Re: managing folders

1999-10-15 Thread Byrial Jensen
On Fri, Oct 15, 1999 at 12:38:20 -0700, Larry Fletcher wrote: > On Oct 15, 1999, Byrial Jensen wrote: > > > Is there any way to expire messages in selected folders similar to > > > the way messages in newsgroups are expired? > > > > Yes, you can use the "delete-pattern" command with a pattern to

Re: how to set up alternate SMTP server

1999-10-15 Thread David DeSimone
Shao Zhang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > So why mutt implements a pop3 protocol? Why do we need this when we > have fetchmail? It's not needed. It should be removed. Mutt's POP3 support went in before fetchmail was really existent/stable. -- David DeSimone | "The doctrine of human equalit

Re: how to set up alternate SMTP server

1999-10-15 Thread rutger
On Sat, Oct 09, 1999 at 12:05:51AM +, Shao Zhang wrote: > Sorry, a bit off topic, but just wondering... > > So why mutt implements a pop3 protocol? Why do we need this when we have > fetchmail? > ...and why have a pager while we have more and less. I think POP3 was implemented because of I

Re: [PATCH] options highlight_unread and delete_tilde

1999-10-15 Thread Daniel Eisenbud
On Fri, Oct 15, 1999 at 05:32:05PM -0500, Manoj Kasichainula <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Oct 13, 1999 at 11:18:04PM +0200, Kurt Garloff wrote: [...] > > * highlight_unread: As the color index option does not parse the flags, > > it is not possible to highlight unread messages with color

Re: [PATCH] options highlight_unread and delete_tilde

1999-10-15 Thread Manoj Kasichainula
On Wed, Oct 13, 1999 at 11:18:04PM +0200, Kurt Garloff wrote: > * delete_tilde: Some editors don't behave: They leave backup files with > a tilde laaying around. If set, mutt takes care of those ... The best way to fix this is to use a wrapper shell script that either uses command-line flags t

Re: [postmaster@wipinfo.soft.net: ]

1999-10-15 Thread Gero Treuner
Hi! On Fri, Oct 15, 1999 at 11:29:14PM +0200, Jan Houtsma wrote: > Is there an operator on this mailing list who can take care that > this stops??? Its very annoying! Although you didn't include complete headers, it looks like something goes wrong on the wipinfo.soft.net site. I think there is n

Re: how to set up alternate SMTP server

1999-10-15 Thread Shao Zhang
Sorry, a bit off topic, but just wondering... So why mutt implements a pop3 protocol? Why do we need this when we have fetchmail? Cheers, Shao. Jeremy Blosser [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote: > Mikko Hänninen [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote: > > Jeremy Blosser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on Thu, 07 Oct 1999

Re: installing mutt without root privilege

1999-10-15 Thread Sergei DUZHIN
Thanks a lot! Now it works - as you can see from my mail header. Sergei On Tue, Oct 05, 1999 at 10:40:05AM +0530, Raju K V wrote: > hi, > > Looks like these undefined variables and defined in libcurses.so.1. Try > removing -lncurses and replacing it with -lcurses in LIBS variable of > your makef

Re: New email not appearing

1999-10-15 Thread rob
On Mon, Oct 04, 1999 at 03:29:35PM -0500, David DeSimone wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > If mutt is running, and I receive new email, mutt doesn't add the > > message to the index list until I hit a key. > > Mutt has a $timeout variable that tells how often it will s

[PATCH] options highlight_unread and delete_tilde

1999-10-15 Thread Kurt Garloff
Hi, I created two new options for mutt, which I believe are useful for a lot of people. * delete_tilde: Some editors don't behave: They leave backup files with a tilde laaying around. If set, mutt takes care of those ... * highlight_unread: As the color index option does not parse the flags,

bug

1999-10-15 Thread Manish Bhatt
Using mutt version: Mutt 0.95.6i (1999-06-03) I sent out mail to a long list of friends, and part of the list got cut. I used the completion feature to get the list of my entire address book, from which I scrolled down and selected people. It was > 120 people and I am sure it exceeded the 5k

Re: Sending unedited messages

1999-10-15 Thread David Ellement
On 991001, at 19:16:42, Staffan Hämälä wrote: > Is it possible to disable the question "do you want to cancel this..." > that pops up after exiting the editor without making any changes? > That question is a bit annoying when I do want to send the message > (eg mailinglist commands, test messages,

[postmaster@wipinfo.soft.net: ]

1999-10-15 Thread Jan Houtsma
Several times a day i get this email in my mailbox!! Is there an operator on this mailing list who can take care that this stops??? Its very annoying! btw. Its some kind of bounce of an email i once posted to this list succesfully with Mutt 1.0pre3us (1999-09-25) :-) thanks, jan - Forward

Re: managing folders

1999-10-15 Thread Bennett Todd
1999-10-15-16:06:11 Larry Fletcher: > I wonder if there's an easy way to calculate the current date minus a number > of days and then delete all the files in a directory that are older or equal > to that date. find a_directory -mtime +number_of_days -print0|perl -0 -lne unlink There are

Re: managing folders

1999-10-15 Thread Lars Hecking
> > If using maildir format folders, one could easily create a cron job that > > counts how many messages are in the folder, and then deletes the oldest > > of them, based on timestamps. > > This sounds interesting. I wonder if there's an easy way to calculate > the current date minus a number

Re: managing folders

1999-10-15 Thread Larry Fletcher
On Oct 15, 1999, David DeSimone wrote: > Mikko Hänninen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > Or to limit the number of messages a folder will hold, so when new > > > > messages are added old messages scroll off? > > > > If the messages are saved in the folder with a filtering program > > such as

Re: managing folders

1999-10-15 Thread Larry Fletcher
On Oct 15, 1999, Byrial Jensen wrote: > > Is there any way to expire messages in selected folders similar to > > the way messages in newsgroups are expired? > > Yes, you can use the "delete-pattern" command with a pattern to > give the oldest messages. E.g. to delete all messages received more >

Re: X-Confirm-Reading?

1999-10-15 Thread Manoj Kasichainula
On Fri, Oct 15, 1999 at 08:24:05PM +0200, Stasinos Konstantopoulos wrote: > X-Confirm-Reading-To: > > from somebody using Pegasus/Win. I guess this is a request to the > receiving MUA to send back an ACK upon opening the message, and I just > wanted to make sure Mutt is not (at least by default

X-Confirm-Reading?

1999-10-15 Thread Stasinos Konstantopoulos
Hi, I got an email today with the following line in the header: X-Confirm-Reading-To: from somebody using Pegasus/Win. I guess this is a request to the receiving MUA to send back an ACK upon opening the message, and I just wanted to make sure Mutt is not (at least by default) part of this con

Re: managing folders

1999-10-15 Thread David DeSimone
Mikko Hänninen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Or to limit the number of messages a folder will hold, so when new > > > messages are added old messages scroll off? > > If the messages are saved in the folder with a filtering program > such as procmail or maildrop, it might be possible to create

Re: managing folders

1999-10-15 Thread Mikko Hänninen
Byrial Jensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on Fri, 15 Oct 1999: > > Or to limit the number > > of messages a folder will hold, so when new messages are added old > > messages scroll off? > > No, I don't see how this could be done. If the messages are saved in the folder with a filtering program suc

Re: managing folders

1999-10-15 Thread Byrial Jensen
On Tue, Oct 12, 1999 at 09:37:08 -0700, Larry Fletcher wrote: > Is there any way to expire messages in selected folders similar to > the way messages in newsgroups are expired? Yes, you can use the "delete-pattern" command with a pattern to give the oldest messages. E.g. to delete all messages re

Re: unable to use IMAP

1999-10-15 Thread Chris Green
On Fri, Oct 15, 1999 at 12:06:08PM +0530, Raju K V wrote: > BTW, I notice that whenever I access the mailserver using IMAP, a mail > Mail System Internal Data DON'T DELETE THIS MESSAGE -- FOLDER INTERNAL > DATA > gets created. Why? > Yes, it's a pain in the *** in my opinion. Apparently it's cr

Re: unable to use IMAP

1999-10-15 Thread Raju K V
hi, like you, I am also not familiar with locale issues. But i did some checking and I found that the LANG environment variable is set to "C". also I wrote a test program which uses the SKIPWS macro from protos.h in mutt source code and it works fine. It works fine. So I feel that it is not a loc