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  • From: sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>
  • To: baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: [BL] Mutt BL2 and links.cfg, was Re: BL2 mutt (old and new) disabled mailz?
  • Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2005 22:13:33 +0000 (UTC)

I did a tar -ztvf muttbl2.tgz on the newer version and discovered that it overwrites links.cfg. I would prefer that the package use some sort of installation script and instead of replacing files, add to them, maybe with echo.

I had set up links.cfg to work with streaming audio and zgv. I have a copy on another computer fortunately.

Christof also added zgv as a viewer. I think this part needs a small fix - he has two lines both reading association "zgv" "image/gif" and also extension "png" "image/gif". Probably gif should be changed to png. And also add extension ".jpe" and "jpeg" for "image/jpeg"

I had set up links (with Steven's help, modeled on BL3) to use his mailto script (which no longer works now that mutt has disabled mailz because they use different .pmailrc).

mailto "mailto %" 1 - used to call up his script when I typed in a
mailto:address in links or clicked on a mailto: link at a site.

I added to the mu script, right after mutt, a $1
mutt keesan AT freeshell.org brings up mutt in mail-compose mode
with this address already on the To: line

I replaced the "writemail" line in links.cfg with
mailto "mu %" 1

In links I can type g and then
mailto:keesan AT freeshell.org
and it lets me mail keesan AT freeshell.org

If I click on my own email link at my website:
mailto:"keesan AT freeshell.org"; it tries to mail to _keesan AT freeshell.org_
(I don't know why the friend who made my resume into a website put the quotation marks and I will remove them.)

Maybe Christof wants to modify links.cfg and mu as above so that mutt will work as the links mailer (but add to the end of links.cfg instead of replacing it).

I still can't get mutt to work on my other computer. "argh"
Same .pmailrc file. How do I send files starting in . from one computer to the other? When I tried to send .* the whole system started to transfer. I want to copy over the working /root/Mail/*

Lynx uses nano as the editor when I do a mailto: and I don't need to send attachments so don't need mutt or any other mail program to do a mailto with lynx. Where is lynx/nano putting the saved file? I can tell sendmail to look there for it and tell lynx where to find sendmail.
It is not in /tmp. I am not asked about the file name to write to.
Pico -w is the default EDITOR in /etc/profile. Is there some default file it writes to? If I figure this out I could use lynx as my mail program until mutt is fixed.

Grep (busybox) does not seem to look in subdirectories. I wrote a mail and then tried to look for the character string in it (!@#$%).

There are lots of mailz and two mutt- directories in /tmp.
At least one of my mailz mails went here as outbox002_0001. How do I get it into /root/mail/outbox now that .pmailrc has been changed to work with mutt?


keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org
SDF Public Access UNIX System - http://sdf.lonestar.org




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