Re: Three newbie questions

2016-07-07 Thread Erik Christiansen
On 08.07.16 00:46, Alasdair McAndrew wrote: > 1. When I send an email, no matter from what account, a copy always > ends up in the Inbox of my default account. How can I ensure such a > mail ends up in the Sent folder of its account? I'd look for a "set record" statement in .muttrc, and replace i

Three newbie questions

2016-07-07 Thread Alasdair McAndrew
I have spent much of the last week (when I should have been doing other things) getting to grips with mutt. My setup consists of three mail accounts: two gmail, and one MS Exchange which I access using davmail (I'm using Linux) so that localhost is my server. Since I was having problems downl

Re: a number of newbie questions

2002-08-29 Thread krjw
Doh again. Geeze this is two doh's in one day. Yes you are correct. It does work. I didn't realize that mutt had to be told explicitly about each of the sub-maildirs. *sigh* is it friday yet? Thanks again. krjw. +-- On 29082002 16:20:55 +, Peter T. Abplanalp uttered: | On Thu, Aug 29

Re: a number of newbie questions

2002-08-29 Thread Peter T. Abplanalp
On Thu, Aug 29, 2002 at 02:00:30PM -0400, krjw wrote: > +-- On 29082002 12:16:11 +, darren chamberlain uttered: > | * krjw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002-08-29 11:57]: > | > | > 1) Firstly, does mutt support or will mutt ever support extended > | > maildirs? I've never seen extended maildirs 'til

Re: a number of newbie questions

2002-08-29 Thread Will Yardley
krjw wrote: > On 29082002 12:04:04 +, Will Yardley uttered: >> krjw wrote: >>> On 29082002 12:16:11 +, darren chamberlain uttered: >>> * krjw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002-08-29 11:57]: > 1) Firstly, does mutt support or will mutt ever support extended > maildirs? I've never seen ex

Re: a number of newbie questions

2002-08-29 Thread krjw
+-- On 29082002 16:54:29 +, John P Verel uttered: | | I start vim thusly: set editor ="vim +/^$ +'set nobackup' -c 'normal | o' -c startinsert" This puts me at a new line below the first non | blank line, in insert mode. If you like, simply change 'normal o' to | 'normal i' to omit the addit

Re: a number of newbie questions

2002-08-29 Thread krjw
+-- On 29082002 12:04:04 +, Will Yardley uttered: | krjw wrote: | > +-- On 29082002 12:16:11 +, darren chamberlain uttered: | > | * krjw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002-08-29 11:57]: | | >>> 1) Firstly, does mutt support or will mutt ever support extended | >>> maildirs? I've never seen extende

Re: a number of newbie questions

2002-08-29 Thread John P Verel
On 08/29/02 12:16 -0400, darren chamberlain wrote: > > 3) [this is a vim question; don't shoot me :)] I've seen mutts start up > > vim as their editor like "vim -c ':0;/^$'" which I understand puts the > > cursor on the first empty line. Any way to place it at the end of the > > file (eg, las

Re: a number of newbie questions

2002-08-29 Thread Will Yardley
krjw wrote: > +-- On 29082002 12:16:11 +, darren chamberlain uttered: > | * krjw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002-08-29 11:57]: >>> 1) Firstly, does mutt support or will mutt ever support extended >>> maildirs? I've never seen extended maildirs 'till I started using >>> maildrop, but they're kinky.

Re: a number of newbie questions

2002-08-29 Thread krjw
+-- On 29082002 12:16:11 +, darren chamberlain uttered: | * krjw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002-08-29 11:57]: | | > 1) Firstly, does mutt support or will mutt ever support extended | > maildirs? I've never seen extended maildirs 'till I started using | > maildrop, but they're kinky. They allow f

Re: a number of newbie questions

2002-08-29 Thread darren chamberlain
* krjw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002-08-29 11:57]: > Greetings, mutts. Yo. > 1) Firstly, does mutt support or will mutt ever support extended > maildirs? I've never seen extended maildirs 'till I started using > maildrop, but they're kinky. They allow for folders-within-folders > which is very han

a number of newbie questions

2002-08-29 Thread krjw
ckers. Anyway, I now have a sane and powerful MUA :) combined with qmail & maildrop and all is mostly well. As with any newbie, questions loom so bear with me. (Yes, I've poked around in the list archives; they've helped a couple of times already). 1) Firstly, does mutt support or wil

Re: a bunch of newbie questions

2001-12-05 Thread René Clerc
* David T-G <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [05-12-2001 14:34]: | % | The | % | patch changes the behaviour in respect with old messages and unset | % | mark_old, the messages stay old (and new messages stay new). | % | % I see! Like I said, I would've already expected this behaviour. | | Yep. This is ano

Re: a bunch of newbie questions

2001-12-05 Thread David T-G
Rene, et al -- ...and then Ren? Clerc said... % * Nicolas Rachinsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [05-12-2001 00:05]: % % | mark_old unset, new messages stay new (until read), and messages % | marked_old become new when you leave the mailbox (just try it). % % Aha! I didn't know this; this explains a lot

Re: a bunch of newbie questions

2001-12-05 Thread René Clerc
* Nicolas Rachinsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [05-12-2001 00:05]: | I think it depends on mark_old, with mark_old set, mutt marks unread | new mails as old when leaving the mailbox, old messages stay old. With | mark_old unset, new messages stay new (until read), and messages | marked_old become new wh

Re: a bunch of newbie questions

2001-12-04 Thread Nicolas Rachinsky
On Tue, Dec 04, 2001 at 07:49:46PM +0100, René Clerc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > * Nicolas Rachinsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [04-12-2001 19:27]: > > | On Mon, Dec 03, 2001 at 07:24:00PM -0500, David T-G ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > | > Rene, since starting to use mutt I've never wished delete was

Re: a bunch of newbie questions

2001-12-04 Thread René Clerc
* Nicolas Rachinsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [04-12-2001 19:27]: | On Mon, Dec 03, 2001 at 07:24:00PM -0500, David T-G |<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | > Rene, since starting to use mutt I've never wished delete was set to | > ask-yes, but I sure hated mark_old (though I want stuff marked old at | > tim

Re: a bunch of newbie questions

2001-12-04 Thread Nicolas Rachinsky
On Mon, Dec 03, 2001 at 07:24:00PM -0500, David T-G <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Rene, since starting to use mutt I've never wished delete was set to > ask-yes, but I sure hated mark_old (though I want stuff marked old at > times) :-) There is an patch which leaves messages marked old marked old

Re: a bunch of newbie questions

2001-12-04 Thread David T-G
Paul -- ...and then Paul Brannan said... % On Mon, Dec 03, 2001 at 02:59:31PM -0500, David T-G wrote: % > ...and then Paul Brannan said... % > % macro index $ ':set delete=ask-yes:set delete=no' % > % % > % All I get is a beep, and delete remains set to "ask-yes". % > % > That makes sense. Y

Re: a bunch of newbie questions

2001-12-04 Thread Paul Brannan
On Mon, Dec 03, 2001 at 02:59:31PM -0500, David T-G wrote: > ...and then Paul Brannan said... > % macro index $ ':set delete=ask-yes:set delete=no' > % > % All I get is a beep, and delete remains set to "ask-yes". > > That makes sense. Your macro sets it to ask-yes and then tries to sync > th

locking solved (was Re: a bunch of newbie questions)

2001-12-04 Thread Paul Brannan
On Mon, Dec 03, 2001 at 08:30:27PM -0600, David wrote: > I think that this is exactly the problem... I dont know if you are on > linux, but in my mounts through NIS to an HPUX machine from linux, I use > a 'nolock' option that disables attempting to lock over NFS, and I just > use dotlocking. I d

Re: a bunch of newbie questions

2001-12-04 Thread René Clerc
* David T-G <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [04-12-2001 01:26]: [context] | Rene, since starting to use mutt I've never wished delete was set to | ask-yes, but I sure hated mark_old (though I want stuff marked old at | times) :-) That was actually the first option I unset ;) -- René Clerc

Re: a bunch of newbie questions

2001-12-03 Thread David
On Mon, Dec 03, 2001 at 07:24:00PM -0500, David T-G wrote: > % suggested in the other thread), and it successfully created > % testfile.lock; mutt_dotlock -u testfile successfully removed the file as > % well. > > And this was from your NFS client box? Interesting. I wonder why mutt > doesn't

Re: a bunch of newbie questions

2001-12-03 Thread David
On Mon, Dec 03, 2001 at 03:34:45PM -0500, Paul Brannan wrote: > > Perhaps this is a problem of the client being able to lock over nfs but > the server not? I think that this is exactly the problem... I dont know if you are on linux, but in my mounts through NIS to an HPUX machine from linux, I u

Re: a bunch of newbie questions

2001-12-03 Thread David T-G
Paul -- ...and then Paul Brannan said... % On Mon, Dec 03, 2001 at 02:59:31PM -0500, David T-G wrote: % > ...and then Paul Brannan said... % > % > mutt -v % > % > show you? Do you have dotlocking available? It looks to me as though ... % % The relevant portion of mutt -v indicates: % -HO

Re: a bunch of newbie questions

2001-12-03 Thread Thorsten Haude
Hi, * Paul Brannan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [01-12-03 21:34]: >> If you want the messages to be deleted when you sync, set it to "yes" in >> your macro; if not, leave it at "no" and forget about the macro. If you >> want to be asked then just set it to ask-no and forget about the macro, >> and when y

Re: a bunch of newbie questions

2001-12-03 Thread René Clerc
* Paul Brannan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [03-12-2001 21:36]: | > If you want the messages to be deleted when you sync, set it to "yes" in | > your macro; if not, leave it at "no" and forget about the macro. If you | > want to be asked then just set it to ask-no and forget about the macro, | > and when

Re: a bunch of newbie questions

2001-12-03 Thread Paul Brannan
On Mon, Dec 03, 2001 at 02:59:31PM -0500, David T-G wrote: > ...and then Paul Brannan said... > % This solves #2, but not #1 :( > > Interesting. What does > > mutt -v > > show you? Do you have dotlocking available? It looks to me as though > mutt can only use fcntl locks but they are not s

Re: a bunch of newbie questions

2001-12-03 Thread David T-G
Paul -- ...and then Paul Brannan said... % On Mon, Dec 03, 2001 at 10:31:53AM -0500, Brendan Cully wrote: % > > > * Paul Brannan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [011130 15:42]: % > > > > 1) When I start mutt, I see this message: % > > > > fcntl: No locks available (errno = 37) % > > > >How can I mak

Re: a bunch of newbie questions

2001-12-03 Thread Paul Brannan
On Mon, Dec 03, 2001 at 10:31:53AM -0500, Brendan Cully wrote: > > > * Paul Brannan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [011130 15:42]: > > > > 1) When I start mutt, I see this message: > > > > fcntl: No locks available (errno = 37) > > > >How can I make it go away? > > > > 2) When I go to the index, I s

Re: a bunch of newbie questions

2001-12-03 Thread Brendan Cully
On Monday, 03 December 2001 at 10:14, Paul Brannan wrote: > On Sat, Dec 01, 2001 at 08:59:24AM +0100, Sven Guckes wrote: > > * Paul Brannan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [011130 15:42]: > > > 1) When I start mutt, I see this message: > > > fcntl: No locks available (errno = 37) > > >How can I make

Re: a bunch of newbie questions

2001-12-03 Thread René Clerc
* Paul Brannan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [03-12-2001 16:16]: | > use the file locking that goes along with your system?! | | Could you please point me to the documentation for specifying a | different form of file locking? The mutt FAQ and mutt docs at mutt.org | do not appear to contain such informa

Re: a bunch of newbie questions

2001-12-03 Thread Paul Brannan
On Sat, Dec 01, 2001 at 08:59:24AM +0100, Sven Guckes wrote: > * Paul Brannan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [011130 15:42]: > > 1) When I start mutt, I see this message: > > fcntl: No locks available (errno = 37) > >How can I make it go away? > > use the file locking that goes along with your syst

Re: a bunch of newbie questions

2001-12-01 Thread Sven Guckes
* Paul Brannan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [011130 15:42]: > 1) When I start mutt, I see this message: > fcntl: No locks available (errno = 37) >How can I make it go away? use the file locking that goes along with your system?! > 2) When I go to the index, I see this message: > /home/pbran

a bunch of newbie questions

2001-11-30 Thread Paul Brannan
1) When I start mutt, I see this message: fcntl: No locks available (errno = 37) How can I make it go away? 2) When I go to the index, I see this message: /home/pbrannan/.mh_profile not found, mh format names disabled How can I make it go away? 3) When changing between mailboxes,

Re: newbie questions

2001-06-12 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Troy Heber [mutt-users] <12/06/01 08:24 -0600>: > How can you "move" messages? I would like to tag messages from my inbox > and Move them to another mailbox in a single step. Any options? Tag whatever messages you want using T and then ; s (to apply the save to all tagged messages) and th

newbie questions

2001-06-12 Thread Troy Heber
I have a couple questions that I just can't seem to find answers to in the manual, FAQ or on the web. How can you "move" messages? I would like to tag messages from my inbox and Move them to another mailbox in a single step. Any options? How can you forward a message and retain the attachment?

Re: Newbie questions

2000-10-12 Thread Perry The Cynic
On Fri, Oct 06, 2000 at 07:28:36AM +0300, Mikko Hänninen wrote: > Perry The Cynic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on Thu, 05 Oct 2000: > [...] Is there a way to *not* have to type the initial > > "=" character? It works of course if I chdir to ~/mail before running > > mutt, but that's a wee bit lame. >

Re: Newbie questions

2000-10-06 Thread Michael Tatge
Perry The Cynic muttered: > Alternatively, is there any way to hide (not display) deleted messages? You could make that into a macro: macro index d !~D This disadvantage is that you'll have to limit to all messages first if you want to undelete something. HTH, Michael -- Some of my readers as

Re: Newbie questions

2000-10-06 Thread Michael Tatge
Perry The Cynic muttered: > How do I "commit" files marked for deletion? Others told you about . > For that matter, is there any way I can type a prefix (say, "ord" > for "orders") with some kind of auto-completion of folder names? c=mu completes to mutt in my case ;) Hitting TAB always autocom

Re: Newbie questions

2000-10-06 Thread Dan Boger
On Thu, Oct 05, 2000 at 04:06:21PM -0700, Myrddin wrote: > On Thu, Oct 05, 2000 at 03:25:41PM -0700, Perry The Cynic wrote: > > Dear Mutt experts, > > > > I'm a new mutt user (moved over from pine for the threads :-), and after > > using the program for a few weeks (and reading the manual, twice)

Re: Newbie questions

2000-10-05 Thread Mikko Hänninen
Perry The Cynic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on Thu, 05 Oct 2000: > My mail folders are in ~/mail (lowercase), so I use the startup command > set folder=~/mail > After that, I can refer to my folders as =foldername, which is dandy, but > means I have to type a leading "=" every time I change

Re: Newbie questions

2000-10-05 Thread Bruce DeVisser
On Thu, Oct 05, 2000 at 03:25:41PM -0700, Perry The Cynic wrote: > How do I "commit" files marked for deletion? $ > Is there a way to *not* have to type the initial "=" character? Beats me. > For that matter, is there any way I can type a prefix (say, "ord" > for "orders") with some kind of

Re: Newbie questions

2000-10-05 Thread Myrddin
On Thu, Oct 05, 2000 at 03:25:41PM -0700, Perry The Cynic wrote: > Dear Mutt experts, > > I'm a new mutt user (moved over from pine for the threads :-), and after > using the program for a few weeks (and reading the manual, twice) > am now reaching the point where I know what I don't know. :-) >

Newbie questions

2000-10-05 Thread Perry The Cynic
Dear Mutt experts, I'm a new mutt user (moved over from pine for the threads :-), and after using the program for a few weeks (and reading the manual, twice) am now reaching the point where I know what I don't know. :-) How do I "commit" files marked for deletion? I realize they get removed when

Re: Some "easy" newbie questions

2000-01-01 Thread Mikko Hänninen
Qwerty Asdfgh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on Sat, 01 Jan 2000: > 1. Forward a message with full headers (so far, the f command doesn't > include the full headers.) If you use the "regular" forward, with the message in the body text, you want to "set forward_weed=no". Alternatively, if you want the

Some "easy" newbie questions

2000-01-01 Thread Qwerty Asdfgh
I'm in the process of evaluating a MUA for one of my company's departments to use, and so far it looks like mutt's going to be the one. This department is going to require multiple employees to be logged into the same mailbox simultaneously, and so far, looks like mutt's the best one at doing that

Fwd: Some "easy" newbie questions

2000-01-01 Thread Qwerty Asdfgh
I'm in the process of evaluating a MUA for one of my company's departments to use, and so far it looks like mutt's going to be the one. This department is going to require multiple employees to be logged into the same mailbox simultaneously, and so far, looks like mutt's the best one at doing that

Re: newbie questions

1999-08-13 Thread Jon Parise
On Thu, Aug 12, 1999 at 10:05:29PM -0700, nall wrote: > 2. is there a way to make {server.name.com}INBOX an alias so when > i want to switch back to my inbox from another folder i don't > have to type in the whole server name, etc?. The spoolfile is already aliased to '!' (no quotes). -- Jon P

Re: newbie questions

1999-08-13 Thread David Thorburn-Gundlach
Hi! ...and then nall said... % % hi there. % i have a few questions concerning mutt. % % 1. can i change a setting such that mutt won't prompt me to re-encode the message % before sending it? I'm not quite sure what you mean here, so I won't risk confusion by trying to answer... % 2. is

newbie questions

1999-08-12 Thread nall
hi there. i have a few questions concerning mutt. 1. can i change a setting such that mutt won't prompt me to re-encode the message before sending it? 2. is there a way to make {server.name.com}INBOX an alias so when i want to switch back to my inbox from another folder i don't have t

newbie questions

1999-08-12 Thread nall
hi there. i have a few questions concerning mutt. 1. can i change a setting such that mutt won't prompt me to re-encode the message before sending it? 2. is there a way to make {server.name.com}INBOX an alias so when i want to switch back to my inbox from another folder i don't have to

Re: Some Mutt newbie questions

1999-06-19 Thread Anonymous
On Fri, Jun 18, 1999 at 08:37:39PM +, Frederic L. W. Meunier wrote: > Hi. I have some questions about Mutt (0.96.3i compiled with Slang 1.3.7). > 1- I'm starting Mutt from an rxvt with root using rxvt -e su user, cd ~ and starting >mutt. maybe it is necessary to use su -l user > In my .mutt

Re: Some Mutt newbie questions

1999-06-19 Thread Anonymous
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Re: Some Mutt newbie questions

1999-06-19 Thread Anonymous
hi; > > 2- I need to change the From: header when sending messages. When I press "m" I >just get > > the To: header. > .muttrc: > > my_hdr From: Mutt User > or what else you want to set. this works well, but if you use to set it to different adresses it is better to set edit_hdrs in your .mut

Some Mutt newbie questions

1999-06-18 Thread Anonymous
Hi. I have some questions about Mutt (0.96.3i compiled with Slang 1.3.7). 1- I'm starting Mutt from an rxvt with root using rxvt -e su user, cd ~ and starting mutt. In my .muttrc I have set mbox="/var/mail/$USER" but Mutt save the messages to /var/mail/root. And if I don't chmod /var/mail 777 I g