Re: OT: why I don't want CCs

2003-07-21 Thread Bijan Soleymani
On Mon, Jul 21, 2003 at 09:23:40PM +0200, Thomas Krennwallner wrote: > Hi! > > On Mon Jul 21, 2003 at 12:08:29PM -0400, Bijan Soleymani wrote: > > > And you could ignore to use mutt if you don't want to mess with a MTA. > > > BTW, ever tried to run eximconfig with option 2? You can setup a > > > s

Re: OT: why I don't want CCs

2003-07-21 Thread Thomas Krennwallner
Hi! On Mon Jul 21, 2003 at 12:08:29PM -0400, Bijan Soleymani wrote: > > And you could ignore to use mutt if you don't want to mess with a MTA. > > BTW, ever tried to run eximconfig with option 2? You can setup a > > smarthost using mailserver within 9.3 seconds (if you are fast ;-). > > But that

Re: OT: why I don't want CCs

2003-07-21 Thread Michael D. Schleif
Also sprach Bijan Soleymani (Mon 21 Jul 02003 at 12:08:29PM -0400): > On Sat, Jul 19, 2003 at 07:43:31AM +0200, Thomas Krennwallner wrote: > > > > ad IMAP: A MUA has to support IMAP or IMAP would be another POP. IMAP > > mails belongs on the server side and not on the client. > > > > ad POP: Do

Re: OT: why I don't want CCs

2003-07-21 Thread Bijan Soleymani
On Sat, Jul 19, 2003 at 07:43:31AM +0200, Thomas Krennwallner wrote: > Hi! > > [Finally I must join this thread now.] > > On Sat Jul 19, 2003 at 01:05:32AM -0400, Bijan Soleymani wrote: > > This argument just doesn't make it. Mutt does filtering (shouldn't > > Where does mutt filter you messages

Re: OT: why I don't want CCs

2003-07-19 Thread Steve Lamb
On Sat, 19 Jul 2003 00:09:05 -0700 Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I can understand the whole personal mail not on business servers, but > what's wrong with the other way around? I don't see anything > ethically or legally questionable about that. If it puts you in a > legally questiona

Re: OT: why I don't want CCs

2003-07-19 Thread Jesse Meyer
On Sat, 19 Jul 2003, Thomas Krennwallner wrote: > On Fri Jul 18, 2003 at 10:49:01PM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: > > Faster if you know the options by memory. > > That's true but memory is expensive ;-). Its the quality, not the quantity that concerns me - latency is a tad high (on the order of h

Re: OT: why I don't want CCs

2003-07-19 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, Jul 19, 2003 at 12:02:31AM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: > > You never gave any explaination at all as to why they would be an > > issue, just made a paranoid statement that everybody flat dismissed > > and claimed it as fact. > > I did give an

Re: OT: why I don't want CCs

2003-07-19 Thread Steve Lamb
On Sat, 19 Jul 2003 00:02:31 -0700 Steve Lamb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Those aren't standards yet. And the only thing I see there is an > > awknowledgement that there are mailers currently in use that do the > > wrong thing, not that it's the right thing to do. > And you still haven't

Re: OT: why I don't want CCs

2003-07-19 Thread Steve Lamb
On Fri, 18 Jul 2003 23:58:57 -0700 Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You never gave any explaination at all as to why they would be an > issue, just made a paranoid statement that everybody flat dismissed > and claimed it as fact. I did give an explanation. Work mail must originate fr

Re: OT: why I don't want CCs

2003-07-18 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, Jul 18, 2003 at 11:48:19PM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: > > Explain what validates said non-issues? > > Uhm, no. I have explained them already. The onus is on you to explain > why they are nothing more than paranoid and not valid concerns an

Re: OT: why I don't want CCs

2003-07-18 Thread Steve Lamb
On Fri, 18 Jul 2003 23:10:36 -0700 Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Explain what validates said non-issues? Uhm, no. I have explained them already. The onus is on you to explain why they are nothing more than paranoid and not valid concerns and problems. > And what business does a

Re: OT: why I don't want CCs

2003-07-18 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, Jul 19, 2003 at 08:04:25AM +0200, Thomas Krennwallner wrote: > That's true but memory is expensive ;-). Not really. Run exim as a satellite system from imap and it only kicks in if you send mail. - -- .''`. Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECT

Re: OT: why I don't want CCs

2003-07-18 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, Jul 18, 2003 at 11:02:21PM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: > > Really now? I saw some paranoid concerns, but that doesn't address > > issues with using your own MTA. > > Nice to see that my valid problems are chalked up as nothing but paranoia.

Re: OT: why I don't want CCs

2003-07-18 Thread Thomas Krennwallner
Hi! On Fri Jul 18, 2003 at 10:49:01PM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: > > ad IMAP: A MUA has to support IMAP or IMAP would be another POP. IMAP > > mails belongs on the server side and not on the client. > > Well, isn't offlineimap something like a caching personal imap server? offlineimap is some so

Re: OT: why I don't want CCs

2003-07-18 Thread Steve Lamb
On Fri, 18 Jul 2003 22:57:15 -0700 Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So the real solution would be to find a way to switch smarthosts more > easily. I dunno. "Accounts / Edit / SMTP server" is pretty darn easy. > > > Again, what's wrong with using your own MTA? Nobody's provided > >

Re: OT: why I don't want CCs

2003-07-18 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, Jul 18, 2003 at 10:49:42PM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: > Uh, if we're talking smarthost, yeah, you do. Where do you think that > smarthost forwards mail to? So the real solution would be to find a way to switch smarthosts more easily. > > A

Re: OT: why I don't want CCs

2003-07-18 Thread Steve Lamb
On Sat, 19 Jul 2003 07:43:31 +0200 Thomas Krennwallner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > actually sense to split software in several parts or you will end up in > software that does everything (german speaking people would say > eierlegende Wollmilchsau) and nothing because the software developer has >

Re: OT: why I don't want CCs

2003-07-18 Thread Steve Lamb
On Fri, 18 Jul 2003 22:37:45 -0700 Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Whereas if you're running an MTA, you don't have to worry about > whatever network you're already on having one. Uh, if we're talking smarthost, yeah, you do. Where do you think that smarthost forwards mail to? > A

Re: OT: why I don't want CCs

2003-07-18 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, Jul 19, 2003 at 07:43:31AM +0200, Thomas Krennwallner wrote: > > procmail be doing this). Mutt does IMAP and POP (shouldn't fetchmail > > ad IMAP: A MUA has to support IMAP or IMAP would be another POP. IMAP > mails belongs on the server side

Re: OT: why I don't want CCs

2003-07-18 Thread Thomas Krennwallner
Hi! [Finally I must join this thread now.] On Sat Jul 19, 2003 at 01:05:32AM -0400, Bijan Soleymani wrote: > This argument just doesn't make it. Mutt does filtering (shouldn't Where does mutt filter you messages? With what setting? > procmail be doing this). Mutt does IMAP and POP (shouldn't fe

Re: OT: why I don't want CCs

2003-07-18 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, Jul 19, 2003 at 01:05:32AM -0400, Bijan Soleymani wrote: > Ok so I was very wrong about this. I think this is very useful. > > What I meant is that if I go on the road with my laptop, I can connect > to a net connection there and use the smtp

Re: OT: why I don't want CCs

2003-07-18 Thread Bijan Soleymani
Jesse Meyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I also find that a local MTA on a laptop is great. I have a local > network which grabs my email from several sources and sorts it, then > every other machine on the network can access that email via imaps. > > My laptop is configured to periodically che

Re: What good is Alien? (was Re: OT: why I don't want CCs)

2003-07-18 Thread Mark L. Kahnt
On Thu, 2003-07-17 at 06:16, Colin Watson wrote: > On Thu, Jul 17, 2003 at 12:41:24AM +0200, martin f krafft wrote: > > also sprach Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003.07.16.2335 +0200]: > > > Er, no, the .rpm -> .deb direction is distinctly useful, not to mention > > > required for LSB complian

Re: OT: why I don't want CCs

2003-07-18 Thread Mark L. Kahnt
On Wed, 2003-07-16 at 12:21, Colin Watson wrote: > On Wed, Jul 16, 2003 at 08:55:16AM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: > > Which brings me to a question. Hey, all you Debian Developers! Do > > you put the fact you're a DD on your resume? > > Yes. It's a significant part of my free-time work and experi

Re: OT: why I don't want CCs

2003-07-18 Thread Jesse Meyer
On Thu, 17 Jul 2003, Mark Ferlatte wrote: > Bijan Soleymani said on Thu, Jul 17, 2003 at 02:06:18PM -0400: > > I really don't see a valid argument for MTA/MDA/MUA on a PC-type > > one-user workstation. Especially on a laptop. When MUAs support IMAP and > > POP they should go the extra inch and supp

Re: OT: why I don't want CCs

2003-07-17 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Steve Lamb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003.07.17.2012 +0200]: > > Mine does that just fine. I click on it with the left mouse button, > > and mutt pops open > > So you have multiple instances of mutt going all the time? That seems > wasteful to me. No, just when I need them. Aside, the

Re: OT: why I don't want CCs

2003-07-17 Thread Gary Hennigan
Nathan E Norman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu, Jul 17, 2003 at 12:26:36PM -0600, Gary Hennigan wrote: [snip] >> Man, I *REALLY* wanted to avoid this thread! ;) But a legitimate >> question deserves an answer... >> >> Hit "1" while in top and it'll display the CPU info seperately. > > Er, wh

Re: OT: why I don't want CCs

2003-07-17 Thread Steve Lamb
On Thu, 17 Jul 2003 12:37:44 -0500 Nathan E Norman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Er, what version of procps? Doesn't work here; I've got 2.0.7-8 (and > a non-i36 arch but I hope that doesn't matter). ii procps 3.1.9-1The /proc file system utilities Not sure when it started do

Re: OT: why I don't want CCs

2003-07-17 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Thu, Jul 17, 2003 at 12:26:36PM -0600, Gary Hennigan wrote: > martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > [snip] > > top - 19:32:46 up 104 days, 4:57, 1 user, load average: 0.01, 0.02, > > 0.05 > > Tasks: 299 total, 1 running, 295 sleeping, 3 stopped, 0 zombie > > Cpu(s): 0.2% user

Re: OT: why I don't want CCs

2003-07-17 Thread Alan Shutko
martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Guess what: X-forwarding over a Dual ISDN line from a host 8 hops > away in another country isn't that much fun. That's where my > mailserver is wrt my current position. Not a problem, likely. Set the mailserver up to use mozilla -remote... the only

Re: OT: why I don't want CCs

2003-07-17 Thread Gary Hennigan
martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [snip] > top - 19:32:46 up 104 days, 4:57, 1 user, load average: 0.01, 0.02, > 0.05 > Tasks: 299 total, 1 running, 295 sleeping, 3 stopped, 0 zombie > Cpu(s): 0.2% user, 2.7% system, 0.0% nice, 97.1% idle > Mem: 2068748k total, 2043068

Re: OT: why I don't want CCs

2003-07-17 Thread Mark Ferlatte
Bijan Soleymani said on Thu, Jul 17, 2003 at 02:06:18PM -0400: > I really don't see a valid argument for MTA/MDA/MUA on a PC-type > one-user workstation. Especially on a laptop. When MUAs support IMAP and > POP they should go the extra inch and support SMTP smarthosts. I've found a local MTA on a

Re: OT: why I don't want CCs

2003-07-17 Thread Steve Lamb
On Thu, 17 Jul 2003 19:37:49 +0200 martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Mine does that just fine. I click on it with the left mouse button, > and mutt pops open So you have multiple instances of mutt going all the time? That seems wasteful to me. > top - 19:32:46 up 104 days, 4:57,

Re: OT: why I don't want CCs

2003-07-17 Thread Bijan Soleymani
--FL5UXtIhxfXey3p5 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On Thu, Jul 17, 2003 at 11:44:44AM -0600, Jamin W. Collins wrote: > They have been refuted, you simply choose not to accept that. We've > been through this already. You simply choose to interpret things >

Re: OT: why I don't want CCs

2003-07-17 Thread Steve Lamb
On Thu, 17 Jul 2003 11:44:44 -0600 "Jamin W. Collins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > They have been refuted, you simply choose not to accept that. We've > been through this already. You simply choose to interpret things > completely differently. No, they have not. No one has refuted that havi

Re: OT: why I don't want CCs

2003-07-17 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Steve Lamb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003.07.17.1920 +0200]: > > The UNIX philosophy says: xbuffy! > > Every little task does not have to be in a separate binary. Esp. > when that binary can't really take input. Whatever, I don't need to argue this. I love xbuffy. > Erm, be readable for

Re: OT: why I don't want CCs

2003-07-17 Thread Jamin W. Collins
On Thu, Jul 17, 2003 at 10:20:19AM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: > On Thu, 17 Jul 2003 18:45:38 +0200 martin f krafft wrote: > You see what you, and others, seem to forget about the Unix philosophy is > that at it's core are these words: > The right tool for the job. I don't think we've forgot that at

Re: OT: why I don't want CCs

2003-07-17 Thread Steve Lamb
On Thu, 17 Jul 2003 18:45:38 +0200 martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The UNIX philosophy says: xbuffy! Every little task does not have to be in a separate binary. Esp. when that binary can't really take input. > > > Aside, xbuffy can do it all for you if you wish. > > Free bl

Re: OT: why I don't want CCs

2003-07-17 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Steve Lamb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003.07.17.1739 +0200]: > Whereas my switching from Mutt to a GUI application raised mine by > factors because I didn't have to deal with the trouble of > configuring it to my required setup. Also you missed the point. > Even if I weren't writing a messa

"biff"s was Re: OT: why I don't want CCs

2003-07-17 Thread Emma Jane Hogbin
On Thu, Jul 17, 2003 at 05:08:55PM +0200, martin f krafft wrote: > productivity by factors! Aside, xbuffy can do it all for you if you > wish. I'd never heard of the buffy/biffy/biff programs before. I've found gbuffy and xbuffy. I'm wondering if there's an equivalent to these which will site nice

Re: OT: why I don't want CCs

2003-07-17 Thread Steve Lamb
On Thu, 17 Jul 2003 17:08:55 +0200 martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > When I am writing a message, I am writing a message. I don't care > how many mails are in the other mailboxes, or where one arrives, as > I am writing a message and not surveying my mailboxes. Switching > from a GUI cli

Re: OT: why I don't want CCs

2003-07-17 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Steve Lamb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003.07.17.1515 +0200]: > Compare that to the display I get now. I'm typing this. I can see > that I have another 20 new messges in debian-users, a new one came > into debian-devel, one is sitting in b5jms (which I am letting > sit) I have 6 in Sylpheed-

Re: OT: why I don't want CCs

2003-07-17 Thread Steve Lamb
On Thu, 17 Jul 2003 03:43:49 -0700 Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Actually, via caching proxy is the nearly universally encouraged > method of web browsing. Really cuts back on the costs of running a > website and the bandwidth used to access them. Which does not invalidate my poin

Re: OT: why I don't want CCs

2003-07-17 Thread Steve Lamb
On Thu, 17 Jul 2003 03:25:13 -0700 Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > They're not user readable. Hmmm, they're readable to the user who needs to read them. > Procmail to filter each address off, mutt send-hooks to check the > address it was sent to and reply with that address. Talking

Re: OT: why I don't want CCs

2003-07-17 Thread Frank Gevaerts
On Thu, Jul 17, 2003 at 03:25:13AM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: > Procmail to filter each address off, mutt send-hooks to check the > address it was sent to and reply with that address. Talking five > minutes with google. What about Bcc: ? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a su

Re: OT: why I don't want CCs

2003-07-17 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Jul 16, 2003 at 03:23:50PM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: > Exactly. That's my point. You don't use a "Web User Agent" which has to > access the remote sites through a "Web Transport Agent", do you? You *can*, > it's called a proxy server but

Re: What good is Alien? (was Re: OT: why I don't want CCs)

2003-07-17 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Jul 17, 2003 at 12:41:24AM +0200, martin f krafft wrote: > also sprach Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003.07.16.2335 +0200]: > > Er, no, the .rpm -> .deb direction is distinctly useful, not to mention > > required for LSB compliance ... > > ... which Debian has achieved since when? We

Re: OT: why I don't want CCs

2003-07-17 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Jul 16, 2003 at 05:35:08AM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: > > Also, cron is a required component of the system, which depends on an MTA. > > How else is it going to give users output? Osmosis? Telepathy? > > Log files? They're not user reada

Re: OT: why I don't want CCs

2003-07-17 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003.07.17.1048 +0200]: > It's 2003 and people still don't know what the -C and -X flags do > in SSH? Guess what: X-forwarding over a Dual ISDN line from a host 8 hops away in another country isn't that much fun. That's where my mailserver is wrt my cu

Re: OT: why I don't want CCs

2003-07-17 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Chris Metzler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003.07.17.0219 +0200]: > *normally* listening to port 25 . . .are you saying that when fetchmail > is explicitly configured to invoke an MDA in /etc/fetchmailrc, that > MDA is briefly listening on port 25 until it's done receiving from > fetchmail, an

Re: OT: why I don't want CCs

2003-07-17 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Jul 16, 2003 at 04:24:00PM -0400, nori heikkinen wrote: > oh, i see what you mean. but that will only work locally, right? > right now i read my email off xterms from one machine, while using a > browser local to another. > > guess i'm SOL?

Re: OT: why I don't want CCs

2003-07-16 Thread Bijan Soleymani
--gBBFr7Ir9EOA20Yy Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, Jul 16, 2003 at 08:44:53PM -0600, Jamin W. Collins wrote: > On Wed, Jul 16, 2003 at 10:35:11PM -0400, Bijan Soleymani wrote: > > On Wed, Jul 16, 2003 at 08

Re: OT: why I don't want CCs

2003-07-16 Thread Pigeon
On Wed, Jul 16, 2003 at 08:19:27PM -0400, Chris Metzler wrote: > On Wed, 16 Jul 2003 16:48:20 -0400 > "Derrick 'dman' Hudson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > If fetchmail was able to pass the mail > > to it, then that means it was listening on port 25 (and pretending to > > handle incoming mail)

Re: OT: why I don't want CCs

2003-07-16 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Wed, Jul 16, 2003 at 08:19:27PM -0400, Chris Metzler wrote: | On Wed, 16 Jul 2003 16:48:20 -0400 | "Derrick 'dman' Hudson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | > | > If fetchmail was able to pass the mail | > to it, then that means it was listening on port 25 (and pretending to | > handle incoming mail)

Re: OT: why I don't want CCs

2003-07-16 Thread Jamin W. Collins
On Wed, Jul 16, 2003 at 10:35:11PM -0400, Bijan Soleymani wrote: > On Wed, Jul 16, 2003 at 08:31:10PM -0600, Jamin W. Collins wrote: > > > Two packages (that I know of) in Debian do just this: > > - offlineimap > > - isync > > I am aware of both of those, but for many usages they are not very > e

Re: OT: why I don't want CCs

2003-07-16 Thread Jesse Meyer
On Wed, 16 Jul 2003, Jamin W. Collins wrote: > On Wed, Jul 16, 2003 at 10:03:12AM +0200, martin f krafft wrote: > > > I nominate offlineimap for the Tool of the Year 2003 Award! > > Offlineimpa had severe problems with defunct threads last I saw, and yes > I filed a bug report on it. Sadly, it

Re: OT: why I don't want CCs

2003-07-16 Thread Bijan Soleymani
--YZ5djTAD1cGYuMQK Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, Jul 16, 2003 at 08:31:10PM -0600, Jamin W. Collins wrote: > On Wed, Jul 16, 2003 at 10:07:53PM -0400, Bijan Soleymani wrote: > > On Wed, Jul 16, 2003 at 06

Re: OT: why I don't want CCs

2003-07-16 Thread Jamin W. Collins
On Wed, Jul 16, 2003 at 06:26:15PM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: > On Wed, 16 Jul 2003 18:57:40 -0600 "Jamin W. Collins" wrote: > > Please also read the RFC and note that it does make the distinction > between client and server. The protocol is written so that behaviors > that must be followed are but

Re: OT: why I don't want CCs

2003-07-16 Thread Jamin W. Collins
On Wed, Jul 16, 2003 at 10:07:53PM -0400, Bijan Soleymani wrote: > On Wed, Jul 16, 2003 at 06:48:18PM -0600, Jamin W. Collins wrote: > > Apples and oranges, but ideally an MUA doesn't need POP or IMAP support > > no. > > Implementing IMAP support outside the client is almost insane. IMAP > leaves

Re: OT: why I don't want CCs

2003-07-16 Thread Bijan Soleymani
On Wed, Jul 16, 2003 at 06:48:18PM -0600, Jamin W. Collins wrote: > Apples and oranges, but ideally an MUA doesn't need POP or IMAP support > no. Implementing IMAP support outside the client is almost insane. IMAP leaves the mail on the server most of the time, and downloads the messages as they a

Re: OT: why I don't want CCs

2003-07-16 Thread Bijan Soleymani
On Wed, Jul 16, 2003 at 08:19:27PM -0400, Chris Metzler wrote: > On Wed, 16 Jul 2003 16:48:20 -0400 > "Derrick 'dman' Hudson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > If fetchmail was able to pass the mail > > to it, then that means it was listening on port 25 (and pretending to > > handle incoming mail)

Re: OT: why I don't want CCs

2003-07-16 Thread Steve Lamb
On Wed, 16 Jul 2003 18:48:18 -0600 "Jamin W. Collins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > And none of that requires the MUA to support SMTP. Take a look at > nullmailer, seems like a good fit for your above description. Quite the contrary, you, and others, have failed to explain why mail is the only

Re: OT: why I don't want CCs

2003-07-16 Thread Steve Lamb
On Wed, 16 Jul 2003 18:57:40 -0600 "Jamin W. Collins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You seem to miss the point of the 4yz error code. No, I haven't. > The fact that an automated retry can (and should) be done. What you propose > would remove this and instead require human interaction for a tr

Re: OT: why I don't want CCs

2003-07-16 Thread Jamin W. Collins
On Wed, Jul 16, 2003 at 05:13:37PM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: > Some key words. First 4xx is an error condition. Second, it is > temporary. Third, the action *MAY* be requested again. Not must. > There is absolutely no compelling reason for the client to absolutely > retry without human interven

Re: OT: why I don't want CCs

2003-07-16 Thread Jamin W. Collins
On Wed, Jul 16, 2003 at 07:56:48PM -0400, Bijan Soleymani wrote: > On Wed, Jul 16, 2003 at 05:08:04PM -0600, Jamin W. Collins wrote: > > > And leave out key parts of the protocol, no. Implement the entire > > protocol or don't do it. And as far as I'm concerned an MUA > > shouldn't speak SMTP at

Re: OT: why I don't want CCs

2003-07-16 Thread Chris Metzler
On Wed, 16 Jul 2003 16:48:20 -0400 "Derrick 'dman' Hudson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > If fetchmail was able to pass the mail > to it, then that means it was listening on port 25 (and pretending to > handle incoming mail) Can you clarify what you mean by this? I have fetchmail pass mail to exi

Re: OT: why I don't want CCs

2003-07-16 Thread Steve Lamb
On Wed, 16 Jul 2003 17:08:04 -0600 "Jamin W. Collins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > WRONG! Completely and utterly wrong. The error codes have specific > meanings and those meanings should be followed. Anything less is an > incomplete implementation. Really? Reading 2821 one sees that it boi

Re: OT: why I don't want CCs

2003-07-16 Thread Bijan Soleymani
--O5XBE6gyVG5Rl6Rj Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, Jul 16, 2003 at 05:08:04PM -0600, Jamin W. Collins wrote: > > Now, I know I have oversimplified the process. I also know that there > > are a lot of steps

Re: OT: why I don't want CCs

2003-07-16 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Jul 16, 2003 at 12:19:40PM -0400, MJM wrote: > Go around your arse to scratch your elbow method: build an RPM and use alien > to make a .deb from the .rpm. Actually, that sounds like the "go through your arse to scratch your forehead metho

Re: OT: why I don't want CCs

2003-07-16 Thread Jamin W. Collins
On Wed, Jul 16, 2003 at 03:23:50PM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: > Processing boils down to this: > You lose connection, error condition. > You get a 5xx error, error condition. > You get a 4xx error, error condition. > > In all cases fail the message, set it aside and wait for the user to > decide.

Re: What good is Alien? (was Re: OT: why I don't want CCs)

2003-07-16 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003.07.16.2335 +0200]: > Er, no, the .rpm -> .deb direction is distinctly useful, not to mention > required for LSB compliance ... ... which Debian has achieved since when? In fact, let me rephrase: are we ever going to be LSB-compliant? -- Please

Re: OT: why I don't want CCs

2003-07-16 Thread Steve Lamb
On Wed, 16 Jul 2003 16:45:40 -0400 "Derrick 'dman' Hudson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > As Martin points out, the "Process" step you listed is a concise way > of describing the job of an MTA. The details of "Process" are defined > in RFC 821, superseded by RFC 2821. The details of "process" i

Re: What good is Alien? (was Re: OT: why I don't want CCs)

2003-07-16 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Jul 16, 2003 at 05:06:15PM -0400, MJM wrote: > On Wednesday 16 July 2003 13:44, martin f krafft wrote: > > also sprach MJM <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003.07.16.1819 +0200]: > > > Go around your arse to scratch your elbow method: build an RPM > > > and use alien to make a .deb from the .rpm. > >

Re: What good is Alien? (was Re: OT: why I don't want CCs)

2003-07-16 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach MJM <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003.07.16.2306 +0200]: > I wasn't serious, but after skimming the package maintainers guide > to see what the right way is I can see why alien would not be > liked. Why on earth did the people deciding what packages to > include allow the alien package to be r

Re: OT: why I don't want CCs

2003-07-16 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach nori heikkinen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003.07.16.2224 +0200]: > oh, i see what you mean. but that will only work locally, right? > right now i read my email off xterms from one machine, while using a > browser local to another. from url_handlers.sh: # Any entry in the lists of programs

What good is Alien? (was Re: OT: why I don't want CCs)

2003-07-16 Thread MJM
On Wednesday 16 July 2003 13:44, martin f krafft wrote: > also sprach MJM <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003.07.16.1819 +0200]: > > Go around your arse to scratch your elbow method: build an RPM > > and use alien to make a .deb from the .rpm. > > NO! do it right! I wasn't serious, but after skimming the p

Re: OT: why I don't want CCs

2003-07-16 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Wed, Jul 16, 2003 at 01:42:49AM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: | On Wed, 16 Jul 2003 01:14:52 -0700 | Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | > On Wed, Jul 16, 2003 at 10:01:47AM +0200, Joerg Johannes wrote: | > > And kmail has one major advantage: I can read mails | > > with over-long lines withou

Re: OT: why I don't want CCs

2003-07-16 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Wed, Jul 16, 2003 at 01:00:57PM -0400, Bijan Soleymani wrote: | I remember having fetchmail deliver my mail to /dev/null after having | misconfigured my MTA. I installed one of those "Sending Only" MTAs to | use with mutt, and didn't realize that meant that fetchmail would pass | it the mail an

Re: OT: why I don't want CCs

2003-07-16 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Wed, Jul 16, 2003 at 05:35:08AM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: | On Wed, 16 Jul 2003 04:14:42 -0700 | Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | > Because it's pointless and un-necissary to impliment the better part | > of an MTA into an MUA. | | Which is why you don't do that. Smarthost doesn't need

Re: OT: why I don't want CCs

2003-07-16 Thread Vineet Kumar
* nori heikkinen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030716 13:24]: > on Wed, 16 Jul 2003 09:56:36PM +0200, martin f krafft insinuated: > > also sprach nori heikkinen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003.07.16.2110 +0200]: > > > > > http://jobsearch.monster.com/getjob.asp?JobID=18496386&AVSDM=2003%2D07%2D16+00%3A13%3A00&CCD

Re: OT: why I don't want CCs

2003-07-16 Thread Jamin W. Collins
On Wed, Jul 16, 2003 at 04:24:00PM -0400, nori heikkinen wrote: > on Wed, 16 Jul 2003 09:56:36PM +0200, martin f krafft insinuated: > > > then hit ctrl-b in the index or while viewing the message. > > oh, i see what you mean. but that will only work locally, right? > right now i read my email of

Re: OT: why I don't want CCs

2003-07-16 Thread nori heikkinen
on Wed, 16 Jul 2003 09:56:36PM +0200, martin f krafft insinuated: > also sprach nori heikkinen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003.07.16.2110 +0200]: > > > > http://jobsearch.monster.com/getjob.asp?JobID=18496386&AVSDM=2003%2D07%2D16+00%3A13%3A00&CCD=my%2Emonster%2Ecom&JSD=jobsearch%2Emonster%2Ecom&HD=compan

Re: OT: why I don't want CCs

2003-07-16 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Derrick 'dman' Hudson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003.07.16.2057 +0200]: > | So I would have to set up more than one user account to access more > | than one smtp host. I have one ISP and many various POP accounts > > POP != SMTP. I suspect that KMail can retrieve from multiple POP > acco

Re: OT: why I don't want CCs

2003-07-16 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach nori heikkinen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003.07.16.2110 +0200]: > > > http://jobsearch.monster.com/getjob.asp?JobID=18496386&AVSDM=2003%2D07%2D16+00%3A13%3A00&CCD=my%2Emonster%2Ecom&JSD=jobsearch%2Emonster%2Ecom&HD=company%2Emonster%2Ecom&AD=http%3A%2F%2Fjobsearch%2Emonster%2Ecom%2Fjobsearc

Re: OT: why I don't want CCs

2003-07-16 Thread Jamin W. Collins
On Wed, Jul 16, 2003 at 03:10:50PM -0400, nori heikkinen wrote: > on Wed, 16 Jul 2003 02:40:06PM +0200, martin f krafft insinuated: > > also sprach Steve Lamb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003.07.16.1042 +0200]: > > > http://jobsearch.monster.com/getjob.asp?JobID=18496386&AVSDM=2003%2D07%2D16+00%3A13%3A00&

Re: OT: why I don't want CCs

2003-07-16 Thread nori heikkinen
on Wed, 16 Jul 2003 02:40:06PM +0200, martin f krafft insinuated: > also sprach Steve Lamb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003.07.16.1042 +0200]: > > http://jobsearch.monster.com/getjob.asp?JobID=18496386&AVSDM=2003%2D07%2D16+00%3A13%3A00&CCD=my%2Emonster%2Ecom&JSD=jobsearch%2Emonster%2Ecom&HD=company%2Emons

Re: OT: why I don't want CCs

2003-07-16 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Wed, Jul 16, 2003 at 12:14:34PM -0400, MJM wrote: | I checked KMail for the possibility of accessing more than one smtp host - my | version (standard Debian stable package of KDE) seems to support only one | host. This is normal. In practice you don't really need to send mail out through mo

Re: OT: why I don't want CCs

2003-07-16 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Wed, Jul 16, 2003 at 01:14:52AM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Wed, Jul 16, 2003 at 10:01:47AM +0200, Joerg Johannes wrote: > > And kmail has one major advantage: I can read mails > > with over-long lines without problems... > > So can mutt, but the ultimate solution is to tell your correspon

Re: OT: why I don't want CCs

2003-07-16 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Emma Jane Hogbin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003.07.16.1827 +0200]: > If you are thinking about replacements for KDE and Gnome you may want to > check out: Fluxbox and/or Blackbox (fluxbox is based on blackbox). > http://fluxbox.sf.net > http://blackboxwm.sourceforge.net/ or: Win

Re: OT: why I don't want CCs

2003-07-16 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach MJM <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003.07.16.1819 +0200]: > Go around your arse to scratch your elbow method: build an RPM > and use alien to make a .deb from the .rpm. NO! do it right! -- Please do not CC me when replying to lists; I read them! .''`. martin f. krafft <[EMAIL PROTEC

Re: OT: why I don't want CCs

2003-07-16 Thread Bijan Soleymani
--sm4nu43k4a2Rpi4c Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, Jul 16, 2003 at 06:19:02PM +0200, martin f krafft wrote: > also sprach Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003.07.16.1756 +0200]: > > On Wed, Jul 16, 2003 a

Re: OT: why I don't want CCs

2003-07-16 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Jul 16, 2003 at 08:55:16AM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: > Which brings me to a question. Hey, all you Debian Developers! Do > you put the fact you're a DD on your resume? Yes. It's a significant part of my free-time work and experience, so it deserves to be there. I suspect it may have bee

Re: OT: why I don't want CCs

2003-07-16 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003.07.16.1756 +0200]: > On Wed, Jul 16, 2003 at 02:40:50PM +0200, martin f krafft wrote: > > fetchmail requires you to have an MDA configured, which may well be > > beyond the average user. > > Wait, since when? I ran fetchmail *long* before I ran p

Re: OT: why I don't want CCs

2003-07-16 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003.07.16.1755 +0200]: > Yeah, I'd love it if there was something more in the form of a concise > HOWTO. If there is one, I haven't found it but would love to be > proven wrong. God knows I would package everything I compile on my > own and throw up

Re: OT: why I don't want CCs

2003-07-16 Thread Emma Jane Hogbin
On Wed, Jul 16, 2003 at 12:14:34PM -0400, MJM wrote: > application. More PITA. So my thinking is that KDE, Gnome, and others like > them are too much stuff too tightly integrated with too many test cases for > even the OS community. I want to return to 1993 and reclaim some reliability > and c

Re: OT: why I don't want CCs

2003-07-16 Thread MJM
On Wednesday 16 July 2003 11:55, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Wed, Jul 16, 2003 at 04:41:56PM +0100, Richard Kimber wrote: > > I don't use the Debian packages. I download the src and just compile it. > > It always compiles for me without problem. No doubt I would make my own > > debs if I knew how, bu

Re: OT: why I don't want CCs

2003-07-16 Thread Steve Lamb
On Wed, 16 Jul 2003 16:41:56 +0100 Richard Kimber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I don't use the Debian packages. I download the src and just compile it. > It always compiles for me without problem. No doubt I would make my own > debs if I knew how, but I've always found the documentation on this >

Re: OT: why I don't want CCs

2003-07-16 Thread MJM
On Wednesday 16 July 2003 00:33, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: > | I use KMail - is it being lame? > > Yes. Or, possibly, it has a list reply feature that you haven't found > yet. I can't say for certain because I don't use it. On Wednesday 16 July 2003 03:19, Joerg Johannes wrote: > I use kmai

Re: OT: why I don't want CCs

2003-07-16 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Jul 16, 2003 at 02:40:50PM +0200, martin f krafft wrote: > fetchmail requires you to have an MDA configured, which may well be > beyond the average user. Wait, since when? I ran fetchmail *long* before I ran procmail... - -- .''`. Paul

Re: OT: why I don't want CCs

2003-07-16 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Jul 16, 2003 at 04:41:56PM +0100, Richard Kimber wrote: > I don't use the Debian packages. I download the src and just compile it. > It always compiles for me without problem. No doubt I would make my own > debs if I knew how, but I've always

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