mutt tries to auto_view all old messages

2013-04-28 Thread Ulrich Lauther
Hi all, I upgraded to ubuntu 12.04 which implies mutt 1.5.21 Now, when I do mutt -f mbox where mbox contains all my old, already read, messages, mutt tries to open a firefox tab for each message containing html. (I have auto_view text/html in .muttrc and text/html; fire

Re: mutt tries to auto_view all old messages

2013-05-02 Thread Ulrich Lauther
On Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 08:30:49AM +1000, Cameron Simpson wrote: > On 28Apr2013 23:34, Ulrich Lauther wrote: > | I upgraded to ubuntu 12.04 which implies mutt 1.5.21 > | Now, when I do > | mutt -f mbox > | where mbox contains all my old, already read, messages, > | mu

pdf-files destroyed, where are archives?

2013-05-03 Thread Ulrich Lauther
Hi, I cannot find archives of the mutt mailing lists. On http://www.mutt.org/mail-lists.html is a link "MARC", but it does not seem to work. I am trying to find an answer to this problem: When I send a pdf-file as an attachmend, it gets destroyed. Ubuntu 12.04, mutt Mutt 1.4.2.3i Did not happ

Re: pdf-files destroyed, where are archives?

2013-05-03 Thread Ulrich Lauther
On Fri, May 03, 2013 at 11:38:38AM +0200, Christian Brabandt wrote: > > I am not sure whether the old mutt 1.4 stable release still is > supported. You can safely use the latest released "development" version > 1.5.21 (which was released in 2010). Actually calling it "development" > version is

inconsistent display of subject line

2013-10-19 Thread Ulrich Lauther
In the overview of messages I see a subject line like this: 10/19 ebrosia Genussp ( 14K) M-b~X~E GRATIS M-b~X~E WHISKY When I open the message, I see: Subject: ★ GRATIS ★ WHISKY The LANG-variable is: en_US.UTF-8 mutt is: Mutt 1.5.22 (2013-10-16) compiled using: configure; make; make install

mutt native SMPT support vs Postfix?

2014-01-04 Thread Ulrich Lauther
Recent posts made me aware of the fact, that mutt supports SMPT. So far I have been using postfix for mail transport. Which way is better, and why? Thanks for advice, ulrich

unwanted header display

2014-02-28 Thread Ulrich Lauther
Hi, when I open a message by typing "h", I see the headers for this message, as intended. However, until I restart mutt, afterwards ALL messages a displayed this way. Bug or feature? Or somehow my fault? I use Mutt 1.5.22 (2013-10-16) Kind regards, ulrich

displaying the outbox

2014-04-07 Thread Ulrich Lauther
Hi all, I save my outgoing messages in a file outbox, using "set record=+outbox " in my .muttrc Now when I open this file (mutt -f outbox), I see the subjects of the sent messages, that´s fine. I also see the sender, who is always myself - no surprise. It would be much more helpfull, to see the r

Re: displaying the outbox

2014-04-07 Thread Ulrich Lauther
On Mon, Apr 07, 2014 at 03:25:06PM -0400, Patrick Shanahan wrote: > > I use: > folder-hook =outbox 'set index_format="%?M?v& ? %4C %Z %{%b %d} %-18.18F > (%4c) %s"' > %-18.18F does not work for me: I still see my own name. However, %-18.18t achieves what I want. Though the manual says: %F

Re: displaying the outbox

2014-04-07 Thread Ulrich Lauther
On Mon, Apr 07, 2014 at 11:22:59PM -0400, Jon LaBadie wrote: > On Mon, Apr 07, 2014 at 11:14:44PM +0200, Ulrich Lauther wrote: > > On Mon, Apr 07, 2014 at 03:25:06PM -0400, Patrick Shanahan wrote: > > > > > > I use: > > > folder-hook =outbox 'set index_

Re: displaying the outbox

2014-04-08 Thread Ulrich Lauther
On Tue, Apr 08, 2014 at 08:48:04AM +0100, Christian Ebert wrote: > * Ulrich Lauther on Tuesday, April 08, 2014 at 08:27:53 +0200 > > The concept of "message is from you" is not clear to me. > > How does mutt decide whether a message is from me or not? > > Does it loo

Re: displaying the outbox

2014-04-08 Thread Ulrich Lauther
r struggler. > > This is my one (basicly a huge set of regexes that match all the email > addresses I consider mine): > > alternates ^kandre@ak-online\.be$ ^kandre+.*@ak-online\.be$ > ^root@ak-online\.be$ ^kandre@cacert\.org$ ^andre\.klaerner@hsh-online\.com$ > Thanks a lot! ulrich -- -lauther

Re: displaying the outbox

2014-04-08 Thread Ulrich Lauther
On Tue, Apr 08, 2014 at 02:33:08PM +0200, Andre Klärner wrote: > Actually the manual specifies this pretty nicely: > > == the fine manual, chapter 3.11: > Many users receive e-mail under a number of different addresses. To fully > use > Mutt's features here, the program must be able to recogn

Re: displaying the outbox

2014-04-08 Thread Ulrich Lauther
On Tue, Apr 08, 2014 at 02:33:08PM +0200, Andre Klärner wrote: > > Actually the manual specifies this pretty nicely: > > == the fine manual, chapter 3.11: > Many users receive e-mail under a number of different addresses. To fully > use > Mutt's features here, the program must be able to rec

Re: displaying the outbox

2014-04-09 Thread Ulrich Lauther
On Wed, Apr 09, 2014 at 10:14:22AM -0500, Derek Martin wrote: > > Let's be fair... The manual changes from version to version > (especially major versions), and the link that Ulrich provided above > IS a perfectly valid link to the Mutt manual. It's just not the one > that's relevant to the versi

a few suggestions for the docu

2014-04-13 Thread Ulrich Lauther
Motivation: I have been using mutt for nearly 10 years, comming from unix-mail and elm under various operating systems. I have to admit, that I never read the 165 pages of the manual but relied on "man mutt" and "man muttrc", but first of all on the sample muttrc-file that comes with the distribu

[ulrich.laut...@t-online.de: Re: a few suggestions for the docu]

2014-04-13 Thread Ulrich Lauther
On Sun, Apr 13, 2014 at 09:23:07AM -0400, Patrick Shanahan wrote: > > So index_format is there, alternates not. > > > > If a complete list exists somewhere, I was not able to find it. > > If you would read the " > > see: 11. Alternative addresses > http://mutt-ng.berlios.de/manual/ch03s11.html

[ulrich.laut...@t-online.de: Re: a few suggestions for the docu]

2014-04-13 Thread Ulrich Lauther
Again I hit "r" instead of "L", sorry So here again: - Forwarded message from Ulrich Lauther - On Sun, Apr 13, 2014 at 12:37:00PM -0700, Gary Johnson wrote: > On 2014-04-13, Ulrich Lauther wrote: > > > BTW, in my current environment - Ubuntu 12.4 - p

Re: a few suggestions for the docu

2014-04-14 Thread Ulrich Lauther
On Mon, Apr 14, 2014 at 12:35:02PM -0500, Derek Martin wrote: > On Sun, Apr 13, 2014 at 02:42:20PM +0200, Ulrich Lauther wrote: > > BTW, in my current environment - Ubuntu 12.4 - pressing F1 does NOT > > bring up the mutt-manual, but the manual of the gnome-termial in whic

Re: Correct syntax of send hook

2014-05-13 Thread Ulrich Lauther
On Mon, May 12, 2014 at 11:06:21AM -0500, Derek Martin wrote: > increasing prevalence of this odd usage. It's almost as bad as adding > apostrophes for plurals or third-person present tense verbs (e.g. > "apostrope's" instead of "apostrophes" or "He let's his dog out" vs. > "He lets his dog out."

mail box vanished

2014-07-31 Thread Ulrich Lauther
Sorry, this message may not directly be mutt-related, but maybe somebody can point me to better place to ask. Within a time span of (probably) some weeks the file /var/spool/mail/ for the second time suddenly has size 0. Of course, without myself doing anything evil, probably without doing anythin

Re: mail box vanished

2014-07-31 Thread Ulrich Lauther
On Thu, Jul 31, 2014 at 09:45:15PM -0400, Jon LaBadie wrote: > > Do you have a remote client getting mail from that > mailbox which isn't configured to keep the mail on > the server? > no, I just retrieve mail from two providers using /usr/bin/fetchmail -a -U -d 30 -L /var/log/fetchmail

Re: mail box vanished

2014-08-01 Thread Ulrich Lauther
On Thu, Jul 31, 2014 at 11:05:05PM -0700, Brendan Cully wrote: > On Thursday, 31 July 2014 at 21:23, Ulrich Lauther wrote: > > Sorry, this message may not directly be mutt-related, but maybe somebody > > can point me to better place to ask. > > > > Within a time span o

Re: mail box vanished

2014-08-01 Thread Ulrich Lauther
On Fri, Aug 01, 2014 at 10:33:27AM +0200, Ulrich Lauther wrote: > > Is there a way to mark - accidentally - all messages as "read"? I should have said: Is there a way to mark - accidentally - all messages as "read" or "deleted"? Couldn't fi

Re: mail box vanished

2014-08-01 Thread Ulrich Lauther
On Fri, Aug 01, 2014 at 10:06:53PM +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: > On Fri, Aug 01, 2014 at 10:40:05AM +0200, Ulrich Lauther wrote: > > On Fri, Aug 01, 2014 at 10:33:27AM +0200, Ulrich Lauther wrote: > > > > > > Is there a way to mark - accidentally - all messages as &qu

Re: Convert ascii UTF8 code (in mutt "to:" header) to real UTF8

2016-06-03 Thread Ulrich Lauther
On Fri, Jun 03, 2016 at 05:52:36PM +1000, Erik Christiansen wrote: > On 03.06.16 08:45, Matthias Apitz wrote: > > $ echo 'Ker=C4=B1ko' | mmencode -u -q > > Kerıko > > $ echo 'Ker=C4=B1ko' | mmencode -u -q | od -tx1 > > 0004b 65 72 c4 b1 6b 6f 0a > > 00

Re: mutt deletes temporary HTML file before I can view it

2016-06-23 Thread Ulrich Lauther
On Wed, Jun 22, 2016 at 09:49:12PM -0400, Xu Wang wrote: > On Wed, Jun 22, 2016 at 9:07 AM, Gregor Zattler wrote: > > Hi Xu Wang, > > * Xu Wang [22. Jun. 2016]: > >> So I added & to detach. This is good in the sense > >> that mutt now does not wait for the browser. However, by the time my > >> br

Re: find matched message in all mailboxes and put them into a separate mailbox

2018-01-18 Thread Ulrich Lauther
On Thu, Jan 18, 2018 at 05:29:38PM +0800, Yubin Ruan wrote: > Hi, > > I know one can hit / or l (i.e., limit) and then apply a search pattern to > search for messages in the current mailbox. But can we apply this to multiple > mailboxes? I would like to search for matched messages in all mailboxes

where stores mutt the status of messages, i.e. "r", "N", etc. ?

2019-05-19 Thread Ulrich Lauther
In the mailbox /var/mail/ new messages are appended, but mutt displays the newest messages first. Makes sense. Probably because my mailbox grew to large, this mechanism failed: suddenly I saw very old messages first. To repair this I edited the mailbox (using vi) and deleted old messages. Now it

extracting subjects lines

2020-07-18 Thread Ulrich Lauther
Hi, I use grep "Subject: " /var/mail/$USER to extract subject-lines from my mail box and get for instance Subject: =?utf-8?Q?Achtung=20=2D=20don=27t=20say=20that?= but in mutt, I see Achtung - don't say that How can I get the subject lines in clear text? (ico

Re: extracting subjects lines

2020-07-19 Thread Ulrich Lauther
On Sun, Jul 19, 2020 at 09:58:56AM +0200, Matthias Apitz wrote: > El día Sonntag, Juli 19, 2020 a las 08:18:01 +0200, Ulrich Lauther escribió: > > > > How can I get the subject lines in clear text? > > $ cat subject.pl > #!/usr/local/bin/perl > # > > use En

Re: My experiences with Mutt to date: Suggestions for overcoming some issues

2021-01-25 Thread Ulrich Lauther
On Mon, Jan 25, 2021 at 09:07:29PM +1100, Cameron Simpson wrote: > On 24Jan2021 22:04, boB Stepp wrote: > >5) I am able to view HTML emails via w3c, but I get weekly (and some > >daily) emails from news aggregation services like Pycoders Weekly, > >TLDR, etc., that have embedded links that never

Re: Search and limit from command line

2021-03-20 Thread Ulrich Lauther
On Sat, Mar 20, 2021 at 11:11:43AM +0100, Jens John wrote: > On Sat, 20 Mar 2021, at 10:42, Julius Hamilton wrote: > > Hello Mutt users, > > > > I would like to know if there is a way to retrieve a list of emails from > > a particular user at stdout in bash, rather than launching the mutt > > appl

Re: Mutt with Gmail on ubuntu

2021-04-24 Thread Ulrich Lauther
On Thu, Apr 22, 2021 at 09:44:54PM +, ಚಿರಾಗ್ ನಟರಾಜ್ wrote: > 12021/02/31 07:22.37 ನಲ್ಲಿ, "M.R.P. zensky" > ಬರೆದರು: > > > > Hello does anyone know what the best way to configure mutt to work with > > gmail on ubuntu? > > poll imap.gmail.com with proto IMAP >user '$email' there with