Re: Going GUI...er

2020-04-05 Thread raf
Akkana Peck wrote: > Felix Finch writes: > > On 20200405, Sam Kuper wrote: > > > In the meantime, you can just reply to the message (which, after all, > > > was sent as an email): "Thanks, I accept your invitation to the meeting > > > at 5pm PDT on 5th

Re: Going GUI...er

2020-04-05 Thread Felix Finch
On 20200405, Greg Marks wrote: I realize this isn't an answer to Vegard Svanberg's original question, but I think it's a point worth raising: isn't the fact that mutt is text-based a security feature? I have always used that as an excuse when corporate drones get annoyed

Re: Going GUI...er

2020-04-05 Thread Greg Marks
I realize this isn't an answer to Vegard Svanberg's original question, but I think it's a point worth raising: isn't the fact that mutt is text-based a security feature? Thunderbird, which I consider the second-best e-mail client, does have security settings to prevent it from automatically loadin

Re: Going GUI...er

2020-04-05 Thread Felix Finch
On 20200405, m...@amrx.net wrote: No! The ultimate goal should be do accept calendar invitations from your calendar! Your mail client is reserved for reading email. MIME attached ics files to coordinate meeting attendance is an atrocity. Not even the email client is that restricted. It is

Re: Going GUI...er

2020-04-05 Thread Felix Finch
On 20200405, Fred Smith wrote: On Sun, Apr 05, 2020 at 12:45:09PM -0700, Felix Finch wrote: On 20200405, Akkana Peck wrote: >Is there any way to configure mutt to alert me at the top of the >message if there are any text/calendar or image/* attachments >anywhere in the message, even a

Re: Going GUI...er

2020-04-05 Thread Sam Kuper
On Sun, Apr 05, 2020 at 04:43:20PM -0400, Fred Smith wrote: > On Sun, Apr 05, 2020 at 12:45:09PM -0700, Felix Finch wrote: >> On 20200405, Akkana Peck wrote: >> >Is there any way to configure mutt to alert me at the top of the >> >message if there are any text/cale

Re: Going GUI...er

2020-04-05 Thread Sam Kuper
On Sun, Apr 05, 2020 at 01:08:05PM -0700, m...@amrx.net wrote: > On Sun, Apr 05, 2020 at 08:48:35PM +0100, Sam Kuper wrote: >> If/when it becomes possible to RSVP, in a machine-readable fashion >> directly from Mutt, to calendar-invites-sent-via-email, I'll switch >> to that. > > No! The ultimate

Re: Going GUI...er

2020-04-05 Thread Fred Smith
On Sun, Apr 05, 2020 at 12:45:09PM -0700, Felix Finch wrote: > On 20200405, Akkana Peck wrote: > >Is there any way to configure mutt to alert me at the top of the > >message if there are any text/calendar or image/* attachments > >anywhere in the message, even as part of a

Re: Going GUI...er

2020-04-05 Thread mutt
No! The ultimate goal should be do accept calendar invitations from your calendar! Your mail client is reserved for reading email. MIME attached ics files to coordinate meeting attendance is an atrocity. On Sun, Apr 05, 2020 at 08:48:35PM +0100, Sam Kuper wrote: > On Sun, Apr 05, 2020 at 08:05:2

Re: Going GUI...er

2020-04-05 Thread Russell L. Harris
On Sun, Apr 05, 2020 at 12:19:58PM -0600, Akkana Peck wrote: This happens for two reasons: 1. Mutt shows attachments at the bottom of a message, which was reasonable in the days before everyone top-posted; but now I never 2. Calendar invites are often part of a MIME multipart/alternative: I feel

Re: Going GUI...er

2020-04-05 Thread Sam Kuper
On Sun, Apr 05, 2020 at 08:05:29AM -0700, m...@amrx.net wrote: > Truly, sending the human an E-Mail, to read, is a great response, but > could trigger a frustrating conversation about auto populating > calendar items, be prepared to defend your mutt way of life. Been there, done that. Several tim

Re: Going GUI...er

2020-04-05 Thread Felix Finch
On 20200405, Akkana Peck wrote: Is there any way to configure mutt to alert me at the top of the message if there are any text/calendar or image/* attachments anywhere in the message, even as part of a multipart/alternative? I feel like I miss a lot in mail messages because mutt doesn't te

Re: Going GUI...er

2020-04-05 Thread Akkana Peck
Felix Finch writes: > On 20200405, Sam Kuper wrote: > > In the meantime, you can just reply to the message (which, after all, > > was sent as an email): "Thanks, I accept your invitation to the meeting > > at 5pm PDT on 5th May 2020." > > Now that's an

Re: Going GUI...er

2020-04-05 Thread mutt
Propagating the notion that E-Mail and Calendar are separate things is probably the best thing to do, to undo their evil marriage. The calendar related RFC's that I have looked at indicate that the protocols were designed work and communicate completely independent of E-Mail, yet the majority of

Re: Going GUI...er

2020-04-05 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2020-04-04, Vegard Svanberg wrote: > However, I'm increasingly finding myself having to resort to various > tricks to deal with HTML only emails (with picture attachments), > calendar invites, and other oddities and awkward stuff people send. I hever had that much trouble _reading_ HTML email

Re: Reply/multiple accounts: Setting From to To of original mail

2020-04-05 Thread mike9
On 05.04. I wrote: > I have multiple mail addresses and some received mails are directed > to a certain folder. > > When replying to one of those mails in that folder I like to set my > >From like the To of the mail I'm replying to. reverse_name and reverse_realname did it.

Re: Reply/multiple accounts: Setting From to To of original mail

2020-04-05 Thread Kevin J. McCarthy
On Sun, Apr 05, 2020 at 08:18:09AM +0200, Mike wrote: When replying to one of those mails in that folder I like to set my From like the To of the mail I'm replying to. Is there a special solution for this? Check out $reverse_name and $reverse_realname. -- Kevin J. McCarthy GPG Fingerprint: 8

Re: Going GUI...er

2020-04-05 Thread Felix Finch
On 20200405, Sam Kuper wrote: On Sat, Apr 04, 2020 at 09:06:13AM -0700, Felix Finch wrote: On 20200404, Sam Kuper wrote: This ~/.mailcap works tolerably under Gnome [...] I've been using something similar for several years, and one thing missing from this is a way to respond to in

Re: Going GUI...er

2020-04-05 Thread Sam Kuper
On Sat, Apr 04, 2020 at 09:06:13AM -0700, Felix Finch wrote: > On 20200404, Sam Kuper wrote: >>This ~/.mailcap works tolerably under Gnome [...] > > I've been using something similar for several years, and one thing > missing from this is a way to respond to invites. Perhaps it's an > Outlook-onl

Re: Going GUI...er

2020-04-05 Thread Sam Kuper
On Sun, Apr 05, 2020 at 10:47:56AM +1000, raf wrote: > For other document attachments, I use various mailcap > filters to render things as text such as catdoc, > xls2csv, mutt.octet.filter and mutt.vcard.filter by > David A Pearson, vcalendar-filter by Martyn Smith etc. I knew about some of those,

Re: Going GUI...er

2020-04-05 Thread Sam Kuper
On Sat, Apr 04, 2020 at 07:18:42PM +0200, steve wrote: > I can display images, read pdf's, etc… but one thing I never managed > to do is open an html file containing images. I mean, I can send the > html part to firefox but the images don't follow. > > How do you guys cope with that? Depends what

Re: [Mutt] Going GUI...er

2020-04-05 Thread Russell L. Harris
On Sun, Apr 05, 2020 at 08:39:34AM +0200, steve wrote: I can display images, read pdf's, etc??? but one thing I never managed to do is open an html file containing images. I mean, I can send the html part to firefox but the images don't follow. With neomutt on Debian 9, ":exec bounce-message" f