Re: [gentoo-user] Email clients

2023-07-28 Thread Philip Webb
230729 Peter Humphrey wrote: > I've been a loyal user of KMail for many years. > Claws mail is often mentioned hereabouts and I'd like to try it, > but first I'd need to export KMail's 20-odd-year maildir history > to mbox format. I recommend a look at Mutt, which I've used very happily since c

Re: [gentoo-user] Email clients

2023-07-28 Thread Bryan Gardiner
On Sat, 29 Jul 2023 01:29:59 +0100 Peter Humphrey wrote: > Hello list, > > I've been a loyal user of KMail for many years. (Loyal? Masochistic > might be a better word.) It suits me exactly - or it would if it were > reliable. It isn't, though, which drives me to consider alternatives. > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Email clients

2023-07-28 Thread Jack
On 2023.07.28 20:29, Peter Humphrey wrote: Hello list, I've been a loyal user of KMail for many years. (Loyal? Masochistic might be a better word.) It suits me exactly - or it would if it were reliable. It isn't, though, which drives me to consider alternatives. Claws mail is often

[gentoo-user] Email clients

2023-07-28 Thread Peter Humphrey
Hello list, I've been a loyal user of KMail for many years. (Loyal? Masochistic might be a better word.) It suits me exactly - or it would if it were reliable. It isn't, though, which drives me to consider alternatives. Claws mail is often mentioned hereabouts, and I'd like to try it, but

RE: [gentoo-user] Simple installation on BTRFS

2023-07-28 Thread Laurence Perkins
>If you can run two disks and raid, that's always a good idea. SMART is >supposed to catch disk problems, but they still do die without warning. > >btrfs raid is (still) full of gotchas, as far as I know. > >Don't use anything higher than raid-1. Parity raid isn't reliable last I knew >...

Re: [gentoo-user] Simple installation on BTRFS

2023-07-28 Thread Michael
On Friday, 28 July 2023 08:07:10 BST Wols Lists wrote: > On 27/07/2023 17:18, Michael wrote: > > Any gotchas I should be mindful of? > > If you can run two disks and raid, that's always a good idea. SMART is > supposed to catch disk problems, but they still do die without warning. Yes, esp.

Re: [gentoo-user] Simple installation on BTRFS

2023-07-28 Thread Michael
On Thursday, 27 July 2023 18:30:11 BST Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Thu, 27 Jul 2023 17:18:14 +0100, Michael wrote: > > Although I've been using btrfs for the best part of 10 years I have not > > really done justice to it, because I have neither explored nor used > > enough most of its features. I

Re: [gentoo-user] Simple installation on BTRFS

2023-07-28 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 28 Jul 2023 08:07:10 +0100, Wols Lists wrote: > WATCH YOUR FREE DISK. I think it's all sorted now, but whatever you're > using it was always a good idea not to go over 90% full. For a very > long time, a combination of snapshots and a full disk would wedgie the > system, such that the

Re: [gentoo-user] Simple installation on BTRFS

2023-07-28 Thread Wols Lists
On 27/07/2023 17:18, Michael wrote: Although I've been using btrfs for the best part of 10 years I have not really done justice to it, because I have neither explored nor used enough most of its features. I am now thinking of installing Gentoo on btrfs again, but this time I want to optimise