Command Line Mail and Contacts

I love alpine, but as it can't load my contacts like gmail's web interface I feel like it can never be a daily driver.  Is there a way to get contacts from alpine or another command line mail service?  Does anyone use command line mail services?

Trilby wrote:Did you follow the Mutt wiki to set up your ~/.muttrc?
Well, that would explain a lot (gah).  I used an article I found on lifehacker and it didn't work.  This did though!  Is there a way to set it so it only retrieves x amount of messages from my INBOX?  Because I have tons of messages and cosequently it takes forever to start up.

Similar Messages

  • Mail and contacts not showing in application switcher

    Since upgrading to Mountain Lion, mail and contacts are not showing in the application switcher. 
    So,  I have to re-open mail and contacts if I switch screens - it is absolutely infuriating because I constantly switch screens when I work.
    Does anyone else have the same issue?    My mail and contacts are on exchange server,  which may have something to do with it?   

    Please follow these directions to delete the Mail "sandbox" folder.
    Back up all data.
    Triple-click the line below to select it:
    ~/Library/Containers/com.apple.mail
    Right-click or control-click the highlighted line and select
    Services ▹ Reveal
    from the contextual menu.* A Finder window should open with a folder named "com.apple.mail" selected. If it does, move the selected folder — not just its contents — to the Desktop. Leave the Finder window open for now.
    Quit and relaunch Mail, and test. If the problem is resolved, you may have to recreate some of your Mail settings. You can then delete the folder you moved and close the Finder window. If you still have the problem, quit Mail again and put the folder back where it was, overwriting the one that may have been created in its place. Post your results.
    Caution: If you change any of the contents of the sandbox, but leave the folder itself in place, Mail may crash or not launch at all. Deleting the whole sandbox will cause it to be rebuilt automatically.
    *If you don't see the contextual menu item, copy the selected text to the Clipboard (command-C). In the Finder, select
    Go ▹ Go to Folder...
    from the menu bar, paste into the box that opens (command-V). You won't see what you pasted because a line break is included. Press return.

  • Command line parameters and resuming

    Hi,
    I am researching for a client who wishes to have several students (K-12) using Adobe Captivate course on the same computer. Another constraint is that a course is run from DVD (1+ GB in size) so it's published as standalone application (.exe for Windows, .app for Mac). Quick questions:
    Can a course have an action to parse command line parameters? I haven't found that.
    Explanation: this would be used to simply parse a name and e-mail address (if possible) and last module passed to a course player. Resuming could be disabled (there is an answer how to do that in the forum) or overridden but the learner should be transferred to a slide to resume based on the calling parameter (and not the default resuming - there will be several users so each must resume from the last passed module slide).
    Can a progress of the current learner using the course be saved to a database (no LMS, e-mail, Acrobat.com etc)?
    Explanation: this is needed for the current learner and for each one separately. I guess I already have a solution in mind (custom application, having small internal web server like Mongoose, with a script that replaces internalServerReporting.php and saves the data to a internal database, SQLite). But for this to work spawning a course with command line parameters and course itself reading these parameters would need to work.
    If there is a (better) solution for the above, please reply. The goal is have minimal changes on the course e.g. if there are command line parameters, then parse them and do something (mark modules passed, open appropriate next slide). If parameters are not given/recognized, do nothing (so the course would still work on computers used by one learner only, including resuming etc).
    My opinion is that this should also be one-way as much as possible. E.g. additional application handles user name, e-mail and current progress and spawns Captivate course. The published course itself should not depend on the application like reading progress from a text file (though an URL call could return current progress from an application for the same user name). So ideally only changes to use internal server publishing to save current progress and adding a logic to check parameters at start would be applied to a course.
    Waiting for your smart answers.
    Matt

    DVDs, when finalized, are read-only... so unless you are considering to do an Install of the course from the DVD to the machine, you're not going to be able to write to a database.  A USB stick may be more suitable in this situation.
    Command line params are not possible with EXEs unless you create your own EXE wrapper.  If you're going to go through that trouble, you'd be better off creating an Adobe Air application that can run your local web content without security restrictions and use SQLite or some other backend to store the data.
    Can the progress be saved?  It depends what you mean by progress.  If you just want to allow the student to resume from the slide where they left off... you can do that with a bit of JavaScript.  However, if you want to ensure that any previous questions answered on a quiz were also resumed and intact from the previous session... not possible without an LMS.
    Why not run a Moodle installation via a USB stick and you can have a full featured LMS with a database and ability to resume a previous session?
    http://docs.moodle.org/19/en/Installation_guide_-_Moodle_for_Windows_on_a_USB_Memory_Stick
    Just some things to consider...

  • After IOS8 upgrade IPhone5s syncs with exchange but IPad2 syncs ONLY Mail and Contacts, NOT Calendar.  Totally stumped. Ideas anyone?

    After IOS8 upgrade IPhone5s syncs with exchange but IPad2 syncs ONLY Mail and Contacts, NOT Calendar.
    Also, my other tablet - Samsung TabS - has same issue - calendar wont sync. My IPhone and my desktop (windows) synch just fine.
    Google calendar syncs on all devices. Totally stumped. Ideas anyone?
    THANKS

    1.      Log onto Outlook Web Access
    2.      Top right hand part of the screen select "Options"
    3.     Select "See All Options"
    4.      Select "Phone" menu
    Check if you have 10 Devices registered.
    If you have, you need to delete one of them to add your new Smart Phone to Exchange for synching
    Check the "Last Sync Time" to indicate if this device is still active or not.

  • Calendar does not sync via ActiveSync. Mail and Contacts work fine.

    I recently started using ActiveSync to connect to my corporate Exchange server. Mail and contacts synchronize properly, but calendar items are not downloaded from the server. The iPhone can write to the calendar by adding a new appointment of accepting a new meeting request. I can also see the full list of calendars in my Exchange mailbox when using the iPhone. Simply put, the calendar items are the only part that's missing.
    My IT team has confirmed that calendar items will sync to Windows Mobile devices using ActiveSync.
    Here are the steps I've taken to solve the problem:
    1. I enabled and disabled calendar using the On/Off slider.
    2. I removed and reconfigured the Exchange account on the iPhone
    3. I confirmed that all calendar items in Exchange had the Message Class set to "IPM.Appointment"
    4. I restored the iPhone to factory settings and used a new test Exchange account to confirm that corrupted calendar items were not an issue.
    5. Confirmed that the capitalization of my e-mail address in the Exchange Account Info on the iPhone matches the primary SMTP entry in the Exchange GAL.

    Guys, I did a bit of research with my other iPhone/Exchange - buddies and this is what we found out:
    1. Friend sends me an calendar event from his PC / Exchange Account
    2. Calendar event displays as tentative on both my iPhone and on my PC / Exchange Account
    3. I accept the calendar event on my PC / Exchange Account
    4. Calendar event turns to "busy" on my PC / Exchange Account
    5. Calendar event disappears from my iPhone
    6. I double-click the event on my PC / Exchange Account and click "Accept" again
    7. Calendar event reappears on my iPhone
    Funny enough, this does not happen with all events - it seems to depend on the Exchange server and/or Outlook version in use. For those affected: Is your Exchange Server 2003 or 2007, and what version is the Exchange Server of the person who sent you the event in the first place?

  • Permission problems with command line CVS and Java CVS App

    Greetings,
    I'm part of a moderately sized website development team which recently upgraded to MacBook Pros (dual core) running OS 10.4.9. One of the primary tools we use in our day to day work is the open source concurrent versioning system (CVS). We've noticed a distressing issue running CVS on our macbook pros: there seems to be a problem with the way these new machines handle permissions on the directories/files that CVS uses to manage files.
    The error occurs when the CVS application, in this case both command line CVS and GUI CVS application named SmartCVS, tries to rename a temporary file named Entries~ to its new name Entries (no ~). It looks like this:
    java.io.IOException: Could not rename file
    /Users/[USER]/Sites/[MODULE]/lib/CVS/Entries~ to
    /Users/[USER]/Sites/[MODULE]/lib/CVS/Entries
    at smartcvs.JP.a(SourceFile:125)
    at smartcvs.JP.a(SourceFile:113)
    We've noticed that if we open up a get info window on the directory we're downloading, and choose "Apply to enclosed items" right when we start the download process, the issue will be resolved, presumably because the permissions are being set on the subdirectories as the download is taking place.
    We've checked the permissions on the overall ~/Sites/ directory numerous times, and they always seem to be set correctly as drwxr-xr-x. It's within this folder that CVS creates a directory with the CVS module name and downloads all the contained files, so we don't see why it would be having issues completing this successfully. We also checked to ensure the GUI CVS application is running under the current user on the machine: it does.
    Has anyone run into issues like this in the past? Is there more information I could provide to further clarify the problem we're having?
    Thanks for any input you have!

    Thanks for asking Jeff, yes one place we are seeing this error is Java application SmartCVS, though the results posted here are from a normal command line CVS checkout.
    ===
    Checkout command:
    cvs co [MODULE]
    ===
    Error:
    cvs [checkout aborted]: cannot rename file CVS/Entries.Backup to CVS/Entries: No such file or directory
    ===
    ID:
    uid=502([USER]) gid=502([USER]) groups=502([USER]), 81(appserveradm), 79(appserverusr), 80(admin)
    ===
    LS -ALN
    Computer:~/Sites [USER]$ ls -aln
    drwxr-xr-x 28 502 502 952 Jun 4 13:11 Sites
    Computer:~/Sites/[MODULE] [USER]$ ls -aln
    drwxr-xr-x 38 502 502 1292 Jun 4 13:33 www_root
    Computer:~/Sites/[MODULE]/www_root [USER]$ ls -aln
    drwxr-xr-x 32 502 502 1088 Jun 4 13:33 [SUBDIR1]
    Computer:~/Sites/[MODULE]/www_root/[SUBDIR1] [USER]$ ls -aln
    drwxr-xr-x 5 502 502 170 Jun 4 13:33 [SUBDIR2]
    Computer:~/Sites/[MODULE]/www_root/[SUBDIR1]/[SUBDIR2] [USER]$ ls -aln
    drwxr-xr-x 4 502 502 136 Jun 4 13:33 [SUBDIR3]
    Computer:~/Sites/[MODULE]/www_root/[SUBDIR1]/[SUBDIR2]/[SUBDIR3] [USER]$ ls -aln
    drwxr-xr-x 6 502 502 204 Jun 4 13:33 CVS
    Computer:~/Sites/[MODULE]/www_root/[SUBDIR1]/[SUBDIR2]/[SUBDIR3]/CVS [USER]$ ls -aln
    total 32
    drwxr-xr-x 6 502 502 204 Jun 4 13:33 .
    drwxr-xr-x 4 502 502 136 Jun 4 13:33 ..
    -rw-r--r-- 1 502 502 45 Jun 4 13:33 Entries
    -rw-r--r-- 1 502 502 45 Jun 4 13:33 Entries.Log
    -rw-r--r-- 1 502 502 48 Jun 4 13:33 Repository
    -rw-r--r-- 1 502 502 63 Jun 4 13:33 Root
    MacBook Pro / MacPro Mac OS X (10.4.9)

  • Mountain Lion LDAP for Mail and Contacts fail

    Both the Mail and Contacts application fail in the same manner.
    The System Console spits out continuously
    if using the Contacts app:
    Contacts: unhanded case: 115
    Or if using the Mail app:
    Mail: unhanded case: 115
    Does not auto complete and have tried all the remedies in the forum currently. Including the removal of com.apple.mail in the ~/Library/Containers
    This worked previously in Lion and Snow Leopard..
    LDAP is configured for SSL(636), subtree (4 levels), and simple authentication

    I have no updated to 10.8.2 as of last week and this issue still exists...Is there nobody that has seen this issue?
    Thanks

  • HT201250 can i restore my outlook from my time machine ?  ive lost e mails and contacts from outlook that are on my time machine back up but don't know how to restore them

    please can anyone help me to restore my outlook e mails and contacts which are backed up on my time capsule?

    See Pondini's TM FAQs, for details.

  • I want to be able to access my photos that are stored on iCloud – I see mail and contacts but not my pictures?   I have been backing up for a long time -  Where are they?

    I want to be able to access my photos that are stored on iCloud
    – I see mail and contacts but not my pictures?
    I have been backing up for a long
    time -  Where are they?   

    You can't view them on iCloud.com.  And photos (and other data) stored in your device backup can't be viewed, other than by restoring the backup to your device.
    If you want to view your photos on the web, for the time being you will have to add them to a shared stream (album) with the Public Website option enabled.  This will give you a private url to view them from a browser.

  • Transfer mail and contact from an old account to a new one ?

    Hi,
    The employe from the company where I got my internship are currently using mail address that are like [email protected] and the company wants them to
    use the new mail address [email protected] (in both case the employee are using outlook). 
    The problem is that they would like to keep their old mail and contact. I know you can do a manual archive but can you import it in a new account ? Will it also
    save the contact of the user ? Since it's a new account with a new domain, I really have no idea how to transfer mail and contact from the old account to the new one.
    Best regards,
    Dimitri

    This step-by-step article describes how to copy or how to move your Personal Address Book (PAB) from one computer to another
    computer. 
    On all installations, including those with no e-mail accounts, Microsoft Outlook creates a default Outlook Address Book. The Outlook
    Address Book consolidates all your Outlook Contacts folders. The Outlook Address Book is a virtual address book instead of a physical address book because Outlook does not store the Outlook Address Book as a file that is separate from your data store. The
    Outlook Address Book provides a view to your Contacts folders. 
    Unlike the Outlook Address Book, a personal address book (PAB) is a physical address book that Outlook stores on disk that is separate
    from your data store. You can add one PAB to an e-mail profile, and use the PAB to store additional contact information.
    You can use the PAB to store personal addresses or to store other contact information that you want to keep separate from your other
    Outlook data. Additionally, you can use a PAB to share addresses with other users. The PAB uses a .pab file name extension, and Outlook creates the PAB file when you add the PAB to your e-mail profile.
    How to identify the PAB file that your e-mail profile uses
    Start Outlook.
    On the Tools menu, click E-mail Accounts.
    Under Directory, click View or change existing directories or address books, and then click Next.
    Under You can choose a directory or address book below to change or remove it, click Personal Address Book, and then
    click Change.
    Note the path of your PAB file that is in the Path box. You will require this information to find the PAB file in step 3 in the "How to copy the PAB file to
    a second computer" section of this article. 
    For example, C:\Exchange\Mailbox.pab indicates that a PAB named Mailbox.pab is located on a Microsoft Exchange folder on your drive C.
    Click OK, and then click Finish to close all dialog boxes.
    On the File menu, click Exit.
    How to copy the PAB file to a second computer
    Quit all e-mail programs.
    Start Microsoft Windows Explorer.
    In the Folders pane, expand the folders to locate the PAB file whose path you took note of in step 5 in the "How to identify the PAB File that your e-mail profile
    uses" section of this article.
    Copy the PAB file to a 3.5 inch disk, and then use that disk to copy the PAB file to the second computer. Note the path of the PAB file on the second computer. 
    For example, if you copy the PAB file named Mailbox.pab to a folder that is named Address Book on drive C, the path of the address book is as follows:
    C:\Address Book\Mailbox.pab
    Alternatively, if your two computers are on the same network, you can copy the PAB file from the source computer to a network share on the second computer.
    For more information about how to perform this task in Microsoft Windows, see your Windows printed documentation or your online Help. 
    Note You can save the PAB file in any folder on the destination computer as long as you remember the location.
    How to configure your second computer to use the new PAB file
    If you do not have the Personal Address Book service in your e-mail profile on the second computer, you must add the service before
    you can add the new PAB file to your profile. To add the Personal Address Book service for the new PAB file, follow these steps:
    Start Outlook.
    On the Tools menu, click E-mail Accounts.
    Under Directory, click Add a new directory or address book, and then click Next.
    Click Additional Address Books, and then click Next.
    In the Additional Address Book Types box, click Personal Address Book, and then click Next.
    In the Path box, type the path of the PAB file that you copied to the second computer in step 4 in the "How to copy the PAB file to a second computer" section
    of this article. Alternatively, you can click Browse to locate the PAB file.
    Click OK.
    If you receive the The E-mail account you have just added will not be start until you choose Exit from the file menu, and then restart Outlook prompt, click OK.
    On the File menu, click Exit, and then restart Outlook. Your new PAB is now available.
    If you have the Personal Address Book service in your e-mail profile on the second computer, you can change the service to use the
    new PAB file. To change an existing Personal Address Book service to use the new PAB file, follow these steps:
    On the second computer, start Outlook.
    On the Tools menu, click E-mail Accounts.
    Under Directory, click View or change existing directories or Address Books, and then click Next.
    In the Outlook processes e-mail for these accounts in the following order list, click Personal Address Book, and
    then click Change.
    On the Personal Address Book tab, type the path of the PAB file that you copied to the second computer in step 4 in the "How to copy the PAB file to a second
    computer" section of this article. Alternatively, you can click Browse to locate the PAB file.
    Click the PAB file, click OK, and then click Finish.
    On the File menu, click Exit.
    Quit and then restart Outlook. Your new PAB is now available.
    Note There can be only one Personal Address Book service per e-mail profile. There is not a method for merging
    one PAB file with another. You can use the Outlook Import and Export Wizard to merge the active PAB entries in your Contacts folder. 
    Additionally, you can add both recipients and distribution lists to contacts that are in the Personal Address Book interface in
    Microsoft Office Outlook 2003. 
    For more information about the Outlook Import and Export Wizard, click Microsoft
    Office Outlook Help on the Help menu,
    type Outlook Import and Export Wizard in
    the Search for box
    in the Assistance pane, and then click Start searching to
    view the topic.

  • I have imac, macbook, ipad2, 2 iphone 4s and I want to share music, iphoto and apps between all the devices but keep e-mail and contacts separate and use icloud. How can I do that?

    i have imac, macbook, ipad2, 2 iphone 4s and I want to share music, iphoto and apps between all the devices but keep e-mail and contacts separate and use icloud. How can I do that?

    The ID for iTunes must be the same on both devices for it to automatically download purchases made on the other phone.
    For example, if you have been using [email protected] for iTunes, continue to do so. One of you could also use [email protected] for their iCloud account and the other one use [email protected] for theirs, alternatively you could use [email protected] and [email protected] for the two separate iCloud accounts.

  • The default account option in iOS for contacts is missing; while I have multiple account options for mail and contacts are turned on for iCloud and other accounts.

    The default account option in iOS for contacts is missing; while I have multiple account options for mail and contacts are turned on for iCloud and other accounts.  I previously was able to select between my Microsoft Exchange Contacts (work account) and iCloud (personal), but both those options are now gone.  I tried turning contacts for both off and on and rebooting, but it didn't help.  Any ideas?

    Just a guess but if the exchange account is from your employer, your employer may have installed a security profile to your device preventing you from adding or editing contacts in the exchange account by removing the Default Account setting.  You would need to check with your employer's IT department to confirm this.  You could also test this by adding a Gmail account and turning on contacts syncing with Gmail to see if the setting reappears.

  • I had somebody  work on my OS 10.9.2 to speed it up. He failed and now  Preview, Textedit, App Store, Mail and Contacts  do not work anymore. I can still use Safari, Firefox and iPhoto etc. How do I get it fix I can still use Safari, Firefox and ed again?

    I had somebody  work on my OS 10.9.2 to speed it up. He failed and now  Preview, Textedit, App Store, Mail (crashes) and Contacts  do not work anymore. I can still use Safari, Firefox, Word, Photoshop and iPhoto etc. How do I get the Apple programs fixed again?

    Try these in order testing your system after each to see if it's back to normal:
    1. a. Resetting your Mac's PRAM and NVRAM
        b. Intel-based Macs: Resetting the System Management Controller (SMC)
    2. Restart the computer in Safe Mode, then restart again, normally. If this doesn't help, then:
         Boot to the Recovery HD: Restart the computer and after the chime press and hold down the
         COMMAND and R keys until the Utilities menu screen appears. Alternatively, restart the
         computer and after the chime press and hold down the OPTION key until the boot manager
         screen appears. Select the Recovery HD and click on the downward pointing arrow button.
    3. Repair the Hard Drive and Permissions: Upon startup select Disk Utility from the Utilities menu. Repair the Hard Drive and Permissions as follows.
    When the recovery menu appears select Disk Utility. After DU loads select your hard drive entry (mfgr.'s ID and drive size) from the the left side list.  In the DU status area you will see an entry for the S.M.A.R.T. status of the hard drive.  If it does not say "Verified" then the hard drive is failing or failed. (SMART status is not reported on external Firewire or USB drives.) If the drive is "Verified" then select your OS X volume from the list on the left (sub-entry below the drive entry,) click on the First Aid tab, then click on the Repair Disk button. If DU reports any errors that have been fixed, then re-run Repair Disk until no errors are reported. If no errors are reported click on the Repair Permissions button. Wait until the operation completes, then quit DU and return to the main menu. Select Restart from the Apple menu.
         Reinstall the 10.9.2 update: OS X Mavericks 10.9.2 Update (Combo).
    4. Reinstall Lion/Mountain Lion, Mavericks: Reboot from the Recovery HD. Select Reinstall Lion/Mountain Lion, Mavericks from the Utilities menu, and click on the Continue button.
    Note: You will need an active Internet connection. I suggest using Ethernet if possible because it is three times faster than wireless.
    Reinstall the 10.9.2 update: OS X Mavericks 10.9.2 Update (Combo).

  • Unix command Line input and output

    Has anybody used Forte for now window application. Passing values through
    command line and get put as a return value. I am able to call Forte and
    pass input values but I do not know who to get the return value. Here is
    the shell script that I am running:
    #!/bin/csh
    # Ensure that the correct number of parameters were supplied #
    if (${#argv} < 2) then
    then
    echo "USAGE: ecapp Method Number Parm1 Parm2"
    exit 1
    endif
    ftexec -fi bt:$FORTE_ROOT/userapp/mwapp/cl0/mwapp_0 -fnw -fterm $1 $2
    The start class will return a string value after processing the request. I
    can use task.lgr.putline to output to the screen but that is not what I
    would like to do. I want to get the return value assigned to a variable in
    the shell script. One thing I do not know is that if Forte return a string
    that the script can use. Any help would be appreciated.
    thanks in advance
    ka
    Kamran Amin
    Forte Technical Leader, Core Systems
    (203)-459-7362 or 8-204-7362 - Trumbull
    [email protected]
    To unsubscribe, email '[email protected]' with
    'unsubscribe forte-users' as the body of the message.
    Searchable thread archive <URL:http://pinehurst.sageit.com/listarchive/>

    Hi,
    Did you try to set Task.Part.OperatingSystem.ExitStatus ? But, the ExitStatus is an integer.
    If you really need a string, I would use ExitStatus to know how it finished and an environment variable (Task.Part.OperatingSystem.SetEnv() to position it in your Tool code) to read the string back in the script.
    Hope this helps,
    Daniel Nguyen
    Freelance Forte Consultant
    Url : http://perso.club-internet.fr/dnguyen/

  • Command-line parameters and dbxtool

    Hello, I'm trying to call dbxtool from a script in order to start a debug session. My command line is something like this:
    dbxtool -E prog -arg1 -arg2
    Where "-arg1 -arg2" are arguments accepted by prog. However dbxtool seems to be trying to process those args itself, so upon launch of dbxtool I get a dialog saying "dbxtool: unrecognized option '-arg1'".
    I don't think this is a quoting issue with my debugging script, since I get this error when simply running dbxtool as above from the command line.
    Any tips on how to pass these args in correctly?
    Thanks,
    -Jason

    I will submit a bug report, thanks for the link.
    Yes, we're using -E for legacy reasons. We have a script that sets up the environment we need, and then launches the debugger. For Studio 11 and previously we used sunstudio -E, so now with Studio 12 it seems that dbxtool is more appropriate.
    I realize that the parameters could be entered in dbxtool, but our users are accumstomed to providing them on the command-line call to our script. Having to enter them in dbxtool is seen as an extra step, retrograde, etc. It's difficult enough getting them to use Solaris over Windows as it is. ;-)
    I did notice that the dbxtool manpage mentions "If you intend to embed dbxtool in a shell script or driver program, consider using ss_attach", which sounded good, but ss_attach doesn't seem to accept parameters.

Maybe you are looking for