Re: [newbie] Dupes

2000-10-24 Thread Mark Weaver
On Tue, 24 Oct 2000 4:06am ,John Rye spake passionately in a message: Mark Weaver wrote: John, Using fetchmail and procmail are far easier than the HOWTO's present them. Using fetchmail is just a matter of issuing the command to get the mail from the server by a user in a

Re: [newbie] Dupes

2000-10-24 Thread Jeff Malka
Everything I send to this newslist (using kmail on Mandrake 7.1-kde) appears twice. Could it be something onh my end? -- Jeff Malka [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux User 348854

Re: [newbie] Dupes

2000-10-24 Thread John Rye
Mark Weaver wrote: On Tue, 24 Oct 2000 4:06am ,John Rye spake passionately in a message: Mark Weaver wrote: John, Using fetchmail and procmail are far easier than the HOWTO's present them. Using fetchmail is just a matter of issuing the command to get the mail from the

Re: [newbie] Dupes

2000-10-24 Thread Larry Marshall
Everything I send to this newslist (using kmail on Mandrake 7.1-kde) appears twice. Could it be something onh my end? I believe if you do a "reply to all", two copies get sent to newbie. Cheers -- Larry

Re: [newbie] Dupes

2000-10-24 Thread Jeff Malka
Do not do that. Jeff Malka [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux user 183185 - Original Message - From: Larry Marshall [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Jeff Malka [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 24, 2000 12:46 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Dupes Everything I send

Re: [newbie] Dupes

2000-10-23 Thread peter bunce
"Eugene C. Zesch" wrote: peter bunce wrote: no its people who use ie without setting the defaults properly :-( i think another gift from m$ (like bugs etc) peter bunce Greg Cobb wrote: Is everyone getting two of the same message or is it just me? :) Could you

Re: [newbie] Dupes

2000-10-23 Thread Mark Weaver
I just checked mailstat and the duplicate messages are down to a trickle at the moment. There don't seem to be very many of them. Were it not for mailstat keeping track of things being done by procmail I wouldn't know I was getting any dups at all. -- Mark /* I never worry about the

Re: [newbie] Dupes

2000-10-23 Thread Mark Weaver
On Sun, 22 Oct 2000 10:29pm ,Larry Marshall spake passionately in a message: I'm not sure if that's possible. I'm not sure what in the message you don't think is possible so I can't comment on this. I'm not sure if one can download the mail from one's ISP's mail server to a dir on

Re: [newbie] Dupes

2000-10-23 Thread Larry Marshall
The reason for my question was to see if procmail would do that. I continue to use Netscape because I try to separate my normal email According to Mark it does but I've never done anything with procmail. I'm able to filter conferences with typical move filters within all these programs. It

Re: [newbie] Dupes

2000-10-23 Thread Mark Weaver
John, Using fetchmail and procmail are far easier than the HOWTO's present them. Using fetchmail is just a matter of issuing the command to get the mail from the server by a user in a terminal window. Like this: fetchmail mail.hostname.com ENTER If your system $USERname differs

Re: [newbie] Dupes

2000-10-23 Thread Larry Marshall
I'm not sure if one can download the mail from one's ISP's mail server to a dir on their system and then pickup that mail using Netscape Messenger for reading. I've wondered about this and I can't see why it couldn't be done, however, I have a feeling that making it happen would be a

Re: [newbie] Dupes

2000-10-23 Thread John Rye
Mark Weaver wrote: John, Using fetchmail and procmail are far easier than the HOWTO's present them. Using fetchmail is just a matter of issuing the command to get the mail from the server by a user in a terminal window. Like this: fetchmail mail.hostname.com ENTER If

Re: [newbie] Dupes

2000-10-22 Thread Rod Baxter
PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, October 22, 2000 10:39 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Dupes As a matter of fact Larry I'm using Pine to read the mail and procmail to filter the mail. I haven't seen a system that does it any better than these two. The procmail filters are, in my opinion, th

Re: [newbie] Dupes

2000-10-22 Thread Larry Marshall
Huh? Are we talking about the same Pine here? When I attach a file to a message all I do in Pine is place the cursor beside the atrtachment header, preses CTRL T which then goes to another screen within the Pine windows already open where I can navigate to the file that I wish to Sometimes

Re: [newbie] Dupes

2000-10-22 Thread Larry Marshall
I...err actually use Windows and IE5.5 for my mail, but I only get duplicate mail from mail groups, never duplicates of any mail sent directly to me. And sometimes the duplicates will be missing the header or similar. Now that is odd. When I'm not using Pine I use Pronto or Netscape.

Re: [newbie] Dupes

2000-10-22 Thread John Rye
Larry Marshall wrote: I...err actually use Windows and IE5.5 for my mail, but I only get duplicate mail from mail groups, never duplicates of any mail sent directly to me. And sometimes the duplicates will be missing the header or similar. Now that is odd. When I'm not using Pine

Re: [newbie] Dupes

2000-10-22 Thread Mark Weaver
Larry, Ok...I can tell when a challenge has been laid down and I've accepted it. Below is a block of text that I was typed out in gedit, copied to the clipboard and then pasted into this message. Here's how; 1) highlighted and copies text the usual way. 2) pasted it into the

Re: [newbie] Dupes

2000-10-22 Thread Mark Weaver
The "dup" messages are coming primarily from the mailing list server at Mandrakesoft. -- Mark /* I never worry about the to-jams. * Once I've stuck my foot in my mouth * it's already too late...just make sure * you chew them thoroughly before swallowing! */

Re: [newbie] Dupes

2000-10-22 Thread Mark Weaver
I'm not sure if that's possible. Although I have been wondering about that myself. Fetchmail gets the mail from the ISP and passes passes the mail off to procmail who then filters the messages and deposits them to their prescribed destination. Those that are destined for my "Inbox" get deposited

Re: [newbie] Dupes

2000-10-22 Thread peter bunce
no its people who use ie without setting the defaults properly :-( i think another gift from m$ (like bugs etc) peter bunce Greg Cobb wrote: Is everyone getting two of the same message or is it just me? :)

Re: [newbie] Dupes

2000-10-22 Thread Eugene C. Zesch
peter bunce wrote: no its people who use ie without setting the defaults properly :-( i think another gift from m$ (like bugs etc) peter bunce Greg Cobb wrote: Is everyone getting two of the same message or is it just me? :) Could you expand on that... maybe people could

Re: [newbie] Dupes

2000-10-22 Thread Rod Baxter
AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Dupes The "dup" messages are coming primarily from the mailing list server at Mandrakesoft. -- Mark /* I never worry about the to-jams. * Once I've stuck my foot in my mouth * it's already too late...just make sure * you chew them thorough

Re: [newbie] Dupes

2000-10-22 Thread Larry Marshall
The "dup" messages are coming primarily from the mailing list server at Mandrakesoft. I would have thought that too except that I've spent the last 3 days without a single dupe msg in this conference. How about you? I'm using Netscape 4.75 now - I used Pronto on the first of those 3 days.

Re: [newbie] Dupes

2000-10-22 Thread Larry Marshall
I'm not sure if that's possible. I'm not sure what in the message you don't think is possible so I can't comment on this. Although I have been wondering about that myself. Fetchmail gets the mail from the ISP and passes passes the mail off to procmail who then filters the messages and

Re: [newbie] Dupes

2000-10-22 Thread Larry Marshall
To do so place the mouse cursor over the place in pine where the text cursor is and click the middle mouse button. The selected text will appear at the cursor position in pine. The reverse of this also works for pasting from pine to apps running in KDE. You and Mark Weaver have made my

Re: [newbie] Dupes

2000-10-22 Thread John Rye
Larry Marshall wrote: John Rye wrote: question here? Does your filtering system (procmail) pass the mail to some place where netscape or pronto pick up from? I jump from linux(Netscape) to Windows(Eudora) and get dupes in both. To be honest John I've never traced to see what

Re: [newbie] Dupes

2000-10-22 Thread John Rye
Larry Marshall wrote: I'm not sure if that's possible. I'm not sure what in the message you don't think is possible so I can't comment on this. Although I have been wondering about that myself. Fetchmail gets the mail from the ISP and passes passes the mail off to procmail who

RE: [newbie] Dupes

2000-10-21 Thread Romanator
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Carroll Grigsby Sent: Saturday, October 21, 2000 9:42 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Dupes Greg Cobb wrote: Is everyone getting two of the same message or is it just me? :) Greg: From

Re: [newbie] Dupes

2000-10-21 Thread Rod Baxter
You are not the only one! Its not consisent and sometimes the duplicate messages arrive up to 24 hours later. Anyone know why?? Rod - Original Message - From: "Greg Cobb" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, October 21, 2000 11:11 PM Subject: [newbie] Dupes Is

Re: [newbie] Dupes

2000-10-21 Thread Mark Weaver
Gentlemen, I haven't had to worry with duplicate messages from the list since I started using Pine and Procmail full time as my email client. Pine is the reader, Procmail does the filtering, fetchmail does the mail getting from the server. Such a nice combination. So neat...so clean...so easy.

Re: [newbie] Dupes

2000-10-21 Thread Larry Marshall
Rod Baxter wrote: You are not the only one! Its not consisent and sometimes the duplicate messages arrive up to 24 hours later. Anyone know why?? Are you using Pine? I have this problem every time I use it. It's not that two copies are hitting the inbox, it has something to do with how

Re: [newbie] Dupes

2000-10-21 Thread Larry Marshall
I haven't had to worry with duplicate messages from the list since I started using Pine and Procmail full time as my email client. Pine is the reader, Procmail does the filtering, fetchmail does the mail getting from the server. Such a nice combination. So neat...so clean...so easy. Spoken

Re: [newbie] Dupes

2000-10-21 Thread Mark Weaver
As a matter of fact Larry I'm using Pine to read the mail and procmail to filter the mail. I haven't seen a system that does it any better than these two. The procmail filters are, in my opinion, the absolute best I've ever used. -- Mark /* I never worry about the to-jams. * Once

Re: [newbie] Dupes

2000-10-21 Thread Mark Weaver
yeah...you do have a point there. Although I have done it in the past, Pine doesn't do cut/paste very well at all. Attachments on the other hand don't seem to be too bad. Now, if I can just get this darn kernel to do what I want it to!. -- Mark /* I never worry about the to-jams. *

Re: [newbie] Dupes

2000-10-21 Thread Larry Marshall
yeah...you do have a point there. Although I have done it in the past, Pine doesn't do cut/paste very well at all. Attachments on the other hand don't seem to be too bad. Agreed, though having to open another window to figure out the filename I need to attach, followed by having to type in

Re: [newbie] Dupes

2000-10-21 Thread Mark Weaver
Huh? Are we talking about the same Pine here? When I attach a file to a message all I do in Pine is place the cursor beside the atrtachment header, preses CTRL T which then goes to another screen within the Pine windows already open where I can navigate to the file that I wish to attach much like

Re: [newbie] Dupes

2000-10-21 Thread Mark Weaver
O yeah...and something else I really like about it is that my hands never have to leave the ksyboard when doing all this attaching. -- Mark /* I never worry about the to-jams. * Once I've stuck my foot in my mouth * it's already too late...just make sure * you chew them