Re: PINE problem

On 03/02/2010, Bret Busby <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 03/02/2010, Matt Ackeret <[email protected]> wrote:
>> On Tue, 2 Feb 2010, Bret Busby wrote:
>>>On 03/02/2010, Matt Ackeret <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>> On Tue, 2 Feb 2010, Bret Busby wrote:
>>>>>To install and use alpine, to replace pine, the only way that I can
>>>>>see of doing it, is buying a new computer, and building a new system,
>>>>>with alpine instead of pine, then copying all of the mail folders and
>>>>>the .pinerc file, to the new system, in addition to my web browsers'
>>>>>data (bookmarks, etc), and, it would be such a waste, if the same
>>>>>problem persists within alpine.
>>>>
>>>> This makes no sense.  Why can't you compile, or get someone else to
>>>> compile,
>>>> alpine to run on your existing computer?
>>>>
>>>
>>>The way that I have described, ensures that what I have at present, is
>>>not lost as with previous data, as I have described.
>>>
>>>It is parallel implementation, which is the only way to protect
>>>existing data and the existing system.
>>>
>>>>From looking at the Debian package repository search facility, alpine
>>>exists for Debian 5.0, that I am currently using, but, if I simply
>>>install it over the pine that I am currently using, and things go
>>>wrong, I stand to lose alot.
>>
>> So (1) back up your data, (2) install alpine, and if it for some
>> reason doesn't work for you, use your backups.
>
> The thing is that, at present,
> 1. I have reasonable confidence that, apart from not flushing the
> messages from the INBOX as they are filtered, and thence downlloading
> multiple copies of messages, pine seems to be kind of working, and
> 2. I have an idea that the files that I need to backup, are the whole
> of the mail directory (through all of its subdirectories, however many
> gigabytes I previously specified, which would not fit on a single
> DVD), and the .pinerc file, but I am not sure whether those are the
> only files (and directory hierarchies) that I would need to backup,
> and
> 3. It was during a previous backup procedure, for a Debian system
> upgrade (Iam not sure, but it may have been from 3.1 to 4), that I
> lost 20 years of research.
>
> Thus, the parallel implementation method, appears to be the only
> (relatively) safe option.
>
> Oh, a further note - It occurred to me last night, that this problem
> occurred on the first day of this month, being the day that the
> archiving of folders that are to be archived, occurs. I believe that
> the folders that are supposed to be archived, were archived, but, I
> cannot be sure that that process completed successfully.
>
> I assume that pine does not generate a log file of transactions,
> and/or a log file of error messages, like fetchmail does.
>
> --
>
> Bret Busby
> ................
>

Oh, and, in checking, I do not have enough space on the hard drive on
this system, to do the backup.

I have slightly less than a GB free, in the home partition, and, not
enough elsewhere, for the mail directory hierarchy.

This computer is from the time when computers came standard with 80GB
HDD capacity.

-- 

Bret Busby
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