Re: mutt tip (was ... Re: Top posting vs Bottom posting)

[Chris Jones <cjns1989@gmail.com>]

On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 05:48:10AM EDT, Chris Bannister wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 06:08:35PM -0400, Chris Jones wrote:

> > What mailer are you referring to? I use mutt and it threads messages
> > reliably, flagging malformed mails that it adds to a thread when it

> You can see what mailer he is using if you put in your .muttrc:

I was asking one of the top-posting advocates to elaborate on "archaic
mail readers" .. written in the 1980s .. I believe he wrote.. 

I would assume he is not using one himself .. but then who knows..

> -----
> # What headers are displayed
> ignore *
> unignore From Date Subject To Cc User-agent X-Mailer

Something has to set User-agent and/or X-Mailer.. and a quick look at
the list - I keep my headers to a minimum and hit "h" whenever I want to
display them all - gives me over 50% posts that do not have either of
these set.

> # What order the headers are displayed
> unhdr_order *
> hdr_order X-Mailer User-agent From Date To Cc Subject
> ------
> 
> and for added spice create a  ~/configs/colours file.
> You will need to source the file in your .muttrc, i.e.:

Here's my effort:

# -*- muttrc -*-
#
# Color settings for mutt.
#

# Default color definitions
color normal     color250      default
color hdrdefault color136      default
color quoted	   color244      default
color quoted1    color240      default
color quoted2    color236      default
color quoted3    color244      default
color quoted4    color240      default
color quoted5    color236      default
color signature  color254      default
color indicator  color231      color233
color error      color88       default
color status	   black         color245
color tree	     color240      default
color tilde	     black         default
color attachment brightyellow  default
color markers 	 color240      default
color message    color250      default
color search     color231      color233
color bold       color231      default

# Color definitions when on a mono screen
mono bold        bold
mono underline   underline
mono indicator   reverse
mono error       bold

# Colors for message headers
color header     color231   default "^(From|Subject):"
color header     color231   default ^To:
color header     color231   default ^Cc:
mono  header     bold       "^(From|Subject):"

# This is a mess.  What happens when a message is flagged twice?

# reset index to medium grey
color index color242      default " "
# regular new messages
color index color145      default "~O | ~N"
# regular 'old' messages
#color index color145      default "~N" 
# regular tagged messages
color index color184      default "~T"
# regular flagged messages
color index color185      default "~F"
# messages to myself
color index color221      default "~p"
# messages from myself
color index color221      default "~P"
# big messages - don't see much point for this one
#color index color52       default "~z 32765-"
# deleted messages
color index color160       default "~D"

# Highlights inside the body of a message.

# Attribution lines
color body color208 default "\\* [^<]+ <[^>]+> \\[[^]]+\\]:"
color body color208 default "(^|[^[:alnum:]])on [a-z0-9 ,]+( at [a-z0-9:,. +-]+)? wrote:"

# The TOFU
#color body color231 default "\[\-\-\-\=\|"
color body color231 default "TOFU"

# Highlights inside the body of a message.

# URLs
color body color231    default "(http|https|ftp|news|telnet|finger)://[^ \"\t\r\n]*"
color body color231    default "mailto:[-a-z_0-9.]+@[-a-z_0-9.]+";
mono  body bold                "(http|https|ftp|news|telnet|finger)://[^ \"\t\r\n]*"
mono  body bold                "mailto:[-a-z_0-9.]+@[-a-z_0-9.]+";

# email addresses
color body color231    default "[-a-z_0-9.%$]+@[-a-z_0-9.]+\\.[-a-z][-a-z]+"
mono  body bold                "[-a-z_0-9.%$]+@[-a-z_0-9.]+\\.[-a-z][-a-z]+"

# PGP messages
color  body            color84         default "^gpg: Good signature .*"
color  body            color250        default "^gpg: "
color  body            color88         default "^gpg: BAD signature from.*"
mono   body            bold                    "^gpg: Good signature"
mono   body            bold                    "^gpg: BAD signature from.*"

# Various smilies and the like
color body color220    default "<[Gg]>"                            # <g>
color body color220    default "<[Bb][Gg]>"                        # <bg>
color body color220    default " [;:]-*[})>{(<|]"                  # :-) etc...
# *bold*
color body color231    default "(^|[[:space:][:punct:]])\\*[^*]+\\*([[:space:][:punct:]]|$)"
mono  body bold                "(^|[[:space:][:punct:]])\\*[^*]+\\*([[:space:][:punct:]]|$)"
# _underline_
color body color231    default "(^|[[:space:][:punct:]])_[^_]+_([[:space:][:punct:]]|$)"
mono  body underline           "(^|[[:space:][:punct:]])_[^_]+_([[:space:][:punct:]]|$)"
# /italic/  (Sometimes gets directory names)
color body color231  default "(^|[[:space:][:punct:]])/[^/]+/([[:space:][:punct:]]|$)"
mono  body underline           "(^|[[:space:][:punct:]])/[^/]+/([[:space:][:punct:]]|$)"

# Border lines.
color body color252    default "( *[-+=#*~_]){6,}"

.. a work in progress if there ever was one.

:-)

Looks something like this:

  http://www.geocities.com/fcky1000/fckz/mutt.png

Thanks,

CJ