Re: mutt and gmail on NetBSD

2023-12-14 Thread Mayuresh
On Thu, Dec 14, 2023 at 06:44:13PM +0200, Ivan "Rambius" Ivanov wrote: > error is "No authenticators available". In the past, installing cy2-gssapi had worked for me with mutt, for above error. Later on I switched to neomutt for some reason, which did not have this issue. -- Mayuresh

Re: mutt and gmail on NetBSD

2023-12-14 Thread xuser
It might be that gmail does not have in coming SMTP? xu...@sdf.org SDF Public Access UNIX System - http://sdf.org On Fri, 15 Dec 2023, Brett Lymn wrote: On Thu, Dec 14, 2023 at 06:44:13PM +0200, Ivan "Rambius" Ivanov wrote: I am trying to set up mutt with gmail on NetBSD 9.3. I can

Re: mutt and gmail on NetBSD

2023-12-14 Thread Brett Lymn
On Thu, Dec 14, 2023 at 06:44:13PM +0200, Ivan "Rambius" Ivanov wrote: > > I am trying to set up mutt with gmail on NetBSD 9.3. I can > successfully fetch my mail, but I cannot send email from mutt. The > error is "No authenticators available". I get it from the command line > and interactively

Re: Is it possible to install NetBSD from Ventoy?

2023-12-14 Thread Liam Proven
On Thu, 14 Dec 2023 at 12:52, Martin Husemann wrote: > > The web page does not give any technical details, so it is hard to tell > how it is supposed to work. I don't know, to be perfectly honest. I have not looked into it: it's just a convenience tool that is both much quicker than writing an

mutt and gmail on NetBSD

2023-12-14 Thread Ivan "Rambius" Ivanov
Hello, I am trying to set up mutt with gmail on NetBSD 9.3. I can successfully fetch my mail, but I cannot send email from mutt. The error is "No authenticators available". I get it from the command line and interactively from mutt: $ echo "test from mutt" | mutt -s "test from mutt"

Re: vim hangs (slows) intermittently in mlterm on some UTF8 files

2023-12-14 Thread Mayuresh
On Thu, Dec 14, 2023 at 09:16:47AM -0500, xuser wrote: > And also a have had that prolem with emacs on a large linux console, so try > making the terminal smaller? I did some quick trials. Instead of my usual hdmi screen I used laptop screen and so far did not face a problem. Since the issue is

Re: vim hangs (slows) intermittently in mlterm on some UTF8 files

2023-12-14 Thread Mayuresh
On Thu, Dec 14, 2023 at 09:00:09AM -0500, xuser wrote: > Are there non UTF-8 Chars in the file? Yes. Actually I am using as an email viewer using mutt. > And also try xterm. xterm does not have this problem. But the UTF-8 characters in my regional language are rendered well only in mlterm, with

Re: vim hangs (slows) intermittently in mlterm on some UTF8 files

2023-12-14 Thread xuser
And also a have had that prolem with emacs on a large linux console, so try making the terminal smaller? xu...@sdf.org SDF Public Access UNIX System - http://sdf.org On Thu, 14 Dec 2023, xuser wrote: Are there non UTF-8 Chars in the file? And also try xterm. xu...@sdf.org SDF Public Access

Re: vim hangs (slows) intermittently in mlterm on some UTF8 files

2023-12-14 Thread xuser
Are there non UTF-8 Chars in the file? And also try xterm. xu...@sdf.org SDF Public Access UNIX System - http://sdf.org On Thu, 14 Dec 2023, Mayuresh wrote: I connect to a server running NetBSD 9.2 amd64 using mlterm on Void Linux over ssh. Sometimes when a file with UTF-8 characters is

Re: Is it possible to install NetBSD from Ventoy?

2023-12-14 Thread Martin Husemann
On Thu, Dec 14, 2023 at 12:43:56PM +, Liam Proven wrote: > You don't write an image to anything. You copy a file. It's a normal > FAT32 filesystem with as many ISO files as will fit and it generates a > boot menu on the fly every boot. It works on x86-32, x86-64, BIOS and > UEFI. The web page

Re: Is it possible to install NetBSD from Ventoy?

2023-12-14 Thread Liam Proven
On Wed, 13 Dec 2023 at 22:26, Chavdar Ivanov wrote: > No, I got the same result. It boots the kernel, but then it drops to > the boot: prompt - the kernel does not see the cd it has been booted > from as a cd device - it sees the stick holding Ventoy and all the ISO > files... Ah, shame. I will

Re: Is it possible to install NetBSD from Ventoy?

2023-12-14 Thread Liam Proven
On Wed, 13 Dec 2023 at 17:58, John McCue wrote: > > I never heard of it, but what image did you copy to the drive ? The standard ISO file. > > I looked at the WEB page and this quote from the page indicates > to me it will not correctly write the image to the USB Drive: You don't write an

Re: How big should wd0e (/var) be

2023-12-14 Thread Greg Troxel
Benny Siegert writes: > On Wed, Dec 13, 2023 at 3:52 AM wrote: >> p.s. NetBSD does have ZFS, but I haven't tried it, and I seem to recall >> some discussion of stability issues. > > I have been using it for a few years, never had any stability issues. > However, root on ZFS remains a bit

vim hangs (slows) intermittently in mlterm on some UTF8 files

2023-12-14 Thread Mayuresh
I connect to a server running NetBSD 9.2 amd64 using mlterm on Void Linux over ssh. Sometimes when a file with UTF-8 characters is opened in vim on this setup, vim hangs for several seconds, often about a minute and then resumes. The behavior is not necessarily reproducible on the same file

Re: How big should wd0e (/var) be

2023-12-14 Thread Benny Siegert
On Wed, Dec 13, 2023 at 3:52 AM wrote: > p.s. NetBSD does have ZFS, but I haven't tried it, and I seem to recall > some discussion of stability issues. I have been using it for a few years, never had any stability issues. However, root on ZFS remains a bit challenging IIRC. I put ZFS on /usr