Re: Why Wheezy and Not Just Testing? (WAS: Re: Dist-upgrade or upgrade. Which?)

2013-04-30 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Lu, 22 apr 13, 01:03:41, Patrick Bartek wrote: I stayed with F12 almost 2 and a half years past its EOL.  I didn't like F15, my next usual upgrade, or the following releases, or the direction Fedora was going.  So, I opted against upgrading, but 12 was having problems.  Time for a new

Re: Why Wheezy and Not Just Testing? (WAS: Re: Dist-upgrade or upgrade. Which?)

2013-04-30 Thread Patrick Bartek
On Tue, 30 Apr 2013 10:52:38 +0300,Andrei POPESCU andreimpope...@gmail.com wrote: On Lu, 22 apr 13, 01:03:41, Patrick Bartek wrote: I stayed with F12 almost 2 and a half years past its EOL.  I didn't like F15, my next usual upgrade, or the following releases, or the direction Fedora

Re: MUA Yahoo Mail (WAS:Re: Dist-upgrade or upgrade. Which?)

2013-04-26 Thread Celejar
On Thu, 25 Apr 2013 06:55:08 -0700 David Guntner dav...@akamail.net wrote: Patrick Bartek grabbed a keyboard and wrote: From: Dave Thayer debian1311420.dmtha...@recursor.net On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 07:44:29PM -0700, Patrick Bartek wrote: How? What MUA did you use? When I

Re: MUA Yahoo Mail (WAS:Re: Dist-upgrade or upgrade. Which?)

2013-04-25 Thread Patrick Bartek
From: Dave Thayer debian1311420.dmtha...@recursor.net   On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 07:44:29PM -0700, Patrick Bartek wrote: How?  What MUA did you use?  When I initially set up my Yahoo Mail accounts (I have several)--this was years ago--there was no option with the free accounts for

Re: MUA Yahoo Mail (WAS:Re: Dist-upgrade or upgrade. Which?)

2013-04-25 Thread Brian
On Wed 24 Apr 2013 at 23:02:48 -0700, Patrick Bartek wrote: Okay.  I found the Yahoo IMAP help page.  The POP help still states you need a for pay Yahoo Mail Plus account, but no mention of that for IMAP.  I'll run a test.  I already have Sylpheed on this system, and it is both POP or IMAP

Re: alternative email clients (was ... Re: Dist-upgrade or upgrade. Which?)

2013-04-25 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Thu, 2013-04-25 at 03:27 +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: http://www.yorba.org/projects/geary/ On Wed, 2013-04-24 at 17:38 +0200, Luca Cappelletti wrote: http://trojita.flaska.net/ Thank you, I'll take a look, assumed they are available by the Debian, Ubuntu and Arch repositories. --

Re: MUA Yahoo Mail (WAS:Re: Dist-upgrade or upgrade. Which?)

2013-04-25 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Thu, 2013-04-25 at 11:57 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: When I set up my Rocketmail accounts, Evolution automatically wanted to use IMAP, but I forced to use POP. This are my Rocketmail settings: Server: pop.mail.yahoo.com Port: 995 Security: SSL on a dedicated

Re: MUA Yahoo Mail (WAS:Re: Dist-upgrade or upgrade. Which?)

2013-04-25 Thread Ralf Mardorf
When I set up my Rocketmail accounts, Evolution automatically wanted to use IMAP, but I forced to use POP. This are my Rocketmail settings: Server: pop.mail.yahoo.com Port: 995 Security: SSL on a dedicated port Authentication: Password Server: smtp.mail.yahoo.com

Re: MUA Yahoo Mail (WAS:Re: Dist-upgrade or upgrade. Which?)

2013-04-25 Thread Brad Rogers
On Wed, 24 Apr 2013 19:44:29 -0700 (PDT) Patrick Bartek bartek...@yahoo.com wrote: Hello Patrick, How?  What MUA did you use?  When I initially set up my Yahoo Mail accounts (I have I use Claws Mail which, as you may know, started out as a branch of Sylpheed. Others have listed the settings

Re: MUA Yahoo Mail (WAS:Re: Dist-upgrade or upgrade. Which?)

2013-04-25 Thread David Guntner
Patrick Bartek grabbed a keyboard and wrote: From: Dave Thayer debian1311420.dmtha...@recursor.net On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 07:44:29PM -0700, Patrick Bartek wrote: How? What MUA did you use? When I initially set up my Yahoo Mail accounts (I have several)--this was years ago--there was

Re: MUA Yahoo Mail (WAS:Re: Dist-upgrade or upgrade. Which?)

2013-04-25 Thread Peter Tynan
On Thu, 2013-04-25 at 11:57 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: When I set up my Rocketmail accounts, Evolution automatically wanted to use IMAP, but I forced to use POP. This are my Rocketmail settings: Server: pop.mail.yahoo.com Port: 995 Security: SSL on a

Re: Dist-upgrade or upgrade. Which?

2013-04-24 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Tue, 2013-04-23 at 21:43 -0700, Patrick Bartek wrote: If you have any suggestions, I'll consider them. I have no dying loyalty to Yahoo. Stay with Yahoo, but use an MUA. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: Dist-upgrade or upgrade. Which?

2013-04-24 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 23 Apr 2013, Robert Holtzman wrote: On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 07:57:11AM +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote: On 22 Apr 2013, Patrick Bartek wrote: It would be nice if you could trim that to one line. [snip] Yes, it would, but I use Yahoo mail for this list, and that is

Re: Dist-upgrade or upgrade. Which?

2013-04-24 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 23 Apr 2013, Patrick Bartek wrote: [snip] Another problem is that your posts are peppered with lots of codes which make them annoying to read on a text-based email reader like mutt. Sorry 'bout that, but there's nothing much I can do about it from my end:   It's Yahoo Mail that's

Re: Dist-upgrade or upgrade. Which?

2013-04-24 Thread Darac Marjal
On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 11:37:13AM -0700, Patrick Bartek wrote: From: Anthony Campbell a...@acampbell.org.uk   On 22 Apr 2013, Patrick Bartek wrote: It would be nice if you could trim that to one line. [snip] Yes, it would, but I use Yahoo mail for this list,

Re: Dist-upgrade or upgrade. Which?

2013-04-24 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On 4/24/13, Ralf Mardorf info.mard...@rocketmail.com wrote: Info: You're free to use Yahoo with a MUA. Take a look at the email address I'm using right now, it's Rocketmail, aka Yahoo, I'm only limited by the pain Evolution and Xfce4, IOW the GNOME crap does cause. What are the pain points/

Re: Dist-upgrade or upgrade. Which?

2013-04-24 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Wed, 2013-04-24 at 22:59 +1000, Zenaan Harkness wrote: On 4/24/13, Ralf Mardorf info.mard...@rocketmail.com wrote: Info: You're free to use Yahoo with a MUA. Take a look at the email address I'm using right now, it's Rocketmail, aka Yahoo, I'm only limited by the pain Evolution and

alternative email clients (was ... Re: Dist-upgrade or upgrade. Which?)

2013-04-24 Thread Chris Bannister
On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 03:32:41PM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: OTOH, I didn't find another mailer that fit halfway to my needs and that does work with the provider settings I need. There is geary. http://www.yorba.org/projects/geary/ I've never used it, myself, but it is an alternative to

Re: alternative email clients (was ... Re: Dist-upgrade or upgrade. Which?)

2013-04-24 Thread Luca Cappelletti
On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 5:27 PM, Chris Bannister cbannis...@slingshot.co.nz wrote: On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 03:32:41PM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: OTOH, I didn't find another mailer that fit halfway to my needs and that does work with the provider settings I need. There is geary.

MUA Yahoo Mail (WAS:Re: Dist-upgrade or upgrade. Which?)

2013-04-24 Thread Patrick Bartek
From: Ralf Mardorf info.mard...@rocketmail.com On Wed, 2013-04-24 at 10:28 +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: Are you *really* forced into using yahoo, it really is horrible (not sure which is worse hotmail or yahoo.) for communicating on mailing lists. Info: You're free to use

Re: Dist-upgrade or upgrade. Which?

2013-04-24 Thread Patrick Bartek
From: Ralf Mardorf ralf.mard...@alice-dsl.net   On Tue, 2013-04-23 at 21:43 -0700, Patrick Bartek wrote: If you have any suggestions, I'll consider them.  I have no dying loyalty to Yahoo. Stay with Yahoo, but use an MUA. Can't use an MUA with the free version of Yahoo Mail.  

Re: Dist-upgrade or upgrade. Which?

2013-04-24 Thread Patrick Bartek
From: Anthony Campbell a...@acampbell.org.uk   On 23 Apr 2013, Patrick Bartek wrote: [snip] Another problem is that your posts are peppered with lots of codes   [snip]   Hope the problem is solvable from your end. Yes; it wasn't entirely your (or Yahoo's) fault. I had some

Re: MUA Yahoo Mail (WAS:Re: Dist-upgrade or upgrade. Which?)

2013-04-24 Thread Brad Rogers
On Wed, 24 Apr 2013 10:33:45 -0700 (PDT) Patrick Bartek bartek...@yahoo.com wrote: Hello Patrick, As far as I understand, with the free Yahoo Mail that I use, you're not able to use a traditional MUA.  It's browser-based only. However, if you use the pay version, which is IMAP or POP-based, you

Re: MUA Yahoo Mail (WAS:Re: Dist-upgrade or upgrade. Which?)

2013-04-24 Thread Patrick Bartek
From: Brad Rogers b...@fineby.me.uk   On Wed, 24 Apr 2013 10:33:45 -0700 (PDT) Patrick Bartek bartek...@yahoo.com wrote: Hello Patrick, As far as I understand, with the free Yahoo Mail that I use, you're not able to use a traditional MUA.  It's browser-based only. However, if you

Re: MUA Yahoo Mail (WAS:Re: Dist-upgrade or upgrade. Which?)

2013-04-24 Thread Dave Thayer
On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 07:44:29PM -0700, Patrick Bartek wrote: How?  What MUA did you use?  When I initially set up my Yahoo Mail accounts (I have several)--this was years ago--there was no option with the free accounts for POP3 or IMAP.  It was specifically said that if you wanted it,

Re: Dist-upgrade or upgrade. Which?

2013-04-23 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 22 Apr 2013, Patrick Bartek wrote: It would be nice if you could trim that to one line. [snip] Yes, it would, but I use Yahoo mail for this list, and that is Yahoo's reply header.  I cannot have my own custom reply header, nor can I opt not to have one at all.  At least, not

Re: Dist-upgrade or upgrade. Which?

2013-04-23 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2013-04-23 07:57:11 +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote: On 22 Apr 2013, Patrick Bartek wrote: It would be nice if you could trim that to one line. [snip] Yes, it would, but I use Yahoo mail for this list, and that is Yahoo's reply header.  I cannot have my own custom reply

Re: Dist-upgrade or upgrade. Which?

2013-04-23 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 23 Apr 2013, Vincent Lefevre wrote: Another problem is that your posts are peppered with lots of codes which make them annoying to read on a text-based email reader like mutt. Strange. I also use Mutt (with various patches) and I don't see any problem with Patrick's mail.

Re: Dist-upgrade or upgrade. Which?

2013-04-23 Thread Patrick Bartek
From: Anthony Campbell a...@acampbell.org.uk   On 22 Apr 2013, Patrick Bartek wrote: It would be nice if you could trim that to one line. [snip] Yes, it would, but I use Yahoo mail for this list, and that is Yahoo's reply header.  I cannot have my own custom reply header,

Re: Dist-upgrade or upgrade. Which?

2013-04-23 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Tue, 2013-04-23 at 11:37 -0700, Patrick Bartek wrote: With almost everything these days graphic and web-based, smartphone and tablet, the days of pure ASCII e-mail are gone for the most part. No, the experiment HTML email miserably failed, that's why more and more people switch to plain text

Re: Dist-upgrade or upgrade. Which?

2013-04-23 Thread Robert Holtzman
On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 07:57:11AM +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote: On 22 Apr 2013, Patrick Bartek wrote: It would be nice if you could trim that to one line. [snip] Yes, it would, but I use Yahoo mail for this list, and that is Yahoo's reply header.  I cannot have my own

Re: Dist-upgrade or upgrade. Which?

2013-04-23 Thread Carroll Grigsby
On Tue, 23 Apr 2013 11:37:13 -0700 (PDT) Patrick Bartek bartek...@yahoo.com wrote: Snip Hope the problem is solvable from your end. Easy solution: Kill file. Bye. -- cmg -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: Dist-upgrade or upgrade. Which?

2013-04-23 Thread staticsafe
On 4/23/2013 15:19, Carroll Grigsby wrote: On Tue, 23 Apr 2013 11:37:13 -0700 (PDT) Patrick Bartek bartek...@yahoo.com wrote: Snip Hope the problem is solvable from your end. Easy solution: Kill file. Bye. -- cmg Seems like overkill. -- staticsafe O ascii ribbon campaign -

Re: Dist-upgrade or upgrade. Which?

2013-04-23 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 11:37:13AM -0700, Patrick Bartek wrote: From: Anthony Campbell a...@acampbell.org.uk   On 22 Apr 2013, Patrick Bartek wrote: It would be nice if you could trim that to one line. [snip] Yes, it would, but I use Yahoo mail for this list,

Re: Dist-upgrade or upgrade. Which?

2013-04-23 Thread Patrick Bartek
From: Chris Bannister cbannis...@slingshot.co.nz   On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 11:37:13AM -0700, Patrick Bartek wrote:   From: Anthony Campbell a...@acampbell.org.uk   [snip] Another problem is that your posts are peppered with lots of codes which make them annoying

Re: Dist-upgrade or upgrade. Which?

2013-04-23 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Wed, 2013-04-24 at 10:28 +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: Are you *really* forced into using yahoo, it really is horrible (not sure which is worse hotmail or yahoo.) for communicating on mailing lists. Info: You're free to use Yahoo with a MUA. Take a look at the email address I'm using right

Re: Dist-upgrade or upgrade. Which?

2013-04-22 Thread Patrick Bartek
- Original Message - From: Jochen Spieker m...@well-adjusted.de To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Cc: Sent: Sunday, April 21, 2013 2:25 AM Subject: Re: Dist-upgrade or upgrade. Which? Patrick Bartek: I've been using Wheezy 64-bit for several months now

Re: Dist-upgrade or upgrade. Which?

2013-04-22 Thread Jochen Spieker
Patrick Bartek: - Original Message - From: Jochen Spieker m...@well-adjusted.de To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Cc: Sent: Sunday, April 21, 2013 2:25 AM Subject: Re: Dist-upgrade or upgrade. Which? It would be nice if you could trim that to one line. The main difference to keep

Why Wheezy and Not Just Testing? (WAS: Re: Dist-upgrade or upgrade. Which?)

2013-04-22 Thread Patrick Bartek
- Original Message - From: Gary Dale garyd...@rogers.com To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: Sunday, April 21, 2013 5:03 AM Subject: Re: Dist-upgrade or upgrade. Which? [snip] As for staying with Wheezy, why

Re: Dist-upgrade or upgrade. Which?

2013-04-22 Thread ha
On 04/21/2013 09:30 PM, Chris Bannister wrote: On Sun, Apr 21, 2013 at 06:41:43PM +0100, Kevin Chadwick wrote: I always use dist-upgrade but there's not a lot a choose. Upgrade upgrades installed packages while dist-upgrade can make more significant changes. Once Wheezy becomes stable the two

Re: Dist-upgrade or upgrade. Which?

2013-04-22 Thread Patrick Bartek
- Original Message -   Patrick Bartek: - Original Message - From: Jochen Spieker m...@well-adjusted.de To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Cc: Sent: Sunday, April 21, 2013 2:25 AM Subject: Re: Dist-upgrade or upgrade.  Which? It would be nice if you could trim

Re: Dist-upgrade or upgrade. Which?

2013-04-21 Thread Jochen Spieker
Patrick Bartek: I've been using Wheezy 64-bit for several months now, and as recommended[1] having been using dist-upgrade for upgrading it.  My sources-list[2] is set to Wheezy and not testing as per those same instructions.  When Wheezy is promoted to Stable should I switch to apt-get

Re: Dist-upgrade or upgrade. Which?

2013-04-21 Thread Gary Dale
I always use dist-upgrade but there's not a lot a choose. Upgrade upgrades installed packages while dist-upgrade can make more significant changes. Once Wheezy becomes stable the two should do the same thing. However, I prefer to stay in the habit of using dist-upgrade (or full-upgrade for

Re: Dist-upgrade or upgrade. Which?

2013-04-21 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Apr 21, 2013 at 08:03:20AM -0400, Gary Dale wrote: I always use dist-upgrade but there's not a lot a choose. Upgrade upgrades installed packages while dist-upgrade can make more significant changes. Once Wheezy becomes stable the two should do the same thing. However, I prefer to stay

Re: Dist-upgrade or upgrade. Which?

2013-04-21 Thread Kevin Chadwick
I always use dist-upgrade but there's not a lot a choose. Upgrade upgrades installed packages while dist-upgrade can make more significant changes. Once Wheezy becomes stable the two should do the same thing. However, I prefer to stay in the habit of using dist-upgrade (or full-upgrade

Re: Dist-upgrade or upgrade. Which?

2013-04-21 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Apr 21, 2013 at 06:41:43PM +0100, Kevin Chadwick wrote: I always use dist-upgrade but there's not a lot a choose. Upgrade upgrades installed packages while dist-upgrade can make more significant changes. Once Wheezy becomes stable the two should do the same thing. However, I

Re: Dist-upgrade or upgrade. Which?

2013-04-21 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Sunday 21 April 2013 17:03:18 Chris Bannister wrote: Using dist-upgrade can remove half your sysytem before you can say OMG! I use aptitude not apt-get, so cannot comment on apt-get, but the aptitude full-upgrade command does nothing without asking first, so there is no question of it

Re: Dist-upgrade or upgrade. Which?

2013-04-21 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2013-04-21 22:52:39 +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote: On Sunday 21 April 2013 17:03:18 Chris Bannister wrote: Using dist-upgrade can remove half your sysytem before you can say OMG! I use aptitude not apt-get, so cannot comment on apt-get, but the aptitude full-upgrade command does nothing

Dist-upgrade or upgrade. Which?

2013-04-20 Thread Patrick Bartek
I've been using Wheezy 64-bit for several months now, and as recommended[1] having been using dist-upgrade for upgrading it.  My sources-list[2] is set to Wheezy and not testing as per those same instructions.  When Wheezy is promoted to Stable should I switch to apt-get upgrade instead?  Or