Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Turn of maildir

2005-04-05 Thread Bjoern Michaelsen
On Mon, Apr 04, 2005 at 09:18:53PM -0500, Harry Putnam wrote: assumes a user will know more than I do. For example: There appear to be a set of default use flags with various pkgs. In the instant case... sendmail. This is from man make.conf: USEE_ORDER = env:pkg:conf:auto:defaults

[gentoo-user] Re: Turn of maildir

2005-04-05 Thread Harry Putnam
Bjoern Michaelsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Mon, Apr 04, 2005 at 09:28:48PM -0500, Harry Putnam wrote: Yes, for my usage (2 user home network) mbox is superior. But of course we are now into the slippery ground of opinion. For me its simpler and more tools recognize it by default. Such

[gentoo-user] Re: Turn of maildir

2005-04-05 Thread Harry Putnam
Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Yes, for my usage (2 user home network) mbox is superior. But of course we are now into the slippery ground of opinion. For me its simpler and more tools recognize it by default. Such as mutt and a number of home written perl scripts and etc. OK I

[gentoo-user] Re: Turn of maildir

2005-04-04 Thread Harry Putnam
Robert S [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I don't know if this is relevant, but you can compile sendmail with or without the mbox USE flag - I think that that determines whether mail goes to maildir or not: [...] Appears to be very relevant ... thanks. My use flag for mbox was - - mbox : Adds

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Turn of maildir

2005-04-04 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
You can set use flags in /etc/make.conf if you want them to apply to everything otherwise check out man portage and /etc/portage/package.* files. On Mon, 4 Apr 2005, Harry Putnam wrote: Robert S [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I don't know if this is relevant, but you can compile sendmail with or

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Turn of maildir

2005-04-04 Thread Bjoern Michaelsen
On Mon, Apr 04, 2005 at 08:39:02PM -0500, Harry Putnam wrote: Robert S [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I don't know if this is relevant, but you can compile sendmail with or without the mbox USE flag - I think that that determines whether mail goes to maildir or not: [...] Appears to be

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Turn of maildir

2005-04-04 Thread Nick Rout
On Mon, 04 Apr 2005 20:39:02 -0500 Harry Putnam wrote: Robert S [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I don't know if this is relevant, but you can compile sendmail with or without the mbox USE flag - I think that that determines whether mail goes to maildir or not: [...] Appears to be very

[gentoo-user] Re: Turn of maildir

2005-04-04 Thread Harry Putnam
Bjoern Michaelsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Harry: I'm still just learning the emerge/portage setup so not really sure how to redo that. Does one have to change basic USE flag setting Bjoern: vi /etc/make.conf; emerge -va --newuse world Harry: somewhere or can they be set at emerge time?

[gentoo-user] Re: Turn of maildir

2005-04-04 Thread Harry Putnam
Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Before you go recompiling anything, or changing your configs, tell us what is your local delivery agent (LDA)? I'm using procmail. I've written the *.mc to include it and certain other things. I now how to setup procmail to do what I want and ahve used it

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Turn of maildir

2005-04-04 Thread Nick Rout
On Mon, 04 Apr 2005 21:28:48 -0500 Harry Putnam wrote: Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Before you go recompiling anything, or changing your configs, tell us what is your local delivery agent (LDA)? I'm using procmail. I've written the *.mc to include it and certain other things.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Turn of maildir

2005-04-04 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
Check out the gentoo web site docs under use flags. On Mon, 4 Apr 2005, Harry Putnam wrote: Bjoern Michaelsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Snip man portage shows some of the syntax for `package.use' but apparently assumes a user will know more than I do. For example: There appear to be a set of