Re: Backup.

2024-06-27 Thread CHRIS M
On Thursday 27 June 2024 03:49:03 PM (-05:00), Thomas Schmitt wrote: > Hi, > > pe...@easthope.ca wrote: > > This function is applied every week or two to write to a DVD. > > xorriso -for_backup -dev /dev/sr0 \ > > -update_r . / \ > > -commit \ > > -toc -check_md5 fai

Re: OT - list mail claimed to be "known" spam! (was: mounting external hard drive...)

2024-06-23 Thread CHRIS M
On Sunday 23 June 2024 03:54:36 pm Felix Miata wrote: > > Stefan's isn't the only, but few others from any source become repeats, one > of which is every notification of new post added to subscribed thread on > forums.opensuse.org. > > Trying to get EL to stop putting subscribed email into "known

Re: Evolution & ThunderBird

2024-06-21 Thread CHRIS M
On Wednesday 19 June 2024 04:00:44 pm Cindy Sue Causey wrote: > My brain keeps wanting to note that e.g. Gmail used to make us jump > through painful hoops to use desktop programs like Evolution. That > didn't happen for me this time, but maybe other email providers still > have the detail that

Re: The dangers of .mbox mail clients?

2024-06-03 Thread Chris M
Felix Miata wrote: As I'm up 24/7, I never bother going "offline" in SM. What I meant was, I always click in SM: File > Offline > Work Offline That way SM isn't doing anything in the background while I am compacting folders. OLD bad habit, I know.

Re: [ SOLVED] Re: Yet ANOTHER ThunderTurd ( Thunderbird ) topic... Text Size

2024-06-03 Thread Chris M
debian-u...@howorth.org.uk wrote: Chris M wrote: I love Evolution and Claws to a point. Its a PITA to forward emails with HTML in them, like the Informed Delivery email I get each morning letting us know whats coming in the USPS that day. Claws forwards mails with a text/html part just fine

Re: Response to email clients query regarding mbox

2024-06-03 Thread Chris M
Bret Busby wrote: alpine is available through synaptic, if you want to try it, Hi Bret, So you use POP 3 too huh, if your archive goes back 20 years? I installed ALPINE and couldn't get it to connect to my server. I just kept getting " INVALID PASSWORD" Even though I watched a Youtube vide

Re: Response to email clients query regarding mbox

2024-06-03 Thread Chris M
Bret Busby wrote: On 4/6/24 03:08, Chris M wrote: I am needing a "refresher course" on mail clients that use the .mbox format to store emails. It's been years since I've used this kind of mail client. Is there any "dangers" I need to know about? Like, keeping th

WAS: [ SOLVED] Re: Yet ANOTHER ThunderTurd ( Thunderbird ).. NOW~~The dangers of .mbox mail clients?

2024-06-03 Thread Chris M
I am needing a "refresher course" on mail clients that use the .mbox format to store emails. It's been years since I've used this kind of mail client. Is there any "dangers" I need to know about? Like, keeping the mailbox a certain size? or a certain amount of emails per folder etc? The last

Re: [ SOLVED] Re: Yet ANOTHER ThunderTurd ( Thunderbird ) topic... Text Size

2024-06-03 Thread Chris M
James H. H. Lampert wrote: I will say that one should probably not expect perfection from an email reader that's named after a cheap wine. In my experience, T-Bird is the worst email reader I've ever used . . . except for *every other* email reader (without a single exception) I've tried. I'm

Re: SeaMonkey et al - was - Re: [ SOLVED] Re: Yet ANOTHER ThunderTurd ( Thunderbird ) topic... Text Size

2024-06-02 Thread Chris M
Bret Busby wrote: On 3/6/24 04:14, Chris M wrote: Felix Miata wrote: It might be worth checking what language the emails are in. Thunderbird allows you to specify fonts separately for each writing system (e.g. if you want to specify fonts for Japanese or Greek or Khmer messages, you can do

Re: [ SOLVED ] Re: Yet ANOTHER ThunderTurd ( Thunderbird ) topic... Text Size

2024-06-02 Thread Chris M
Bret Busby wrote: Hello, Chris. We appear to be 13 hours ahead of you (see my signature), so, the time here, is now about 0430. I am a creature of the night. OH man, 4:30 AM! That's way too early for me! Andika?  Search for it in Synaptic... :) I am not sure whether ap

[ SOLVED] Re: Yet ANOTHER ThunderTurd ( Thunderbird ) topic... Text Size

2024-06-02 Thread Chris M
Felix Miata wrote: It might be worth checking what language the emails are in. Thunderbird allows you to specify fonts separately for each writing system (e.g. if you want to specify fonts for Japanese or Greek or Khmer messages, you can do). For English and comparable languages, you want to

[ SOLVED] Re: Yet ANOTHER ThunderTurd ( Thunderbird ) topic... Text Size

2024-06-02 Thread Chris M
Bret Busby wrote: For Language Choose the languages used to display menus, messages, and notifications from Thunderbird. I have set English (GB) which, I expect, will confound anything that tries to impose characters that are not what I want. Bret Busby Armadale Western Australia (UT

[ SOLVED ] Re: Yet ANOTHER ThunderTurd ( Thunderbird ) topic... Text Size

2024-06-02 Thread Chris M
Darac Marjal wrote: It might be worth checking what language the emails are in. Thunderbird allows you to specify fonts separately for each writing system (e.g. if you want to specify fonts for Japanese or Greek or Khmer messages, you can do). For English and comparable languages, you want to

[ SOLVED ] Re: Yet ANOTHER ThunderTurd ( Thunderbird ) topic... Text Size

2024-06-02 Thread Chris M
Bret Busby wrote: Whilst, at groups.io, two different Tbird email users lists exist; one for blind people, and, the other, for those of us who still have sufficient sight, and, these messages about Tbird, should, more properly, be directed to the Tbird users lists, try the following. In the

[ SOLVED ] Re: Yet ANOTHER ThunderTurd ( Thunderbird ) topic... Text Size

2024-06-02 Thread Chris M
UPDATE: I might of found a solution to my problem: I somehow stumbled across: https://addons.thunderbird.net/en-US/seamonkey/addon/no-small-text/?src=search Then launched Seamonkey browser and set the " NO SMALL TEXT" settings to: https://imgur.com/a/DvJaTeG If you're in the US scroll down

Yet ANOTHER ThunderTurd ( Thunderbird ) topic... Text Size

2024-06-02 Thread Chris M
I noticed that in SeaMonkey Mail's latest version 2.53.18.2 that the text is small in SOME emails, and in some emails its fine. And I can't figure out what to change to make the text a little bigger without having to use CTRL ++ on those certain emails. Any ideas on how? Here is an example:

Problems with mouse + X

2003-02-03 Thread Chris M.
For some reason, X won’t startup, saying “Screens found; none usable.” When Debian prompts me to configure X, my mouse refuses to work. If I select anything from “Mouse Configuration”, it exits out and leaves me at a blank screen, unable to get back to the terminal. I tried using Expert Mod