Re: filtering Cron fetchmail reports

2010-05-09 Thread Jamie Griffin
> but see that I already have /etc/default/fetchmail (I'm running > debian), which means fetchmail will start automatically on boot. > However, won't fetchmail then be run by root and not see the > "set daemon 900" statement in ~/.fetchmailrc? So will fetchmail > fail to start in daemon mode fo

Re: Mac OS X Terminal.app, FreeBSD, ssh

2010-05-04 Thread Jamie Griffin
> Leopard comes with the necessary stuff for several variants of nsterm, > but not nsterm-16color. You can install your own ncurses (e.g. via > MacPorts), which I usually do, and that *will* contain the necessary > nsterm-16color stuff, but system-provided programs won't use it. > *THAT* is w

Re: Mac OS X Terminal.app, FreeBSD, ssh

2010-05-04 Thread Jamie Griffin
> Ahhh. Personally, I find "nsterm-16color" is usually more accurate for > Apple's Terminal. It stands for "NextStep Terminal" (or should I say > "NeXTstep"), which is where Apple's Terminal came from. The only > downside is that nsterm-16color isn't included with some old versions > of ncurses

Re: Mac OS X Terminal.app, FreeBSD, ssh

2010-05-04 Thread Jamie Griffin
[ ... ] Cool. Thanks for the detailed explanation. > What terminal program are you using on your Mac? Apple's Terminal or > an honest-to-god xterm or something else? I'm just using Terminal.app. What confused me slightly was that this wasn't happening on another NetBSD machine i use, which

Re: Mac OS X Terminal.app, FreeBSD, ssh

2010-05-04 Thread Jamie Griffin
Hi Kyle, thanks for your help. > The TERM is definitely the issue. That setting controls how mutt (or, > more accurately, ncurses) knows what codes to use to change the colors > and otherwise draw things on your terminal (such as the status bar). > > You don't need to install X11 on your FreeB

Re: Mac OS X Terminal.app, FreeBSD, ssh

2010-05-04 Thread Jamie Griffin
Hi Nathan > Was the Mutt on the FreeBSD machine linked with slang, while the Mutt on > the other machines using ncurses? (You can tell by looking at the first > few lines of the output from "mutt -v".) mutt on my FreeBSD machine is definitely compiled with ncurses; ncurses 5.6.20080503 to be

Mac OS X Terminal.app, FreeBSD, ssh

2010-05-04 Thread Jamie Griffin
I use FreeBSD for my email server and have mutt installed on it. I often ssh into the mail server from Mac OS X (Leopard) and use the remote mutt. However when I do, the display on terminal is not right, namely that the indicator does not stretch across the whole width of the screen as it normal

Re: urlscan not working

2010-03-27 Thread Jamie Griffin
> The problem is when reading mail containing a url and hitting "CTL b"the > error message is"urlview not found". ^^^ perhaps the key bind \cb has been set to use urlview by the ubuntu apt-get people, have you looked at the bindings in /etc/Muttrc/ , there are also other

Re: i'm rubbish at writing hook patterns

2010-03-24 Thread Jamie Griffin
> All you need is two reply-hooks to add the Reply-To header when you are > replying to a message addressed to your .ac.uk address, so the > complete solution would be: > set from=ja...@fantomatic.co.uk #default address > alternates myusern...@cs.man.ac.uk > set reverse_name

Re: i'm rubbish at writing hook patterns

2010-03-24 Thread Jamie Griffin
> You would be able to accomplish this, but only if you replace your > default send-hook with: > set from=ja...@fantomatic.co.uk #default address > alternates myusern...@cs.man.ac.uk > set reverse_name #use alternate when replying > > ..followed by and send-h

Re: i'm rubbish at writing hook patterns

2010-03-24 Thread Jamie Griffin
It would be much simpler to do this: > > send-hook . unmy_hdr reply-to from > send-hook '~t "(manchester|cs.man)\.ac\.uk"' my_hdr From: Jamie Griffin > > send-hook '~t "(manchester|cs.man)\.ac\.uk"' my_hdr Reply-To: > ja...@fantomati

i'm rubbish at writing hook patterns

2010-03-24 Thread Jamie Griffin
ster|cs.man)\.ac\.uk"' 'my_hdr From: Jamie Griffin ; \ my_hdr Reply-To: ja...@fantomatic.co.uk'" I read a bit in the manual that said: "Note that if a regular expression contains parenthesis, or a veritical bar ("|&qu

Re: a couple of ssl related questions

2010-02-28 Thread Jamie Griffin
Hi Szilvester > Well, the problem is probably that the SSL cert is issued for the FQDN > of your machine, whereas you try to connect to it as "localhost". What > happens if you use the same full hostname in the IMAP URL as the one that is > in the SSL certificate? Using the FQDN instead

a couple of ssl related questions

2010-02-27 Thread Jamie Griffin
Hello I've compiled mutt on NetBSD 5.0.2 using pkgsrc/ports with ssl support. I use mutt to read mail from my imap mailbox on the localhost, so have "imaps://localhost/INBOX." in my muttrc file. I use dovecot and use self-signed ssl certificates. Without $ssl_verify_host unset mutt complains

Re: Is Fetchmail still in vogue?

2009-12-21 Thread Jamie Griffin
On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 01:02:46AM +0100, Andreas Kneib wrote: > I like mpop: > http://mpop.sourceforge.net/ > http://mpop.sourceforge.net/comparison.html offlineimap is also pretty good and well worth checking out. Jamie pgpGqAhqY7Gbn.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: archived mail in gmail

2008-06-17 Thread Jamie Griffin
On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 03:37:20PM -0700, Chris Lemire wrote: > I tried Evolution with Gmail using Imap. It sorted my emails by the labels I > had been using with the web interface, very nice. Why isn't Mutt doing the > same? It's only looking at the email in my Inbox, and I can't get to archived

Re: New Mail Flag in spoolfile

2008-05-27 Thread Jamie Griffin
On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 10:04:33AM +1000, Greg Darke wrote: > > Hi Jamie, > > Is the drive where your spoolfile is stored mounted with the 'noatime' > directive? > > -- > Greg Darke Hi Greg I believe it is. Not certain how to confirm that, but as far as i know, the following entry in /etc/fst

New Mail Flag in spoolfile

2008-05-27 Thread Jamie Griffin
Hello everyone I upgraded from mutt 1.5.17 to 1.5.18 yesterday and since, i've noticed that when i change folders from my spoolfile the new mail flag appears telling me i have new mail in the spoolfile. when i go into that folder there is no new mail. I have mail polled by fetchmail, and deliver

Re: problems with Maildir, procmail, getmail

2008-03-09 Thread Jamie Griffin
eone could provide any tips. Jamie On Sun, Mar 09, 2008 at 05:10:15PM +0100, Steve S wrote: > On Sun, Mar 09, 2008 at 02:34:23PM +, Jamie Griffin wrote: > > I've been struggling for ages trying to set up mutt on my linux > > machine. > > > > I've specifie

Re: problems with Maildir, procmail, getmail

2008-03-09 Thread Jamie Griffin
I did try that, but mutt returned a message saying /home/user/mail/inbox is not a mailbox. Would that have caused the error messages i got after runnning getmail? On Sun, 2008-03-09 at 14:44 +, Michael Kjorling wrote: > On 9 Mar 2008 14:34 +, by [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jamie Griffin): >

problems with Maildir, procmail, getmail

2008-03-09 Thread Jamie Griffin
I've been struggling for ages trying to set up mutt on my linux machine. I've specified the Maildir mailboxes in muttrc set up procmail set up getmail to pop my email but when i open mutt it wants to use /var/mail/user i created this using: sudo touch /var/mail/user sudo chown user:users /var/

Re: downloading and compiling from source

2008-03-08 Thread Jamie Griffin
This is great, thanks Todd. I'll look into building my .deb package, certainly sounds like the best way forward, although quite daunting having had a brief look :0) Jamie On Sat, 2008-03-08 at 10:47 -0500, Todd Zullinger wrote: > Jamie Griffin wrote: > > I'm new to Linux an

downloading and compiling from source

2008-03-08 Thread Jamie Griffin
Hi I'm new to Linux and bought my machine with ubuntu 7.10 this week. I've been using Mac osx for the last 6 months and so i'm still very much in the learning stages. I've got a lot of stuff to read to teach myself, but having been using Mutt on my Mac i want to get it up and running on my Linux

upgrading from an older version of mutt

2008-01-08 Thread Jamie Griffin
Hi - I just have a general question about upgrading and how to do this properly. I'm using mac os x (10.5.1) in case that helps. I'm unclear on what happens to the existing version on my system. Do i need to manually remove this, or is it automatically removed after compiling the new version

Re: Procmail and sorting mail with imap folders

2007-12-10 Thread Jamie Griffin
On Mon 10.Dec'07 at 15:37:00 -0600, Kyle Wheeler wrote: > On Monday, December 10 at 09:15 PM, quoth Jamie Griffin: > > Thanks Kyle > > > > i will look at procmail and see what i can so. Any ideas on where i > > could find some more infor about using procmail with i

Re: Procmail and sorting mail with imap folders

2007-12-10 Thread Jamie Griffin
On Mon 10.Dec'07 at 14:51:02 -0600, Kyle Wheeler wrote: > On Monday, December 10 at 08:23 PM, quoth Jamie Griffin: > > I don't use local folders currently and manage my mail using imap > > folders. > > Cool, same here! I like being able to get access to all my e

Procmail and sorting mail with imap folders

2007-12-10 Thread Jamie Griffin
Hi there - I don't use local folders currently and manage my mail using imap folders. I thought about setting up mailboxes to receive and store items such as mail from mailing-lists. I'm assuming i can get mutt to do this for me when the mail pulled down from the server but from the resources

Re: view_attachment script query

2007-12-09 Thread Jamie Griffin
On Sun 9.Dec'07 at 17:15:38 -0600, Kyle Wheeler wrote: > On Sunday, December 9 at 11:10 PM, quoth Jamie Griffin: > >Firstly, it's working and the attachments are oping succesfully. > >However, after i've closed it and return to mutt > >there's an err

view_attachment script query

2007-12-09 Thread Jamie Griffin
Hi - further to my query about viewing attachments, i want to ask about the script i'm using in /usr/local/bin to launch the program which opens the attachment. Firstly, it's working and the attachments are oping succesfully. However, after i've closed it and return to mutt there's an error mes

Re: attachment viewing and mailcap query

2007-12-09 Thread Jamie Griffin
Thanks for that. I did keep both lines/entries in the mailcap file, only now i have swapped them around, like so: application/msword; view_attachment %s "-" '/Applications/Microsoft\ Office\ 2004/Microsoft\ Word' application/msword; antiword %s | less; copiousoutput; needsterminal This does

attachment viewing and mailcap query

2007-12-09 Thread Jamie Griffin
Hi - I've read so many websites and the manuals to set up attachment viewing from mutt. I've got a .mutt/auto_view file and a .mutt/mailcap file with appropriate entries in it. The main problem i'm having is with ms applications - word is the one i've tried so far. I got around this by put

Re: $set folder variable

2007-12-04 Thread Jamie Griffin
need to have an mbox vaiable setting in my muttrc? On Tue, Dec 04, 2007 at 10:44:08PM +, Jamie Griffin wrote: > Hi > > i wondered if you had any idea's about the variable set folder= > > I'm trying to set this variable to connent to an imap server (fastmail) us

$set folder variable

2007-12-04 Thread Jamie Griffin
Hi i wondered if you had any idea's about the variable set folder= I'm trying to set this variable to connent to an imap server (fastmail) using the following: set folder="imaps://mail.messagingengine.com:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:pass=**" when i'm in the main mutt viewer that lists my messages,

Re: query with sent messages folder?

2007-12-04 Thread Jamie Griffin
es on system that i may not need. And bearing that in mind - is it safe to just delete them if i do need to keep a sent file for messages sent using MUTT? Jamie On 4 Dec 2007, at 14:18, Rado S wrote: =- Jamie Griffin wrote on Tue 4.Dec'07 at 6:40:29 + -= I have picked bits up f

Re: query with sent messages folder?

2007-12-03 Thread Jamie Griffin
rafts set folder="imaps://mail.messagingengine.com/INBOX" set spoolfile="imaps://mail.messagingengine.com/INBOX" set mask="." set [EMAIL PROTECTED] set realname="Jamie Griffin" set askcc set askbcc set nomove set implicit_autoview set mailcap_path="

query with sent messages folder?

2007-12-03 Thread Jamie Griffin
Hi there - his may seem like a really simple question, but i've been setting up my MUTT client for a few weeks now, and it seems to work fine, etc, but i have a query about what's happening to my sent messages, or rather where they're being stored. I've noticed this evening that i had a lot bui