Re: Backup.
On Thursday 27 June 2024 03:49:03 PM (-05:00), Thomas Schmitt wrote: > Hi, > > pe...@easthope.ca wrote: > > This function is applied every week or two to write to a DVD. > > xorriso -for_backup -dev /dev/sr0 \ > > -update_r . / \ > > -commit \ > > -toc -check_md5 failure -- \ > > -eject all ; > > > > Finding a file as it existed months or years ago can be tedious. > > You could give the backups volume ids which tell the date. > > -volid BOB_"$(date '+%Y_%m_%d_%H%M%S')" > > (BOB = Backup Of Backup :)) > This would also make it possible to verify that the medium is either an > appendable BOB or blank. Before -dev you would insert: > < SNIP > Did anyone else get this reply twice? Thanks, Chris -- Sent with Vivaldi Mail. Download Vivaldi for free at vivaldi.com
Re: OT - list mail claimed to be "known" spam! (was: mounting external hard drive...)
On Sunday 23 June 2024 03:54:36 pm Felix Miata wrote: > > Stefan's isn't the only, but few others from any source become repeats, one > of which is every notification of new post added to subscribed thread on > forums.opensuse.org. > > Trying to get EL to stop putting subscribed email into "known spam" is > futile. The mechanism EL provides to avoid such diversions doesn't work > with debian mailing list posts. > > :~( Sounds like its time to turn off Earthlink's Spam filtering and teach SeaMonkey Mail, what *IS* spam and what is *NOT* and is HAM / good mail. I've got the time / and somewhat patience to sit down at each mail check with TDE KMAIL and teach TDE KMAIL what is GOOD / HAM emails, and what is NOT and is SPAM. #YMMV. -- THANKS IN ADVANCE! CHRIS ch...@cwm030.com ~* Lenovo ThinkCentre M710q*~~* *~~1 TB SSD*~~ ~*15.5 GiB of ram*~ ~~* Q4OS Trinity Edition* ~~ ~FYI, TDE is a continuation of KDE 3.x ~ ~ Q4OS is based off of the latest Debian Version~
Re: Evolution & ThunderBird
On Wednesday 19 June 2024 04:00:44 pm Cindy Sue Causey wrote: > My brain keeps wanting to note that e.g. Gmail used to make us jump > through painful hoops to use desktop programs like Evolution. That > didn't happen for me this time, but maybe other email providers still > have the detail that needs addressed on their online end and that isn't > seen while setting up an Evolution account (versus other email > programs). > Do you use POP or IMAP with GMAIL? I love Evolution for email, since I was a big OUTLOOK user back in my Windows days! And I like how for POP3 accounts, each email is stored as an individual file, vs being shoved into a binary .mbx file that could get corrupted at any time! THANKS IN ADVANCE! CHRIS ch...@cwm030.com ~* Lenovo ThinkCentre M710q*~~* *~~1 TB SSD*~~ ~*15.5 GiB of ram*~ ~~* Q4OS Trinity Edition* ~~ ~FYI, TDE is a continuation of KDE 3.x ~ ~ Q4OS is based off of the latest Debian Version~
Re: The dangers of .mbox mail clients?
Felix Miata wrote: As I'm up 24/7, I never bother going "offline" in SM. What I meant was, I always click in SM: File > Offline > Work Offline That way SM isn't doing anything in the background while I am compacting folders. OLD bad habit, I know. THANKS IN ADVANCE! CHRIS ch...@cwm030.com * Lenovo ThinkCentre M710q*~~~* 1 TB SSD*~~~*15.5 GiB of ram* ~~* Q4OS Trinity Edition* ~~
Re: [ SOLVED] Re: Yet ANOTHER ThunderTurd ( Thunderbird ) topic... Text Size
debian-u...@howorth.org.uk wrote: Chris M wrote: I love Evolution and Claws to a point. Its a PITA to forward emails with HTML in them, like the Informed Delivery email I get each morning letting us know whats coming in the USPS that day. Claws forwards mails with a text/html part just fine. What's your actual problem with it? When the recipient gets the email it looks jumbled and like the days USPS mail scans are at the very bottom of the email. instead of under the right headers Its very weird looking. I would just about have to show you for you to get it. THANKS IN ADVANCE! CHRIS ch...@cwm030.com * Lenovo ThinkCentre M710q*~~~* 1 TB SSD*~~~*15.5 GiB of ram* ~~* Q4OS Trinity Edition* ~~
Re: Response to email clients query regarding mbox
Bret Busby wrote: alpine is available through synaptic, if you want to try it, Hi Bret, So you use POP 3 too huh, if your archive goes back 20 years? I installed ALPINE and couldn't get it to connect to my server. I just kept getting " INVALID PASSWORD" Even though I watched a Youtube video and followed their directions to a T. imap.fastmail.com/ssl/user=chris I tried with an app password, still errored. Then I tried: imap.fastmail.com/ssl/user=ch...@cwm030.com used the same app password FAILED. Tried typing the password in manually. FAILED. Then I tried imap.fastmail.com/ssl/user=FASTMAILUSERNAME Typed in password. FAILED Then I tried imap.fastmail.com/ssl/user=fmusern...@fastmail.com Typed in password by hand FAILED. * shrugs* THANKS IN ADVANCE! CHRIS ch...@cwm030.com * Lenovo ThinkCentre M710q*~~~* 1 TB SSD*~~~*15.5 GiB of ram* ~~* Q4OS Trinity Edition* ~~
Re: Response to email clients query regarding mbox
Bret Busby wrote: On 4/6/24 03:08, Chris M wrote: I am needing a "refresher course" on mail clients that use the .mbox format to store emails. It's been years since I've used this kind of mail client. Is there any "dangers" I need to know about? Like, keeping the mailbox a certain size? or a certain amount of emails per folder etc? The last client I used, before I went FULL TIME LINUX, was Eudora 7.1 on Windows 10. And you had to keep the .mbx files TINY TINY TINY or else, you'd face corruption. I always go offline, and then compact my folders after I get done reading emails. Right now my "2024 Archives" folder is at: Number Of Messages: 4776 Size: 300 MB I do not know about the mbox file format in email applications, but, if you want a powerful email client, as I believe that I have previously stated, I use, for downloading, storing, and, archiving email, the most powerful email client that I have found - alpine, previously known as pine. The folder properties for the applicable stored messages folder, show "Total count of files: 13720 Total size of files: 24.5GB" I think that I have a couple of hundred filters (it could be more), involving some thousands of filter parameter field values. Bret Busby Armadale Western Australia (UTC+0800) . Hi Bret, I just googled Alpine and, as y'all say in Australia... CRIKEY! its a Terminal Email client that uses IMAP. interesting. THANKS IN ADVANCE! CHRIS ch...@cwm030.com * Lenovo ThinkCentre M710q*~~~* 1 TB SSD*~~~*15.5 GiB of ram* ~~* Q4OS Trinity Edition* ~~
WAS: [ SOLVED] Re: Yet ANOTHER ThunderTurd ( Thunderbird ).. NOW~~The dangers of .mbox mail clients?
I am needing a "refresher course" on mail clients that use the .mbox format to store emails. It's been years since I've used this kind of mail client. Is there any "dangers" I need to know about? Like, keeping the mailbox a certain size? or a certain amount of emails per folder etc? The last client I used, before I went FULL TIME LINUX, was Eudora 7.1 on Windows 10. And you had to keep the .mbx files TINY TINY TINY or else, you'd face corruption. I always go offline, and then compact my folders after I get done reading emails. Right now my "2024 Archives" folder is at: Number Of Messages: 4776 Size: 300 MB THANKS IN ADVANCE! CHRIS ch...@cwm030.com * Lenovo ThinkCentre M710q*~~~* 1 TB SSD*~~~*15.5 GiB of ram* ~~* Q4OS Trinity Edition* ~~
Re: [ SOLVED] Re: Yet ANOTHER ThunderTurd ( Thunderbird ) topic... Text Size
James H. H. Lampert wrote: I will say that one should probably not expect perfection from an email reader that's named after a cheap wine. In my experience, T-Bird is the worst email reader I've ever used . . . except for *every other* email reader (without a single exception) I've tried. I'm particularly irritated with those that have no way to disable HTML rendering, and those that have no way to send properly formatted plain-text-only emails, those that try to trick you into top-posting, and (especially) those mobile email readers that waste finite processor resources by insisting on checking your email even when closed. Compared to that, dealing with T-Bird's imperfections is a walk in the park. -- JHHL (who still hasn't figured out why Ford named a car, and the Air Force named its demonstration team, after that same cheap wine) Thunderbird is the name of a cheap wine? I love Evolution and Claws to a point. Its a PITA to forward emails with HTML in them, like the Informed Delivery email I get each morning letting us know whats coming in the USPS that day. THANKS IN ADVANCE! CHRIS ch...@cwm030.com * Lenovo ThinkCentre M710q*~~~* 1 TB SSD*~~~*15.5 GiB of ram* ~~* Q4OS Trinity Edition* ~~
Re: SeaMonkey et al - was - Re: [ SOLVED] Re: Yet ANOTHER ThunderTurd ( Thunderbird ) topic... Text Size
Bret Busby wrote: On 3/6/24 04:14, Chris M wrote: Felix Miata wrote: It might be worth checking what language the emails are in. Thunderbird allows you to specify fonts separately for each writing system (e.g. if you want to specify fonts for Japanese or Greek or Khmer messages, you can do). For English and comparable languages, you want to set a font for "Latin" writing system. However, note that there is also "Other Writing Systems" so I can imagine that, if these emails aren't UTF-8 - if they're some strange Windows encoding, for example - they might not be using the font you think you've set. < SNIP > BACK STORY: This all started this last night on the TDE ( Trinity Desktop) mail list: Felix here got to talking about Seamonkey, and it got me interested in what it was up to, and I thought " I haven't tried SM in years, let me download it" Well, The browser barely works.=-O:-( But, The email client that I am typing this email in right now, is SeaMonkey's mail client and I am LOVING IT, it reminds me of my beloved Netscape Navigator email client that I use to use back on XP, before AOL killed off Netscape. >:o Ohhh Yes, I was a huge Netscape fan back then! 8-)O:-) I was mad for a long time after AOL killed off Netscape 9. I don't even remember when that happened? 2008? 2009? So, I got the email client set up but replies from a certain person were TINY TINY TINY. Interesting enough, Felix I just opened an email from DEP and went to "VIEW MESSAGE SOURCE" and scrolled through the text and found out that DEP ( That's a user over on the TDE list ) is in fact using UTF-8. "Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64" Then, I just so happen to come across this plug in and WOW, what a difference! I am guessing that everybody else uses regular TB, and me and Felix are the only ones that still cling to Seamonkey? I use SeaMonkey, with javash*** disabled. Uses much less resources, and, less likely to crash. I use Fartyfox for stuff that requires javash***, and, in that, I have a number of security and privacy add-ons; I think, for SeaMonkey, I have only the Bluhell firewall add-on and the English-GB dictionary. I have and use multiple other web browsers, including Epiphany, Vivaldi, and Pale Moon (which I have not used for a while), but, mainly use SeaMonkey and Fartyfox. For email, I use Tbird as a webmail kind of application, for viewing and responding to recent email, and, for downloading email, storing, archiving, and, responding to old email, I use the most powerful email application that I have found; alpine, previously known as pine. I use claws mail for one of my email accounts that does not have much throughput. .. Bret Busby Armadale West Australia (UTC+0800) .. I've got a soft spot for Evolution ( Due to loving the OLD Outlook-- Circa 2003) and now SeaMonkey. Claws-Mail is " eh, okay" but makes forwarding emails with HTML in them a PITA. THANKS IN ADVANCE! CHRIS ch...@cwm030.com * Lenovo ThinkCentre M710q*~~~* 1 TB SSD*~~~*15.5 GiB of ram* ~~* Q4OS Trinity Edition* ~~
Re: [ SOLVED ] Re: Yet ANOTHER ThunderTurd ( Thunderbird ) topic... Text Size
Bret Busby wrote: Hello, Chris. We appear to be 13 hours ahead of you (see my signature), so, the time here, is now about 0430. I am a creature of the night. OH man, 4:30 AM! That's way too early for me! Andika? Search for it in Synaptic... :) I am not sure whether apt find still works. Package name is fonts-sil-andika I use only the basic Andika font. Ah, okay... Thanks! THANKS IN ADVANCE! CHRIS ch...@cwm030.com * Lenovo ThinkCentre M710q*~~~* 1 TB SSD*~~~*15.5 GiB of ram* ~~* Q4OS Trinity Edition* ~~
[ SOLVED] Re: Yet ANOTHER ThunderTurd ( Thunderbird ) topic... Text Size
Felix Miata wrote: It might be worth checking what language the emails are in. Thunderbird allows you to specify fonts separately for each writing system (e.g. if you want to specify fonts for Japanese or Greek or Khmer messages, you can do). For English and comparable languages, you want to set a font for "Latin" writing system. However, note that there is also "Other Writing Systems" so I can imagine that, if these emails aren't UTF-8 - if they're some strange Windows encoding, for example - they might not be using the font you think you've set. < SNIP > BACK STORY: This all started this last night on the TDE ( Trinity Desktop) mail list: Felix here got to talking about Seamonkey, and it got me interested in what it was up to, and I thought " I haven't tried SM in years, let me download it" Well, The browser barely works.=-O:-( But, The email client that I am typing this email in right now, is SeaMonkey's mail client and I am LOVING IT, it reminds me of my beloved Netscape Navigator email client that I use to use back on XP, before AOL killed off Netscape. >:o Ohhh Yes, I was a huge Netscape fan back then! 8-)O:-) I was mad for a long time after AOL killed off Netscape 9. I don't even remember when that happened? 2008? 2009? So, I got the email client set up but replies from a certain person were TINY TINY TINY. Interesting enough, Felix I just opened an email from DEP and went to "VIEW MESSAGE SOURCE" and scrolled through the text and found out that DEP ( That's a user over on the TDE list ) is in fact using UTF-8. "Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64" Then, I just so happen to come across this plug in and WOW, what a difference! I am guessing that everybody else uses regular TB, and me and Felix are the only ones that still cling to Seamonkey? THANKS IN ADVANCE! CHRIS ch...@cwm030.com * Lenovo ThinkCentre M710q*~~~* 1 TB SSD*~~~*15.5 GiB of ram* ~~* Q4OS Trinity Edition* ~~
[ SOLVED] Re: Yet ANOTHER ThunderTurd ( Thunderbird ) topic... Text Size
Bret Busby wrote: For Language Choose the languages used to display menus, messages, and notifications from Thunderbird. I have set English (GB) which, I expect, will confound anything that tries to impose characters that are not what I want. Bret Busby Armadale Western Australia (UTC+0800) . So, I am guessing that any ENGLISH speaking country uses UTF-8? US, GB ( Canada, Australia, Probably South Africa, uses GB for spell checking) If not, then what happens to my email? Is it shown in a different font, than what you have specified on your end? THANKS IN ADVANCE! CHRIS ch...@cwm030.com * Lenovo ThinkCentre M710q*~~~* 1 TB SSD*~~~*15.5 GiB of ram* ~~* Q4OS Trinity Edition* ~~
[ SOLVED ] Re: Yet ANOTHER ThunderTurd ( Thunderbird ) topic... Text Size
Darac Marjal wrote: It might be worth checking what language the emails are in. Thunderbird allows you to specify fonts separately for each writing system (e.g. if you want to specify fonts for Japanese or Greek or Khmer messages, you can do). For English and comparable languages, you want to set a font for "Latin" writing system. However, note that there is also "Other Writing Systems" so I can imagine that, if these emails aren't UTF-8 - if they're some strange Windows encoding, for example - they might not be using the font you think you've set. Good Point! THANKS IN ADVANCE! CHRIS ch...@cwm030.com * Lenovo ThinkCentre M710q*~~~* 1 TB SSD*~~~*15.5 GiB of ram* ~~* Q4OS Trinity Edition* ~~
[ SOLVED ] Re: Yet ANOTHER ThunderTurd ( Thunderbird ) topic... Text Size
Bret Busby wrote: Whilst, at groups.io, two different Tbird email users lists exist; one for blind people, and, the other, for those of us who still have sufficient sight, and, these messages about Tbird, should, more properly, be directed to the Tbird users lists, try the following. In the Edit -> Settings (that is, Tbird settings, not Account settings), I have Fonts for (Latin) Proportional: (Sans-serif) Size (20) Serif: Andika Sans-serif: Andika Monospace: Andika Size (20) Font Control Allow messages to use other fonts - unchecked Use fixed width font for plain text messages - unchecked You might prefer a different font to Andika - that is my preference, as the most natural font (other than Clean, if someone finds it) But, try those settings, and find whether that works for you, also. They seem to work for me. Minimum font size: 20 G'DAY BRET! ( err, its prob the middle of the night over there) It's 2:54 PM CDT here in the US. But Anyhoo: Interesting, I don't have that "Andika" font on my PC. Where did you find that font at? THANKS IN ADVANCE! CHRIS ch...@cwm030.com * Lenovo ThinkCentre M710q*~~~* 1 TB SSD*~~~*15.5 GiB of ram* ~~* Q4OS Trinity Edition* ~~
[ SOLVED ] Re: Yet ANOTHER ThunderTurd ( Thunderbird ) topic... Text Size
UPDATE: I might of found a solution to my problem: I somehow stumbled across: https://addons.thunderbird.net/en-US/seamonkey/addon/no-small-text/?src=search Then launched Seamonkey browser and set the " NO SMALL TEXT" settings to: https://imgur.com/a/DvJaTeG If you're in the US scroll down to " WESTERN FONTS" and set it to: https://imgur.com/a/Zdvt0eB And... VIOLA! https://imgur.com/a/PaidqMN THANKS IN ADVANCE! CHRIS ch...@cwm030.com * Lenovo ThinkCentre M710q*~~~* 1 TB SSD*~~~*15.5 GiB of ram* ~~* Q4OS Trinity Edition* ~~
Yet ANOTHER ThunderTurd ( Thunderbird ) topic... Text Size
I noticed that in SeaMonkey Mail's latest version 2.53.18.2 that the text is small in SOME emails, and in some emails its fine. And I can't figure out what to change to make the text a little bigger without having to use CTRL ++ on those certain emails. Any ideas on how? Here is an example: Original: https://imgur.com/a/mFfgBLh After hitting "CTRL +" 1 time: https://imgur.com/a/eK1mERq THANKS IN ADVANCE! CHRIS ch...@cwm030.com * Lenovo ThinkCentre M710q*~~~* 1 TB SSD*~~~*15.5 GiB of ram* ~~* Q4OS Trinity Edition* ~~
Problems with mouse + X
For some reason, X wont startup, saying Screens found; none usable. When Debian prompts me to configure X, my mouse refuses to work. If I select anything from Mouse Configuration, it exits out and leaves me at a blank screen, unable to get back to the terminal. I tried using Expert Mode to change my mouse to /dev/psaux, but it seems to always default back to /dev/mouse. If you can think of anything I can do at the console to fix this, it would be much appreciated. The X config program never cleanly exits and makes me sit through the root check everytime I startup Linux. Thanks in advance, Chris
