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: Mutt freezes if network lost and regained

2009-11-12 Thread Omari Norman
On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 07:46:04AM +0100, Jeffrey Ratcliffe wrote: Is there a better way? Can I make mutt more tolerant of patchy network access? I use offlineimap for this reason. It solves some problems and creates some other ones. -- When it's springtime in Alaska, it's forty below.

Re: mutt + imap + gprs

2009-10-16 Thread Omari Norman
On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 04:43:35PM +0100, Toby Cubitt wrote: Offlineimap claims to be extremely fast at synchronising IMAP folders, so it might be usable over GPRS. In any case, it can be left to run away in the background, so it's speed doesn't have much impact on mutt's responsiveness other

Re: Regexps suddenly case-sensitive?

2009-10-02 Thread Omari Norman
On Fri, Oct 02, 2009 at 02:20:35PM +0200, Joost Kremers wrote: I recently upgraded from Slackware 12.2 to Slackware 13.0. I installed mutt 1.5.20 from source both on the old and on the new system. For some reason, since I did the OS upgrade, mutt's regular expressions are case-sensitive. I

Case insensitive limits not working?

2009-09-25 Thread Omari Norman
Hi folks, The Mutt manual says that if I do a limit with all lower-case letters, like l ~f omari, that the limit will be case-insensitive. However this does not seem to be working for me--there are messages that I find if I use the correct case in the pattern, but not if I use all lowercase

lists and subscribe commands and the To: header

2007-06-20 Thread Omari Norman
Hi all, According to the manual, it seems that the lists and subscribe commands only examine the To: field of incoming mail. Is that true? Occasionally you get people who Bcc: a list, so then it slips past the lists and subscribe commands. I've set up maildrop to examine messages and change their

Re: lists and subscribe commands and the To: header

2007-06-20 Thread Omari Norman
On Wed, Jun 20, 2007 at 07:04:43AM -0600, Kyle Wheeler wrote: Generally, the lists and subscribe commands just add addresses to an internal list. This list is then consulted for several things. For example, it is used for the ~l pattern (which, according to the manual, matches messages

Re: OT: offending sig + headers

2007-05-17 Thread Omari Norman
On Thu, May 17, 2007 at 06:30:26PM -0400, Derek Martin wrote: And the comment in my sig is anything but glib. A great deal of thought and effort went into all parts of my spam management scheme, including weighing any potential irritation of people who might want to send me mail against the