It is weird. Pine does not come stock in this version of Oralux, so I installed it last night. Now, the problem is the retrieval of mail messages from the original file where they are brought into the machine by fetchmail, since pine does not work with pop3 directly. Here is the question I have.
First of all, where do you have your spool file variable set to pick up the mail when it comes into the machine? Is it /var/mail/knoppix? Is it /var/spool/mail/knoppix? Does it matter? These can be links to the same file, and, I think they are. Now, I wonder about this: I have absolutely no desire to save any sent messages nor do I have the desire nor do I feel that I have the disk space to go saving mountains of messages that I have already read. When you mark a message for deletion, is there an expunge performed when pine quits? Now, another question. When you set up this configuration, you have to have your mail address so that the program will send out messages with the right from field. Is this done by a combination of the personal-name and domain-name variables? I thought I had that set up right, but I was not sure. Now, how do you make sure that your reply-to is right? Is it the same as the combination of the two parts, the personal-name and the domain-name? I am going to look at the documentation on the internet site as soon as I can get back on it. I have to take care of my wife and I cannot be on here too long tonight. I hope to have this fixed before the weekend. Now, you have said that you have never had any success with mutt. I have it on here as well and consider it to be a good challenge. It will not send messages, and I believe that this has something to do with making the sendmail program work right. It has no place for a smtp server variable, so that there is no way to simply bypass the mailer on the machine and go to a regular server such as the one at my ISP. I have never had any success with these large, complex mail programs like sendmail, exim, postfix, qmail, name them. This is really because I haven't had the time to study them and their ridiculous number of configuration options. I hope that I can fix this with the configuration of mutt. It is just as a challenge, and so that I can help people with it. If anyone out there has any secrets for this one, I wonder what they are. Your help will be greatly appreciated. You are right about vm. It is a subsystem of emacs, which has become, almost a complete sub-operating system, a little out of hand, if you ask me. However, after months of research involving this problem earlier in the development of Oralux, I was able to fix the vm situation so that I can have it working within seconds of having a new Oralux. In fact, I have all the solutions for this in my .vm and .emacs files. I think that secure mail thing, msmtp, or whatever, is rather interesting, but, with this mail server, I don't need it. Now, about fetchmail. Where does it put the mail. This seems to be the problem with pine I have had. Where is the spool file into which fetchmail puts the messages so that I can be sure to get them all configured on both fetchmail and the two mail clients. This will really be good for me and I want to get it right. Thanks for your help. -- Doug Smith: C.S.F.C. Computer Scientist For CHRIST! Oralux: http://oralux.org _______________________________________________ Oralux mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freearchive.org/mailman/listinfo/oralux
