On Thu, 23 Nov 2017 17:12:37 -0800, Ian Zimmerman wrote:
> Package P bypasses applying user patches (by not calling
> default_src_prepare). I have patches I need to apply to P, and in this
> case I really don't want to fork the ebuild. So, I'm hell bent on
> doing it the hacky way with /etc/port
Hello list,
My MUA is KMail-2, which seems to be all right for others using IMAP but is
very far from robust when fetching POP3 mails. I've tried alternatives to
it, but none of them suit me - in particular, claws-mail is horrible,
requiring a very different mental model just to operate it. The
On 24/11/17 15:39, Peter Humphrey wrote:
> Is there any guidance on setting up fetchmail on Gentoo to operate in this
> way? I've searched in likely places but the Gentoo docs are long out of date
> and others don't help much, so I still don't know what to add to /etc/
> conf.d/fetchmail, nor whe
On 24.11.17 16:39, Peter Humphrey wrote:
> I'm trying an evasion, which is to use fetchmail to retrieve emails
> from my ISP and deliver them to postfix, which can then serve them
> via IMAP.
Postfix is an MTA and does neither store email nor lets you access email
via IMAP. There must be an IMAP
On Friday, 24 November 2017 16:08:54 GMT Wols Lists wrote:
> On 24/11/17 15:39, Peter Humphrey wrote:
> > Is there any guidance on setting up fetchmail on Gentoo to operate in
> > this way? I've searched in likely places but the Gentoo docs are long
> > out of date and others don't help much, so I
On Friday, 24 November 2017 16:16:15 GMT Ralph Seichter wrote:
> On 24.11.17 16:39, Peter Humphrey wrote:
> > I'm trying an evasion, which is to use fetchmail to retrieve emails
> > from my ISP and deliver them to postfix, which can then serve them
> > via IMAP.
>
> Postfix is an MTA and does neit
On 2017-11-24 08:32, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> > Package P bypasses applying user patches (by not calling
> > default_src_prepare). I have patches I need to apply to P, and in
> > this case I really don't want to fork the ebuild. So, I'm hell bent
> > on doing it the hacky way with /etc/portage/bas
On 11/24/2017 12:07 PM, Ian Zimmerman wrote:
>
> Again IIRC, when I tried using env for a similar purpose, it didn't work
> at all, it seemed the only things valid in those files were variable
> assignments.
Sounds about right... from `man portage`...
package.env
Per-package environment
On 24.11.17 17:40, Peter Humphrey wrote:
> That's because I don't yet know enough to know what questions to ask;
> that's why I hoped I'd be pointed to a general guide or explanation.
http://www.fetchmail.info/ is the most obvious starting point, and I
assume you have found that one. Fetchmail pe
On Fri, Nov 24, 2017 at 11:16 AM, Ralph Seichter
wrote:
> On 24.11.17 16:39, Peter Humphrey wrote:
>
>> I'm trying an evasion, which is to use fetchmail to retrieve emails
>> from my ISP and deliver them to postfix, which can then serve them
>> via IMAP.
>
> Postfix is an MTA and does neither stor
On 24.11.17 18:30, Rich Freeman wrote:
> While Postfix certainly won't serve up email via IMAP it definitely
> does store email.
As an MTA should, Postfix transports email. It can also handle local
mail transport (say, in maildirs) and I guess one could call that
"storing" mail, but to me that's
Peter Humphrey wrote:
>
> The ebuild installs /etc/init.d/fetchmail and /etc/conf.d/fetchmail, so it
> seems to expect me to run as a daemon. But then there's no sample
> fetchmailrc, which surprises me.
A simple example line from my /etc/fetchmailrc is:
poll pop.mail.server.example.com proto
On Fri, Nov 24, 2017 at 11:11 AM, Adam Carter wrote:
> Earlier versions ok and 4.14.1 has the fix
>
> https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/11/22/linux_4_14_bcache_
> bug_destroys_data/
>
Correction - the fix is in 4.14.2
On Fri, 24 Nov 2017 09:07:24 -0800, Ian Zimmerman wrote:
> > You do have a choice, use /etc/portage/env. here's one I have to patch
> > a specific version of a package
> >
> > % cat env/app-cdr/cdrdao-1.2.3
> > post_src_unpack() {
> > cd "${S}"
> > epatch_user
> > }
>
> Again I
On Fri, 24 Nov 2017 15:39:25 +, Peter Humphrey wrote:
> My MUA is KMail-2, which seems to be all right for others using IMAP
> but is very far from robust when fetching POP3 mails. I've tried
> alternatives to it, but none of them suit me - in particular,
> claws-mail is horrible,
Funnily en
On 2017-11-24 22:21, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> Are you mixing portage/env up with portage/package.env? The latter
> loads conf files from env that contain variable assignments.
I don't think I'm mixing them up: one of them is a directory, so hardly
can contain any code at all ;-)
(Well, the other _
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