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Skriven 2005-02-12 19:37:04 av James Bradley (1:134/77.0)
     Kommentar till en text av Martin Atkins
Ärende: MaltiMail
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MARTIN ATKINS wrote to JAMES BRADLEY, "MaltiMail"

 -=> JAMES BRADLEY wrote to MARTIN ATKINS <=-

 JB> Speak for yourself, Jean! My Linux-MultiMail box is having last read
 JB> pointer issues. <ROTF>

 MA> What sort of problems and what version?

 JB> ...As in, not saving them. V.45 IIR. I've a message on the OFFLINE
 JB> echo, if you'd like to move the conversation there? It's pretty much
 JB> the Multi-Mail echo the last time I saw traffic there.

 MA> It might be better to take it to LINUX. I noticed the developer
 MA> "William Mcbrine" has just posted a message there and he can
 MA> probably help you better than i.

Done and done. William has posted to me about the issue here, and on 
OFFLINE. I should be in good hands.
 JB> Like Jean, I consider it almost a non-issue at this time, but more a
 JB> curiosity. I have yet to dig into the permissions allotted to the
 JB> directory...

 MA> The permission shouldn't matter as it should install in you
 MA> home directory and at any rate it is set when you compile and
 MA> install it. Even the packets are not fussy.

As you may have read by now, I only have access to the elf file at this 
time. (Long story.) Maybe tomorrow I can grab the src. (Involves a CD-R 
and a bit of petrol.)
 JB> Because it's a transient install, too, I doubt I'll be on
 JB> this distro by the end of the year.

 MA> The end of the year is a long way off. Why not shift the

<LOL> I just didn't want to set a deadline I couldn't keep. Maybe "End of 
the quarter." could be a realistic target. Because I've toyed with only a 
handful of distros to date, I'm FAR from married to anything yet.
 MA> ~/mmail/ to a safe place out of your home directory then save
 MA> ~/.mmailrc file and mm executable to ~/mmail/save/. What this
 MA> will do is preserve all your packets and any replies. If you
 MA> move the whole mmail directory in one hit it will preserver you
 MA> color file and anything in the save directory. Then down load
 MA> V46 and install that. It shouldn't be a problem if V5 compiled.

Compiling I can do... Just. <G>
 MA> When you have finished just copy the packets into the new
 MA> ~/mmail/down and replies into the ~/mmail/up, copy your colors
 MA> over to the new install and if necessary your .mmailrc to your
 MA> home directory. It sounds a lot more complicated than it really
 MA> is. It usually takes me a matter of minutes. If for some reason
 MA> the new install doesn't work you just reverse the whole
 MA> process. This installation i'm using now for instance was
 MA> dumped onto a dos disk while i installed Mandrake 10. Then all
 MA> i did was pull everything back to the new Linux installation
 MA> and bobs yer uncle. If you decide to answer here then i will
 MA> reply in LINUX.

Now, if I only had an Uncle Bob! <-;

 MA> L8r. :)

Thanks for the details, Martin. Because of health, limited mobility, and a 
few more months of - perhaps self-induced - poverty, I have to abscond
an I-Net connection to procure any new files. 

In the meantime, the CD-RW is proving its worth with all the formating 
I've been doing lately. Out of curiosity, and please, no distro war 
intended, how's Mandrake working out for you? I cut my teeth on v-6 with a 
P1, moved to 10, and now, just put RH up on a Celeron. Again, you may have 
read by now that I was having a few issues with Mnadrake.


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