I have the following two little problems:
I use midnight commander (mc) for my system work and it used to
work just fine until not so long ago when it all of a sudden wouldn't
let me have a shell, i.e. I could press ^o and see the shell but whichever
button I pressed there it always brought me straight back into mc, that is really
annoying because if I want to do some work in the shell I now either have to quit
mc or go to another console.
I started to read the mc-FAQ and there it said something
about stty having something to do with the ^o not working, so I
played around with stty but never got the command right or
something, at least it still doesn't work.
The other thing I have problems with these days is my mail
sytem, I just upgrated to Debian 2.2 and with it came spruce,
a very primitive mail client (not quite as bad as balsa though), I
very quickly got on the wrong side off spruce though and started
experimenting with mh and fetchmail. Now fetchmail works great
but I would really like to filter my mail since I subscribe to couple of
mailinglists, so I put procmail to work and now it filters, the only
problem is that procmail saves the mail files as msg.1ft or something like
that, and exmh (or MH) will only read files if they are numbered (I know because
just by renaming the msg files will
make exmh read them) and I just don't seem to find any info on
that, I also have not been able to put my smtp setting anywhere
so I don't even know whether I can send mail reliably yet.
Still I think I would like to persue this system since it seems to
work. On the other hand I might be barking up the wrong tree and
should just work with mutt. I don't know, what mail clients are out
there for people like me, the other day I had about 400 messages
for me and that's what killed spruce.
If anyone has any solutions for me I would be eternally
greatful.
Gummi
