Re: POP3 mail fetcher that supports unreliable connections?
> Why did you write getmail? Why not just use fetchmail? > >I do not like some of the design choices which were made with >fetchmail. getmail does things a little differently, and for my >purposes, better. In addition, most people find getmail easier to >configure and use than fetchmail. Perhaps most importantly, getmail >goes to great lengths to ensure that mail is never lost, while >fetchmail (in its default configuration) frequently loses mail, causes >mail loops, bounces legitimate messages, and causes many other >problems. I give honorable mention to animail, which is what I use. Easier to configure than fetchmail, but it's killer feature is the ability to delete mail on the server without downloading it. That's how I killed about 300 copies of day of the Swen virus when it was rampaging through the Internet. regards, Robert -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Fonts in gtk programs (mozilla, evolution etc)
> gnome-control-center, the fonts in gtk apps stay small (I don't know > what the default size is, must be 10 or so). So long story short > question: How do I make the font size change permanent WITHOUT > gnome-session? This is also of interest for the gdm login screen... > Thanks I can offer you a Mickey Mouse solution that I use, but it might not suit you. If instead of gdm you start X manually (with the "startx" command), you can pass these parameters to it: startx -- -dpi 100 or even larger... startx -- -dpi 120 You can put these settings into a script file so you don't have to type them each time. Hope this helps. - Robert -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
efax
Dear All, I'm trying to use efax to receive faxes. I've read the man page and it seems reasonably clear enough. However, I'm only able to get efax to work if I'm root. As an individual user, this is what I get when I try to put the fax modem into receive mode: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ efax -d /dev/ttyS0 efax: Fri Nov 7 07:46:18 2003 efax v 0.9a-001114 Copyright 1999 Ed Casas efax: Fri Nov 7 07:46:18 2003 efax v 0.9a-001114 Copyright 1999 Ed Casas efax: 46:18 compiled Apr 7 2003 16:44:31 efax: 46:18 Error: can't open serial port /dev/ttyS0: Permission denied efax: 46:18 done, returning 2 (unrecoverable error) I added user "bob" to the group "fax" but that doesn't solve the problem. Hoping that someone has a suggestion. regards, Robert -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
efax - SOLVED
> I'm trying to use efax to receive faxes. I've read the man page and it > seems reasonably clear enough. > > However, I'm only able to get efax to work if I'm root. As an > individual user, this is what I get when I try to put the fax modem > into receive mode: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ efax -d /dev/ttyS0 > efax: Fri Nov 7 07:46:18 2003 efax v 0.9a-001114 Copyright 1999 Ed Casas > efax: Fri Nov 7 07:46:18 2003 efax v 0.9a-001114 Copyright 1999 Ed Casas > efax: 46:18 compiled Apr 7 2003 16:44:31 > efax: 46:18 Error: can't open serial port /dev/ttyS0: Permission denied > efax: 46:18 done, returning 2 (unrecoverable error) Thanks to those who replied. User bob was already a member of group dialout. However, the problem was that /dev/ttyS0 had permissions set to 600 - I had to reset this to 660 and then it worked. There was another problem, also now solved. I wanted to use the nice user-friendly front end to efax, which is efax-gtk. The problem is that efax always defaults to /dev/ttyS1, and my computer only has one serial port, /dev/ttyS0. You can override the default on the command line with the -d option, but no way to do that in the graphic mode. I solved this by moving /dev/ttyS1 to a bogus name, and created a symbolic link, as follows: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:mv /dev/ttyS1 /dev/ttyS1-x [EMAIL PROTECTED]:ln -s /dev/ttyS0 /dev/ttyS1 This is the result: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/dev# ls -l ttyS* crw-rw1 root dialout4, 64 Nov 7 09:37 ttyS0 lrwxrwxrwx1 root root 10 Nov 7 09:35 ttyS1 -> /dev/ttyS0 crw-rw1 root dialout4, 65 Jul 14 12:05 ttyS1-x crw-rw1 root dialout4, 66 Jul 14 12:05 ttyS2 crw-rw1 root dialout4, 67 Jul 14 12:05 ttyS3 crw-rw1 root dialout4, 68 Jul 14 12:06 ttyS4 crw-rw1 root dialout4, 69 Jul 14 12:06 ttyS5 crw-rw1 root dialout4, 70 Jul 14 12:06 ttyS6 crw-rw1 root dialout4, 71 Jul 14 12:06 ttyS7 crw-rw1 root dialout4, 72 Jul 14 12:06 ttyS8 And now it works. regards, Robert -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
