[Nmh-workers] wishlist item for 1.7: better configurability for smtp port

2014-06-25 Thread Alexander Zangerl
mts.conf lets one select which smtp server(s) to use for mail submission, but there's no convenient way of selecting port 587 instead of 25. it would be great if one could set the port with the server entry, e.g. servers: this.one:587 regards az -- Alexander Zangerl + GPG Key 0xB963BD5F (or

Re: [Nmh-workers] profile lookup

2014-06-25 Thread Oliver Kiddle
Ken Hornstein wrote: So, right now, the only way to make it work is as you've discovered; always use $MHSHOW. I am sure this will be fixed for the next nmh release (when that will happen, I do not know; hopefully it will be sooner than 2 years, but I can't make any promises). I suspect a

Re: [Nmh-workers] profile lookup

2014-06-25 Thread hymie
Ken Hornstein wrote: You're not missing anything. Pretty much everyone agrees this is backwards. Good. That makes me feel a lot bettern. Oliver Kiddle writes: The other way is to store your default entries in a file named mhn.defaults in your Mail directory. I've had them there for years

Re: [Nmh-workers] wishlist item for 1.7: better configurability for smtp port

2014-06-25 Thread heymanj
On 25 June 2014 at 18:51, Alexander Zangerl e...@bin.snafu.priv.atwrote: mts.conf lets one select which smtp server(s) to use for mail submission, but there's no convenient way of selecting port 587 instead of 25. I'm curious, how one would then pass the necessary userid/pw combination.

Re: [Nmh-workers] profile lookup

2014-06-25 Thread Ken Hornstein
The other way is to store your default entries in a file named mhn.defaults in your Mail directory. I've had them there for years (roughly since the days when Richard Coleman was working on nmh) and had largely forgotten why they were there. Oooh. That's exactly what I want to happen. Thank you

Re: [Nmh-workers] Request for sortm feature to implement arbitrary message ordering

2014-06-25 Thread Ken Hornstein
On the other hand, the idea, of using a non-zero exit code for a non-failure, spooks me, for largely irrational reasons. I can understand that feeling, but this is common usage. E.g., Bourne shell conditional statements. --Ken ___ Nmh-workers mailing

[Nmh-workers] Re-request: Suggested new switches for sortm: -recon and --norecon

2014-06-25 Thread norm
I requested this feature, for sortm, back in March. There was some discussion of what the switches should be called, but I had the impression, that the basic idea was accepted. However, it seems that the feature didn't make it into nmh 1.6. So I repeat the request for version 7. Norman

Re: [Nmh-workers] Request for sortm feature to implement arbitrary message ordering

2014-06-25 Thread Robert Elz
Date:Wed, 25 Jun 2014 08:03:37 -0700 From:n...@dad.org Message-ID: 201406251503.s5pf3cka001...@shell0.rawbw.com | Yes, I was thinking of of a fork/exec for each message pair, for which | sortm wanted a comparison. | [..] The variation you propose would make