Re: Part 2 of any progress on kmail in debian buster?

On Monday, October 14, 2019 12:37:01 PM PDT Ingo Klöcker wrote:

> Hi John,

> 

> it would be great, if you would send plaintext-only messages to this mailing

> list. I, and probably lots of other readers of this mailing list, have

> disabled displaying of HTML messages by default and, unfortunately, the

> text version of your email lacks some important text passages.

 

Thanks. I have changed "Use Global Settings" to "prefer plain text to HTML" in 
Folder>Message Default Format.

> 

> On Montag, 14. Oktober 2019 00:58:30 CEST John White wrote:

> [snip]

> 

> > did not work so I installed postgre server from the debian repository.  I

> > continued following the instructions, which worked, until I got to $ psql

> > postgres when I got the following note, which I interpret as an error.

> > 

> > "postgres@johwhi:~$ psql postgres

> > psql (11.5 (Debian 11.5-1+deb10u1))

> > Type "help" for help."

> 

> The last two lines were missing in the text version of your email which at

> first made me wonder what note you are talking about. Then I had the idea to

> check whether your messages was actually an HTML mail. Anyway, I digress.

> > So, rather than risk messing up my email unnecessarily, I did not proceed

> > further and decided to send you what I have done so far and see if you

> > have

> > any comment.

> 

> This note seems perfectly fine to me. It's simply psql's greeting note. I'm

> wondering why there is no prompt as in the instructions quoted by you (i.e.

> "postgres=#"), but maybe on Debian psql is configured without prompt. You

> can't do anything wrong with typing the two commands (i.e. "alter ..."

> [don't forget the closing ";"] and then "\q" after the greeting note.

 

I will try this as time permits.

> 

> Regards,

> Ingo