Berkeley CSUA MOTD:Entry 17239
Berkeley CSUA MOTD
 
WIKI | FAQ | Tech FAQ
http://csua.com/feed/
2025/07/08 [General] UID:1000 Activity:popular
7/8     

2000/1/14-15 [Computer/SW/Mail] UID:17239 Activity:moderate
1/14    Mutt has suddenly started acting weird -- it says that my
        mailspool is read-only, and it won't let me toggle that off.
        My mailspool is not read-only, and other mailers (mail, pine,
        elm) aren't having a problem.  I tried removing my .muttrc,
        just in case the upgrade made it wrong, but that didn't
        help.  Any ideas?  --brianm
        \_ Get a real mail program.  Why is it that people who use real mail
           handlers are never posting to the motd whining for help about the
           latest broken fucked up and unsolvable problems with their 'easy
           to use' mail clients?  STOP USING MAIL-FOR-DUMMIES!
           \_ And what would you recommend?  I'm certainly open to
              switching mail clients, if there's something better than
              mutt out there.
        \_ I upgraded mutt to 1.1.2i, and the problem seems to have
           gone away.  Thanks for sending me the bug report. Let
           me know if you have further problems.  -brg (who hacks
           on mutt)
2025/07/08 [General] UID:1000 Activity:popular
7/8     

You may also be interested in these entries...
2012/10/15-12/4 [Computer/SW/Mail] UID:54501 Activity:nil
10/15   What's the soda email client these days?
        \_ Don't know.  /usr/bin/mail hasn't been working for a while.
        \_ forward to Gmail.
        \_ mutt works for me
	...
2010/7/29-8/9 [Computer/SW/Mail] UID:53905 Activity:nil
7/29    How do I get pine to work with mail? I have 1900 mails and I want
        to delete them. Or is there a better one to use? never learned
        'mail'..
        \_ mutt
           \_ so why doesn't alpine work? What setting should I use to have
              it work with my csua mail folder? Thanks!
	...
2010/3/10-30 [Computer/SW/Mail] UID:53751 Activity:nil
3/10    What email program do people in Cal CS use nowadays?  In my school days
        people used /usr/bin/mail, then RMail in emacs, then VMail in emacs.
        After my days people used Elm, Pine, Mutt (I forgot which order).  In
        my first two jobs we could tell the seniority of fellow engineers based
        on which email program they use at work, because everyone used what
        they used to use in their school years.  In my last two jobs though,
	...
2007/4/17-19 [Computer/SW/Mail] UID:46338 Activity:nil
4/17    Is IMAP up?  If not, how can I get pine/mutt to read my new
        maildir-based mail folder?
        \_ Pine and mutt both have native maildir support -- they should be
           able to access your inbox without any special configuration.  You
           can also use IMAP if you want, but only the secure version (imaps),
           Let me know if these aren't working for you.  --mconst
	...
2007/2/7-11 [Computer/SW/Mail] UID:45682 Activity:high
2/7     Has anyone got Pine to work in the new CSUA environment?  I
        didn't see anything in the FAQ that described this.  When I open
        up Pine I get:
        [Can't open /var/mail/theeric: not a selectable folder]
        When I try to do anything (i.e move up or down with arrow, hit I
        for mail), I get another error:
	...
2007/2/5-7 [Computer/SW/Mail] UID:45667 Activity:low
2/5     How do I check my soda mail? mail, pine, both returns error.
        mail: .... is a directory
        pine: error...
        \_ mailx has been replaced with a Maildir-aware version; it should
           work correctly now.  Pine should work using the default config as
           of last week; look at /csua/soda-changes.2007.01 for a detailed
	...