>I have little use for SMTP except to localhost, and I never understood
>why /usr/sbin/sendmail for submit wasn't good enough. yeah, in the
>olden days of 8Mbyte sun3s, running a local MTA was expensive...
It's one more thing to configure.
I just tried this out on my MacOS X system that I'm sen
On Dec 3, 2010, at 6:03 PM, Michael Richardson wrote:
> fetchmail --proto POP3 --mda "/usr/lib/mh/rcvstore -sequence novavision
> +inbox" --logfile /var/tmp/nvmail.log mail.novavision.ca
I believe when I used to do something similar, I used slocal instead of
rcvstore. I'm sorry to say that I
> "heymanj" == heymanj writes:
>> Joel Uckelman writes:
>>> Thus spake Lyndon Nerenberg:
I would be surprised (stunned, really) if anyone was still
using MH *exclusively* as their MUA.
>>> Right here. Be surprised.
>> Mee too.
>>
>> Norman Shapiro
> "ben" == ben writes:
ben> What do people use SMTP/IMAP/POP features for? Don't fetchmail
ben> and sendmail cover this?
I have little use for SMTP except to localhost, and I never understood
why /usr/sbin/sendmail for submit wasn't good enough. yeah, in the
olden days of 8Mbyte s
Ken Hornstein wrote:
> > I'm not much of a fan of automake. I think our current makefiles are
> > fine, personally.
>
> Hm, okay, given the above point ... would you object to a git branch
> with the Makefiles converted over to automake?
+1 automake. It does make the autotools stuff much cleane
Jon Steinhart wrote:
>Let me try to summarize here because there seems to be lots of energy here
>for commentary but little for things that move us forward:
>
> o Many people still exclusively use nmh, some have drifted away. 'Nuf said
>on this topic.
>
> o There is a general concensus that
> markus schnalke wrote:
> > (4) no attachments & non-ASCII -> no MIME; the message contains
> > non-ASCII chars; the recipient can not know which charset the
> > non-ASCII chars had been.
> >
> > To cover case 4, one needs to run mime at the whatnow prompt manually.
>
> Yes, and I find t
John Romine wrote:
> ...I dist the message to my Gmail account. (Before Gmail, I was
> dist'ing to another mailbox that I POP'd with Thunderbird on a Windows
> PC.) I haven't found a dist command in Gmail or Thunderbird; if you
> know of one, let me know.
No, I don't know of one but have you fo
markus schnalke wrote:
> (4) no attachments & non-ASCII -> no MIME; the message contains
> non-ASCII chars; the recipient can not know which charset the
> non-ASCII chars had been.
>
> To cover case 4, one needs to run mime at the whatnow prompt manually.
Yes, and I find that annoying. M
Lyndon Nerenberg wrote:
> I would be surprised (stunned, really) if anyone was still using MH
> *exclusively* as their MUA. I haven't done so for years.
I'm another one that does use it exclusively and have done since the
early 1990s.
> But the solution is not to turn it into a python-based re
On Fri, Dec 3, 2010 at 9:35 AM, Ken Hornstein wrote:
> >Well, since you asked, I am still using MH 6.8.4 on Solaris, often with
> >exmh. I'm also running vintage MMDF as my MTA :-).
>
> Hey John, cool to see you're still around! Hadn't seen anything from
> you in forever, so I thought you had g
On Fri, Dec 3, 2010 at 12:35, Ken Hornstein wrote:
> >Well, since you asked, I am still using MH 6.8.4 on Solaris, often with
> >exmh. I'm also running vintage MMDF as my MTA :-).
>
> Hey John, cool to see you're still around! Hadn't seen anything from
> you in forever, so I thought you had gon
>Well, since you asked, I am still using MH 6.8.4 on Solaris, often with
>exmh. I'm also running vintage MMDF as my MTA :-).
Hey John, cool to see you're still around! Hadn't seen anything from
you in forever, so I thought you had gone off to bigger and better
things.
>However, I'm also using G
>What do people use SMTP/IMAP/POP features for? Don't fetchmail and
>sendmail cover this?
nmh has IMAP support? When did that happen? :-)
But seriously ... markus already posted a thread which covers a lot of
people's opinions. To summarize my opinion: I find configuring nmh directly
to use SM
>This brings up a question -- do we want to move to having
>patches posted to the mailing list for review before they
>are committed? That's what other git-using projects I deal
>with do, and it's much easier to do that emailing with git...
Hm. I guess I'm of two minds about this; I can see the v
[2010-12-03 09:09] ben+...@benjaminsummers.net
> What do people use SMTP/IMAP/POP features for? Don't fetchmail and
> sendmail cover this?
You probably want to read this thread:
http://www.mhonarc.org/archive/html/nmh-workers/2010-01/msg00055.html
It explains the common thinking on the topic.
Thus spake ben+...@benjaminsummers.net:
> What do people use SMTP/IMAP/POP features for? Don't fetchmail and
> sendmail cover this?
>
I can tell you what I'd *like* to use IMAP for: I'd like to be able to
read my mail on my phone using its mail reader, and use nmh when I'm
at a computer with a re
What do people use SMTP/IMAP/POP features for? Don't fetchmail and
sendmail cover this?
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>
> >MH was written by and for people who have a deep understanding of how email
> >works, and who want to exploit the capabilities of email to the n-th degree.
> >These people also tend to be pretty hard core about the fundamentals of
> >software engineering, one of which is avoiding change for ch
> [2010-10-29 14:22] David Levine
> > meillo wrote:
> >
> > > just one question for better understanding:
> > >
> > > Who or what is ``JLR''?
> > >
> > > There are several #ifdefs for JLR in code which is related to scan(1).
> > > There is also a comments which appears to be written by JLR and
> >
> Do an MH-like plug-in for Tbird/Mozilla/etc ?
If I read this right, that work is already underway:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=402392
-Anders
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Ken Hornstein wrote:
> [git stuff]
This brings up a question -- do we want to move to having
patches posted to the mailing list for review before they
are committed? That's what other git-using projects I deal
with do, and it's much easier to do that emailing with git...
> Anyway, I guess my poi
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