Re: [gentoo-user] Postfix & Pine incompatability

[Nick Rout]

On Thu, 22 Sep 2005 16:17:32 -0400
Dave Nebinger wrote:

> You're looking at the difference between an mbox-based tool (pine) and a
> maildir-based tool (postfix).
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> I'm not sure if the mbox/maildir USE flags can override the default
> behaviour, but you could try "-mbox maildir" in your USE flags and re-emerge
> both.
>

Where do you get the idea that pine has a mbox or maildir USE flag? It
doesn't:

nick@www ~/Brother/UK-ENG $ emerge -pv pine

These are the packages that I would merge, in order:

Calculating dependencies ...done!
[ebuild  N    ] app-misc/mime-types-3  5 kB
[ebuild  N    ] mail-client/pine-4.63-r2  -debug -kerberos -largeterminal -ldap +pam -passfile +ssl 3,173 kB

Total size of downloads: 3,178 kB

However pine does have maildir built in,  If you look at the ebuild (or read as it flashes past the screen) you will see:

maildir_warn() {
    einfo
    einfo "This build of Pine has Maildir support built in as"
    einfo "part of the chappa-all patch."
    einfo
    einfo "If you have a maildir at ~/Maildir it will be your"
    einfo "default INBOX. The path may be changed with the"
    einfo "\"maildir-location\" setting in Pine."
    einfo
    einfo "To use /var/spool/mail INBOX again, set"
    einfo "\"disable-these-drivers=md\" in your .pinerc file."
    einfo
    einfo "Alternately, you might want to read following webpage, which explains how to"
    einfo "use multiple mailboxes simultaneously:"
    echo
    echo "http://www.math.washington.edu/~chappa/pine/pine-info/collections/incoming-folders/"
    echo
:


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> Personally rather than trying to get pine to work I switched to mutt.
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Sean Lester [mailto:SFLester@×××××××××.net]
> Sent: Thursday, September 22, 2005 4:00 PM
> To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
> Subject: [gentoo-user] Postfix & Pine incompatability
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> 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.  Can I configure Pine to read messages from a folder?  Or, does pine
> require messages appended as one file?  Or, is there something I can change
> in Posfix?  I'm flexable :-)
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> Thank you for your time
>
> Sean
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Nick Rout <nick@×××××××.nz>

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