in $HOME. do you happen to know offhand how to

an awful mutt thing just happened

2001-03-02 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
dear all, you know how you hit c to open other mailboxes and it says: Open mailbox ('?' for list): well, i can no longer use '?' to see the list of mailboxes. it does nothing; it simply drops me back to the main mailbox index. the only thing i can think of is that i *just* updated woody

Re: an awful mutt thing just happened

2001-03-02 Thread MaD dUCK
also sprach Peter Jay Salzman (on Fri, 02 Mar 2001 05:15:35PM -0800): On Fri 02 Mar 01, 8:06 PM, MaD dUCK said: are you running mail as root??? don't do that! just out of curiosity, why? i've never heard a compelling reason for that the simplest reason: because you shouldn't ever be

Re: an awful mutt thing just happened

2001-03-02 Thread Colin Watson
Peter Jay Salzman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: you know how you hit c to open other mailboxes and it says: Open mailbox ('?' for list): well, i can no longer use '?' to see the list of mailboxes. it does nothing; it simply drops me back to the main mailbox index. the only thing i can think of