Re: PINE problem

On 01/02/2010, Eduardo Chappa <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Mon, 1 Feb 2010, Bret Busby wrote:
>
> BB> Today, when I tried to run PINE, after it performing its archiving, it
> BB> collapsed, with the returned error;
>
> Bret,
>
>   You are in big trouble, for several reasons. For one, even if you
> figured out what is making Pine crash, you need to report this to the
> person that built Pine from source (it seems that you are using Pine in
> Debian. Debian does not support Pine, since it is nonfree).
>
>   If you are still thinking of using Pine, my advice is that you build it
> by yourself, reconfigure it with your old configuration and hopefully
> everything will work again as it should. The only difference between the
> Debian Pine and the UW Pine is that the former uses a non-stable Maildir
> patch, while the latter does not. However, configuration files,
> directories, etc. differ between the two, so you will have to have some
> patience to reconfigure everything for it to work (maybe using an
> alternate .pinerc, that is a copy of the original, will help).
>
>  Having said all this, there is a version of Alpine for Debian, which does
> not have Maildir support. If you need Maildir support, you can patch it
> yourself.
>


I believe that I need maildir.

>From memory, postfix, which is the application that we use, rather
than sendmail, which I understand requires a person to be a "dark arts
guru" to set up and maintain, uses maildir, so I di a google search on
postfix and maildir together, and found, on the web page at
http://www.postfix.org/faq.html ;

"POP or IMAP problems
Postfix is a mail delivery system. Postfix does not implement services
such as POP or IMAP to read mail. Several POP/IMAP implementations
exist that can cooperate with software such as Postfix.

Examples of software that is used successfully with Postfix:

    * Cyrus IMAP implements IMAP, POP3, and KPOP, later versions also
support TLS. This software implements its own private mail database
system. Not for beginners.

    * Courier-Imap provides POP3 and IMAP, and supports access over
SSL. This software supports the maildir-style mailbox format only (one
message per file, same format as qmail)."

Regarding me performing actions like compiling alpine, or, patching
it, I simply do not have the skills and experience, or, the
confidence, to perform these actions.

I have not compiled Linux kernels or applications; I simply download
and install them as required, and, occasionally, as required,
configure the settings, when I am able.


-- 

Bret Busby
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