Re: PINE problem

On 03/02/2010, Bret Busby <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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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