Re: Mutt doesn't write change to local maildir automatically?

2010-01-29 Thread chombee
On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 05:23:42PM +0100, Michael Tatge wrote: * On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 02:20PM + chombee (chom...@lavabit.com) muttered: I've noticed that mutt doesn't seem to write changes to my local maildirs until I hit $ or change maildirs. Is there a way to get it to automatically

Re: Easy way to handle multiple accounts?

2010-01-29 Thread chombee
On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 02:20:44AM +, chombee wrote: On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 10:45:34AM +0100, Joost Kremers wrote: i have three IMAP accounts and simply run three mutt instances within screen. my ~/.screenrc contains (something similar to) the following lines:

Re: Easy way to handle multiple accounts?

2010-01-29 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2010-01-29, chombee chom...@lavabit.com wrote: On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 02:20:44AM +, chombee wrote: On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 10:45:34AM +0100, Joost Kremers wrote: each ~/.muttrc-* contains just the settings for the specific account and then it sources ~/.muttrc, which contains general

Re: Easy way to handle multiple accounts?

2010-01-29 Thread Joost Kremers
On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 12:01:25PM +, chombee wrote: This seems to be an alright solution. It keeps the muttrc files nice and simple (no hooks). It's nice to be able to launch all three mutt instances (and offlineimap also) with a single 'screen' command. On the downside, you can't see

Re: Easy way to handle multiple accounts?

2010-01-29 Thread Patrick Shanahan
* chombee chom...@lavabit.com [01-29-10 07:02]: When I have a desktop window manager available I started doing something similar. Just have a script (bound to a keyboard shortcut maybe) that launches all three instances of mutt plus offlineimap in different windows on a workspace. Since you

Re: Mutt doesn't write change to local maildir automatically?

2010-01-29 Thread Chris G
On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 11:54:21AM +, chombee wrote: On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 05:23:42PM +0100, Michael Tatge wrote: * On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 02:20PM + chombee (chom...@lavabit.com) muttered: I've noticed that mutt doesn't seem to write changes to my local maildirs until I hit $ or

Re: Easy way to handle multiple accounts?

2010-01-29 Thread Tim Gray
On Fri 29, Jan'10 at 12:01 PM +, chombee wrote: This seems to be an alright solution. It keeps the muttrc files nice and simple (no hooks). It's nice to be able to launch all three mutt instances (and offlineimap also) with a single 'screen' command. On the downside, you can't see when there

Custom labels for mailboxes listed in sidebar

2010-01-29 Thread postman_miler
I'm using mutt version 1.5.18 with sidebar patch and have several Gmail IMAP mailboxes (20+) listed in my muttrc file: ... set folder=imaps://f...@imap.gmail.com mailboxes =INBOX ... account-hook imaps://f...@imap.gmail.com/ 'set imap_user=...@gmail.com imap_pass=bar' ... In sidebar,

Re: Unix Philosophy (was List management headers)

2010-01-29 Thread Derek Martin
On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 12:09:41PM -0600, David Champion wrote: I would love to see RFC2369 handling built in to mutt, but have not had time to explore this in code. I'm certain there are others here who would cite the Unix Philosophy or whatever, and assert that an external program could do

Re: Unix Philosophy (was List management headers)

2010-01-29 Thread David Young
On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 12:55:32PM -0600, Derek Martin wrote: Another way to look at it, if you think that the above idea is stretching the Unix Philosophy beyond what was intended (which it very arguably is), is that the Unix philosoply is about 4 decades old, and software (and users) have

Re: How to handle a lot of emails via IMAP

2010-01-29 Thread Omari Norman
On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 10:54:40AM -0500, John Villalovos wrote: So I have been subscribed to LKML (Linux Kernel Mailing List) for several years on my gmail account. I decided to try to read that email using IMAP with Mutt. You might try OfflineIMAP. The disadvantage of that though is that

Re: Unix Philosophy (was List management headers)

2010-01-29 Thread chombee
On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 12:55:32PM -0600, Derek Martin wrote: There are a couple of ways to look at this. One is this: the Unix philosophy is to do one thing, and do it well. In the case of my mail program, the one thing is to handle my mail. It should be capable to do all of the essential

Re: Unix Philosophy (was List management headers)

2010-01-29 Thread Derek Martin
On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 01:40:18PM -0600, David Young wrote: It sounds to me like you may be confusing two ideas. One idea is a way of assembling an application from small programs that perform discrete tasks in a script or pipeline. The other idea is a user's experience that an application