Re: [OT] Re: [gentoo-user] Postfix & Pine incompatability

2005-09-23 Thread Willie Wong
On Fri, Sep 23, 2005 at 02:51:35PM +1200, Nick Rout wrote: > So to be positive about it heres how i found the answer: > > 1. looked to see if there were mbox or maildir USE flags that affected > the build of pine - answer NO > 2. google "pine maildir" and discover that there are patches in > circu

Re: [OT] Re: [gentoo-user] Postfix & Pine incompatability

2005-09-22 Thread Nick Rout
On Thu, 22 Sep 2005 21:58:06 -0400 Dave Nebinger wrote: > >> We've had two misleading posts on this subject, which basically only > >> offer a guess to a question that is very easily answered! > > > > So I made a gross overlook, but why can't you be civil about it? > > Sorry, Willy, but for as l

RE: [gentoo-user] Postfix & Pine incompatability

2005-09-22 Thread Sean Lester
ct: Re: [gentoo-user] Postfix & Pine incompatability 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). > > > > I'm not sure if the mbox/maildir USE f

Re: [OT] Re: [gentoo-user] Postfix & Pine incompatability

2005-09-22 Thread Dave Nebinger
We've had two misleading posts on this subject, which basically only offer a guess to a question that is very easily answered! So I made a gross overlook, but why can't you be civil about it? Sorry, Willy, but for as long as Nick has been posting I would just assume he was having a bad moment

Re: [OT] Re: [gentoo-user] Postfix & Pine incompatability

2005-09-22 Thread Nick Rout
On Thu, 22 Sep 2005 18:11:41 -0400 Willie Wong wrote: > Why did you think the profane language you used was called for? The > worst case scenario in these things are the other poster and I making > fools out of ourselves at large when the OP replied that he doesn't > see any USE flags. We only su

[OT] Re: [gentoo-user] Postfix & Pine incompatability

2005-09-22 Thread Willie Wong
On Fri, Sep 23, 2005 at 08:56:37AM +1200, Nick Rout wrote: > On Thu, 22 Sep 2005 16:43:05 -0400 > Willie Wong wrote: > > > The official pine distribution doesn't support maildir. Since I don't > > run pine myself, I don't know if the maildir USE flag would provide > > the maildir patch for pine.

Re: [gentoo-user] Postfix & Pine incompatability

2005-09-22 Thread Nick Rout
On Thu, 22 Sep 2005 16:43:05 -0400 Willie Wong wrote: > The official pine distribution doesn't support maildir. Since I don't > run pine myself, I don't know if the maildir USE flag would provide > the maildir patch for pine. For heaven's sake read the goddamned ebuild! (see the message I just

Re: [gentoo-user] Postfix & Pine incompatability

2005-09-22 Thread 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). > > > > I'm not sure if the mbox/maildir USE flags can override the default > behaviour, but you could try "-mbox maildir" in your

Re: [gentoo-user] Postfix & Pine incompatability

2005-09-22 Thread Willie Wong
The official pine distribution doesn't support maildir. Since I don't run pine myself, I don't know if the maildir USE flag would provide the maildir patch for pine. If not: you can use another client (mutt comes to mind), or you can modify the configuration in /etc/postfix/main.cf You are looki

RE: [gentoo-user] Postfix & Pine incompatability

2005-09-22 Thread Dave Nebinger
Title: Message You’re looking at the difference between an mbox-based tool (pine) and a maildir-based tool (postfix).   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.   Personally ra