Re: [Nmh-workers] Forwarding MIME messages?

r fields (Received:, etc.) and change the "From:" and "To:" fields. I might edit the message body some -- maybe removing an attachment or cleaning up some particularly ugly HTML -- or else I just send it as-is. Jerry -- Jerry Peek, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.jpeek.com/ __

[Nmh-workers] Suggestion: using comp with mhbuild for custom mail

I mostly use the command-line MH/nmh tools like comp, repl, etc. A lot of us use GUI or semi-GUI interfaces instead. I thought I'd mention one reason I like plain old comp/repl/etc.. It lets me make custom multipart messages in a hurry, with HTML and plain-text parts that differ from each other.

Re: [Nmh-workers] Suggestion: using comp with mhbuild for custom mail

On 9 June 2004 at 16:26, Ralph Corderoy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jerry wrote: > > P.S. After you compose the draft, if it's not converted to MIME > > format automatically, from a "What now?" prompt you type: mime. Then, > > if there were no errors, you get another "What now?" prompt and you >

Re: [Nmh-workers] nmh 1.1 annotate

"postproc:" -- from the .mh_profile file.) Send similar messages from both systems and see if something is different. I have no idea if that will help; it's just an idea. Jerry -- Jerry Peek, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.jpeek.com/ ___ Nmh-workers mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/nmh-workers

Re: [Nmh-workers] multiple usage

the way, Denis, these "@" links will disappear and will *not* be re-created if you quit composition (with: What now? quit) and start again later (with: comp -use -draftmessage n). Jerry -- Jerry Peek, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.jpeek.com/ ___ Nmh-workers mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/nmh-workers

Re: [Nmh-workers] selecting text over html

check the message type and, if it's HTML, extract that part and invoke lynx(1) or links(1) to show it within the xterm. I used to do that, but I decided that the HTML messages usually weren't worth the trouble. Jerry -- Jerry Peek, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.jpeek.com/ __

[Nmh-workers] Holiday hacking project: nmh?

4. But I thought I'd toss this idea out as a discussion-starter. I'd be glad to help organize. Comments? Different ideas? Jerry -- Jerry Peek, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.jpeek.com/ ___ Nmh-workers mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/nmh-workers

Re: [Nmh-workers] sorting on X-Spam headers

On 27 April 2005 at 12:38, Michael Richardson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Does anyone have any solutions to sort on spamassassin headers? > I.e. I want to sort my inbox on: > > X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-31.6 > ^ > this number. You could do it with a short scr

Re: [Nmh-workers] nmh current development

ng a way to say it, but that's how it feels sometimes. I keep hoping that one qualified person who cares and who has some time to spare can jump in... Jerry -- Jerry Peek, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.jpeek.com/ __ Do you Yahoo!? Make Yahoo!

Re: [Nmh-workers] Questionable code - the bigger picture

--- Jon Steinhart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So what's the best way to go about this sort of thing? One of the > biggest > handicaps is the absence of any guidance in the form of requirements > or architecture documentation. There's no context for making > decisions on what sort of changes are

Re: [Nmh-workers] A question for the nmh historians

[I just got a flood of old messages from the nmh-workers list. Sorry if I'm saying the same things that someone else already has.] Jon wrote: > How useful is the notion of public and private sequences? I think it's handy; it's one of the unique features of nmh. For me, private sequences are grea

Re: [Nmh-workers] A question for the nmh historians

--- On Wed, 18 May 2005 07:25:54 -0700, Jon Steinhart wrote: > Jerry wrote: > > I'm also confused about why you say > > the MHCONTEXT machanism wasn't working properly when the other > > user had cur as a public sequence. All of my folders have cur > > as a public sequence; changing MHCONTEXT ha

Re: [Nmh-workers] Questionable code - the bigger picture

--- Nathan Bailey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I want to be able to do is something like this: > scan `pick mostrecent:50 -from "bill smith" -src ++allfolders > -except +outbox` > > which would: > 1. Find all messages from "bill smith" across all folders > (except outbox and i

[Nmh-workers] Useful article: "Rendering Everything as Text"

Though this article covers mutt instead of nmh, some techniques apply: http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/2005/05/26/textonly.html It's about viewing HTML, graphics, and Word files in a terminal. Jerry -- Jerry Peek, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.jpee

[Nmh-workers] Suggestion re: giving feedback

Hi everyone. General comment here: On 28 September 2005 at 7:11, Jon Steinhart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote (Re: [Nmh-workers] nmh 1.1 release candidate 4): > > I've heard from very few folks since heading down this > path and will be less sympathetic to complaints that come in after the fact. I

Re: [Nmh-workers] mhshow: invalid QUOTED-PRINTABLE encoding

I haven't read the MIME specs for years. I know that mhshow complains about some forwarded messages I receive from Some Big Email Service. It says something like "mhshow: 8bit encoding should be 7bit", then it quits. If anyone digs into the mhshow code and can't see where this problem comes from

Re: [Nmh-workers] exciting new stuff for 2.0

Jerry P.S. Here's an example of an original draft with a bcc header field and the blind copy that [EMAIL PROTECTED] receives: From: Jerry Peek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] bcc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fcc: inbox Subject: Test of MIME bcc MIME

[Nmh-workers] Replace mh-format?

On 21 December 2005 at 14:08, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote "Re: [Nmh-workers] exciting new stuff for 2.0": > > So what exactly are the plans for 2.0? ... > Anybody else got pet projects they want to share? My C hacking days are long past, so I can only suggest something; I can't implement it. I hope J

Re: [Nmh-workers] exciting new stuff for 2.0

On 22 December 2005 at 12:10, Paul Fox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > i want to isolate the thread, and then be able to prev and next > through it. so i think your method might be okay, if there were > a "-seq" option to prev and next, which meant "next in sequence". I'm not following all of this t

Re: [Nmh-workers] Replace mh-format?

On 22 December 2005 at 19:55, Igor Sobrado <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I agree, mh-format can be improved, but replacing it with a full-featured > scripting language is a bit overkill, though. We really need a scripting > language as Tcl to provide format strings to nmh commands? It's just that

Re: [Nmh-workers] exciting new stuff for 2.0

On 22 December 2005 at 14:15, Paul Fox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Previous-Sequence: pseq > > which solves my other long-standing annoyance about mh sequences: > if i do "show unseen" i can't then do "rmm unseen", because, of > course, they're no longer unseen. but i can now do "rmm pseq"

Re: [Nmh-workers] exciting new stuff for 2.0

On 22 December 2005 at 14:45, Michael Richardson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is there any sane way to refile stuff (say a sequence) and specify what > sequence it winds up in on the target folder? Here's a halfway answer from refile(1): If the "Previous-Sequence" profile entry is set, in addi

Re: [Nmh-workers] Re: Replace mh-format?

Comment #1: On 22 December 2005 at 14:57, Bill Wohler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Which gives me another idea for nmh from MH-E: create a width format > that uses the widest value in the range given to it. I'm not clear what you mean by "the range given to it", Bill. But your point gave me a re

Re: [Nmh-workers] Wow! I didn't expect y'all to take me so seriously about partying!

On 22 December 2005 at 16:42, Jon Steinhart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The wish list discussion is great. Maybe someone would spend the time > to combine all of the wishes into a single list? I'll summarize the mh-format stuff sometime after the discussion dies down -- maybe this weekend. Jerr

Re: [Nmh-workers] Wishlist item - beefing up slocal pattern matching

On 25 December 2005 at 11:02, "Mike O'Dell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Norman Shapiro wrote: > > Although pick matches a lower case letter in the pattern insensitively, > > upper case letters in the pattern match only upper case letters. > > i never knew this. it's an amusing hack which makes lot

Re: [Nmh-workers] Re: FCC behavior for BCC proposal

avior should be configurable user-by-user. An MH profile entry for "post:" (which, if I remember right, is what writes the actual fccs?) might be a good place. Jerry -- Jerry Peek, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.jpeek.com/ ___ Nmh-workers mailing li

Re: [Nmh-workers] showing the n messages 'around' a particular message

On 17 January 2006 at 22:36, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > A friend was trying to sort out a suitable shell alias/function for > doing a scan of the N messages 'around' the current one, by which I > mean something like "cur:-X cur:X" where X is N/2, except that if there > aren't X messages after cur y

[Nmh-workers] Editing MIMEd messages

I haven't been following this discussion very closely (I'm working two jobs these days...), so my comment may be out of order here. I've changed the subject of this message because my comment is sort of tangential to this topic. When I saw this: On 2 February 2006 at 14:26, Joel Reicher <[EMAIL P

Re: [Nmh-workers] Re: ADMINISTRIVIA: Change to mailing list policy

I haven't done much list administration for years, and I don't know mailman. But I wonder whether a semi-effective filter for our list would be to check the message body for the names of nmh utilities (scan, repl, etc.) as well as the names of the source files (foo.c, etc.). If none of those word

Re: [Nmh-workers] Gate nmh-announce to usenet?

I haven't read Usenet for years -- except to search it via Google Groups, that is. Unless something has changed and there's no more spam on Usenet, I don't think we should route Usenet traffic onto any nmh mailing lists. But it's a good idea to put nmh-announce messages onto comp.mail.mh. It'll m

Re: [Nmh-workers] multiple Fcc fields = duplicated msg without hard link

On 17 May 2006 at 6:22, David Guibert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Fcc: +sent,+inbox/foo It seems to me that sometime in the past (long, long ago, in a galaxy ...) this used to make hard links. The wording I put into the MH book said "some versi

[Nmh-workers] Announcing MH at SourceForge and update to MH book

Last summer, Bill Wohler, John Romine, and I decided that MH's existence at the University of California, Irvine, had become tenuous since John left UCI's ICS department. We decided to move the MH archive and book to SourceForge. MH's new home is http://rand-mh.sourceforge.net/. (We couldn't get

Re: [Nmh-workers] Bcc recipients stripped from Fcc copies

e at http://rand-mh.sourceforge.net/. There also should be an explanation of the script in the online MH book, which is also in that archive. I've hacked on my local copy some in the past five years or so... so if you can't get the archived copy to work, I'd be glad to se

Re: [Nmh-workers] Bcc recipients stripped from Fcc copies

On 12 June 2006 at 2:12, Paisa Seeluangsawat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks for the reply. I just got a chance to look at > "mysend" in the MH book. > > http://rand-mh.sourceforge.net/book/examples/mh/bin/mysend > > I haven't tried it out, but from reading the code, it > doesn't seem to

Re: [Nmh-workers] 1.3 release and Dcc/Bcc behaviour

I didn't read the comp.mail.mh article, so maybe I'm repeating what was said there. But whenever I use dcc:, I always end up saving those lines to a temporary file (or copying them with my mouse), then editing my copy to add that field to it -- so I can find out, later, who I sent the message

Re: [Nmh-workers] Attachments question

On 8/29/2007 2:26 PM, Stewart W. Wilson wrote: How do you do attachments with nmh? Hi Stewart, Check the mhbuild(1) manpage or the online book section http://rand-mh.sourceforge.net/book/mh/cosemime.html (which is a bit out of date but may be easier to start with). If you run into problems

Re: [Nmh-workers] Discard (trash) redundant HTML part

On 4/23/2008 3:05 PM, Xavier Maillard wrote: Do you know any easy way to just trash redundant HTML part of emails from gmail.com (for example) ? Is there any way to extend this to a more "general" way to delete unwanted MIME parts ? When I used to have more free time :-/ I'd use a script

Re: [Nmh-workers] Simple question

On 6/2/2008 6:41 AM, Stewart W. Wilson wrote: When using repl, how do you cause a line like "Stewart W. Wilson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: to appear above the message you are replying to? I can't find this anywhere in the on-line nmh book. Sorry, Stewart, that isn't too obvious, is it?

[Nmh-workers] Updated scan.more format file

Hi, everyone. The MH book -- and the online version, too, at http://rand-mh.sourceforge.net/book/mh/mhstr.html#scanmor -- show an mh-format file for "scan" named scan.more. I use it with an alias named "cur" to show more detail about the current message (scan -form scan.more -width 235 cur)

Re: [Nmh-workers] [PATCH] scan message numbers from stdin

age, FWIW. Jerry Forwarded Message Subject:Re: [Nmh-workers] [PATCH] scan message numbers from stdin Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2008 09:04:05 -0700 From: Jerry Peek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Eric Gillespie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> References: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> H

Re: [Nmh-workers] nmh over sshfs?

On 10/18/2008 07:07 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I'm hoping to run (exmh over) nmh over sshfs, but it doesn't work > because 1) sshfs doesn't implement link()... > When I ran Evolution a few years ago and told it about my MH message tree, it went through the tree and broke all of my message l

Re: [Nmh-workers] nmh over sshfs?

On 10/18/2008 09:18 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I just did some googling on this. It seems that link() is really > required when dealing with mail spools because it's the only atomic > way to lock. So this whole "no-links configuration option" idea is > a bad idea, and I now realize that I'll

Re: [Nmh-workers] problems with slocal

It sounds like Peter found the problem? In case it's any use, though, there's a section in the onlime MH book with ideas for debugging slocal: http://rand-mh.sourceforge.net/book/mh/debugti.html Jerry -- www.sites4people.com -- Manage your own website! I'll help you get started at an affordab

Re: [Nmh-workers] Sent draft filenames

Peter Maydell wrote: The backup prefix is a compile time option (configure --with-hash-backup will make it use '#' rather than ','; for anything more complicated you probably need to modify the sources). For people can't compile and configure nmh -- maybe because they install it from a pre-

Re: [Nmh-workers] imap support, and portability

Though my Ubuntu system mounts an NTFS filesystem via Fuse, I've never looked into how Fuse works. I also haven't looked into the IMAP+MH systems, though I'm hoping to. I wanted to send a note about a couple of design features in nmh/MH that might be useful in this discussion: 1) One of the great