[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
...
However, in my case, I specifically WANT to set that global variable.
For the curious, it's http_proxy and ftp_proxy that I want set - my ISP
enforces use of a proxy server for http, and encourages it for ftp.
Without this set, *anything* that tries to talk out on
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi, I'm having a problem with XMMS. I am using the version that comes with
Debian 2.2.19pre17 ISO image 1. Whenever I am playing a song, I can't open
windows, popup menus, etc. until I click STOP or the song ends. Once it ends,
it performs all the tasks I tried to do
Shaul Karl wrote:
The following is an bad attempt to use exmh `Apply command to body'
feature.
However I believe it boils down to a tcl or a sh quoting question.
What I am trying to do is to filter a message by applying a filter to
its body.
Now this filter
sed -n s/Inst//p
Karsten M. Self wrote:
on Thu, Dec 06, 2001 at 10:58:23PM +0100, Arnout Bruinsma ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
wrote:
L.S.
I'm looking for a file manager for use under Window Maker.
In SuSe I used xfm but I can't find an xfm Debian package.
I hope somebody has a suggestion
gmc isn't terribly
Joachim Trinkwitz wrote:
Erik Steffl [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Karsten M. Self wrote:
gmc isn't terribly visually bletcherous, and doesn't suffer the bloat of
Nautilus.
Both suffer from the same inability to deal with floppy drives in a
sane way, wrt mounting/umounting
Preben Randhol wrote:
DvB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 07/12/2001 (21:31) :
xmms seems pretty user friendly to me... if you really want something
else, though, you might check out linuxberg's listing:
Yes for a power user, but not for newbies. One point is that XMMS uses a
completely
Curtis Farnham wrote:
...
When I run alsaconf, it gives the following additional messages after
the above one:
Setting the PCM volume to 100% and the Master output volume to
50%
The ALSA sound driver was not detected in this system.
Could not initialize the mixer, the card
Eric Smith wrote:
How do I get unabridged filenames viz project_one.doc insead of
projec~1.doc on floppies where files have been saved in windows.
mount it as vfat (mount -t vfat)?
dman wrote:
On Mon, Dec 10, 2001 at 11:26:07AM +0100, Eric Smith wrote:
| oops - now I get this:
| [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~] 2 $ cp Samenwerkingsovereenkomst.doc /floppyls
/floppy
| projec~1.dot samenwer.doc samenw~1.doc
|
|
| which I prefer to the ~1 type but
tom schuetz wrote:
* Nicolás Conde ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly:
Hello.
I don't mean to be rude with this, but i've noticed that few people
do their homework before posting. I've seen some questions over and over
again for which answers exist in the {manual pages | list
Dimitri Maziuk wrote:
* Nicolás Conde ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly:
Hello.
I don't mean to be rude with this, but i've noticed that few people
do their homework before posting. I've seen some questions over and over
again for which answers exist in the {manual pages | list
Dave Sherohman wrote:
On Mon, Dec 10, 2001 at 12:28:53AM +0200, Ian Balchin wrote:
To the point, why does debian switch off the numlock in the first
place when it has been set on at bios level, and surely most people
want it on anyway?
That's not Debian-specific. The Linux kernel
Ted Roden wrote:
Hi everyone.
I apologize for such a silly question.
well, if you can't find an answer then it's not silly to ask...
I can't seem to find which package contains the man pages for basic
programming functions like stat and sprintf etc.
I was thinking perhaps it is
dman wrote:
Sometimes I'd like to print a dilbert comic and share with someone who
wouldn't go look on the web.
Galeon does a good job of loading the image and displaying it
on-screen, but when I print it comes out a little too wide and gets
cut off on the right (us-letter paper). I can
Eric Brooks wrote:
On Fri, Dec 14, 2001 at 12:47:10AM -0500, Justin R. Miller wrote:
Did you re-login after doing that?
No, I didn't. I'll try that. Thanks very much.
it's enough to do su - yourself (if you're using X and don't want to
restart it)
erik
Seth Delackner wrote:
On Thu, Dec 13, 2001 at 12:07:43PM +0700, Oki DZ wrote:
Hi,
It seems that as long as you don't kill the server, everything would be as
what you left out. Interesting... It's kinda neat, I think. Next time you
logged in to the remote host using the xvncviewer,
since lame seems to be the best mp3 encoder and there's no .deb
there's a question - which version to use? the 3.70 seems to be quite
old but the newer one 3.89beta is, well, beta. Does anybody have
experience with how good the beta is? I am mainly interested in sound
quality, not speed (or
Hi Hall!
On Mon, 17 Dec 2001, Hall Stevenson wrote:
...
Don't appear to have 'xkeycaps' installed... If the part below doesn't
help, I'll see about installing it.
use xev, it's usually installed as part of basic x clients.
erik
Hall Stevenson wrote:
Actually, I would like to be able to cut
and paste, with or without mouse, in different
applications running under KDE. For example,
a line from KWord to a search box at an
internet site up under Netscape. I can cut
and paste from within KWord, and also from
Joey Hess wrote:
Hall Stevenson wrote:
Actually, I would like to be able to cut
and paste, with or without mouse, in different
applications running under KDE. For example,
a line from KWord to a search box at an
internet site up under Netscape. I can cut
and paste from
Hall Stevenson wrote:
snip
I am not sure why some applications use different
clipboards (buffers)... anybody has explanation? pointer
to docs?
How about this, http://www.jwz.org/doc/x-cut-and-paste.html ??
thanks, that's good info.
erik
Jussi Ekholm wrote:
On Sat, Sep 29, 2001 at 06:41:00AM +1000, Sam Varghese wrote:
Bill McCarty's book on Debian (still online, free) is, IMHO, still
the best guide for new users.
Where can I find this book Quick (very quick) Google-search told me,
several things, but not the location
I use uw-imapd-ssl, postfix and procmail to deliver email. I didn't do
any system related changes (no config file changes, no apt-get fun) and
suddenly my procmail filters don't work, all email is delivered into
inbox and I get the message in subject in syslog, here's the relevant
part:
Ralf G. R. Bergs wrote:
On Sun, 30 Sep 2001 01:43:16 -0700, Erik Steffl wrote:
[...] it used to have 664 permissions but I changed it to:
-rw---1 erik erik 660 May 12 19:41
/home/erik/.procmailrc
and it still complains!
any ideas? TIA.
Could
Alex Hunsley wrote:
Karsten M. Self wrote:
on Sat, Sep 29, 2001 at 01:02:16PM +0100, Alex Hunsley ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
wrote:
Who runs the debian list?
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
I emailed the list owner address a little while ago and haven't
received a response.
What I
Karsten M. Self wrote:
on Sun, Sep 30, 2001 at 09:51:04PM +0100, Alex Hunsley ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
wrote:
Karsten M. Self wrote:
I read my email from several places, not all of which have a linux box
handy (e.g. work). Is there a promail equivelent for windows?
First choice: ssh
Ola Lundqvist wrote:
On Tue, Oct 02, 2001 at 10:27:49AM +0200, martin f krafft wrote:
i always wondered just why debian apache puts the main homepage of a
server into /var/www. /var isn't made for stuff that's persistens like
a homepage! in addition, where do virtual hosts go? in general,
I used to use aptitude for most of the package manging activities,
which mostly meant doing equivalent of apt-get update apt-get
dist-upgrade.
lately (few month) the aptitude became completely usuable:
package screen: I only see few packages in package tree, e.g. the
Installed packages
Alan Shutko wrote:
Jeffrey W. Baker [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
That is an extraordinarily bad idea. Any person will be able to guess the
sequence of random numbers simply by guessing the time at which your
program was started.
And the impact of this depends on what the program is
I have a SPARC Station 5 with debian installed. It works fairly well,
the problem is I have no info about the HW configuration (I got it on
sort of garage sale from company going out of business (or moving, I am
not sure which)).
as of now it is working, but I would like to build a new kernel
Rino Mardo wrote:
...you can check in anytime you want, but you can never leave...
i sent an unsubscribe to the listbot three days ago and up to now it
hasn't acted on it. failing that i sent a request to the list
maintainer and that too hasn't acted on it.
is this hotel california?
joey tsai wrote:
Hi,
My drive appears to be full via df:
[corban][05:07pm][~] $ df -h
FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda1 61M 59M 0 100% /
However, I'm not exactly sure I'm even getting 57M used:
[corban][05:09pm][/home/joeytsai] # du
system:
uw-imapd-ssl 2001rc1debian-1
evolution-ssl 0.14-2
debian unstable, kernel 2.4.10
when using netscape, I see the folders in ~/mail (which I set as top
folder in netscape), here' how the directory looks:
Drafts
Sent
Templates
Trash
in-l-alsa
in-l-debian-devel
Steve Kowalik wrote:
At 10:05 am, Tuesday, October 9 2001, Stephen Gran mumbled:
p.s. - I'm told the debian way is much easier, but I've never used it,
so others can tell you more.
AHHA! The Debian Way!
Basically, you can install a kernel-source .deb from apt, or download a
tarball
Royce Bell wrote:
Okay, this is it. I'm about to take the plunge into Linux, but my
experience with dumb terminal-based Unix is over 20 years old. In the
interim, I've been on Windows; a sometimes happy, but always frustrating and
infuriating marriage of convenience and
Tommi Komulainen wrote:
On Wed, Oct 10, 2001 at 02:46:17PM -0400, Simon Law wrote:
Probably not. You'll be wanting alsa-source from unstable,
which is at 0.9. The development version is quite nice compared to
the stable one.
The only thing that's keeping me back from
Colin Watson wrote:
On Wed, Oct 10, 2001 at 03:28:42PM -0700, Ben Hartshorne wrote:
And he does have a point. The anti-M$ sentiment has led to a number of
comments on this list that, were I thinking of transitioning to Linux,
would deter me from doing so because self-righteousness is
Hall Stevenson wrote:
...
This is kinda my point. If you haven't used an MS product in 'x'
number of years, how do you know it's the fault of the MS program ??
Simply 'cause MS makes it ?? Because others who also haven't used
that's actually a pretty good heuristics.
(I use windows
Kevin C. Smith wrote:
On Wed, Oct 10, 2001 at 08:33:26PM -0700, Erik Steffl wrote:
Tommi Komulainen wrote:
On Wed, Oct 10, 2001 at 02:46:17PM -0400, Simon Law wrote:
Probably not. You'll be wanting alsa-source from unstable,
which is at 0.9. The development version
Colin Watson wrote:
On Wed, Oct 10, 2001 at 08:44:45PM -0700, Erik Steffl wrote:
Colin Watson wrote:
On Wed, Oct 10, 2001 at 03:28:42PM -0700, Ben Hartshorne wrote:
And he does have a point. The anti-M$ sentiment has led to a number of
comments on this list that, were I thinking
I just got the following warning:
jojda:~ping azar
PING azar (192.168.1.3) from 192.168.1.1 : 56(84) bytes of data.
WARNING: kernel is not very fresh, upgrade is recommended.
From 192.168.1.1: icmp_seq=3 Destination Host Unreachable
while I only compiled kernel few days ago, it couldn't go
Marc Shapiro wrote:
This is somewhat off-topic, but can anyone point me in the right
direction to finding out how to use a .gif or .jpeg file as a desktop
background in fvwm?
I use chbg but you can use number of programs. it does not have to be
related to window manager... (you can call
dman wrote:
On Sat, Oct 13, 2001 at 04:47:23PM -0500, W. Paul Mills wrote:
| [EMAIL PROTECTED] (dman) writes:
| On Sat, Oct 13, 2001 at 04:42:18PM -0400, Rong Fan wrote:
[...]
| | D-Link DFE-530TX+
|
[...]
| tulip
[...]
| NO NO See that + on the end -- takes the rtl8139
Martin Rowe wrote:
On Saturday 13 October 2001 11:13 pm, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
On Sun, 14 Oct 2001, csj wrote:
Anybody else had a similar experience? I can compile without my
meager 56K connection stalling. But with a running bzip2 process ppp
traffic becomes so abysmal
Karsten M. Self wrote:
on Sun, Oct 14, 2001 at 08:53:33PM +0200, Jürgen A. Erhard ([EMAIL
PROTECTED]) wrote:
Hi folks,
I have seen the recurring threads about web-browsers, so I looked at
Dillo again. (Have watched it on and off since the very first
versions, then called gzilla).
Damon Muller wrote:
Quoth Ron Farrer,
I'm building a firewall out of an old 486 and was wondering if it was
best to use two NICs of the same type/brand or to use different ones? Is
there any gotchas for doing one over the other?
I find that's it's easier to use two different cards (not
Mike Egglestone wrote:
Hi,
I remeber awhile ago I had the same problem.
I not too sure, but I believe was initially running qpopper
first, and then installed imap.
Then that message started to appear.
I removed qpopper and just ran imap.
Everything is good now.
I think I like imap better
Hans Steinraht wrote:
Hi all,
While using Skipstone it crashed.
After that I can't get it to startup again.
I did a apt-get remove --purge skipstone and mozilla-browser, followed with a
new install, but the only what Skipstone says while starting it is a little
spinning of my
Örjan Persson wrote:
Petteri Heinonen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
Hello.
Does anybody know a way to make enqueue as a default action
when adding files to xmms's playlist? I know the command line
option --enqueue, but it seems to affect only if I add files
from command line. I've made a
wayne wrote:
Hi Aaron,
I run RedHat and I get the same thing.
I don't have a solution for you.
Wayne
Aaron Maxwell wrote:
Hi. I'm running yesterday's sid. In the console, occasionally a green
blinking 'D' will appear at a certain position on the screen. When and
where
it
'cduck' Chris Grierson wrote:
anyone know what signal ^S sends, and how to unfreeze a konsole when it
gets pressed? on one of the system consoles (tty1-6; btw, what is the
try ctrl-q
erik
Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote:
... when woody becomes stable ...
Or do I need to do some kind of reinstall?
Nope.
There have been Debian machines that have been updated for 5 years. In fact
the joke among us Debian developers is that our installer is so bad because
most of us only see it
Justin Hahn wrote:
Of course, the smoothest way to upgrade is to use dselect.
Brian,
Why this assertion? I thought dselect was on its way out...
especially seeing as apt-get and aptitude are both much easier to deal with
than dselect in the eyes of everyone I've ever talked to.
Jose Juan Iglesias wrote:
Hi all!
I've been trying to install gnucash package from ustable, version 1.6.1-4.
dselect says that gnucash depends on libgal9 (= 0.10) and on libgtkhtml14
(= 0.11.1). And none seems to be available.
looks like that's fixed (you might need to do update):
I have just found out that www-data sends emails to www-data. What's
the point of that? nobody logs in as www-data and the emails are
invisible.
here's what the email says:
/bin/sh: /usr/sbin/awstats-update: bad interpreter: Permission denied
the bug was already filed for this problem but
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I just added 512meg of ram to my Debian Woody box. I had heard that Linux
does not support 512meg of ram without a kernel recompile. Is this true?
I don't know but you can find out: run free (or top or cat
/proc/meminfo or some other program that tells you how
Michael Kaminsky wrote:
I'm been using Mandrake for the past couple of years, and now I'm
considering switching to Debian; but, I have some concerns. I
consider myself a fairly experienced Linux user and use Linux for all
my computing needs (devel, digital camera stuff, laptop stuff ,text
Jeffrey W. Baker wrote:
...
ALSA is another package that is screwed up in unstable but you can blame
ALSA developers for that, not Debian.
also note that alsa itself is officially unstable, so it's expected to
be broken from time to time (the alsa itself, not only debian alsa
package). the
Jaldhar H. Vyas wrote:
...
If you want to encrypt your mail password, you can tunnel POP3 and/or IMAP
over SSH and obtain end-to-end encryption that way.
Happily the need to do that is a thing of the past. The UW and Courier
imapds also support imaps (IMAP over SSL) natively. Because
Donald R. Spoon wrote:
Chris Keelan wrote:
I have a Soundblaster AWE64 which was detected automatically by
Mandrake.
Now I'm running Woody and I can't get the card detected. pnpdump finds a
bunch of listings but pnpprobe gives me no cards found.
I've been through the mini-HOWTO,
Karsten M. Self wrote:
on Sat, Nov 03, 2001 at 08:57:42AM +0100, Hans Ekbrand ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
wrote:
On Fri, Nov 02, 2001 at 10:52:13PM +0100, Jens Müller wrote:
Hans Ekbrand [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I think Karsten is wrong here. There is a Code of Conduct section
on
Aniartia (by way of Aniartia ) wrote:
On Saturday 03 November 2001 18:52, David P James wrote:
My Debian Woody box has 128Mb of RAM, and a 128Mb swap partition...
...I understand that linux uses essentially as much RAM as it can
because it is there. Now, I opened up that colossal memory
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Just wondering if anyone has ever tried to run Broadcast 2000 under a Debian
system. I've attempted to convert an RPM of this app via Alien.
However I hit a roadblock with reference to an item called libXv.so.1
Apparently this file is nonexistent. The
Ron Golan wrote:
On Fri, Nov 02, 2001 at 10:47:08PM -0600, Donald R. Spoon wrote:
[...]
10. As root, open up /etc/modules with a text editor and add the
following below what is already there:
awe_wave
opl3
[ note that is oh-pee-el three]
I'm using a 2.4 kernel and I
martin f krafft wrote:
* Eric G. Miller egm2@jps.net [2001.11.04 10:56:49-0800]:
char *buff = (char*)malloc(128);
sizeof(buff) == 4 // on i32 machines
-- problem!
Depends on what buff is, its scope and how sizeof is used.
which is why i declared it as a pointer to buffer
Hanasaki JiJI wrote:
Does cyrus have the all folders show up under INBOX problem as courier
does with netscape and mozilla? Appearantly this is a result of the
client not the server? If cyrus doesn't how do they get around it?
Thanks
yes it does but it is not considered problem (it's a
since certain time (months ago) the alsa modules cannot be unloaded, I
tried /etc/alsa/stop and also directly using rmmod, nothing helps.
If there is some process that has one of the sound devices open the
alsa stop complains. However even after I close these programs alsa
cannot be stopped -
Dale Scheetz wrote:
I'm about ready to release the 1.0.7 version of the atari800 package, and
I'd like some feedback from folks who are actually using the package.
If you use this package, please take a look at the following issues and
let me know how they impact your use:
1. The
Jeff wrote:
white male, 34, U.S. Californian, Data Network Engineering
professional, BS in Info Mgt, user not a developer, married with
child, ride offroad motorcycles on the weekend, play HalfLife/CS
on occassion, kinda social, Christian, read sci-fi books, watch
sci-fi video's, love
Michael D. Schleif wrote:
More and more, *nix developers are following the dark path of using
whitespace in directory and filenames -- something which I've always
detested, from an sa standpoint ;
well, it's a valid character, why shouldn't it be there? IMO the
situation where users are
Michael D. Schleif wrote:
Erik Steffl wrote:
Michael D. Schleif wrote:
More and more, *nix developers are following the dark path of using
whitespace in directory and filenames -- something which I've always
detested, from an sa standpoint ;
well, it's a valid character
Dimitri Maziuk wrote:
* Erik Steffl ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly:
...
generally, filename should be allowed to be basically any text. I see
no reason to limit it (well, the general consesnsus among most of the
unix(-like) implementations is that you cannot include '\0
Joel Franco Guzmán wrote:
Hi guys,
plz, i have troubles with the hosts file.
it says:
127.0.0.1 thorlocalhost
i think it is not correct, bcoz the thor name is not the
loopback: it's a real ip. i had troubles mounting nfs filesystem by trying
mount
Craig Dickson wrote:
Dimitri Maziuk wrote:
Wrong. There's a reason why people with half a clue don't put
spaces in paths, and inadequacy of tools is not it. Unless your
computer can read minds, it has no way of telling when the
whitespace's supposed to be input separator, and when
Craig Dickson wrote:
...
Of course, if you want to admit that MacOS and Win32 can do something
better than Unix can -- which is the obvious implication of a lot of
what you've said on this subject --, be my guest.
? how could that be? what's the difference (ms-mac-unix)? the only
difference
Michael D. Schleif wrote:
Craig Dickson wrote:
...
the least if the filesystem simply didn't accept them. But spaces are
meaningful to people, and should be allowed and properly supported by
the shell and other standard tools.
Yes, I can understand reasons to want to use whitespace in
Craig Dickson wrote:
Erik Steffl wrote:
Of course, if you want to admit that MacOS and Win32 can do something
better than Unix can -- which is the obvious implication of a lot of
what you've said on this subject --, be my guest.
? how could that be? what's the difference (ms
Ken Irving wrote:
On Wed, Dec 19, 2001 at 09:46:41PM -0800, Erik Steffl wrote:
...
let's note that it's mostly the shell, basically all other tools
handle any characters properly (not talking about shell scripts, those
all depend on how careful the author was).
The only reason
Phillip Deackes wrote:
...
comformity within X and how silly things like copying and pasting works
between most apps but not others, or how I can't get the Euro symbol
did you try xcutsel?
erik
I've read what I've found on usb, reviewedfixed my settings, tried
various version of cpqpjb driver and I still get exactly the same
results - the driver registers but that's it, it doesn't even probe for
devices. I have reports that the same driver works with 2.4.14 for other
people. Here are
the standard debian menu for fvwm contains item for FvwmAuto that does
auto-raise of window that receives focus. Unfortunately the current menu
entry is IMO basically unusable, I was wondering what others think (to
see whether I should file a wishlist bug or just ignore it).
here's the
Brian Nelson wrote:
martin f krafft [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
also sprach Brian Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2001.12.24.0101 +0100]:
Sure, and someone else can answer them. Besides, when's the last
time a question was asked by a Microsoft mailer user or an html
poster that couldn't
Karsten M. Self wrote:
on Tue, Dec 25, 2001 at 03:54:36AM -0200, Christoph Simon ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
wrote:
...
One of the declared aims of info is to provide a frame to write
introductions or tutorials which wouldn't fit well into a man page,
because that is limited to a reference
Phillip Deackes wrote:
On 24 Dec 2001 17:44:44 -0500
Erik Steffl [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
No, but when a business chooses degenerate mail and forces everyone to
use it, I'd be pretty suspicious of high-level idiocy within the
business.
I did not write that, it was written
Phillip Deackes wrote:
On Tue, 25 Dec 2001 14:21:27 -0800
Erik Steffl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Phillip Deackes wrote:
On 24 Dec 2001 17:44:44 -0500
Erik Steffl [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
No, but when a business chooses degenerate mail and forces everyone
to use
Karsten M. Self wrote:
...
The problem isn't just vi, though. _Most_ Unix commands are based on
mnemonic, consonant-heavy, abbreviations: ls, cd, rm, mv, ll, who, vi,
ps, mutt, df Most of these are balanced between left and right
hands, leading to good natural rhythems, many are based
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
i came to try Debian because i have heard soo many good things about this
distro.
Well i have come to find that it is FALSE!
r. Potato is the most broken release i have ever seen
the most simple packages are broken all to hell.
I get this when startx
X
imo it's very useful to have the eamil deliverystorage separate from
email clients.
from this point of view the ideal situation is to use IMAP, server
side filtering (like sieve with cyrus) and let them use any clients they
want...
not sure how to get there from exchange, does exchange
Brian Nelson wrote:
...
Sylpheed is supposed to be a nice GUI mailer, though I haven't tried
it.
Evolution is supposedly out of beta, though I wouldn't be surprised if
it crashed a lot, as you mentioned. KMail has weak IMAP support.
Mozilla Mail is still too buggy, as is Balsa. Netscape
Lev Lvovsky wrote:
On Wed, 26 Dec 2001, Erik Steffl wrote:
imo it's very useful to have the eamil deliverystorage separate from
email clients.
from this point of view the ideal situation is to use IMAP, server
side filtering (like sieve with cyrus) and let them use any clients
David Z Maze wrote:
Erik Steffl [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
ES what's this netscpae 4.x bashing I see repeatedly? IMO it's a fairly
ES good email client, stable (well, as stable as browser and it's really
ES only stable when you disable java), has the main MUA features...
Issues
dman wrote:
...
info2vim converter then I could be happy :-). If you don't already
know : vim allows for hyper-links (start with :help) that can be
followed with ^] and ^T takes you back where you were before.
and for those who really didn't know: you can 'hyperlink' your code
(at least c,
martin f krafft wrote:
i am installing a debian system for my brother, and i need to pack it
with easter eggs and weirdities to the brim. any hints? ;)
yes, this is satire.
you need sl, you don't want to waste mistyped ls
erik
dman wrote:
On Wed, Dec 26, 2001 at 04:21:53PM -0500, Brian Nelson wrote:
| Not true! I switched from mutt to gnus. It's IMAP support was too weak
| for me,
IMAP in mutt is actually somewhat controversial. The author doesn't
really like it (mutt is _just_ a MUA), but there would be
Craig Dickson wrote:
Erik Steffl wrote:
IMO the MUA should not handle storage of email, so this is a non an
issue:-) [the real causality goes in the other way]
Well, the MUA should not have to worry about retrieval from POP servers.
That's fetchmail's job. But certainly the MUA
Craig Dickson wrote:
Lev Lvovsky wrote:
why the insistence on fetchmail?
...
Also, with fetchmail, you don't have to bother telling your mail client
about your POP or IMAP server -- it's one less thing to configure if you
provided that you want to download emails from IMAP which is not
dman wrote:
On Wed, Dec 26, 2001 at 05:23:49PM -0800, Erik Steffl wrote:
| dman wrote:
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| On Wed, Dec 26, 2001 at 04:21:53PM -0500, Brian Nelson wrote:
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| | Not true! I switched from mutt to gnus. It's IMAP support was too weak
| | for me,
|
| IMAP in mutt is actually
Carel Fellinger wrote:
On Wed, Dec 26, 2001 at 05:32:31PM -0800, Erik Steffl wrote:
Craig Dickson wrote:
...
I guess, I still like to see it all at once... I guess I can open few
windows, each with it's own view:-)
BTW the other annoying thing is that it requires password to IMAP
John Hasler wrote:
erik writes:
email storage - where the email is stored. traditionaly this is just
files, mostly mbox or maildir. that's what is replaced by IMAP. that way
you have no email in /var/spool/mail/username or ~/mbox or wherever your
email currently is, the email is stored
Craig Dickson wrote:
Erik Steffl wrote:
Also, with fetchmail, you don't have to bother telling your mail client
about your POP or IMAP server -- it's one less thing to configure if you
provided that you want to download emails from IMAP which is not a
very good way to use IMAP
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