Re: How to restore my mail?

2009-03-20 Thread JP Bruns
Kyle [20.Mär.2009 03:03]: BUT when you booted your machine, your operating system automatically deleted the contents of /tmp. This is considered a security feature, as well as simply good housekeeping. IF you had $TMP or $tmpdir pointed elsewhere, such as ~/.tmp/ or something similar, then

accidently viewing attachments repeatedly

2009-03-20 Thread Hein Zelle
Dear Mutt users, when viewing attachments in external programs (notably openoffice), I often have a terminal sit unused for a while as I'm reading the attachment. What happens often is that I hit a key or enter in that terminal (which is showing just the last $ mutt command line). After

Re: How to restore my mail?

2009-03-20 Thread W. Martin Borgert
On 2009-03-19 21:03, Kyle Wheeler wrote: You *might* be able to restore it, *if* you use an alternate temp directory (i.e. if you set the $TMP environment variable, or the $tmpdir muttrc configuration setting, or maybe if your editor keeps draft files in a nonstandard place). Thanks. I

Re: Mutt crashing on exit or replying (sometimes)

2009-03-20 Thread Rocco Rutte
Hi, * Joshua Tinnin wrote: On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 11:18:30AM -0500, Kyle Wheeler wrote: On Wednesday, March 11 at 10:36 AM, quoth Joshua Tinnin: Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault. 0x080cb71f in safe_strdup () (gdb) backtrace #0 0x080cb71f in safe_strdup () #1 0x080b4d6a

Re: what is the benefit of imap? Another meta-question.

2009-03-20 Thread Rocco Rutte
Hi, * David Champion wrote: [ POP3 needs locking ] That's implementation-dependent though. A server might require locking, but it's not inherent to the protocol and it's possible to implement one that has few of the contstraints that people have mentioned in this thread. RfC1939

Re: How to restore my mail?

2009-03-20 Thread Kyle Wheeler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday, March 20 at 12:03 PM, quoth W. Martin Borgert: On 2009-03-19 21:03, Kyle Wheeler wrote: You *might* be able to restore it, *if* you use an alternate temp directory (i.e. if you set the $TMP environment variable, or the $tmpdir muttrc

Re: what is the benefit of imap? Another meta-question.

2009-03-20 Thread David Champion
RfC1939 explicitely states that the maildrop (mailbox) needs to be locked once a client is authenticated, see section 4. It doesn't say what exactly the lock means, though. At least I read it like that. This is drifting pretty far away from mutt, and I doubt any of us are writing new POP

Re: what is the benefit of imap?

2009-03-20 Thread Chris G
On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 12:34:18PM +0100, Rocco Rutte wrote: Hi, * Chris G wrote: On the other hand if you *don't* need to access mail from anywhere then IMAP is slower than other ways of doing it and doesn't add any other particular advantages. Depends. Most people using IMAP use it

Re: accidently viewing attachments repeatedly

2009-03-20 Thread Gary Johnson
On 2009-03-20, Hein Zelle h...@icce.rug.nl wrote: Dear Mutt users, when viewing attachments in external programs (notably openoffice), I often have a terminal sit unused for a while as I'm reading the attachment. What happens often is that I hit a key or enter in that terminal (which is

Re: Mutt crashing on exit or replying (sometimes)

2009-03-20 Thread Cameron Simpson
On 06Mar2009 15:44, Kyle Wheeler kyle-m...@memoryhole.net wrote: | Step 1 of establishing a UTF-8 environment is getting a terminal | program that supports it. Most of them do these days, but you need to | run them with the right flags. For example, xterm supports UTF-8, but | requires a bunch

Re: Mutt crashing on exit or replying (sometimes)

2009-03-20 Thread Cameron Simpson
On 08Mar2009 23:07, Kyle Wheeler kyle-m...@memoryhole.net wrote: | On Friday, March 6 at 08:18 PM, quoth John J. Foster: | Hey Kyle - I've only been running on a Mac since January (former | Gentoo user). But I've not changed my environment, knowingly, to effect | this and my locale shows: | |