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On Fri, Sep 23, 2005 at 08:56:37AM +1200, Nick Rout wrote: |
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> On Thu, 22 Sep 2005 16:43:05 -0400 |
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> Willie Wong wrote: |
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> > The official pine distribution doesn't support maildir. Since I don't |
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> > run pine myself, I don't know if the maildir USE flag would provide |
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> > the maildir patch for pine. |
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> For heaven's sake read the goddamned ebuild! (see the message I just |
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> posted). What is so difficult about: |
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> grep maildir /usr/portage/mail-client/pine/* |
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> We've had two misleading posts on this subject, which basically only |
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> offer a guess to a question that is very easily answered! |
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So I made a gross overlook, but why can't you be civil about it? In my |
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case, yes, it never occurred to me to read the ebuild, and I am |
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ssh'ing in to my home machine, so I cannot say that I have no access. |
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But what if someone is trying to help when reading from G-Mail? or at |
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work and just browsing the e-mail and seeing a question they can |
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likely answer from a brief search from Google? For some people the |
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ebuild might not be sitting in an easily acceptable place you know. |
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In my case I interpreted the question as basically "the OP doesn't |
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know what to call the different mailbox formats and hence cannot |
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search on Google". So I provided that information (maildir vs mbox) |
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and did a cursory search on Google and saw that the official |
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distribution of Pine doesn't come with maildir support, though patches |
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do exist. |
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In any case, my post is not "Misleading" as you would have termed it. |
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I offered common suggestions in the emerge-sense: when a feature may |
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or may not have been included, check the USE flags. (Sure, I jumped |
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the gun there and assumed that the OP, when sending the post, has a |
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copy of Pine without maildir support, instead of just not knowing how |
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to use the feature, but hopefully after pointing out the fact that |
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such a thing is called maildir the OP would be able to configure pine |
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for it.) |
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And I did suggest the OP check for maildir support in his local copy |
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before moving on to anything else. |
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And if the OP is used to using pine + mbox, my second suggestion of |
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configuring postfix to use mbox instead of maildir is an equally |
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valid, sensible, and perhaps preferable (let's not get into a flamewar |
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on the relative merits of mbox and maildir here) solution to the |
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problem. |
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Why did you think the profane language you used was called for? The |
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worst case scenario in these things are the other poster and I making |
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fools out of ourselves at large when the OP replied that he doesn't |
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see any USE flags. We only suggested that the OP look into the USE |
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flags, it is not like we are suggesting a recompile that might |
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possibly hose the OP's system. |
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I have no problem with you correcting our mistakes. I have no problem |
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with you being arrogant about it. I have no problem with you |
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double-posting that correction just to get your point across. But I |
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find it extremely unpleasant that you have to use offensive language |
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while doing any of the above. |
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Best, |
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W |
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