Re: [OT] Re: [gentoo-user] Postfix Pine incompatability

2005-09-23 Thread Willie Wong
On Fri, Sep 23, 2005 at 02:51:35PM +1200, Nick Rout wrote: So to be positive about it heres how i found the answer: 1. looked to see if there were mbox or maildir USE flags that affected the build of pine - answer NO 2. google pine maildir and discover that there are patches in circulation

[gentoo-user] Postfix Pine incompatability

2005-09-22 Thread Sean Lester
Title: Message Greetings, I've installed Postfix. But when I try to use Pine as a mail client, I can't seem to read an inbox. It looks like Pine is trying to use an "inbox" which is a file, and Postfix delivers things as individual messagesto a folder. Can I configure Pine to read messages

RE: [gentoo-user] Postfix Pine incompatability

2005-09-22 Thread Dave Nebinger
than trying to get pine to work I switched to mutt -Original Message- From: Sean Lester [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, September 22, 2005 4:00 PM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-user] Postfix Pine incompatability Greetings, I've installed

Re: [gentoo-user] Postfix Pine incompatability

2005-09-22 Thread Willie Wong
The official pine distribution doesn't support maildir. Since I don't run pine myself, I don't know if the maildir USE flag would provide the maildir patch for pine. If not: you can use another client (mutt comes to mind), or you can modify the configuration in /etc/postfix/main.cf You are

Re: [gentoo-user] Postfix Pine incompatability

2005-09-22 Thread Nick Rout
: [gentoo-user] Postfix Pine incompatability Greetings, I've installed Postfix. But when I try to use Pine as a mail client, I can't seem to read an inbox. It looks like Pine is trying to use an inbox which is a file, and Postfix delivers things as individual messages to a folder

Re: [gentoo-user] Postfix Pine incompatability

2005-09-22 Thread Nick Rout
On Thu, 22 Sep 2005 16:43:05 -0400 Willie Wong wrote: The official pine distribution doesn't support maildir. Since I don't run pine myself, I don't know if the maildir USE flag would provide the maildir patch for pine. For heaven's sake read the goddamned ebuild! (see the message I just

[OT] Re: [gentoo-user] Postfix Pine incompatability

2005-09-22 Thread Willie Wong
On Fri, Sep 23, 2005 at 08:56:37AM +1200, Nick Rout wrote: On Thu, 22 Sep 2005 16:43:05 -0400 Willie Wong wrote: The official pine distribution doesn't support maildir. Since I don't run pine myself, I don't know if the maildir USE flag would provide the maildir patch for pine. For

Re: [OT] Re: [gentoo-user] Postfix Pine incompatability

2005-09-22 Thread Nick Rout
On Thu, 22 Sep 2005 18:11:41 -0400 Willie Wong wrote: Why did you think the profane language you used was called for? The worst case scenario in these things are the other poster and I making fools out of ourselves at large when the OP replied that he doesn't see any USE flags. We only

Re: [OT] Re: [gentoo-user] Postfix Pine incompatability

2005-09-22 Thread Dave Nebinger
We've had two misleading posts on this subject, which basically only offer a guess to a question that is very easily answered! So I made a gross overlook, but why can't you be civil about it? Sorry, Willy, but for as long as Nick has been posting I would just assume he was having a bad

RE: [gentoo-user] Postfix Pine incompatability

2005-09-22 Thread Sean Lester
-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-user] Postfix Pine incompatability Greetings, I've installed Postfix. But when I try to use Pine as a mail client, I can't seem to read an inbox. It looks like Pine is trying to use an inbox which is a file, and Postfix delivers things

Re: [OT] Re: [gentoo-user] Postfix Pine incompatability

2005-09-22 Thread Nick Rout
On Thu, 22 Sep 2005 21:58:06 -0400 Dave Nebinger wrote: We've had two misleading posts on this subject, which basically only offer a guess to a question that is very easily answered! So I made a gross overlook, but why can't you be civil about it? Sorry, Willy, but for as long as Nick