Fwd: PINE problem

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From: Bret Busby <[email protected]>
Date: Thu, 4 Feb 2010 12:33:58 +0800
Subject: Re: [Pine-info] PINE problem
To: Eduardo Chappa <[email protected]>

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.
>
>  In your case I really recommend you to try to find a way to upgrade to
> Alpine (incrementally, if you think that's better). I do not see much
> future in trying to get support for Pine today.
>
>  If you get a clean version of Pine that can be used to reproduce the
> problem, you will have to run Pine under gdb, and send the output of the
> "bt" command, so that we can take a look what your problem is.
>
>  I hope this helps a bit.
>
> --
> Eduardo
> http://staff.washington.edu/chappa/pine/
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I have just installed alpine on my laptop, on Debian 5 (my pine
installation is on another computer; my desktop). In looking at the
alpine .pinerc file, the file has its own inline documentation, as
opposed to the contextual help facility in the pine .pinerc file.

Can it be done, that a user renames the mail directory hierarchy (eg,
to pinemail), and .pinerc (eg, to .pinerc-pine), then intalls alpine,
renamed the pinemaildirectory hierarchy to mail, and then imports the
.pinerc settings into the alpine .pinerc file, so that the settings
from the original .pinerc file, are preserved into the new alpine
.pinerc, but the alpine .pinerc inline documentation, is also
preserved in the file?

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Bret Busby
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