From: "Arsen Arsenović" <arsen@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Email clients
Date: Sat, 29 Jul 2023 12:13:53 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <86wmyj10td.fsf@gentoo.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1905666e-d3a2-0720-d85c-ddd7a2a7336d@youngman.org.uk>
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Wols Lists <antlists@youngman.org.uk> writes:
> On 29/07/2023 03:37, Bryan Gardiner wrote:
>> User of Claws with a local maildir here. One mail per file always
>> felt safer to me. If you do want to keep using maildir,
>> net-mail/dovecot provides IMAP access to ~/.maildir out of the box,
>> and I've found this combination to be reliable.
>
> Just a tip which bit me when I first installed dovecot ...
>
> The master config file actually chain-loads a local config file, make sure you
> use it. I edited the master file directly, so of course the first update
> overwrote and trashed it ...
That should not happen. Where's the master config file? Is it under a
directory masked by CONFIG_PROTECT?
~$ portageq envvar CONFIG_PROTECT
/etc /usr/share/config
... on my machine (re-run on yours to check)
> Cheers,
> Wol
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Arsen Arsenović
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-07-29 10:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 53+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-07-29 0:29 [gentoo-user] Email clients Peter Humphrey
2023-07-29 0:38 ` Jack
2023-07-29 2:37 ` Bryan Gardiner
2023-07-29 8:52 ` Wols Lists
2023-07-29 10:13 ` Arsen Arsenović [this message]
2023-07-29 11:20 ` Wols Lists
2023-07-29 13:54 ` Arsen Arsenović
2023-07-29 14:21 ` Wols Lists
2023-07-29 14:50 ` Arsen Arsenović
2023-07-29 16:27 ` Wols Lists
2023-08-02 7:16 ` [gentoo-user] " Nuno Silva
2023-07-29 5:53 ` [gentoo-user] " Philip Webb
2023-07-30 12:07 ` Frank Steinmetzger
2023-07-30 12:25 ` Peter Humphrey
2023-07-29 6:56 ` Neil Bothwick
2023-07-29 11:01 ` Peter Humphrey
2023-07-29 11:23 ` Wols Lists
2023-07-30 19:02 ` Neil Bothwick
2023-07-30 22:53 ` Peter Humphrey
2023-07-30 23:11 ` Neil Bothwick
2023-07-31 7:34 ` Wols Lists
2023-07-31 12:33 ` Peter Humphrey
2023-07-31 13:26 ` Neil Bothwick
2023-07-31 16:03 ` Peter Humphrey
2023-07-31 16:25 ` Peter Humphrey
2023-07-31 17:26 ` Peter Humphrey
2023-07-31 18:13 ` Neil Bothwick
2023-07-31 18:17 ` Michael
2023-08-01 9:53 ` Peter Humphrey
2023-08-01 10:42 ` Michael
2023-08-01 16:56 ` Peter Humphrey
2023-07-31 17:57 ` Michael
2023-08-01 9:55 ` Peter Humphrey
2023-07-31 18:14 ` Neil Bothwick
2023-07-31 14:19 ` Wols Lists
2023-07-31 15:55 ` Peter Humphrey
2023-08-01 18:51 ` Wols Lists
2023-08-01 23:39 ` Peter Humphrey
2023-07-29 9:26 ` Michael
2023-07-31 1:12 ` Matt Connell
2023-07-31 16:14 ` Peter Humphrey
2023-07-31 16:59 ` Matt Connell
2023-07-31 17:16 ` Alexe Stefan
2023-07-31 17:23 ` Matt Connell
2023-07-31 17:32 ` Kusoneko
2023-07-31 17:52 ` [gentoo-user] " Grant Edwards
2023-07-31 18:46 ` Kusoneko
2023-07-31 18:57 ` Matt Connell
2023-07-31 20:22 ` Grant Edwards
2023-07-31 20:24 ` David Rosenbaum
2023-07-31 19:27 ` [gentoo-user] " Laurence Perkins
2023-07-31 17:36 ` Jack
2023-07-31 17:43 ` [gentoo-user] " Grant Edwards
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