Re: mime type when adding attachment

2008-11-03 Thread Christian Mongeau
On 2008-11-03, bill lam wrote: When I attach an excel file, its mime type is automatically set to application/excel, while recipient has no problem (they use outlook), my mailcap has not associate that with any spreadsheet program, thus mutt cannot open it. My question is how does mutt

Re: Unicode and Mutt

2008-11-03 Thread Anders Karlsson
* Dave Feustel [EMAIL PROTECTED] [20081103 14:03]: I saved a few messages to mutt folders that had Russian or Asian Characters in the subject line. Now when I look at those saved messages the Russian/Asian characters are no longer displayed. Is there any way to make mutt work with UTF-8 so

Re: Unicode and Mutt

2008-11-03 Thread Dave Feustel
On Mon, Nov 03, 2008 at 02:50:40PM +0100, Anders Karlsson wrote: * Dave Feustel [EMAIL PROTECTED] [20081103 14:03]: I saved a few messages to mutt folders that had Russian or Asian Characters in the subject line. Now when I look at those saved messages the Russian/Asian characters

Re: mime type when adding attachment

2008-11-03 Thread Christian Mongeau
On 2008-11-03, bill lam wrote: On Mon, 03 Nov 2008, Christian Mongeau wrote: Chapter 5 of the manual deals with MIME: http://www.mutt.org/doc/devel/manual.html#mimesupport In particular, 2. MIME Type configuration with mime.types (http://www.mutt.org/doc/devel/manual.html#mime-types)

Re: Unicode and Mutt

2008-11-03 Thread Derek Martin
On Mon, Nov 03, 2008 at 10:14:15AM -0500, Dave Feustel wrote: Did you try saving the messages and verifying that the saved messages still display properly? Lots of people have been using Mutt with UTF-8 for years, and yes, this is known to work if your environment is set up correctly. Where

Re: Command Line - setting the from field?

2008-11-03 Thread Rado S
=- Saujanya Patel wrote on Mon 3.Nov'08 at 18:41:25 +1300 -= I was wondering if it is possible to set the from value from the command line without using the .muttrc file Yes. Something like: mutt -s subject [EMAIL PROTECTED] -a a.file someText -f [EMAIL PROTECTED] No. You have to go via

Re: mime type when adding attachment

2008-11-03 Thread bill lam
On Mon, 03 Nov 2008, Christian Mongeau wrote: Chapter 5 of the manual deals with MIME: http://www.mutt.org/doc/devel/manual.html#mimesupport In particular, 2. MIME Type configuration with mime.types (http://www.mutt.org/doc/devel/manual.html#mime-types) says: When you add an attachment to

Re: Unicode and Mutt

2008-11-03 Thread Dave Feustel
On Mon, Nov 03, 2008 at 12:51:03PM -0500, Derek Martin wrote: On Mon, Nov 03, 2008 at 10:14:15AM -0500, Dave Feustel wrote: Did you try saving the messages and verifying that the saved messages still display properly? Lots of people have been using Mutt with UTF-8 for years, and yes,

= alias for mailboxes does not work (Was: Updating to Ubuntu Gutsy no longer shows message counts)

2008-11-03 Thread Bill Moseley
This is a follow up to an existing problem. Using = shortcut in mailboxes works in general, but mailbox counts show zero. A work-around is to use the full imap URL: Instead of: mailboxes \ =moseley \ =lists.mutt I can use: mailboxes \ imaps://IMAP

Re: mime type when adding attachment

2008-11-03 Thread bill lam
On Mon, 03 Nov 2008, Christian Mongeau wrote: AFAIK there shouldn't be a /usr/etc/mime.types because it's not FHS-compliant: [...] /usr/etc is still not allowed: programs in /usr should place configuration files in /etc. I checked the mutt source and found that it set sysconfdir to prefix/etc

global address list

2008-11-03 Thread Ravi Uday
Hi Is there a way to import and use global address list (as in outlook) to mutt? So that we can choose from that addr an id to send mail ? - Ravi