Thank you to all that replied! I although it isn't resolved, I know were to turn and I'm sure I'll get it.
Thank you Sean -----Original Message----- From: Nick Rout [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, September 22, 2005 4:54 PM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: 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 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: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~/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/incom ing-folders/" echo : > > > Personally rather than trying to get pine to work I switched to mutt. > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Sean Lester [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, September 22, 2005 4:00 PM > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > Subject: [gentoo-user] Postfix & Pine incompatability > > > > 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 :-) > > > > Thank you for your time > > Sean > > > -- Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
