Re: Forwarded attachments catenation

2016-11-10 Thread Bob Proulx
Mihail Konev wrote: > When forwarding a message, mutt catenates all the attachments into the > body. > > Is this a correct behaviour? > How to avoid it? The behavior is controlled by the mime_forward variable. The default value is the traditional way mailers have always handled mail. It may opt

Re: mutt license and SSL libraries

2015-06-17 Thread Bob Proulx
Ian Zimmerman wrote: > mutt is GPL. Apparently there is some license incompatibility between > GPL and the openssl license which prohibits linking mutt with openssl, > unless there is an exception for this specific situation. Here is a nice summary of the issues: https://people.gnome.org/~mark

Re: mutt/dovecot/squirrelmail mark old

2014-01-19 Thread Bob Proulx
Patrick Shanahan wrote: > Will Yardley wrote: > > Patrick Shanahan wrote: > > > how can I stop squirrelmail/dovecot from changing (N)ew file markers to > > > (O)ld? Or is it possible? I was about to post this very same question. I am trying to use an IMAPS server with mutt and having the same is

Re: People that CC mailing lists

2013-02-14 Thread Bob Proulx
Alexander Dahl wrote: > Bob Proulx wrote: > > Agreed. However Mailman has an option that is often (ab)used. > > > > "Filter out duplicate messages to list members (if possible)" > > > > In which case if you are subscribed to the mailing list and som

Re: sidebar patch

2013-02-13 Thread Bob Proulx
James Griffin wrote: > I believe Fedora/Redhat systems have a similar way of selecting > which package/program should be your default using an > "alternatives-type" command. Useful for Linux users. At the risk of drifting too far from topic, yes, Red Hat / Fedora does have alternatives. It appear

Re: People that CC mailing lists

2013-02-13 Thread Bob Proulx
Michael Elkins wrote: > I prefer to save the copy with the List-Post header field rather > than the personal copy, so I use a slightly different approach: Agreed. However Mailman has an option that is often (ab)used. "Filter out duplicate messages to list members (if possible)" In which case

Re: sidebar patch

2013-02-12 Thread Bob Proulx
Luis Mochan wrote: > my system, /usr/bin/mutt is a link pointing to > /etc/alternatives/mutt. Furthermore, /etc/alternatives/mutt is a link > pointing to /usr/bin/mutt-patched, which is the actual binary for the > ...nice description of alternatives... Some time ago I posted this following in a di

Re: Mailing list Subject: line

2013-02-09 Thread Bob Proulx
Derek Martin wrote: > But this philosophy favors the casual list member over the people who > read the list regularly. The community should cater to its regular > members, not people whose interest and participation are fleeting... > So this approach is wrong. The Mutt community, by and large, ch

Re: How to change To: address programatically?

2012-01-17 Thread Bob Proulx
Chris Green wrote: > I have now done all these things. The muttrc lists and subscribe > commands now have only ix...@ixiemaster.ixion.co.uk in them. > > and the result is that mutt doesn't recognise some messages (which > only have ix...@ixion.co.uk in them) as list messages so I can't L[is

Re: How to change To: address programatically?

2012-01-15 Thread Bob Proulx
Chris Green wrote: > I have a mailing list where in some cases, when I L[ist reply] the To: > address ends up as follows:- > > To: ix...@ixiemaster.ixion.co.uk, ix...@ixion.co.uk Look at the list headers. How does the list identify itself? Look for a List-Post header. Do you see something

Re: post.el and bottom posting

2011-07-17 Thread Bob Proulx
Marcelo Luiz de Laia wrote: > I use mutt+emacs+post.el (all from Debian depositories). Sure. > I would like to bottom posting when I replay a message. How I > configure emacs|post.el to do that? The normal thing to do is to edit the quoted reply and delete the non-relevant parts. I set the mark

Re: sending an email with a mutt one-line without being prompted

2010-08-03 Thread Bob Proulx
Grant Edwards wrote: > Nicolas Williams wrote: > > Right. There's no good convention for "end of list of arguments to an > > option". There's only a good convention for "end of variable argument > > list" ('--'), and since this is the closest thing... > > And since there _is_ a convention that '

Re: Conditional Configuration in .muttrc

2009-01-01 Thread Bob Proulx
Kyle Wheeler wrote: > On Monday, December 29 at 12:15 PM, quoth Michael Kjorling: > > Untested, but should work: > > `if [ ... ]; then echo 'source onefile.muttrc'; else echo 'source > > otherfile.muttrc'; fi` > > > > Then just fill in "onefile.muttrc" and "otherfile.muttrc" with > > whichever se

Conditional Configuration in .muttrc

2008-12-28 Thread Bob Proulx
I happen to like pager_index_lines=8 to show me where I am in the thread. But at times I read mail from my PDA with a small screen. I want to conditionally change the configuration such that large terminals get pager_index_lines set to a value but small terminals do not set this value. I came up

Re: Problem displaying text/html mime attachments (solved)

2007-01-20 Thread Bob Proulx
Stefano Sabatini wrote: > # textual session > if [ -z "display" ]; then This will never be true. You meant to say the following there. if [ -z "$DISPLAY" ]; then Bob

Re: emacs problem

2007-01-20 Thread Bob Proulx
Just a gentle reminder to keep replies on list... Mutt's list-reply feature is perfect here. :-) Sergio Dominguez wrote: > Stefano Sabatini wrote: > > In which mode are you composing the message (mail-mode, post-mode)? Agreed. Check the setting of the auto-mode-alist variable. This is a varia

Re: Emacs opening post files as latin-1 and the rest as UTF-8

2007-01-11 Thread Bob Proulx
Stefano Sabatini wrote: > Ismael Valladolid Torres wrote: > > What can be making Emacs not to change the language environment when > > opening a mutt temporal post file? > > I'll say it could be post-el fault. > Maybe it's changing the coding system when setting the mail > mode (or maybe some other

Re: How to automatically delete empty maildirs?

2007-01-11 Thread Bob Proulx
Stefano Sabatini wrote: > My problem depends on the fact that I have many maildirs setted as > mailboxes (using the mailboxes command) and I would like not to display > them in the buffy view when they don't contain messages. Try the TAB command when viewing that displayed information. It should