nmh 1.8 -- repeated Welcome message unless there is a context change

2023-03-01 Thread bergman
ntext-`tty|sed -e "s,.dev.,," -e "s,/,.,"` I see that nmh commands are reading the $MHCONTEXT file, parsing the line "Version: nmh-1.7.1" and printing the Welcome message, but not updating the file unless there is a context change: [bergman@rocoto ~]$

[nmh-workers] Thank You

2019-04-25 Thread bergman
$WORK migrated my email to Office365 this week. I now appreciate [n]mh more than I ever have since I began using it in 1987. I want to thank each of you who is helping to keep nmh alive and functioning -- I owe you all an adult beverage. Mark -- nmh-workers https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/lis

Re: [nmh-workers] nmh 1.7.1: both bcc and dcc broken for mts sendmail/pipe

2019-02-14 Thread bergman
nted page. However, in the electronic copy I'll always take function over form. Plain double- or single-quotes instead of left-quote and right-quote, please. Mark "don't get me started on things that look like space separators but paste as printable Unicode characters" Bergman

Re: [Nmh-workers] Nabbing /usr/bin Space.

2017-05-25 Thread bergman
re wouldn't be a stand-alone program 'mmdfunburst'? Mark PS. I do like the idea of a command named "*funburst". => => -- => Cheers, Ralph. => https://plus.google.com/+RalphCorderoy => => _______ => Nmh

Re: [Nmh-workers] Nabbing /usr/bin Space.

2017-05-25 Thread bergman
ps://packages.debian.org/search?searchon=contents&keywords=mh&mode=path&suite=stable&arch=any => => -- => Cheers, Ralph. => https://plus.google.com/+RalphCorderoy => => -- Mark BergmanBiker, Rock Climber, SCUBA Diver, Unix mechanic, IATSE #1 Stagehand &

Re: [Nmh-workers] Changes to forw(1)

2016-10-10 Thread bergman
elyso rarely that I could easily stop if the header prefix changed. Mark => => David => => ___ => Nmh-workers mailing list => Nmh-workers@nongnu.org => https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/nmh-workers => -- Mark

Re: [Nmh-workers] Starting the final call for features for 1.7

2016-09-26 Thread bergman
In the message dated: Mon, 26 Sep 2016 12:01:22 +0100, The pithy ruminations from Ralph Corderoy on were: => Hi Ken, => => > I kind of think that the days of nmh being installed on centrally => > managed systems is slowly coming to an end. Installed prior to user requests, installed because the

Re: [Nmh-workers] Sharing MH files across computers

2016-09-01 Thread bergman
d => => ___ => Nmh-workers mailing list => Nmh-workers@nongnu.org => https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/nmh-workers => -- Mark BergmanBiker, Rock Climber, SCUBA Diver, Unix mechanic, IATSE #1 Stagehand '94 Yamaha GTS1000A^

Re: [Nmh-workers] contrib to select mail server based on From: in draft

2016-05-31 Thread bergman
mechanism to decide on the From header based on => the message headers, and that the mh-profile language is powerful enough => to make use of it. => => --Ken => => ___ => Nmh-workers mailing list => Nmh-workers@nongnu.org =>

Re: [Nmh-workers] (n)mh tip of the day

2015-10-20 Thread bergman
ld="%(void(getenv SIGNATURE))%(putstr)" == I've attached the wrapper. To see the documentation: pod repl.wrapper -or- repl.wrapper --wrap--D To generate the skeleton of a config file: repl.wrapper --wrap--C Comments welcome. Ma

Re: [Nmh-workers] Thoughts: header/address parsing

2014-08-04 Thread bergman
Randal L. Schwartz Mark => --Ken => => ___ => Nmh-workers mailing list => Nmh-workers@nongnu.org => https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/nmh-workers => -- Mark BergmanBiker, Rock Climber, Unix mechanic, IATSE #1 Stagehan

[Nmh-workers] nmh 1.6 -- proper comment char in .mh_profile?

2014-07-09 Thread bergman
those lines seem to be parsed...(perhaps they were silently parsed before) and they generate warnings, for example: flists: multiple "# forw" profile components in /home/bergman/.mh_profile, ignoring "-mime -annotate -format", continuing... The man page for mh_profile doe

Re: [Nmh-workers] modernizing smtp message submission

2014-07-08 Thread bergman
In the message dated: Mon, 07 Jul 2014 19:32:47 -0700, The pithy ruminations from Lyndon Nerenberg on were: => => On Jul 7, 2014, at 7:27 PM, heym...@bellsouth.net wrote: => => > nmh delivers locally, and then postfix connects to AT&T. => => Here's a survey: => => 1) How many people customi

Re: [Nmh-workers] mhshow flag: -combined ?

2014-03-22 Thread bergman
thing. Hmmm...I wonder how to describe the case when the output is not concatenated...what about: --DistinctOutputGrouping which could just be abbreviated: -dog Mark => Cheers, Ralph. => -- Mark BergmanBiker, Rock Climber, Unix mechanic, IATSE #1 Stagehand '94

Re: [Nmh-workers] Hybrid approach

2014-02-13 Thread bergman
___ => Nmh-workers mailing list => Nmh-workers@nongnu.org => https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/nmh-workers => -- Mark BergmanBiker, Rock Climber, Unix mechanic, IATSE #1 Stagehand '94 Yamaha GTS1000A^2 berg...@panix.com http://wwwkeys.pgp.net:11371/pks

[Nmh-workers] use of 'Unseen-Sequence' with rcvstore (Was: Re: refile handling of corrupt .mh_sequences)

2014-01-20 Thread bergman
In a message posted a long, long ago: Thu, 28 Feb 2013 11:10:45 -0500, I wrote: <[Nmh-workers] refile handling of corrupt .mh_sequences> were: => => I frequently have corrupt .mh_sequences files, most likely due => to interaction between procmail (using rcvstore) and claws-mail => (which update

Re: [Nmh-workers] Responding to calendar requests

2013-04-24 Thread bergman
replproc -invite: /usr/local/bin/replyfilter $* - Mark => => --Ken => => _______ => Nmh-workers mailing list => Nmh-workers@nongnu.org => https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/nmh-workers => -- Mark BergmanBik

Re: [Nmh-workers] refile handling of corrupt .mh_sequences

2013-02-28 Thread bergman
unction => that reads email messages (m_getfld()) is used to read sequence files. Yep. And lots of other stuff within nmh. Thanks for the explanation. Mark [SNIP!] => => --Ken => => ___ => Nmh-workers mailing list => Nmh-workers@nongnu.org =>

[Nmh-workers] refile handling of corrupt .mh_sequences

2013-02-28 Thread bergman
I frequently have corrupt .mh_sequences files, most likely due to interaction between procmail (using rcvstore) and claws-mail (which updates .mh_sequences, but seems to ignore rcvstore locks, unsurprisingly). Regardless of the cause, I often end up with a .mh_sequences file that has a line break

[Nmh-workers] wrapper to repl vs. replyfilter

2013-02-14 Thread bergman
know if par (or a different formatting program) can be told: Do not format the block of text consisting of: blank line line consisting of only - sequence of non-blank lines zero-or-more blank lines end of file Tha

Re: [Nmh-workers] message rewrite/fix up

2013-02-05 Thread bergman
In the message dated: Mon, 04 Feb 2013 21:05:58 -0500, The pithy ruminations from David Levine on were: => Paul wrote: => => > david wrote: [SNIP!] => => Mark wrote: => => > However... I see that altering it in-place is probably => > easier, and the result is available "everywhere" without

Re: [Nmh-workers] message rewrite/fix up

2013-02-04 Thread Mark Bergman
Paul Fox wrote: => david wrote: => > Ken wrote: => > => > > Although, if you're grep'ing for something, you'd think you'd => > > still find it in text/html (if it wasn't base64-encoded). => > => > Might as well go to text/plain along with decoding. => > Even Q-P is bothersome, esp. for

Re: [Nmh-workers] colorized/highlighted scan output?

2012-11-07 Thread bergman
In the message dated: Tue, 06 Nov 2012 21:13:45 EST, The pithy ruminations from Michael Richardson on were: => [SNIP!] => => To those who are thinking about colours, please remember to set both => foreground and background colors. YOU have no idea what my background => colour is. I

Re: [Nmh-workers] sortm's Default of all is Brain-Damaged.

2012-10-11 Thread bergman
In the message dated: Thu, 11 Oct 2012 13:23:26 EDT, The pithy ruminations from Ken Hornstein on were: => >Once again I've been bitten by a lone `sortm' defaulting to `all' when I => >intended to do `sortm lp'. On a folder of some 20,000 emails that quite => >perturbs incremental backups! `rmm'

Re: [Nmh-workers] masquerade settings & spost

2012-02-06 Thread bergman
In the message dated: Mon, 06 Feb 2012 18:59:17 EST, The pithy ruminations from Ken Hornstein on <[Nmh-workers] masquerade settings & spost> were: => Greetings all, => => I've been (slowly) working on sorting out the whole From: mess that => was discussed earlier, and of course like many things i

Re: [Nmh-workers] mailxi and attachements

2012-01-30 Thread bergman
In the message dated: Mon, 30 Jan 2012 11:48:55 +0100, The pithy ruminations from Aleksander Matuszak on were: => Ralph Corderoy writes: => => > Hi, => > => > I still use mail(1) for sending one-line emails or in pipes. Yes, me too. => => More imporant (for me) is the possibility to send o

Re: [Nmh-workers] Dealing with missing From: header during send.

2012-01-16 Thread bergman
In the message dated: Mon, 16 Jan 2012 13:28:22 GMT, The pithy ruminations from Andreas Wittkemper on were: => On 01/10/12 16:56, berg...@merctech.com wrote: => => => > It seems as if you're talking about composing a reply based on the => > identity of the received message. => > => > I've been

[Nmh-workers] request for mh-format "printf" operator

2012-01-10 Thread bergman
In the message dated: Tue, 10 Jan 2012 15:19:34 EST, The pithy ruminations from Ken Hornstein on were: => >Yes, that works, but as I noted, when in a replcomps, further => >attempts to access {to} and other components return empty => >values. => => Ow. Damn your eyes, Earl ... I now have a head

Re: [Nmh-workers] Dealing with missing From: header during send.

2012-01-10 Thread bergman
In the message dated: Mon, 09 Jan 2012 20:56:07 CST, The pithy ruminations from Earl Hood on were: => On Mon, Jan 9, 2012 at 8:26 PM, Lyndon Nerenberg wrote: => => > And my interpretation of me is: => > => > 1) No From:, no message gets sent. => => Yep. Not sure if there is a => consensus on i

Re: [Nmh-workers] indexing

2011-02-05 Thread bergman
lopment, hoping that pointing to existing code is helpful' Bergman - Mark BergmanBiker, Rock Climber, Unix mechanic, IATSE #1 Stagehand '94 Yamaha GTS1000A^2 berg...@panix.com http://wwwkeys.pgp.net:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=bergman%40panix.com I want a newsgroup with

Re: should nmh be an MTA or an MUA? (Was: Re: [Nmh-workers] nmh @ gsoc?)

2010-01-28 Thread bergman
In the message dated: Wed, 27 Jan 2010 20:53:46 EST, The pithy ruminations from Ken Hornstein on were : => Have we not beaten this subject into the ground yet? => => >Here's where we differ. For me, it's "easier" to configure sendmail, so that => >the nmh configuration remains the same in any

should nmh be an MTA or an MUA? (Was: Re: [Nmh-workers] nmh @ gsoc?)

2010-01-27 Thread bergman
In the message dated: Wed, 27 Jan 2010 18:01:26 EST, The pithy ruminations from valdis.kletni...@vt.edu on were: => => On Wed, 27 Jan 2010 23:21:10 +0100, markus schnalke said: => > TLS seems to be already solved. However, why does nmh need TLS? => > Doesn't it delegate mail transfer to an MT

Re: [Nmh-workers] nmh @ gsoc?

2010-01-25 Thread bergman
In the message dated: Mon, 25 Jan 2010 13:37:15 EST, The pithy ruminations from Ken Hornstein on were: => >Why? nmh doesn't need any new features, and the code is stable and => >portable. => > => >The best indicator that a chunk of code is mature is when it hasn't been => >touched for five ye

Re: [Nmh-workers] Re: nmh is Ncurses-based?

2010-01-23 Thread bergman
:15:40 AM EDT, Key ID bf226fcc4ebfc273 % ldd `rpm -ql nmh|egrep "bin|lib"`|grep curse Nope. None of the nmh binaries here are linked against ncurses. Maybe the ncurses libraries are statically linked into nmh at compile timebut I doubt it. Mark "providing anectdotal

exmh changing context (Was: Re: [Nmh-workers] preventing change of current folder with rcvstore?)

2009-08-18 Thread bergman
In the message dated: Tue, 18 Aug 2009 12:10:05 EDT, The pithy ruminations from valdis.kletni...@vt.edu on were: => --==_Exmh_1250611805_74514P => Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii => => On Tue, 18 Aug 2009 11:33:51 EDT, berg...@merctech.com said: => => > Is there a way to use rcvsto

Re: [Nmh-workers] preventing change of current folder with rcvstore?

2009-08-18 Thread bergman
In the message dated: Tue, 18 Aug 2009 10:45:50 CDT, The pithy ruminations from ra...@hep.wisc.edu on were: => => I think you have a weird rcvstore?! Mine doesn't change the => default folder. H.. /usr/libexec/nmh/rcvstore rcvstore -- nmh-1.3 [compiled on x86-4 at T

[Nmh-workers] preventing change of current folder with rcvstore?

2009-08-18 Thread bergman
I use procmail to automatically file incoming mail into different folders, using rcvstore. This works very well, but rcvstore changes the default folder. This can cause problems, as the following scenario illustrates: [STEP1] % scan +unimportant_folder [STEP2] %

Re: [Nmh-workers] bcc+fcc (again)

2009-02-03 Thread bergman
In the message dated: Tue, 03 Feb 2009 18:10:19 EST, The pithy ruminations from "Mike O'Dell" on were: => it should also be possible to have FCC stripped of BCC if desired => => heaven knows everything else is configurable => Yep, but let's be more specific...while I'm strongly in favor of k

Re: [Nmh-workers] 128 byte field name limit in NAMESZ breaks scan(1)

2008-10-22 Thread bergman
ary limit. I'd be more interested in raising => it if there were actually problems because of messages with header => components with names longer than 128. (The 'From ' lines don't => count because they're not valid syntax.) Again, the mh-mail manpage states that nmh will read messages that contain those lines, even if they aren't used by nmh, so they are not defacto invalid syntax to nmh. => => (If you do raise it then my reading of RFC2822 says 998 would => be more defensible than 512.) Perhaps the mh-mail man page needs to be updated. My mh-mail manpage, from the 1.3 source, cites a limit of 63 characters, as per RFC822. In any case, raising the limit does seem to be the answer... Mark "feeling pedantic this morning" Bergman => => -- PMM => ___ Nmh-workers mailing list Nmh-workers@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/nmh-workers

Re: [Nmh-workers] 128 byte field name limit in NAMESZ breaks scan(1)

2008-10-21 Thread bergman
ally, I think that the philosophical argument about whether tools strip out the "From " line or not is really separate from the fact that the the scan listing breaks because of an arbitrarily small value in NAMESZ. The first issue is difficult to resolve (as evidenced by the 3 year-ol

[Nmh-workers] 128 byte field name limit in NAMESZ breaks scan(1)

2008-10-17 Thread bergman
Messages with very long envelope "From" lines break scan(1). This behavior happens with nmh 1.3 and 1.2. These messages are typically from mailing lists (Yahoo groups, in particular). The "Subject" field in the scan listing is displayed as just an asterisk (*). When I run scan, I get errors lik

[Nmh-workers] enhancement to mhfinddup

2008-09-09 Thread bergman
{ ! printf STDERR "That's odd...messages \"$f/$m\" and \"$folder/$msg\" have the same Message-Id but different checksums\n"; ! } } } else { $msgs{$msgid} = "+

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

2008-08-19 Thread bergman
hing really wild'n'crazy like: IFS="," echo "1,2,3" | scan - Oh, and just in case it hasn't been said enough recently... "Thank you" to everyone who's continuing to maintain and develop nmh. Mark "haven't really

Re: [Nmh-workers] sync'ing an mh mailstore between two machines?

2008-05-21 Thread bergman
In the message dated: Wed, 21 May 2008 15:27:03 EDT, The pithy ruminations from Paul Fox on were: => tethys wrote: => > => > => > Peter Maydell writes: => > => > >Just use rsync to copy the laptop's idea of the situation => > >onto the desktop again? (And vice-versa in the morn

Re: [Nmh-workers] sync'ing an mh mailstore between two machines?

2008-05-21 Thread bergman
ts of individual messages the client & server don't both receive the same messsages (ie., there's no external mail alias or forwarding system that would send one message to both machines...if this is happening, there would be messages with the sam

Re: [Nmh-workers] cannot get envelop sender address correct

2008-05-06 Thread bergman
In the message dated: Tue, 06 May 2008 10:00:45 EDT, The pithy ruminations from [EMAIL PROTECTED] on were: => On Tue, 06 May 2008 09:48:18 EDT, David Levine said: => > Anders writes: => > => > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: => > > > I thought that draft_from couldn't be enabled in a .mh_profile so

Re: [Nmh-workers] [NEWBIE]: fetchmail/procmail and inc

2007-01-13 Thread bergman
egards, => => Xavier Maillard => => => _______ => Nmh-workers mailing list => Nmh-workers@nongnu.org => http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/nmh-workers => - Mark BergmanBiker, Rock Climber, Unix mechanic, IATSE #1 Stagehand

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

2006-01-04 Thread bergman
In the message dated: Wed, 04 Jan 2006 10:54:00 PST, The pithy ruminations from Bill Wohler on <[Nmh-workers] Re: FCC behavior for BCC proposal> were: => [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: => => > Here's a minor change that I'd like to propose to nmh: => > => >The "Fcc" copy of a Bcc message should

[Nmh-workers] new stuff for 2.0 (FCC behavior for BCC proposal)

2006-01-03 Thread bergman
ess the list of recipients (in fact, it makes the Fcc copy almost useless). Mark - Mark BergmanBiker, Rock Climber, Unix mechanic, IATSE #1 Stagehand http://wwwkeys.pgp.net:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=bergman%40merctech.com I want a newsgroup with a infinite S/N ratio! Now taking

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

2005-12-22 Thread bergman
for instance), => based upon patterns in the To:, CC: and maybe even In-Reply-To:. => It uses to work, then it broke. Now I use the "Identity" bar in MH-E, => but that's not MH --- that's emacs doing it for me. I'm doing something like that, by calling an external

Re: [Nmh-workers] forms expert

2005-10-11 Thread bergman
I hesitate to call myself an "expert", but here goes. In the message dated: Wed, 05 Oct 2005 12:25:13 EDT, The pithy ruminations from Michael Richardson on <[Nmh-workers] forms expert> were: => -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- => => => Is there anyone with a deep understanding of the forms

[Nmh-workers] [n]mh & PEM (SMIME, x.509) certificates...

2004-01-15 Thread bergman
Has anyone had luck integrating [ex|n]mh and Privacy Enhanced Mail (aka SMIME, "*.p7m" files, x-pkcs7-mime)? I'm corresponding with several people who are having difficulting integrating PGP or GPG with Outlook 2003, and they'd prefer to use PEM. When I get mail that's been signed this way, it'