fork process on reply

2008-11-21 Thread Eric Smith
When I press reply, I want to fork a new instance of mutt with that new instance then executions the editor with the replied to message and headers in place. I would do this into another screen window ideally but others might want to launch an xterm for this purpose. The advantage is to have

Re: fork process on reply

2008-11-21 Thread Aron Griffis
Eric Smith wrote: [Fri Nov 21 2008, 04:46:01AM EST] I would do this into another screen window ideally but others might want to launch an xterm for this purpose. I do this for new messages, replies, group-replies and list-replies. http://agriffis.n01se.net/skel.hg/index.cgi/file/tip/bin/xmutt

Re: fork process on reply

2008-11-21 Thread Gary Johnson
On 2008-11-21, Aron Griffis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Eric Smith wrote: [Fri Nov 21 2008, 04:46:01AM EST] I would do this into another screen window ideally but others might want to launch an xterm for this purpose. I do this for new messages, replies, group-replies and list-replies.

Re: fork process on reply

2008-11-21 Thread Aron Griffis
Gary Johnson wrote: [Fri Nov 21 2008, 05:28:54PM EST] Interesting. What do you about setting the 'r' flag for messages to which you've replied? I don't presently. I played with a scheme similar to yours for a while, but I didn't like that there was no way to automatically and reliably set

Re: mutt, pop, and HOWTOs (was Re: fork() ?)

2002-04-18 Thread David T-G
Simon, et al -- ...and then Simon White said... % % functionality retired in favour of good IMAP support and a HOWTO for % fetchmail included in the Mutt distribution package? Since mutt doesn't have the ability to send mail itself, but depends on an MTA, I think it makes perfect sense to not

Re: mutt, pop, and HOWTOs (was Re: fork() ?)

2002-04-18 Thread Martin Karlsson
* David T-G [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2002-04-18 08.20 -0500]: Since mutt doesn't have the ability to send mail itself, but depends on an MTA, I think it makes perfect sense to not bother with receiving mail itself, and I'm all for tossing out that chunk of code. I second that. [...snip...] I

Re: mutt, pop, and HOWTOs (was Re: fork() ?)

2002-04-18 Thread Sam Roberts
mutt has two varieties of pop support, and its not clear which (or both) varieties you are talking about: 1 - The fetch-mail function This doesn't seem enormously useful now that mutt has mailbox support for pop://. 2 - browsing pop:// mailboxes This is critical. I and others I know use mutt

Re: mutt, pop, and HOWTOs (was Re: fork() ?)

2002-04-18 Thread David T-G
Martin, et al -- ...and then Martin Karlsson said... % % * David T-G [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2002-04-18 08.20 -0500]: ... % bother with a sendmail HOWTO, but *perhaps* pointers to web sites for ... % % hmmm, % just a quick thought: perhaps a pointer to an existing resource? Is % there something

Re: mutt, pop, and HOWTOs (was Re: fork() ?)

2002-04-18 Thread Matej Cepl
On Thu, Apr 18, 2002 at 11:00:03AM -0400, Sam Roberts wrote: 2 - browsing pop:// mailboxes This is critical. I and others I know use mutt on varieties of machines, where we need to check our email online, and DON'T have imap access. The ability to do a quick check of our mail, without

Re: mutt, pop, and HOWTOs (was Re: fork() ?)

2002-04-18 Thread Shawn McMahon
begin David T-G quotation: I don't think we should bother with a fetchmail HOWTO just like we don't bother with a sendmail HOWTO, but *perhaps* pointers to web sites for fetchmail and getmail as well as sendmail, qmail, postfix, exim, ssmtp, and maybe a few others (or maybe only one or

Re: fork() ?

2002-04-17 Thread Nico Schottelius
start to answer the first while recieving the last 400. So my question, why don't we easily fork() this process ? You probably want to install fetchmail instead of using Mutt's built in POP3 support. This will give you more flexibility, and allow you to download mail in the background

Re: fork() ?

2002-04-17 Thread Simon White
17-Apr-02 at 10:23, Nico Schottelius ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote : okay, this will be what I will do soon, but I am wondering why we shouldn't allow mutt to fork out the pop process. POP3 support seems to be more of an afterthought. Most people who use POP to access their mailboxes swear

Re: fork() ?

2002-04-17 Thread Shawn McMahon
begin Simon White quotation: Can you not just do $ fetchmail (options) $ mutt Or, better: fetchmail -d300 mutt -- Shawn McMahon| McMahon's Laws of Linux support: http://www.eiv.com | 1) There's more than one way to do it AIM: spmcmahonfedex,

Re: fork() ?

2002-04-17 Thread Nicolas Rachinsky
* Edmund GRIMLEY EVANS [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2002-04-17 11:51:51 +0100]: I think getmail does better than fetchmail if the network goes down while it's polling the server: fetchmail has an annoying habit of losing its fetchids when this happens, resulting in the delivery of several hundred

fork() ?

2002-04-15 Thread Nico Schottelius
while recieving the last 400. So my question, why don't we easily fork() this process ? Nico -- Nico Schottelius Please send your messages pgp-signed or pgp-encrypted. If you don't know what pgp is visit www.gnupg.org. (public pgp key: ftp.schottelius.org/pub/familiy/nico/pgp-key) msg27193

Re: fork() ?

2002-04-15 Thread Michael Elkins
my question, why don't we easily fork() this process ? You probably want to install fetchmail instead of using Mutt's built in POP3 support. This will give you more flexibility, and allow you to download mail in the background.

Re: fork() ?

2002-04-15 Thread Shawn McMahon
the last 400. So my question, why don't we easily fork() this process ? fetchmail is what you want for that. -- Shawn McMahon| McMahon's Laws of Linux support: http://www.eiv.com | 1) There's more than one way to do it AIM: spmcmahonfedex, smcmahoneiv | 2) Somebody

[rfc] fork()ing off mutt's compose feature?

2000-11-23 Thread john slee
hi, (please cc replies to me, as i could not handle yet another busy list ;) i've been using mutt for a while now. one thing that's always bugged me (well, pretty much the only thing, now that i know about mime_forward), is that there's no way that i can find to have a "compose" window as a

Re: ERR- unable to fork

1999-07-20 Thread mutt
On 0, Gero Treuner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi! On Sun, Jul 18, 1999 at 08:41:11PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: when trying to download my POP mail, I get the message "ERR unable to fork" Does anyone know what this means, how to fix it ?? I will not be able to download a

Re: ERR- unable to fork

1999-07-19 Thread Gero Treuner
Hi! On Sun, Jul 18, 1999 at 08:41:11PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: when trying to download my POP mail, I get the message "ERR unable to fork" Does anyone know what this means, how to fix it ?? I will not be able to download any replies until I get this fixed, but will be

ERR- unable to fork

1999-07-18 Thread mutt
Hi,, when trying to download my POP mail, I get the message "ERR unable to fork" Does anyone know what this means, how to fix it ?? I will not be able to download any replies until I get this fixed, but will be monitoring the messages via the archives. Thanks -- Campaign for