Re: Archiving

2009-02-13 Thread Kyle Wheeler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday, February 13 at 08:58 AM, quoth Christian Brabandt: If I ever need to refer to something in deep storage, I can always go find it (using mutt) and search for it (using mutt). The last time I did that it would take an considerably amount

Re: Archiving

2009-02-13 Thread Andreas Kalex
* Cameron Simpson c...@zip.com.au wrote on 13.02.2009 at 12:30: (Except for spam; that goes to bogofilter for accounting and then discarded.) How do you implement it in the muttrc? Or do you use tools like procmail. andreas

Re: Archiving

2009-02-13 Thread Nicolas Sebrecht
On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 03:25:04PM +0100, Andreas Kalex wrote: (Except for spam; that goes to bogofilter for accounting and then discarded.) How do you implement it in the muttrc? Or do you use tools like procmail. I have those lines in my muttrc : macro pager \Cxs pipe-messagebogofilter

Re: set up multiple account

2009-02-13 Thread bill lam
On Thu, 12 Feb 2009, Ed Blackman wrote: `muttGmail cfoobar` `muttGmail ifoobar` Mutt will run muttGmail with the given argument. muttGmail will take the argument and spit out the complete folder-hook. Mutt will then interpret the output as configuration commands, and you're all set up.

newbie install

2009-02-13 Thread James Freer
I'd be grateful if someone could just clarify a couple of things before i do an installation. using Ubuntu 8.04 on a standalone PC connected to broadband. I chose Mutt as i can use vim as an editor and hopefully will be able to reply to emails from my many yahoogroups and mail lists rather more

Re: newbie install

2009-02-13 Thread Kyle Wheeler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday, February 13 at 05:37 PM, quoth James Freer: I'd be grateful if someone could just clarify a couple of things before i do an installation. I can try! :) using Ubuntu 8.04 on a standalone PC connected to broadband. I chose Mutt as i

Re: set up multiple account

2009-02-13 Thread Ed Blackman
On Sat, Feb 14, 2009 at 12:17:43AM +0800, bill lam wrote: On Thu, 12 Feb 2009, Ed Blackman wrote: `muttGmail cfoobar` `muttGmail ifoobar` Mutt will run muttGmail with the given argument. muttGmail will take the argument and spit out the complete folder-hook. Mutt will then interpret the

Re: Clarification on tag-prefix-cond vs. tag-prefix

2009-02-13 Thread Jan-Herbert Damm
Kyle Wheeler: ... However, because I use tag-prefix-cond, when there aren't any tagged messages (i.e. the pattern ~r 3m didn't match anything), mutt will stop processing that hook and none of the rest of it will happen. Does that make sense? yes it does! thank you so much for posting this

Re: Clarification on tag-prefix-cond vs. tag-prefix

2009-02-13 Thread John J. Foster
On Fri, 13 Feb 2009 19:20 +0100, Jan-Herbert Damm jan-h-d...@web.de wrote: Kyle Wheeler: ... However, because I use tag-prefix-cond, when there aren't any tagged messages (i.e. the pattern ~r 3m didn't match anything), mutt will stop processing that hook and none of the rest of it

Re: newbie install

2009-02-13 Thread James Freer
Kyle Thanks for your reply - that has helped clarify some things. Ubuntu 8.04 repos has the mutt 1.5.17 [but as the 8.04 version is the Long Term Support version it may well automatically replace it with the updated version on install]. I have three emails addresses with googlemail.com Ah,

Re: Clarification on tag-prefix-cond vs. tag-prefix

2009-02-13 Thread Kyle Wheeler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday, February 13 at 07:20 PM, quoth Jan-Herbert Damm: if you don't mind, can you explain the pattern ~r 3m equally well? Well, that's pretty simple. First, mutt uses what it calls simple patterns to match messages. (That's what you search

Re: newbie install

2009-02-13 Thread Kyle Wheeler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday, February 13 at 07:44 PM, quoth James Freer: I have three emails addresses with googlemail.com Ah, fun. Does that mean considerable stress and grief?? Maybe. Gmail's IMAP support is a little weird. There are ways of working around

Re: newbie install

2009-02-13 Thread Noah Sheppard
[..] well too. The only thing with them is: they will pull your email to your computer and delete it from the server. You won't be able to read email with the webmail frontend anymore; you'll have to use something on your own computer. Run fetchmail with the -k switch or set keep on your

Re: newbie install

2009-02-13 Thread sigi
On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 03:06:49PM -0600, Kyle Wheeler wrote: Collecting email from multiple accounts is what programs like fetchmail or getmail do best. I recommend getmail, but fetchmail works well too. The only thing with them is: they will pull your email to your computer and delete it

Re: newbie install

2009-02-13 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2009-02-13, James Freer jesseja...@googlemail.com wrote: Kyle Thanks for your reply - that has helped clarify some things. Ubuntu 8.04 repos has the mutt 1.5.17 [but as the 8.04 version is the Long Term Support version it may well automatically replace it with the updated version on

Scoring

2009-02-13 Thread Chris Willard
Hello All, Can someone please explain how scoring works for a beginner? I belong to a few mailing lists and some of them have quite a lot of messages. As I understand it I can use scoring to filter the messages but I am not sure of how to do this and how scoring works! Any help would be

Re: newbie install

2009-02-13 Thread Kyle Wheeler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday, February 13 at 10:33 PM, quoth sigi: On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 03:06:49PM -0600, Kyle Wheeler wrote: Collecting email from multiple accounts is what programs like fetchmail or getmail do best. I recommend getmail, but fetchmail works

Re: newbie install

2009-02-13 Thread Michael
Noah Sheppard wrote: [..] well too. The only thing with them is: they will pull your email to your computer and delete it from the server. You won't be able to read email with the webmail frontend anymore; you'll have to use something on your own computer. Run fetchmail with the -k switch

Re: newbie install

2009-02-13 Thread sigi
On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 04:15:30PM -0600, Kyle Wheeler wrote: On Friday, February 13 at 10:33 PM, quoth sigi: On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 03:06:49PM -0600, Kyle Wheeler wrote: Collecting email from multiple accounts is what programs like fetchmail or getmail do best. I recommend getmail, but

Re: Archiving

2009-02-13 Thread Javier Rojas
On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 04:00:12PM -0600, Kyle Wheeler wrote: Heh, well, some people I know don't do anything. Their inbox is several thousand messages. For me, my inbox is used as a list of things I need to take care of. Things like mailing list emails get automatically delivered into

Re: Archiving

2009-02-13 Thread Kyle Wheeler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday, February 13 at 09:37 PM, quoth Javier Rojas: however, this doesn't catch all the messages of the threads of the matched messages (the idea behind the addition of ~() ). I think this is caused because I also have another folder hook to

Re: set up multiple account

2009-02-13 Thread bill lam
On Fri, 13 Feb 2009, Ed Blackman wrote: Do this, inside mutt type: :`echo 'set my_test=foo'` and then :set ?my_test This example worked, but I might find the reason why it didn't work in general. I saved the following script as mutt-test and put a line `mutt-test bar` in my .muttrc