Re: Why Wheezy and Not Just Testing? (WAS: Re: Dist-upgrade or upgrade. Which?)

2013-04-30 Thread Patrick Bartek
On Tue, 30 Apr 2013 10:52:38 +0300,Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Lu, 22 apr 13, 01:03:41, Patrick Bartek wrote: > > > > I stayed with F12 almost 2 and a half years past its EOL.  I didn't > > like F15, my next usual upgrade, or the following releases, or the > > direction Fedora was going.  So, I

Re: Why Wheezy and Not Just Testing? (WAS: Re: Dist-upgrade or upgrade. Which?)

2013-04-30 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Lu, 22 apr 13, 01:03:41, Patrick Bartek wrote: > > I stayed with F12 almost 2 and a half years past its EOL.  I didn't > like F15, my next usual upgrade, or the following releases, or the > direction Fedora was going.  So, I opted against upgrading, but 12 was > having problems.  Time for a

Re: MUA & Yahoo Mail (WAS:Re: Dist-upgrade or upgrade. Which?)

2013-04-26 Thread Celejar
On Thu, 25 Apr 2013 06:55:08 -0700 David Guntner wrote: > Patrick Bartek grabbed a keyboard and wrote: > > > >> From: Dave Thayer > >> > >> On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 07:44:29PM -0700, Patrick Bartek wrote: > >>> > >>> How? What MUA did you use? When I initially set up my Yahoo > >>> Mail acco

Re: MUA & Yahoo Mail (WAS:Re: Dist-upgrade or upgrade. Which?)

2013-04-25 Thread Peter Tynan
> On Thu, 2013-04-25 at 11:57 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > When I set up my Rocketmail accounts, Evolution automatically wanted to > > use IMAP, but I forced to use POP. > > > > This are my Rocketmail settings: > > > > Server: pop.mail.yahoo.com > > Port: 995 > > Security:

Re: MUA & Yahoo Mail (WAS:Re: Dist-upgrade or upgrade. Which?)

2013-04-25 Thread David Guntner
Patrick Bartek grabbed a keyboard and wrote: > >> From: Dave Thayer >> >> On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 07:44:29PM -0700, Patrick Bartek wrote: >>> >>> How? What MUA did you use? When I initially set up my Yahoo >>> Mail accounts (I have several)--this was years ago--there was no >>> option with th

Re: MUA & Yahoo Mail (WAS:Re: Dist-upgrade or upgrade. Which?)

2013-04-25 Thread Brad Rogers
On Wed, 24 Apr 2013 19:44:29 -0700 (PDT) Patrick Bartek wrote: Hello Patrick, >How?  What MUA did you use?  When I initially set up my Yahoo Mail >accounts (I have I use Claws Mail which, as you may know, started out as a branch of Sylpheed. Others have listed the settings required and also sa

Re: MUA & Yahoo Mail (WAS:Re: Dist-upgrade or upgrade. Which?)

2013-04-25 Thread Ralf Mardorf
When I set up my Rocketmail accounts, Evolution automatically wanted to use IMAP, but I forced to use POP. This are my Rocketmail settings: Server: pop.mail.yahoo.com Port: 995 Security: SSL on a dedicated port Authentication: Password Server: smtp.mail.yahoo.com

Re: MUA & Yahoo Mail (WAS:Re: Dist-upgrade or upgrade. Which?)

2013-04-25 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Thu, 2013-04-25 at 11:57 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > When I set up my Rocketmail accounts, Evolution automatically wanted to > use IMAP, but I forced to use POP. > > This are my Rocketmail settings: > > Server: pop.mail.yahoo.com > Port: 995 > Security: SSL on a dedica

Re: alternative email clients (was ... Re: Dist-upgrade or upgrade. Which?)

2013-04-25 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Thu, 2013-04-25 at 03:27 +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: > http://www.yorba.org/projects/geary/ On Wed, 2013-04-24 at 17:38 +0200, Luca Cappelletti wrote: > http://trojita.flaska.net/ Thank you, I'll take a look, assumed they are available by the Debian, Ubuntu and Arch repositories. --

Re: MUA & Yahoo Mail (WAS:Re: Dist-upgrade or upgrade. Which?)

2013-04-25 Thread Brian
On Wed 24 Apr 2013 at 23:02:48 -0700, Patrick Bartek wrote: > Okay.  I found the Yahoo IMAP help page.  The POP help still states > you need a "for pay" Yahoo Mail Plus account, but no mention of that > for IMAP.  I'll run a test.  I already have Sylpheed on this system, > and it is both POP or IM

Re: MUA & Yahoo Mail (WAS:Re: Dist-upgrade or upgrade. Which?)

2013-04-24 Thread Patrick Bartek
> From: Dave Thayer >  > On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 07:44:29PM -0700, Patrick Bartek wrote: >> >> How?  What MUA did you use?  When I initially set up my Yahoo Mail accounts > (I have several)--this was years ago--there was no option with the free > accounts > for POP3 or IMAP.  It was speci

Re: MUA & Yahoo Mail (WAS:Re: Dist-upgrade or upgrade. Which?)

2013-04-24 Thread Dave Thayer
On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 07:44:29PM -0700, Patrick Bartek wrote: > > How?  What MUA did you use?  When I initially set up my Yahoo Mail accounts > (I have several)--this was years ago--there was no option with the free > accounts for POP3 or IMAP.  It was specifically said that if you wanted it,

Re: MUA & Yahoo Mail (WAS:Re: Dist-upgrade or upgrade. Which?)

2013-04-24 Thread Patrick Bartek
> From: Brad Rogers >  > On Wed, 24 Apr 2013 10:33:45 -0700 (PDT) > Patrick Bartek wrote: > > Hello Patrick, > >> As far as I understand, with the free Yahoo Mail that I use, you're not >> able to use a traditional MUA.  It's browser-based only. However, if >> you use the "pay" version, wh

Re: MUA & Yahoo Mail (WAS:Re: Dist-upgrade or upgrade. Which?)

2013-04-24 Thread Brad Rogers
On Wed, 24 Apr 2013 10:33:45 -0700 (PDT) Patrick Bartek wrote: Hello Patrick, >As far as I understand, with the free Yahoo Mail that I use, you're not >able to use a traditional MUA.  It's browser-based only. However, if >you use the "pay" version, which is IMAP or POP-based, you can use any >MU

Re: Dist-upgrade or upgrade. Which?

2013-04-24 Thread Patrick Bartek
> From: Anthony Campbell >  > On 23 Apr 2013, Patrick Bartek wrote: > > [snip] > >> > Another problem is that your posts are peppered with lots of codes >  >> [snip]   >> >> Hope the problem is solvable from your end. > > Yes; it wasn't entirely your (or Yahoo's) fault. I had some line

Re: Dist-upgrade or upgrade. Which?

2013-04-24 Thread Patrick Bartek
> From: Ralf Mardorf >  > On Tue, 2013-04-23 at 21:43 -0700, Patrick Bartek wrote: > >> If you have any suggestions, I'll consider them.  I have no dying > loyalty to Yahoo. > > Stay with Yahoo, but use an MUA. Can't use an MUA with the free version of Yahoo Mail.  Browser only.  At leas

MUA & Yahoo Mail (WAS:Re: Dist-upgrade or upgrade. Which?)

2013-04-24 Thread Patrick Bartek
> From: Ralf Mardorf > > On Wed, 2013-04-24 at 10:28 +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: >> Are you *really* forced into using yahoo, it really is horrible (not >> sure which is worse hotmail or yahoo.) for communicating on mailing >> lists. > > Info: > > You're free to use Yahoo with a MUA.

Re: alternative email clients (was ... Re: Dist-upgrade or upgrade. Which?)

2013-04-24 Thread Luca Cappelletti
On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 5:27 PM, Chris Bannister wrote: > On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 03:32:41PM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > > > OTOH, I didn't find another mailer that fit halfway to my needs and that > > does work with the provider settings I need. > > There is geary. > http://www.yorba.org/proj

alternative email clients (was ... Re: Dist-upgrade or upgrade. Which?)

2013-04-24 Thread Chris Bannister
On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 03:32:41PM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > OTOH, I didn't find another mailer that fit halfway to my needs and that > does work with the provider settings I need. There is geary. http://www.yorba.org/projects/geary/ I've never used it, myself, but it is an alternative to c

Re: Dist-upgrade or upgrade. Which?

2013-04-24 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Wed, 2013-04-24 at 22:59 +1000, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > On 4/24/13, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > Info: > > > > You're free to use Yahoo with a MUA. Take a look at the email address > > I'm using right now, it's Rocketmail, aka Yahoo, I'm only limited by the > > pain Evolution and Xfce4, IOW the GNO

Re: Dist-upgrade or upgrade. Which?

2013-04-24 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On 4/24/13, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > Info: > > You're free to use Yahoo with a MUA. Take a look at the email address > I'm using right now, it's Rocketmail, aka Yahoo, I'm only limited by the > pain Evolution and Xfce4, IOW the GNOME crap does cause. What are the pain points/ problems, with evolutio

Re: Dist-upgrade or upgrade. Which?

2013-04-24 Thread Darac Marjal
On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 11:37:13AM -0700, Patrick Bartek wrote: > > > > > > From: Anthony Campbell > >  > > On 22 Apr 2013, Patrick Bartek wrote: > >> > > >> > It would be nice if you could trim that to one line. > >> > > >> >>> [snip] > >> > >> Yes, it would, but I use Yahoo mail for

Re: Dist-upgrade or upgrade. Which?

2013-04-24 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 23 Apr 2013, Patrick Bartek wrote: [snip] > > Another problem is that your posts are peppered with lots of codes which > > make them annoying to read on a text-based email reader like mutt. > > > Sorry 'bout that, but there's nothing much I can do about it from my end:   > It's Yahoo Mail t

Re: Dist-upgrade or upgrade. Which?

2013-04-24 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 23 Apr 2013, Robert Holtzman wrote: > On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 07:57:11AM +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote: > > On 22 Apr 2013, Patrick Bartek wrote: > > > > > > > > It would be nice if you could trim that to one line. > > > > > > > >>> [snip] > > > > > > Yes, it would, but I use Yahoo mail for t

Re: Dist-upgrade or upgrade. Which?

2013-04-23 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Tue, 2013-04-23 at 21:43 -0700, Patrick Bartek wrote: > If you have any suggestions, I'll consider them. I have no dying loyalty to > Yahoo. Stay with Yahoo, but use an MUA. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contac

Re: Dist-upgrade or upgrade. Which?

2013-04-23 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Wed, 2013-04-24 at 10:28 +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: > Are you *really* forced into using yahoo, it really is horrible (not > sure which is worse hotmail or yahoo.) for communicating on mailing > lists. Info: You're free to use Yahoo with a MUA. Take a look at the email address I'm using rig

Re: Dist-upgrade or upgrade. Which?

2013-04-23 Thread Patrick Bartek
> From: Chris Bannister >  > > On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 11:37:13AM -0700, Patrick Bartek wrote: >> >>  >> > From: Anthony Campbell >> >  >> > [snip] >> >> >> > >> > Another problem is that your posts are peppered with lots of codes > which >> > make them annoying to read on a text-

Re: Dist-upgrade or upgrade. Which?

2013-04-23 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 11:37:13AM -0700, Patrick Bartek wrote: > > > > > > From: Anthony Campbell > >  > > On 22 Apr 2013, Patrick Bartek wrote: > >> > > >> > It would be nice if you could trim that to one line. > >> > > >> >>> [snip] > >> > >> Yes, it would, but I use Yahoo mail for

Re: Dist-upgrade or upgrade. Which?

2013-04-23 Thread staticsafe
On 4/23/2013 15:19, Carroll Grigsby wrote: > On Tue, 23 Apr 2013 11:37:13 -0700 (PDT) > Patrick Bartek wrote: >> Snip >> >> Hope the problem is solvable from your end. >> >> > > Easy solution: Kill file. Bye. > > -- cmg > > Seems like overkill. -- staticsafe O< ascii ribbon campaign -

Re: Dist-upgrade or upgrade. Which?

2013-04-23 Thread Carroll Grigsby
On Tue, 23 Apr 2013 11:37:13 -0700 (PDT) Patrick Bartek wrote: > >>> Snip > > Hope the problem is solvable from your end. > > Easy solution: Kill file. Bye. -- cmg -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...

Re: Dist-upgrade or upgrade. Which?

2013-04-23 Thread Robert Holtzman
On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 07:57:11AM +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote: > On 22 Apr 2013, Patrick Bartek wrote: > > > > > > It would be nice if you could trim that to one line. > > > > > >>> [snip] > > > > Yes, it would, but I use Yahoo mail for this list, and that is Yahoo's > > reply header.  I can

Re: Dist-upgrade or upgrade. Which?

2013-04-23 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Tue, 2013-04-23 at 11:37 -0700, Patrick Bartek wrote: > With almost everything these days graphic and web-based, smartphone > and tablet, the days of pure ASCII e-mail are gone for the most part. No, the experiment "HTML email" miserably failed, that's why more and more people switch to plain t

Re: Dist-upgrade or upgrade. Which?

2013-04-23 Thread Patrick Bartek
> From: Anthony Campbell >  > On 22 Apr 2013, Patrick Bartek wrote: >> > >> > It would be nice if you could trim that to one line. >> > >> >>> [snip] >> >> Yes, it would, but I use Yahoo mail for this list, and that is Yahoo's > reply header.  I cannot have my own custom reply header,

Re: Dist-upgrade or upgrade. Which?

2013-04-23 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 23 Apr 2013, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > Another problem is that your posts are peppered with lots of codes which > > make them annoying to read on a text-based email reader like mutt. > > Strange. I also use Mutt (with various patches) and I don't see any > problem with Patrick's mail. > Inte

Re: Dist-upgrade or upgrade. Which?

2013-04-23 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2013-04-23 07:57:11 +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote: > On 22 Apr 2013, Patrick Bartek wrote: > > > > > > It would be nice if you could trim that to one line. > > > > > >>> [snip] > > > > Yes, it would, but I use Yahoo mail for this list, and that is Yahoo's > > reply header.  I cannot have my

Re: Dist-upgrade or upgrade. Which?

2013-04-22 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 22 Apr 2013, Patrick Bartek wrote: > > > > It would be nice if you could trim that to one line. > > > >>> [snip] > > Yes, it would, but I use Yahoo mail for this list, and that is Yahoo's reply > header.  I cannot have my own custom reply header, nor can I opt not to have > one at all.  At

Re: Dist-upgrade or upgrade. Which?

2013-04-22 Thread Patrick Bartek
- Original Message - >  > > Patrick Bartek: >> - Original Message - >>> From: Jochen Spieker >>> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org >>> Cc: >>> Sent: Sunday, April 21, 2013 2:25 AM >>> Subject: Re: Dist-upgrade

Re: Dist-upgrade or upgrade. Which?

2013-04-22 Thread ha
On 04/21/2013 09:30 PM, Chris Bannister wrote: On Sun, Apr 21, 2013 at 06:41:43PM +0100, Kevin Chadwick wrote: I always use dist-upgrade but there's not a lot a choose. Upgrade upgrades installed packages while dist-upgrade can make more significant changes. Once Wheezy becomes stable the two sh

Why Wheezy and Not Just Testing? (WAS: Re: Dist-upgrade or upgrade. Which?)

2013-04-22 Thread Patrick Bartek
- Original Message - > From: Gary Dale > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Cc: "debian-user@lists.debian.org" > Sent: Sunday, April 21, 2013 5:03 AM > Subject: Re: Dist-upgrade or upgrade. Which? > > [snip] > > As for staying with Wheezy, w

Re: Dist-upgrade or upgrade. Which?

2013-04-22 Thread Jochen Spieker
Patrick Bartek: > - Original Message - >> From: Jochen Spieker >> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org >> Cc: >> Sent: Sunday, April 21, 2013 2:25 AM >> Subject: Re: Dist-upgrade or upgrade. Which? It would be nice if you could trim that to one line. >&

Re: Dist-upgrade or upgrade. Which?

2013-04-21 Thread Patrick Bartek
- Original Message - > From: Jochen Spieker > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Cc: > Sent: Sunday, April 21, 2013 2:25 AM > Subject: Re: Dist-upgrade or upgrade. Which? > > Patrick Bartek: >> >> I've been using Wheezy 64-bit for severa

Re: Dist-upgrade or upgrade. Which?

2013-04-21 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2013-04-21 22:52:39 +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Sunday 21 April 2013 17:03:18 Chris Bannister wrote: > > Using dist-upgrade can > > remove half your sysytem before you can say OMG! > > I use aptitude not apt-get, so cannot comment on apt-get, but the > "aptitude full-upgrade" command does not

Re: Dist-upgrade or upgrade. Which?

2013-04-21 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Sunday 21 April 2013 17:03:18 Chris Bannister wrote: > Using dist-upgrade can > remove half your sysytem before you can say OMG! I use aptitude not apt-get, so cannot comment on apt-get, but the "aptitude full-upgrade" command does nothing without asking first, so there is no question of it r

Re: Dist-upgrade or upgrade. Which?

2013-04-21 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Apr 21, 2013 at 06:41:43PM +0100, Kevin Chadwick wrote: > > > I always use dist-upgrade but there's not a lot a choose. Upgrade > > > upgrades installed packages while dist-upgrade can make more > > > significant changes. Once Wheezy becomes stable the two should do > > > the same thing. Ho

Re: Dist-upgrade or upgrade. Which?

2013-04-21 Thread Kevin Chadwick
> > I always use dist-upgrade but there's not a lot a choose. Upgrade > > upgrades installed packages while dist-upgrade can make more > > significant changes. Once Wheezy becomes stable the two should do > > the same thing. However, I prefer to stay in the habit of using > > dist-upgrade (or full-

Re: Dist-upgrade or upgrade. Which?

2013-04-21 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Apr 21, 2013 at 08:03:20AM -0400, Gary Dale wrote: > I always use dist-upgrade but there's not a lot a choose. Upgrade > upgrades installed packages while dist-upgrade can make more > significant changes. Once Wheezy becomes stable the two should do > the same thing. However, I prefer to st

Re: Dist-upgrade or upgrade. Which?

2013-04-21 Thread Gary Dale
I always use dist-upgrade but there's not a lot a choose. Upgrade upgrades installed packages while dist-upgrade can make more significant changes. Once Wheezy becomes stable the two should do the same thing. However, I prefer to stay in the habit of using dist-upgrade (or full-upgrade for apti

Re: Dist-upgrade or upgrade. Which?

2013-04-21 Thread Jochen Spieker
Patrick Bartek: > > I've been using Wheezy 64-bit for several months now, and as > recommended[1] having been using "dist-upgrade" for upgrading it.  My > sources-list[2] is set to "Wheezy" and not "testing" as per those same > instructions.  When Wheezy is promoted to "Stable" should I switch to >

Dist-upgrade or upgrade. Which?

2013-04-20 Thread Patrick Bartek
I've been using Wheezy 64-bit for several months now, and as recommended[1] having been using "dist-upgrade" for upgrading it.  My sources-list[2] is set to "Wheezy" and not "testing" as per those same instructions.  When Wheezy is promoted to "Stable" should I switch to "apt-get upgrade" instea