Dave (Grizz) Glaser proclaimed on mutt-users that:
>Is there anyway to expunge the messages from the IMAP server? With a setting of some
>sort?
I recommend using fetchmail instead of mutt's imap checking.
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Suresh Ramasubramanian | sureshr at staff.juno.com
Any clod can have the facts, but
> You are reading your mail off an IMAP server right? And you have it set
> _not_ to expunge messages from the imap server. So, even if a copy is
> fetched locally to mailbox, it may stay on the imap server.
>
Is there anyway to expunge the messages from the IMAP server? With a setting of some
Manuel Arriaga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on Tue, 23 May 2000:
> mbox is there for people who use "real" *nix systems with many users and
> therefore restrictions on the harddrive space they may use, which has
> nothing to do with my case.
Well, not only for them... It's also for users like you wh
Mikko Hänninen proclaimed on mutt-users that:
>I personally prefer to set just move=no and as a result deal with the
>700 mail inbox with all sorts of old junk in it possibly from year(s?)
>back. :-)
I prefer to use procmail and over 50 folders to refile my mails :) If
there are too many mails
Suresh Ramasubramanian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on Tue, 23 May 2000:
> >Sorry to interfer in this tread too, but what is the purpose of mbox?
>
> All read mails will be moved to this folder if you say set move=yes in
> your muttrc (it will ask you politely first, of course) :)
Actually, to be
Hi Suresh,
> On a standalone linux box connected over a dialup this is trivial - not
> when you are telneted into your mailbox which gives you just an 1 mb quota
> ...
>
> got it? :)
Thank you for taking the time to explain this to me; now I understand what mbox is
for.:-)
Now I see, as I
Suresh,
But you must admit that the two Mail-(User/Admin)-HOWTOS are very poor: I actually
read them, but the Admin one only teaches you how to setup qmail (I went for postfix,
which has great- and thourough :-) - docs and works flawlessly for me) and the
User-HOWTO only teaches you basic nagi
Manuel Arriaga proclaimed on mutt-users that:
>But you must admit that the two Mail-(User/Admin)-HOWTOS are very poor: I actually
>read them, but the Admin one only teaches you how to setup qmail (I went for postfix,
>which has great- and thourough :-) - docs and works flawlessly for me) and t
Dave (Grizz) Glaser proclaimed on mutt-users that:
>Actually I didn't see any option to expunge the messages from the imap server.
try using fetchmail to pull your mails from the imap server.
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Suresh Ramasubramanian | sureshr at staff.juno.com
Green light in a.m. for new projects. Red ligh
Actually I didn't see any option to expunge the messages from the imap server.
Dave
On Tue, 23 May 2000, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:
> Dave (Grizz) Glaser proclaimed on mutt-users that:
>
> >Well I tried this, but now when I exit it says "Fetching message" for a
> >long time. Then when I op
Dave (Grizz) Glaser proclaimed on mutt-users that:
>Well I tried this, but now when I exit it says "Fetching message" for a
>long time. Then when I open mutt again all my mail is duplicated (two
>copies of everything).
You are reading your mail off an IMAP server right? And you have it set
_no
Well I tried this, but now when I exit it says "Fetching message" for a long time.
Then when I open mutt again all my mail is duplicated (two copies of everything).
Dave
On Tue, 23 May 2000, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:
> Manuel Arriaga proclaimed on mutt-users that:
>
> >
> >Sorry to inter
On Tue, 23 May 2000, Chris Green wrote:
> On Mon, May 22, 2000 at 09:12:12PM -0400, Dave (Grizz) Glaser wrote:
> >
> > c. Remove the use of the mbox entirely and just keep their mail on the IMAP
>server, again negating most of the use of IMAP.
> >
> I would have though the idea of the I
On Mon, May 22, 2000 at 09:12:12PM -0400, Dave (Grizz) Glaser wrote:
>
> c. Remove the use of the mbox entirely and just keep their mail on the IMAP server,
>again negating most of the use of IMAP.
>
I would have though the idea of the IMAP server *is* that you
keep all your mail on the
Manuel Arriaga proclaimed on mutt-users that:
>
>Sorry to interfer in this tread too, but what is the purpose of mbox?
>
All read mails will be moved to this folder if you say set move=yes in
your muttrc (it will ask you politely first, of course) :)
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Suresh Ramasubramanian | sureshr at st
Hi,
> Whenever I exit mutt I get the question: Do you want to move messages into
>/mbox?
> I know what the purpose of mbox is, (...)
Sorry to interfer in this tread too, but what is the purpose of mbox?
Bye,
Manuel
Dave (Grizz) Glaser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on Mon, 22 May 2000:
> Whenever I exit mutt I get the question: Do you want to move messages
> into /mbox?
...
> a. Default to using a mbox and always move their mail for them? So they
> don't have to answer.
set move=yes
(You want to set that in
Whenever I exit mutt I get the question: Do you want to move messages into /mbox?
I know what the purpose of mbox is, but I have a large number of students who are
becomming confused on what it is and what to do about it. Because removing features is
much easier with users rather than trying t
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